Robert M. Carmack
BornFebruary 24, 1934
DiedOctober 20, 2023
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of California Los Angeles
Scientific career
Fieldsanthropology
InstitutionsState University of New York

Robert M. Carmack (born February 24, 1934 - died October 20, 2023)[1] was an academic anthropologist and Mesoamericanist scholar who was most noted for his studies of the history, culture and societies of contemporary Maya peoples. In particular he conducted extensive research on the K'iche' (Quiché) Mayas of the Guatemalan Highlands in the context of the infiltration and migration of Nahuatl speaking peoples into the Maya cultural areas.

Carmack was an emeritus professor of anthropology at the State University of New York at Albany who for the last few years worked as a senior Fulbright Scholar. Carmack wrmore several books on early Quiché-Mayan culture and linguistics, first and foremost the standard work on the K'iche' kingdom of Q'umarkaj/Utatlán.

Selected publications

Books

  • Rebels of Highland Guatemala: The Quiche-Mayas of Momostenango. University of Oklahoma Press (1995).
  • Historia Antigua de America Central: del Poblamiento a la Conquista. FLACSO, Costa Rica (1992).
  • Harvest of Violence: The Maya Indians and the Guatemalan Crisis. University of Oklahoma Press (1988).
  • The Quiche-Mayas of Utatlan: The Evolution of a Highland Maya Kingdom. University of Oklahoma Press (1982).
  • Historia Social de los Quiches. Jose de Pineda Ibarra, Guatemala (1979)
  • Quichéan Civilization: The Ethnohistoric, Ethnographic and Archaeological sources. Berkeley and Los Angeles. University of California Press (1973).

Notes

  1. Date information sourced from Library of Congress Authorities data, via corresponding WorldCat Identities linked authority file (LAF).

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