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Quetzil E. Castañeda

Social Sciences · Indiana University

OpenAlex ORCID
Indigenous Cultures and HistoryIndigenous Cultures and Socio-EducationLatin American history and cultureDiverse Aspects of Tourism ResearchPolitics and Society in Latin America

Publications

69

Citations

918

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

31

Publishing since 1995

Research summary
AI-generated

Quetzil E. Castañeda studies the cultures, history, and language of the Maya peoples of Mexico and Central America through ethnography (the close, qualitative study of communities and their practices). Their work also examines tourism, cultural heritage sites and ruins, religious and spiritual seeking, and how scholarly terminology shapes the representation of Indigenous groups. Much of the recent output involves editorial work and reflections on ethnographic writing.

Maya Indigenous cultures and languageEthnography and ethnographic writingTourism and cultural heritage studiesLatin American and Caribbean anthropologyCritiques of academic terminology and representation

Publication activity peaked around 2019 (largely editorial contributions) and has slowed considerably since, with several recent years showing no or single publications.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 11, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 0.8/year recently
2017: 1 publication172018: 2 publications182019: 11 publications11192020: 4 publications202021: 3 publications21222023: 3 publications23242025: 1 publication2526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology×10
  • Loyola eCommons (Loyola University of Chicago)×1
  • SOAS Research Online (SOAS University of London)×1
  • Anthropological Quarterly×1
  • Ciencias Sociales y Religión×1

This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 11, 2026.

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