Diane M. Nelson was surrounded by her family when she died in her home in Carrboro, North Carolina, USA. She was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer at the end of January and died on April 27, 2022. Yet she remains presente among us, held close by an astounding range of comrades, friends, kin, teachers, students, and colleagues who admire her. Her life was celebrated in public ceremonies at the Carrboro Town Commons on June 12, 2022, and in Guatemala City at the Fondo de Cultura Económica's Librería Luis Cardoza y Aragón on August 5, 2022.
Diane was a graduate of Wellesley College and received her master's and PhD from Stanford University. She taught at Lewis and Clark College for six years, then at Duke for twenty-one years in the Department of Cultural Anthropology. But before that—in chronology and consequence—Diane began fieldwork in Guatemala with Paula Worby in 1985 as a recently...
