Anthropologist Challenges Veracity of Multicultural Icon

By ROBIN WILSON

But many professors say they will stand by Rigoberta Menchu's memoir

The autobiography of a poor Guatemalan woman whose family was oppressed by light-skinned landowners and brutalized by right-wing soldiers has become a cornerstone of the multicultural canon over the last 15 years. So far-reaching is its popularity -- it is read in courses ranging from history to literature