Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media

Period of Performance

12/1/1976 - 12/31/1978

Funding Totals

$260,000.00 (approved)
$260,000.00 (awarded)


Contemporary Yucatec Maya

FAIN: GN-10317-76

Unaffiliated independent scholar
Hubert L. Smith (Project Director: December 1976 to present)

To produce four half-hour long films dealing with contemporary Maya culture that will provide the general public with direct access to th< methodology and philosophical assumptions of ethnographic research and film documentation. The films will represent an integrated visual study of both the complex and changing lifeways of contemporary Yucatec Maya.