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Marshall University hosting Hispanic heritage month events
It’s Hispanic Heritage Month and to celebrate Marshall University is celebrating the culture of Latin America and Latinos in a series of events being presented by Marshall’s Latin American Studies program.
As a national event, Hispanic Heritage Month begins in mid-September to commemorate the independence of many Latin American nations from Spain in the 1810s and 1820s, and ends in mid-October.
At 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 29, Drinko Library 402 hosts the lecture “Conducting ‘Conjunctive’ Anthropology: Ethnohistory, Archaeology, and Ethnographic Research among the Maya of Highland Guatemala,” by Dr. Robert Carmack.
A professor emeritus at the University of Albany since 2002, Carmack and others recently began a project in Costa Rica to investigate the social changes taking place within a rural community in the Pacific South region of that country.
Carmack is one of the most notable archaeologist-anthropologists in the U.S. with expertise in Mayan and Mesoamerican issues and a passionate advocate of the human and civil rights of Mayans today living in Guatemala and Chiapas.
Call Chris White at 304-696-2722.
