Monday, February 16, 2015

Machine Age Maya: The Industrialization of a Guatemalan Community


Nash, Manning, Machine Age Maya: The Industrialization of a Guatemalan Community, The American Anthropologist: Memoir No. 87, Vol. 60, No. 2, Part 2, April 1958.

Reviewed in American Anthropologist.

Manning Nash (1924—December 12, 2001) was an anthropologist and ethnographer, professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago until his retirement in 1994, and a specialist in the study of the modernization of developing nations in Latin America and Asia. Nash conducted the first anthropological study of a factory in a Third World country, and his expertise in modernization of developing nations led to his fieldwork in Guatemala, Mexico, Burma, Iran, and Malaysia.

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