Curriculum Vitae
Selected Publications
Fletcher, Laraine A. and Ellen R. Kintz
1977 Coba Archaeological Mapping Project, Quintana Roo, Mexico, Interim Report No. 3 Appendix A. Boletin de la Escuela de Ciencias Antropologias de Universidad de Yucatan. Num 22, 23:72-81Folan, William J, Laraine A. Fletcher and Ellen R. Kintz
1979 Fruit, Fiber, Bark and Resin: Social Organization of a Maya Urban Center. Coba, Quintana Roo, Mexico. Science.204(4394):697-701Folan, William J., Ellen R. Kintz and Laraine A. Fletcher
1982 An Examination of Settlement Patterns at Coba, Quintana Roo, Mexico and Tikal, Guatemala: A Reply to Arnold andFord. American Antiquity. 47(2):430-435Folan, William J., Ellen R. Kintz and Laraine A. Fletcher
1983 Coba, A Classic Maya Metropolis. Academic Press, NYKintz, Ellen R.
1990 Life Under the Tropical Canopy: Tradition and Change Among the Yucatec Maya. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, NYKintz, Ellen R.
1993 The Organization of Maya Culture and Society: Current Research Strategies. Reviews in Anthropology. 22:47-57Kintz, Ellen R.
1993 Review, Maya Stone Tools: Selected Papers from the Second Maya Lithic Conference. American Antiquity. 58:382Kintz, Ellen R.
1998 Women and the Yucatec Maya Frontier: Tenacity of Tradition and Tragedy of Transformation. Sex Roles. Special Volume, papers solicited, organized, and edited by E.R. KintzKintz, Ellen R.
2004 The Transformation of Paradise: Deep, Social, and Political Ecology Among the Yucatec Maya of Coba, Quintana Roo, Mexico. A Dialogical Approach. Betty Faust and E. N. Anderson (eds.) Rights, Resources, Culture and Conservationin the Land of the Maya. Praeger, Westport, CT.
Additional Information
Courses Taught:
Anth 224 Ethnography and Gender in Latin America
Anth 226 Native Voices: Mesoamerica and the Andes
Anth 229 Ethnography and Film
Anth 235 Ancient Civilizations in the Americas
Anth 282 Research Methods in Anthropology
Anth 321 Contemporary Theory in Anthropology
Anth 335 Mayan Hieroglyphs
Research Interests
The comparative archaeology of complex civilizations in the New World; Maya, Aztec, and Inca. Settlement patterns and ancient sociology.
Documentary studies of Maya ethnohistory as an analogue for the prehistoric past and life ways of contemporary Maya peasant populations.
Yucatec Maya ethnobotany. Traditional herbal curing, ceremony and practice.
Yucatec Maya ethnography, economics, religion, gender studies, and community development.
Research Projects
1975-1976.
Coba Archaeological Mapping Project, Coba, Quintana Roo, Mexico.
Sociological analysis of Classic Maya suburban zones
1980-1982.
Ethnoarchaeology - A study of settlement patterns in a modern Maya pueblo, Coba, Quintana Roo, Mexico. Analysis of households, kitchen gardens and arboriculture.
1983-1985.
Ethnobotany - A study of Maya curers, medicinal plants and their use.
Apprenticeship to two Maya curers, collection of plants and data.
1993-1994.
Yucatec Maya Women - A study of their economic contributions; Gender studies.
1995-1998.
The Ejido of Coba: Transformation of a Peasant Economy, Penny Capitalism, Gender Studies, Economic Development, and Tourism.
Research Projects
1975-1976 - Coba Archaeological Mapping Project, Coba, Quintana Roo, Mexico. Sociological analysis of Classic Maya suburban zones
1980-1982 - Ethnoarchaeology - A study of settlement patterns in a modern Maya pueblo, Coba, Quintana Roo, Mexico. Analysis of households, kitchen gardens and arboriculture.
1983-1985. - Ethnobotany - A study of Maya curers, medicinal plants and their use. Apprenticeship to two Maya curers, collection of plants and data.
1990-present - CHAA COBA: Coba Humanitarian Assistance Project.
1993-1994 - Yucatec Maya Women - A study of their economic contributions; Gender studies.
1995-1998 - The Ejido of Coba: Transformation of a Peasant Economy, Penny Capitalism, Gender Studies, Economic Development, and Tourism.