David Stoll

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For the English composer and educator, see David Stoll (composer).

David Stoll is an American anthropologist. In his book Rigoberta Menchú and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans, Stoll pointed out inconsistencies between his fieldwork and the memoir that Nobel Peace Prize laureate Rigoberta Menchú wrote with Elizabeth Burgos. Additionally, Stoll criticized many Western academics in their interpretation of Menchú's story, claiming that such academics romanticize guerrillas in Latin America.^[1] The New York Times featured his controversial findings about Menchú on their front page.

Stoll continues to carry out research in the Guatemalan highlands, most recently focusing on immigration, microcredit, and what he argues is a financial bubble created by the two. He teaches at Middlebury College.

Publications

Fishers of Men or Founders of Empire? (1983), about the Wycliffe Bible Translators
Is Latin America Turning Protestant? (1990)
Between Two Armies in the Ixil Towns of Guatemala
Rigoberta Menchú and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans (1999)
TARNISHED LAUREATE: Nobel Winner Accused of Stretching the Truth (1999)
El Norte or Bust: How Migration Fever and Microcredit Produced a Financial Crash in a Latin American Town (2012)

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References

↑ Stoll, David Rigoberta Menchú and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans, 1999

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Name	Stoll, David
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Short description	American anthropologist
Date of birth	1952
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