FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 1, 2000 CONTACT: Lisa Lacher, (515) 271-3119 EXPERT ON GUATEMALA TO SPEAK AT DRAKE THURSDAY Diane Nelson, assistant professor of anthropology at Lewis and Clark University, will discuss Guatemala in a speech at Drake University on Thursday, Nov. 2. The speech, which is free and open to the public, will start at 7:30 p.m. in room 207 of Olin Hall, 27th Street and Forest Avenue. Nelson's presentation is titled "Stumped Identities: The Mujer Maya as Prosthetic Nation, Ethnicity and Gender in Post War Guatemala." She is the author of "A Finger In The Wound: Body Politics in Quincentennial Guatemala," which was published by the University of California Press in 1999. Nelson's appearance at Drake is sponsored by the University's Cultural Studies program and the Drake Center for the Humanities. For more information, call (515) 271-2745.