David Stoll is an American

United States

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 anthropologist. He received his Bachelor's Degree in Anthropology from the University of Michigan

University of Michigan

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 and completed his Master's and Ph.D. at Stanford University

Stanford University

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. He spent much of the nineteen-eighties and nineties in Latin American countries such as Colombia

Colombia

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 and Guatemala

Guatemala

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, where his research is concentrated. 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

Nobel Peace Prize

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 laureate Rigoberta Menchú

Rigoberta Menchú

Rigoberta Menchú Tum is an indigenous Guatemalan, of the K'iche' ethnic group. Menchú has dedicated her life to publicizing the plight of Guatemala's indigenous peoples during and after the Guatemalan Civil War , and to promoting indigenous rights in the country...

 wrote with Elizabeth Burgos

Elizabeth Burgos

Venezuelan anthropologist Elisabeth Burgos-Debray, wife of the French philosopher Régis Debray, was the editor of Rigoberta Menchú's controversial autobiography I, Rigoberta Menchú. However, since Rigoberta told Burgos her life in a series of interviews, Burgos became in fact more than just the...

. Additionally, Stoll criticized many Western academics in their interpretation of Menchú's story, claiming that such academics romanticize guerrillas in Latin America. The New York Times

The New York Times

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 featured his controversial findings about Menchú on their front page. He currently teaches at Middlebury College

Middlebury College

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.

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)

External links

• http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/aut-op-sy/1999m10/msg00085.htm
• http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/1999/mayjun/articles/menchu.html