C James MacKenzie

C. James MacKenzie is associate professor in the Anthropology Department at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta. He has conducted research on religious, political, and economic change in San Andrés Xecul, Guatemala, since 1999. His work has been published in Anthropologica, Nova Religio, Anthropos, and Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, among others.

Religion and Modernity in a Transnational K'iche' Community

An increasingly disparate swath of practices and traditions are now united in controversy as discussions of cultural appropriation go viral.