John P. Hawkins

About The Author

John P. Hawkins is a professor emeritus of anthropology at Brigham Young University. During his forty years at BYU, he conducted research in Guatemala, and he codirected the Anthropology Department Field School in Nahualá and Santa Catarina Ixtahuacán from 1995 through 2006 and in 2009. His books include Religious Transformation in Maya Guatemala: Cultural Collapse and Christian Pentecostal Revitalization (UNM Press).

Books by John P. Hawkins

Making a Place for the Future in Maya Guatemala

Natural Disaster and Sociocultural Change in Santa Catarina Ixtahuacán

Edited by John P. Hawkins
In 1998, Hurricane Mitch pounded the isolated village of Santa Catarina Ixtahuacán in mountainous western Guatemala, destroying many homes. The experience traumatized many Ixtahuaquenses. Much of the community relocated to be safer and closer to transportation that they hoped would help them to i...
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Religious Transformation in Maya Guatemala

Cultural Collapse and Christian Pentecostal Revitalization

Edited by John P. Hawkins
Drawing on over fifty years of research and data collected by field-school students, Hawkins argues that two factors--cultural collapse and systematic social and economic exclusion--explain the recent religious transformation of Maya Guatemala and the style and emotional intensity through which t...
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