Between 1995 and 1997, three groups of college students each spent two months in K'iche' Maya villages in Guatemala. In this enlightening book, Hawkins and Adams describe their field-school method of involving undergraduate students in primary research and ethnographic writing, and then present the best of the student essays, which examine the effects of modernization of K'iche' Maya religion, courtship, marriage, gender relations, education, and community development.