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Published on: 5/13/2009
Last Visited: 5/13/2009
Dr. Grace Bascopé
Grace Lloyd Bascopé received her Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology from Southern Methodist University with a specialization in Medical Anthropology.
She has taught numerous physical and cultural anthropology courses at Texas Christian University.
She has conducted numerous studies in an indigenous community in the central part of the state of Yucatán, México for almost 20 years and ran the TCU ethnographic field school there.
She has also worked in Honduras, South America and Jamaica.
In Yucatán she worked with David Freidel and the SMU/Selz Foundation when they excavated a portion of the large ancient city of Yaxunah.
She is the author of The Household Ecology of Disease Transmission: Childhood Illness in a Yucatán Maya Community and several articles and chapters on her research in Yaxunah.