Robert M. Carmack

Robert M. Carmack
Born	1934
Nationality	American
Scientific career
Fields	anthropology
Institutions	State University of New York

Robert M. Carmack is a Mesoamericanist scholar who is most noted for his studies of Mayan history in the infiltration of Nahuatl speaking people into the Mayan cultural areas.

Carmack is an emeritus professor of anthropology at the State University of New York at Albany who for the last few years has been working as a senior Fulbright Scholar.

Carmack has also written several books on early Mayan culture and linguistics.

Selected publications

Books

• Rebels of Highland Guatemala: The Quiche-Mayas of Momostenango. University of Oklahoma Press (1995).
• Historia Antigua de America Central: del Poblamiento a la Conquista. FLACSO, Costa Rica (1992).
• Harvest of Violence: The Maya Indians and the Guatemalan Crisis. University of Oklahoma Press (1988).
• The Quiche-Mayas of Utatlan: The Evolution of a Highland Maya Kingdom. University of Oklahoma Press (1982).
• Historia Social de los Quiches. Jose de Pineda Ibarra, Guatemala (1979)
• Quichéan Civilization: The Ethnohistoric, Ethnographic and Archaeological sources. Berkeley and Los Angeles. University of California Press (1973).

Sources

• Robert Carmack's Faculty page
• Albany.edu report on Carmack's most recent studies
• Library Thing listing for Carmack