April 18, 2018

Mayan women focus of anthropology talk

Anthropologist Linda Green will discuss her research at 2 p.m. April 25 in Nebraska Union's Heritage Room.

Anthropologist Linda Green will discuss her research at 2 p.m. April 25 in Nebraska Union's Heritage Room.

Anthropologist Linda Green will deliver a talk, “No Exit: Mayan Women’s Entanglements with Violence, Impunity and Asylum,” at 2 p.m. April 25 in the Nebraska Union’s Heritage Room. The talk is

Green is a professor of anthropology and former director of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona. Her work attempts to trace historical shifts in vulnerability, particularly among peoples across the Americas whose primary identity is indigenous.

She has conducted research in rural Guatemala, along the border between the United States and Mexico, and in rural Alaska.