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In The Practicing Anthropologist: Volume 1 Building a Nation, readers will find exciting archeology discoveries, social profiles of communities, children, and family life, effects of migration on cultural and national identities, and national policy recommendations. All this was written by Belize's foremost social scientist, Joseph O. Palacio, who is also an indigenous person. It gives him a unique perspective, allowing him to look both in from the outside as an objective anthropologist, and out from the inside as an indigenous person living in Barranco. ... Aspiring students need look no further than the Practicing Anthropologist for inspiration (from the Foreword by Herman J. Byrd, Director, Belize Archives and Record Service)

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Dr. Joseph Palacio was born in the village of Barranco and grew up in several villages in southern Belize where his brother was teaching. He earned a B.A. degree in Liberal Arts at the University of Toronto, Canada, an M.A. degree in Anthropology specializing in Archeology from the University of Manitoba, Canada, and the Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in Anthropology. He was the first Belizean Archeology Commissioner and then served over 20 years as the Resident Tutor at the University of the West Indies School of Continuing Studies. He lives in his home village of Barranco.

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