{"id":7812,"date":"2026-01-23T16:13:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T21:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/?p=7812"},"modified":"2026-01-26T09:50:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T14:50:34","slug":"joyce-bennett-featured-in-el-pais","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/2026\/01\/23\/joyce-bennett-featured-in-el-pais\/","title":{"rendered":"Joyce Bennett featured in EL PA\u00cdS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Associate Professor of Anthropology <strong>Joyce Bennett<\/strong> was quoted extensively in <a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/planeta-futuro\/2025-12-22\/las-bordadoras-mayas-reclaman-derechos-para-sus-huipiles-apropiados-por-grandes-marcas.html\">an <em>EL PA\u00cdS<\/em> story<\/a> Dec. 22 about Maya weavers fighting back against the appropriation of their ancestral designs by global manufacturers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOne woman told me she could still feel her mother\u2019s hands over hers when she wove,\u201d Bennett told <em>EL PA\u00cdS<\/em> reporter Ana Rodr\u00edguez \u00c1lvarez. \u201cThat is the spirituality behind the textile.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bennett, who chairs the Anthropology department, has done extensive research on Maya women in Guatemala, tracking their attempts to protect their traditional weavings through intellectual property rights. The National Women\u2019s Weaving Movement of Guatemala has been pushing back on the way national and international manufacturers, often fast fashion brands, have reproduced traditional designs without recognizing their creators or paying them for their designs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGlobal fashion wants inspiration,\u201d Bennett told <em>EL PA\u00cdS<\/em>.&nbsp; \u201cBut what it often does is extraction. They take designs that have been collectively protected for centuries and register them as their own. It is a silent but devastating violence.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor of Anthropology Joyce Bennett was quoted extensively in an EL&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1283,"featured_media":7815,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":["joyce-n-bennett"],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[4115],"tags":[4232,4246,4231,4247],"class_list":["post-7812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-in-the-news","tag-anthropology","tag-el-pais","tag-joyce-bennett","tag-maya-weavers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7812"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7818,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7812\/revisions\/7818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}