Robert Marquess Carmack (February 24, 1934 – October 20, 2023) was an American academic
anthropologist
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and
Mesoamericanist scholar who was most noted for his studies of the history, culture and societies of contemporary
Maya peoples
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. 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
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speaking peoples into the Maya cultural areas.
Carmack was an emeritus professor of anthropology at the
State University of New York
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at Albany who for the last few years worked as a senior
Fulbright Scholar
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. 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.
Born on February 24, 1934, Carmack died on October 20, 2023, at the age of 89.
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
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*Jose ben Abin
*Jose ben Akabya
*Jose the Galilean ...
, Guatemala (1979)
*Quichéan Civilization: The Ethnohistoric, Ethnographic and Archaeological sources. Berkeley and Los Angeles.
University of California Press (1973).
Notes
Sources
Robert Carmack's Faculty page
External links
Library Thing listing for Carmack
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1934 births
2023 deaths
American Mesoamericanists
Mesoamerican anthropologists
Mayanists
20th-century Mesoamericanists
State University of New York faculty