Walter E. Little is a cultural anthropologist who conducts ethnographic research in Guatemala and Mexico with attention to identity politics and political economy, through the exploration of Kaqchikel and K’ichee’ Mayas’ livelihoods as artisans and vendors in urban heritage sites. His monograph Mayas in the Marketplace: Tourism, Globalization, and Cultural Identity (2004) won Best Book of 2005 from the New England Council for Latin American Studies; his coedited volume Street Economies in the Urban Global South (2013) won the Society for the Anthropology of Work Book Prize in 2014.
Experience
–present
Professor of Anthropology, University at Albany, State University of New York
Education
2001
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Cultural Anthropology
Publications
2018
The Practices and Politics of Heritage in Antigua Guatemala, Anthropological Quarterly 91(4)
2015
Urban Economies and Spatial Governmentalities in the World Heritage City of Antigua, Economic Anthropology. 2(1): 42-62
2014
Façade to Street to Façade: Negotiating Public Spatial Legality in a World Heritage City, City & Society 26(2): 196-216
2014
Police and Security in the World Heritage City of Antigua, Guatemala, Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology. 19(3): 396-417
2013
Street Economies in the Urban Global South, School for Advanced Research
2009
Mayas in Postwar Guatemala: Harvest of Violence Revisited, University of Alabama Press
2006
La ütz awäch? Introduction to the Kaqchikel Maya Language, University of Texas Press
2004
Mayas in the Marketplace: Tourism, Globalization, and Cultural Identity, University of Texas Press
Professional Memberships
American Anthropological Association
Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology
Society for Economic Anthropology
Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology