Paul Kockelman
Paul Kockelman is a professor of anthropology at Yale University. His work in linguistic anthropology includes the description and ethnographic analysis of Q’eqchi’, a Mayan language spoken in Guatemala. His contributions to anthropological theory have covered a wide range of themes, including agency, meaning, subjectivity, stance, and value. Much of this work has come out of a synthesis of critical theory, analytical philosophy, linguistics, political economy, and a large body of ethnographic data drawn mostly from Guatemala. Kockelman has been described as "one of anthropology's last great system‐builders".
Kockelman has served as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. He is also co-editor, with Nick Enfield and Jack Sidnell, of The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology.
