Fashioning Tradition: Maya Huipiles in the Field Museum Collections (Odland)

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Carol Hendrickson

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Carol Hendrickson, Marlboro College

Carol Hendrickson is Professor of Anthropology at Marlboro College. She has has been researching weaving in the central highlands of Guatemala for more than twenty-five years. Her research focuses on the ways clothing non-verbally relates cultural meanings and provides insight into local understandings of issues such as ethnicity, gender, class, politics, and national identity. She is the author of Weaving Identities: Construction of Dress and Self in a Highland Guatemala Town (University of Texas Press, 1995). With Edward Fischer she co-wrote Tecpán Guatemala: A Modern Maya Town in Global and Local Context (Westview, 2002).