Luis Enrique Sam Colop or Sam-Colop (1955 – 15 July 2011) was a Guatemalan/Native American linguist, William D. Davies and Luis Enrique Sam-Colop, K‘iché and the structure of antipassive, Language 66, 522-549. (1990) lawyer, poet, writer, newspaper columnist, Prensa Libre (newspaper), Guatemala. promoter of the K'iche' language, and social activist. Nick Copeland Cruel Populism: Counterinsurgency Strategy and the Limits of Democracy in the Guatemalan Highlands , pages 10 and 29. LASC Working Paper N.21, University of Maryland
Early life and education
He was born in Cantel, Guatemala in 1955. Sam Colop graduated in Law at the Rafael Landivar University Alberto M. Fernández, Review of Kay B. Warren's Pan-Maya Activism in Guatemala . ReVista online journal, Harvard (Spring 1999). Franz Galich, ¿Existe una literatura indígena en Guatemala? . Accessed March 08, 2009 and obtained his Ph.D. at SUNY, Buffalo in 1994 with a dissertation on Maya poetry. Luis Enrique Sam Colop, Maya Poetics. Ph.D. dissertation, SUNY at Buffalo. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor (1994)
Teaching career
He taught K'iche' Language at the Universidad de San Carlos, Guatemala. Starting in 1999 he was a Fulbright-sponsored visiting scholar at St. Mary's College of Maryland Building Student Exchanges with the Emerging Democratic World . Grant proposal, St. Mary's College of Maryland (2003).
Books and articles Published works by Luis Sam-Colop include two poem collections, Versos sin refugio Luis Enrique Sam-Colop, Versos sin refugio (1980). 32 pages, in Spanish. and La copa y la raíz Luis Enrique Sam-Colop, La copa y la raíz. Editorial San Antonio, Guatemala (1979). In Spanish and K‘iche‘. as well as various essays and articles. Luis Enrique Sam-Colop, Jub'aqtun Omay Kuchum K'aslemal, Cinco siglos de encumbrimento. Series Seminario Permanente de Estudios Mayas, No. 1. Cholsamaj, Guatemala (1991). 42 pages, in Spanish. He is best known outside Guatemala for a new edition of the Popol Vuh in the native language. Luis Enrique Sam Colop, Popol Wuj — Versión Poética K‘iche‘. PEMBI/GTZ/Cholsamaj, Guatemala (1999). In the Quiché Maya language. He recently received a Guggenheim fellowship in connection with this work.
External links Ucha'xik - A growing collection of his newspaper columns in the Guatemalan newspaper Prensa Libre from 1996 to 2011.
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