Mónica Salas Landa
@msalas.bsky.social
Asst. Prof @LafCol | @CornellAnthro PhD | I teach and write about Mex and LatAm; visual culture, ruins, memory, nation-state formation, archives, petroculture
As Luis mentioned, Shane’s book Oaxaca Resurgent is also worth exploring, among others! There is some recent and fascinating work on mid-20th century anthropology and indigenismo in Mexico that utilizes anthropologists’ archives, fieldnotes, and images as key sources of study.
January 28, 2025 at 3:35 AM
As Luis mentioned, Shane’s book Oaxaca Resurgent is also worth exploring, among others! There is some recent and fascinating work on mid-20th century anthropology and indigenismo in Mexico that utilizes anthropologists’ archives, fieldnotes, and images as key sources of study.
Also Karin Rosemblatt’s ch. on Eulalia Guzmán in Empire, Colonialism, and the Human Sciences; and Lewis’s Rethinking Mexican Indigenismo.
January 28, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Also Karin Rosemblatt’s ch. on Eulalia Guzmán in Empire, Colonialism, and the Human Sciences; and Lewis’s Rethinking Mexican Indigenismo.
I would also recommend checking out the superb work of Haydee López Hernández, especially her new book on the Mezquital; Diana Schwartz’s doctoral dissertation Transforming the Tropics or her ch. in the book Beyond Alterity (José Luis Escalona-Victoria’s ch. in the same volume is also relevant)
January 28, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I would also recommend checking out the superb work of Haydee López Hernández, especially her new book on the Mezquital; Diana Schwartz’s doctoral dissertation Transforming the Tropics or her ch. in the book Beyond Alterity (José Luis Escalona-Victoria’s ch. in the same volume is also relevant)
Paula López Cabello’s article in HAHR is excellent! Here is the link: read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/article...
Domesticating Social Taxonomies: Local and National Identifications as Seen Through Susan Drucker's Anthropological Fieldwork in Jamiltepec, Oaxaca, Mexico, 1957–1963
Abstract. This article proposes an archaeology of the anthropological research undertaken by Susan Drucker in Jamiltepec, Oaxaca, in the late 1950s. I contrast the book that stemmed from this research...
read.dukeupress.edu
January 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Paula López Cabello’s article in HAHR is excellent! Here is the link: read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/article...
For work based on the archives of ethnographers rather than archaeologists, see Chapter 4 of my book: utpress.utexas.edu/9781477328712/
Visible Ruins
An examination of the failures of the Mexican Revolution through the visual and material records. The Mexican Revolution (1910–1920) introduced a series of...
utpress.utexas.edu
January 27, 2025 at 7:28 PM
For work based on the archives of ethnographers rather than archaeologists, see Chapter 4 of my book: utpress.utexas.edu/9781477328712/
Here is the link to my article published in HAHR: read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/article...
January 27, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Here is the link to my article published in HAHR: read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/article...