My Thirty Years in Mexican Anthropology (original) (raw)
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The Long and the Short of Ethnographic Research among the Nahua of Northern Veracruz, Mexico
Anthropology and Humanism, 2011
Long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Mexico provides the basis for a critical evaluation of commitment to a single research site over decades. We discuss positive and negative features of this strategy as well as its effect on understanding of basic anthropological concepts. [Mexico, Nahuas, longitudinal studies, fieldwork, comparative perspective]
MEXICO´S INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES: THEIR LANDS AND HISTORIES, 1500-2010, 2010
2010- 2011 University Press of Colorado Top Ten Best Sellers. http://www.upcolorado.com/Public/AnnualReports/3%202011%20annual%20report.pdf "Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries. -- P. R. Sullivan, independent scholar" Choice To be publish in Spanish by Fondo de Cultura Económica in 2015, Edición aprobada par su publicación en 2015 por Fondo de Cultura Económica "A rich and detailed account of indigenous history in central and southern Mexico from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries, Mexico's Indigenous Communities is an expansive work that destroys the notion that Indians were victims of forces beyond their control and today have little connection with their ancient past. Indian communities continue to remember and tell their own local histories, recovering and rewriting versions of their past in light of their lived present. Ethelia Ruiz Medrano focuses on a series of individual cases, falling within successive historical epochs, that illustrate how the practice of drawing up and preserving historical documents-in particular, maps, oral accounts, and painted manuscripts-has been a determining factor in the history of Mexico's Indian communities for a variety of purposes, including the significant issue of land and its rightful ownership. Since the sixteenth century, numerous Indian pueblos have presented colonial and national courts with historical evidence that defends their landholdings. Because of its sweeping scope, groundbreaking research, and the author's intimate knowledge of specific communities, Mexico's Indigenous Communities is a unique and exceptional contribution to Mexican history. It will appeal to students and specialists of history, indigenous studies, ethnohistory, and anthropology of Latin America and Mexico. Show More Show Less""
Applied Anthropology, the State and Ethnic Groups in Mexico in the Twenty-first Century
Sociology and Anthropology, 2016
Accessing anthropological knowledge is considered as a social issue. The twenty-first century is an opportune moment to critically review the history of applied social anthropology in Mexico in the context of Latin American histories and societies. From its origins in the state, through radical critiques, and, most importantly, the entry of indigenous peoples as protagonists and producers of anthropological knowledge in the context of their political demands, anthropology is now faced with an opportunity to reformulate itself as an agent of change in order to build the anthropology of the twenty first century.
Commentary: Constructing Applied Anthropology in Mexico
Practicing Anthropology, 2001
My objective is to present an overview of Mexican experiences doing applied anthropology. Among the issues I consider are the public's expectation of the discipline; the anthropologist's relationship with his or her clients; and the process of matching research to problems.
IhmaI,Development exido.; Otomi ,Thirteen papers by gradpate students who participated sumierfleId ,program in Hidalgo, Mexico, are presented. erw''-are presented in the. English language and one is ='paws 1.2Research, for seven of the papers was undertaken Indian-villages or hamlets. Research for the was undertaken In-small towns inhabited by ans, and, in some cases, a foreign minority. A research techniques was used, including sophisticated Cal ethods, ethnoscience techniques, linguistic 'tIc. techniques, observation, and. interviews. Titles aphs with Q Methodology in the Mezquital Valley": als and Village Nucleation": "Culture Change and USE OF PHOTOGRAPHS WITH Q.-METHODOLOGY IN THE MEZQUITAL VALLEY
Doing Anthropology in Yucatan: Notes from a Mexican Periphery
American Anthropologist, 2014
The following articles demonstrate some of the range of interests and insights developed by the growing number of anthropologists participating in the globalization of the discipline. When the World Anthropology section of the American Anthropologist was proposed last year, contributions were envisioned on ongoing debates and challenges confronted by anthropologists around the world, reviews of anthropologists whose influential works in specific countries or regions were published in languages other than English, and international collaborations among anthropologists working as individuals or through organizations. Not that the listing was meant to cover all possibilities, but it inspired contributions that have exceeded expectations in their rich elaborations of these themes in the first set of articles in the March 2014 issue of AA and here in the second set.
Aztecs Are Not Indigenous: Anthropology and the Politics of Indigeneity
Annals of Anthropological Practice, 2020
To write about Indigeneity means already being deeply enmeshed in identity politics. The much researched rural south of Mexico City is a case in point. Anthropologists have described the Nahuatl speakers of Milpa Alta as "heirs of the Aztecs," and knowledge of Nahuatl and folklore has become key to maintaining municipal land rights in the context of current multiculturalist politics. Thus, Nahu-atl has become a politicized marker of prestige. This has led to various tensions , including acrimonious competition over what constitutes the "correct" way of speaking Nahuatl and frictions with newly arrived speakers of other Indigenous languages. To avoid exacerbating these tensions, I suggest that anthropologists should commit to decolonizing their work by politically and epistemologically situating it and by adopting participatory approaches, as well as an iterative, adaptive approach to research ethics. This means continuously reevaluating and tailoring one's ethics to concrete situations as they emerge-and never truly leaving "the field."