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Contents List

Series 1 - Accession 2: Mayan Women in Chan Kom, 1967-1979, 6 boxes



Field Notes

Box
1 Loose, unsorted Field Notes of Alfonso Villa Rojas and Mary Elmendorf, ca. 1978. Cf. Series 1, Boxes 15-16.


Miscellaneous papers, 1972-2002

Box
2 The Majority-Minority: An Unused Resource. Mary Lindsay Elmendorf. Typed ms., (Xerox). "Draft--not for publication, March, 1972." 12 [2] p. Cf. Series 1, Box 2/3.
Mayan Indian Women and Social Change in Mexico, by Mary Lindsay Elmendorf. Paper presented at Conference on Human Potential and Human Use. Ohio-Wesleyan University, April 20-22, 1972. Typed ms., 49 pp. Autograph revisions.
Voies nouvelles pour les pasaynnes: Apercus dans un village du Yucutan par Mary Elmendorf. Etude preparee pour le Seminaire sur: Les femmes et le development. American Association for the Advancement of Science, PNUD, UNITAR, and CONYACT. Mexico, Mexico, 16-18 June 1975.
Mexico - Network, ca. 197? Notes on Elmendorf's contacts in Mexico.
Notes on "Role of Women" and CIMMYT, with copy of journal article [ca. 1971?]
Special Information [re Mary Elmendorf] for the Union Graduate School, June 30, 1972
Mayan Women and Change, thesis draft, abstract.
Elmendorf's Mayan writings, set of papers numbered 1-9.
Union Graduate School - Correspondence and roster, 1974.
Vera Rubin (RISM) Memorial Symposium - (AAA, Washington, 1985).
Villa Rojas, Alfonso. Modernizacion y ansiedad en un pueblo maya, typed ms. with letter to ME, submitting ms., AAA Panel in honor of Vera Rubin, 1986. Notes by Elmendorf.
Experimento de convivencia international (Elderhostel) re course on The Mayan World, 1989.
Promaya; research proposal to NSF by John R. Sosa and Betty B. Faust, 1991; with review by Elmendorf.
Re Cruz, Alicia. Two Milpas of Chan Kom: A Study of Socioeconomic and Political Transformations in a Maya Community. Ph.D. dissertation, State University of New York at Albany, 1992. With ms. note by ME on cover.
Box
3 Re Cruz, Alicia. Two Milpas: A Maya Community in Crisis. Ms. copy used and annotated by ME as a reader for proposed publication by State University of New York Press, with correspondence, 1994.
Nash, June. The Revindication of Indigenous Identity, 1994. Panel in honor of Alfonso Villa Rojas.
Elmendorf, Mary. Statement re "Zapatista rebellion," 1994 (March 5, 1994).
The Many Worlds of Mayan Women. The Widsom of the Maya; 43rd annual conference, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida, March 20-26, 1994.
The Many Worlds of Mayan Women, computer print-out; revised May 18, 1994, with bibliography, June 15, 1994.
The Many Worlds of Mayan Women -Documentation. Papers by Buckles, Kintz, Macias, Miller , Morfit and Truman (with correspondence).
Research application and correspondence to Guggenheim Foundation re Chiapas in the 1950's (1994).
Research Plan / Mary Elmendorf (Chiapas) [1994?]
Letters to James M. Hester, et al re rejected Guggenheim proposal (Chiapas), Jan. 11, 1995
Chiapas - Secondary material; clippings about Chiapan Mayans from the 1950's.
Chiapas Material, ca. 1975-77
Chiapas material, primarily e-mail, 1994-2002
Box
4 Miraftab, Farfanak. Old Enemies, New Rivals, Future Partners? The Case of State-NGO Relations in Mexico. Berkeley: University of California, 1996. Ms. notation by ME, July, 1996. Accompanied by other documents on NGO's and Mexico, with notes by ME.
Cruz, Alicia Re. Disruption of People's Health and Social Order. La Canicula among the Yucatec Mayas, of Mexico [ca. 1996]. Typed ms., with notations by ME.
Na Molay, First Congress of Mayan women, 1997.
Elmendorf, Mary. Paper on "Political and cultural ecology of the Yucatec Maya," originally given at 1997 AAA panel, prepared as background material for "A Place Called Chiapas," 2001 Gulf Coast Chapter/UNIFEM film festival, Feb. 2001.
Remembrances of Times Past with Fernando Camara Barbachno by Mary Elmendorf. Typed ms., March 31, 1999. 5 p. With copy of Antropologia e historia mexicanas: Homenaje al maestro Fernando Camara Barbachano, 2001, with presentation from Barbaachno to ME.
Packet of Material for "Participants of the SfAA Tour to Chan Kom Saturday, March 31, 2001." Includes photographs.
Kintz, Ellen. Maya Gardens. SfAA Meeting, Spring 2001.
Smardon, Richard C. “Assessing Heritage Values and Functions of Wetlands in Southern Mexico,” Paper presented at SfAA Meeting, 2001, with presentation letter to ME.
UNIFEM Visit to Chan Kom, Nov. 6-16,2001 - Preliminary information
UNIFEM Visit to Chan Kom, Nov. 6-16,2001 - Chan Kom packet
UNIFEM Visit to Chan Kom, Nov. 6-16,2001 - Photographs
Elmendorf. Memories of Midwife Training in Mexico, 1952-2002. Perspectives of an 85 year-old Anthropologist. Prepared for the First International Conference on Professional Midwifery and Self-regulation. San Miguel de Allende, June 19-22, 2002. Manuscript, 22 p., conference material, and background.


