La Familia es la Fundación

Children, Change and the Reproduction of the House and Family among the Kaqchikel Maya

The Context

Exploring kinship structure in a changing social context

For my senior thesis at Carleton College, I completed independent, ethnographic field research in Santa Catarina Palopó, focusing on the changing role of children in Kaqchikel Maya kinship structure.

Role
Anthropological Researcher

Dates
January - March 2016; July - September 2016

Methods & Tools
Ethnography, participant observation, interviews, secondary research