Evon Z. Vogt

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Evon Zartman Vogt, Jr. was born in Gallup, New Mexico on August 20, 1918. A noted cultural anthropologist, he was a professor at Harvard University his entire career, serving as Chairman of the Department of Anthropology, Co-Master of Kirkland House (with his wife Catherine C. Vogt), and Chairman of the Center for Latin American Studies. Here he directed a project at Harvard University that focused on the Tzotzil of Zinacantan, studing at length the resilience of this community as it survived in a changing world. Evon Vogt, who was a beloved teacher, died May 13, 2004 at Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

[edit] Published works

Vogt's publications include:

1969 Zinacantan: A Maya Community in the Highlands of Chiapas. Cambridge: The Belknap Press (of Harvard University Press).
1976 Tortillas for the Gods: A Symbolic Analysis of Zinacanteco Rituals. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
1994 Fieldwork Among the Maya: Reflections on the Harvard Chiapas Project. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.