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Brent E. Metz
Brent E. Metz
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My primary research focus over the past 16 years has been the changing quality of life and the politics of identity among impoverished Ch'orti'-Maya peasants in eastern Guatemala and western Honduras. I have visited the Ch'orti' region every year since 1990, and from 1991-93 I learned the Ch'orti' language while living in Ch'orti' homesteads. I am also working on data collected during a Fulbright-Hays research project of indigeneity in the former Ch’orti’-speaking region of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras in 2003-04, including 75 hours of film, 50 hours of audio recordings, and 200 pages of notes. Recently, I led 14 Kansas schoolteachers on a Fulbright Group Study Abroad to Guatemala from May 31-July 10. I have also done legal research among Mexican-American migrant farmworkers, firsthand study of religious festivals in Seville, Spain, and ethnography of agrochemical practices among small farmers in Costa Rica.

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