Rights, Resources, Cultures and Conservation in Maya Communities of Yucatan, Mexico, 1952-1962

The 1997 American Anthropological Society meeting included a Panel in Honor of Mary Elmendorf, with concluding comments by her. These papers and others are being edited into a volume entitled "Rights, Resources, Cultures and Conservation in Maya Communities of Yucatan, Mexico: Studies Inspired by the Work of Mary Elmendorf," (ed. Betty Faust and E. N. Anderson. Greenwood Press, in Press), including two chapters by Mary Elmendorf. One of these, "The Many Worlds of Mayan Women," is an extended version of a presentation given at the 1994 University of Florida seminar, "The Wisdom of the Maya." The other "Conclusions: Reflections on Rights, Resources, Culture and Conservation in Participatory Research" is an extension of Elmendorf's remarks given to the Panel.
The Papers include a manuscript of the complete book, drafts of individual chapters, especially those by Elmendorf, drafts of the Papers from the AAA Panel, and e-mail regarding the preparations for the Panel and for the editing and publication of the book. Several of the drafts include Elmendorf's autograph notations.



Book Manuscript and Drafts of Many Worlds of Mayan Women

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5 “Rights, Resources, Cultures and Conservation in Maya Communities of Yucatan, Mexico: Studies Inspired by the Work of Mary Elmendorf,” (editors: Betty Bernice Faust, E. N. Andersen and John G. Frazier. Typed ms., xix, 430 p., missing Chapter 11, pp. 397-341. With autograph notes by Mary Elmendorf.
“Rights, Resources, Cultures and Conservation in Maya Communities of Yucatan, Mexico: Studies Inspired by the Work of Mary Elmendorf,” (editors: Betty Bernice Faust, E. N. Andersen and John G. Frazier. Typed ms., xix, 430 p., missing Chapter 11, pp. 397-341. With autograph notes by Mary Elmendorf.
The Many Worlds of Mayan Women by Mary Lindsay Elmendorf. 1994. Typed ms., 14, 12 pp. With a. notes added by ME. Cf. Series 1, Box 13/21.
The Many Worlds of Mayan Women, July, 1999. Typed ms., 79 p.
The Many Worlds of Mayan Women, typed ms., fragment [20 p] With note from Chris Abram, May 6, 2001.
The Many Worlds of Mayan Women by Mary Elmendorf. Typed ms., 63 p., and Endnotes, p. 65-74, and Bibliography, 69-113. June 21 and 25, 2001, with note that they are superseded by the final version, July 2, 2001. Accompanied by a separate printout of Abbreviations and Endnotes, pp. 96-106.
The Many World of Mayan Women by Mary Elmendorf. Typed ms., 112 p. Accompanied by a computer disk, dated July 3, 2001.
The Many Worlds of Mayan Women (Chapter 3). Partially dated April 8, 2002. 85 p. "Editing by Jack Frazier.
The Many Worlds of Mayan Women (Chapter 3) pp. 54-123 and “Conclusions: Reflections on Rights, Resources, Culture and Conservation in Participatory Research” (Chapter 13), pp. 394-428. Computer output, recording deletions and other changes. Also a Table of Changes, 6 p. Note by ME: “Final edited chapters for The Book.” Computer dated, October 19, 2002.



