Suzanne Cook
Adjunct Professor
Linguistics
- Contact:
- scook@uvic.ca
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- Credentials:
- MA, UVic
- Area of expertise:
- Maya, Lacandon, ethnobiology, language documentation
Bio
She graduated with an MA from the Department of Linguistics, UVic.ca 2000, and thereafter conducted language documentation on the Lacandon, Maya, of Chiapas, Mexico, with a grant from the Volkswagen Foundation. She has written two books based on her research--Xurt’an: The End of the World and Other Myths, Songs, Charms, and Chants by the Northern Lacandones of Naha' (2019) Nebraska Press, and The Forest of the Lacandon Maya: An Ethnobotanical Guide (2016) Springer-Nature Link.
Selected publications
2019
Xurt’an: The End of the World and Other Myths, Songs, Charms, and Chants by the Northern Lacandones of Naha'
2016
The Forest of the Lacandon Maya: An Ethnobotanical Guide
Current research projects/information
She is currently working on a dictionary of Northern Lacandon and an ethnozoological companion book to the ethnobotanical guide.