Name: John B. Haviland
Professor, Department of Anthropology
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1971

Field of Expertise: Haviland is an anthropological linguist, with interests in the social life of language. His major research has been on Tzotzil (Mayan) in highland Chiapas, Mexico, and its neighbors, as well as on languages from the area north of Cooktown, in far north Queensland, Australia. Recent work focuses on Indian social life in post-Zapatista Chiapas, on life history, and language change and extinction (Tzotzil, Tseltal, Chol). In the US Haviland has worked with speakers of Mexican Indian languages in migrant populations, concentrating on interactions between the doubly marginalized Indian immigrants.

Region of Interest: Chiapas, Mexico. North Queensland, Australia

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Selected Publications:

• Haviland, John B. " Dreams of blood: Zinacantecs in Oregon ." In Dislocations/Relocations: Narratives of Displacement , Mike Baynham & Anna de Fina (eds.) St. Martins. (In Press)
• "Indians, languages, and linguistic accommodation in modern Chiapas, Mexico." In Standardvariationen und Sprachauffassungen in verschiedenen Sprachkulturen|Standard Variations and Conceptions of Language in Various Language Cultures, 285-310, edited by Rudolf Muhr. Wien u.a.: Peter Lang Verlag, 2005.