Drafts of "Conclusions"

Box
6 Reflections on Rights, Resources, and Responsibilities in Participatory Research by Mary Lindsay Elmendorf. Typed draft, 24 p. With copy of email, July 10, 1999, transmitting to editors Anderson and Faust..
Reflections on Rights, Resources, and Responsibilities in Participatory Research by Mary Lindsay Elmendorf. Drafts, January and May 14, 2001. Version of Panel remarks with introduction, submitted to book editor, Betty Faust.
Conclusions: Reflections on Rights, Resources, and Responsibilities in Participatory Research by Mary Lindsay Elmendorf. Typed ms., 35 pp. “As sent to Faust, May 21, 2001, as partially edited by Mary, May 30.” With title page and Table of Contents.
Conclusions: Reflections on Rights, Resources, and Responsibilities in Participatory Research by Mary Lindsay Elmendorf. Typed ms., 35 pp. “As sent to Faust, May 21, 2001, as partially edited by Mary, May 30.” With title page and Table of Contents. Revised 10/24/01.



Drafts of Other Chapters

Box
6 Introduction, by E. N. Anderson and B. Faust. Typed ms.
Re Cruz, Alicia. Working with People and Places through Action.
Andrews, Joann M. Conservation Efforts of Pronatura
Ericson, Jenny. Population and Land-Use: An Essential Link for Conservation in Calakmul.
Andersen, E. N. Valuing the Maya Forest.
Betty B. Faust. End of Innocense [Sic]: Overused Forests and Under-used Traditions
Bascope, Grace. Economic, Political, and Environmental Change in a Yucutan Village, Chapter 7. 18 p.
Forrest, David. The Landscape of Santa Rita Komchen.
Kintz, Ellen R. and Amanda S. Ritchie. The Transformation of Paradise: Deep, Social, and Political Ecology among the Yucatec Maya of Coba, Quintana Roo, Mexico. A Dialogical Approach. Abstract only.
Glusker, S. Human Rights among the Maya. 66 p. March 11, 2001.
Frazer, John G. The Yucutan Syndrome.
[Nash, June] Living in a Mayan World [Draft of Foreword to Rights, Resources, and Conservation in the Land of the Maya]
Rights, Resources, and Conservation in the Land of the Maya - Prospectus and summaries,



Drafts of Papers given at Mary Elmendorf Panel

The drafts may have been written before the conference, or later as earliest drafts for the book Typed mss., with extensive autograph revisions.
Box
6 Anderson, E. N. Valuing the Maya Forest [Paper 1]
Kintz, Ellen R. and Amanda S. Ritchie. The Transformation of Paradise [Paper 3]
Bascope, Grace. Economic, Political, and Environmental Changes in a Yucutan Village [Paper 4]
[Leslie, Karen] The Privatization of Common-Property Marine Resources in a Quintana Roo Fishing Community [Paper 5]
Forrest, David W. Metaphor and the construction of community in Mani, Yucutan. Draft paper [8]
Frazier, J. G. The “Tectetan” Syndrome in Biological Conservation Activities [Paper 6]
Re Cruz, Alicia. Working with Peoples and Places through Action. In Yuctaec Maya Political and Cultural Ecology: Papers in Honor of Mary Elmendorf [Paper 10] Notes pertaining to Remarks of 11/19-23/97 by Alicia Cruz; e-mails.
E-mails re AAA program, 1997; draft of Comments (by ME)?; Papers by Alicia RE Cruz and E. N. Anderson, and Reflections on rights, Resources, and Responsibilities in Participatory Research by Mary Lindsay Elmendorf, typed ms., 46 p; 4-22 msg.; program.
Rights, Resources, Culture and Conservation in the Land of the Maya. Draft title page, book summary, fragmentary drafts of Conclusions, and e-mail between Mary Elmendorf, Betty Faust and others 1997-98.



E-mails

E-mails relating to the editing and publication of the book, primarily between Elmendorf and Faust.
Box
6 Emails. 1999-[bulk] 2000
Emails. 2001
Emails. 2002

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