"This important and fascinating book edited by experienced anthropologists John P. Hawkins and Walter Randolph Adams (who coauthor every chapter with their students) covers population relocation at the contemporary K’iche’ Maya municipality of Santa Catarina Ixtahuacán in highland Guatemala, Central America… They cogently discuss the embedded social and economic factors involving geography (contextualized within examining place) in human population movements, which makes this research so interesting and insightful. Once I started reading about the complex factors involved, in addition to the multiple perspectives of the investigators and Maya collaborators, I could not put the book down."

– Joel W. Palka, The AAG Review of Books

"A seminal and ground-breaking collection of informative and erudite articles, Making a Place for the Future in Maya Guatemala: Natural Disaster and Sociocultural Change in Santa Catarina Ixtahuacan is especially and unreservedly recommended for personal reading lists and college/university library Guatemala/Mayan History collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists."

– Able Greenspan, Midwest Book Review

“A groundbreaking long-term study of climate disaster, internal migration, sociocultural change, and identity transformation in the K’iche’-speaking Maya Highlands of Guatemala. Culture comes out in the breach, and this research team was able to follow the devastating consequences of Hurricane Mitch (1998) and its impact over twenty years as fragile Maya communities struggled to survive in an increasingly hostile political and economic environment.”—James H. McDonald, author of Crisis of Governance in Maya Guatemala: Indigenous Responses to a Failing State