{"id":11754,"date":"2024-04-26T11:58:29","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T09:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/boasblogs.org\/?post_type=decolonizinganthro&#038;p=11754"},"modified":"2024-08-08T17:57:52","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T15:57:52","slug":"decolonizing-what-was-known-as-mexican-anthropology","status":"publish","type":"decolonizinganthro","link":"https:\/\/boasblogs.org\/de\/decolonizinganthropology\/decolonizing-what-was-known-as-mexican-anthropology\/","title":{"rendered":"Part 2 | Session 4 | 02 May 2024 | Decolonizing What Was Known as Mexican Anthropology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style>\n\t.dkpdf-download-icon { height: 1.5rem; }\n<\/style>\n\n\n\n\t<div class=\"dkpdf-button-container\" style=\" text-align:right \">\n\n\t\t<a class=\"dkpdf-button\" href=\"\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/decolonizinganthropology\/11754?pdf=11754\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t<img src='\/wp-content\/themes\/boasblogs\/dkpdf\/download_red.svg' class=dkpdf-download-icon'\/>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t\n\t\t<!-- <a class=\"dkpdf-button\" href=\"\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/decolonizinganthropology\/11754?pdf=11754\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"dkpdf-button-icon\"><i class=\"fa fa-file-pdf-o\"><\/i><\/span> Download PDF<\/a> &rarr; -->\n\n\t<\/div>\n\n<p><video id=\"ref_25\" poster=\"https:\/\/rs.cms.hu-berlin.de\/ethnoa-medien\/plugins\/api_resource\/?ref=25&amp;key=ixXwIpkdYL76RfqgGu9T5L9_MOEjxnVGLWdL_jmKzZgnwdNinmG1YlzVrHw5lj9k892grA,,&amp;preview=1&amp;skey=f90434bfa0afaf488c75099111a88b6a\" preload=\"none\" controls=\"controls\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\"><source src=\"https:\/\/rs.cms.hu-berlin.de\/ethnoa-medien\/plugins\/api_resource\/?ref=25&amp;alt_ref=60&amp;key=ixXwIpkdYL76RfqgGu9T5L9_MOEjxnVGLWdL_jmKzZgnwdNinmG1YlzVrHw5lj9k892grA,,&amp;skey=3dc613b861347525e598e0640f5469a7\" type=\"video\/mp4\" \/><source src=\"https:\/\/rs.cms.hu-berlin.de\/ethnoa-medien\/plugins\/api_resource\/?ref=25&amp;alt_ref=58&amp;key=ixXwIpkdYL76RfqgGu9T5L9_MOEjxnVGLWdL_jmKzZgnwdNinmG1YlzVrHw5lj9k892grA,,&amp;skey=be1de98519503994a9a0f26f14de68f8\" type=\"video\/webm\" \/><source src=\"https:\/\/rs.cms.hu-berlin.de\/ethnoa-medien\/plugins\/api_resource\/?ref=25&amp;key=ixXwIpkdYL76RfqgGu9T5L9_MOEjxnVGLWdL_jmKzZgnwdNinmG1YlzVrHw5lj9k892grA,,&amp;skey=3020057cc32df69924a62c5bf01f37ea\" type=\"video\/mp4\" \/><\/video><\/p>\n<p>Lizenz: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0<\/p>\n<p>The script entitled &#8222;The reification of race&#8220; can be downloaded as a PDF below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Taking two twenty-five-year periods, one from 1969 to 1994 and another from 1995 to 2020, I reflect on the decolonizing attempts and discomforts in what was known as Mexican Anthropology. The first one starts with the radical takeover by a generation of professional anthropologists against state sponsored \u201cIndigenist Thought\u201d, the second after the crumbling of the \u201cparadigms\u201d that same generation was able to make canonical by the very same exercise of critical anthropology and the \u201cZapatista Uprising\u201d. If the critical turn after 1968 claimed to side with the ethnographic subjects that were sources of intervention, pointing out their historical colonial status, the way it was done \u201cnaturalized\u201d other forms of theoretical othering, alienation, and representation that broke down in 1994. The Zapatista Uprising and most social movements it precipitated have incorporated anthropological reflection as a metadiscoursal recourse and put its practice at odds, striving for renewed forms of cultural politics. This has happened within a decolonial bargain, which far from complete is in the making.<\/p>\n<p>To advance my argument, I will make brief considerations to the contrasting meanings of anticolonial, postcolonial, and decolonial uses in Spanish while passing from reading in French to English as main means of translation. I will also consider the basic canon of critical \u201cMexican national identity\u201d before presenting some emerging voices that are shaping the current debate. With the advent of the pandemic everything turned upside down and remains on hold.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Suggested reading:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-indent: -2em; padding-left: 2em;\">Bartra, Roger 2002\u00a0\u201cTropical Kitsch in Blood and Ink\u201d IN\u00a0<em>Blood, Ink and Culture: Miseries and Splendors of the Post-Mexican Condition<\/em>. Duke University Press, Durham. Pp: 15-43.<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><strong>Ricardo F. Macip<\/strong> is a research professor at the Benem\u00e9rita Universidad Aut\u00f3noma de Puebla (M\u00e9xico).\u00a0 Anthropologist by training (Universidad de las Am\u00e9ricas-Puebla 1993, New School for Social Research 1998 and 2002) dedicated to the study of the history of the subaltern classes in the Eastern Provinces of Mexico (Puebla, Oaxaca and Veracruz) is the author of &#8222;Semos un pa\u00eds de peones&#8220; (2005) and articles in professional journals and book chapters in English and Spanish. He is also part of the Editorial Board of &#8222;Dialectical Anthropology&#8220;.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"autor":[697],"class_list":["post-11754","decolonizinganthro","type-decolonizinganthro","status-publish","hentry","autor-ricardo-f-macip"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boasblogs.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/decolonizinganthropology\/11754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boasblogs.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/decolonizinganthropology"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boasblogs.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/decolonizinganthro"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boasblogs.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/boasblogs.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/decolonizinganthropology\/11754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11916,"href":"https:\/\/boasblogs.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/decolonizinganthropology\/11754\/revisions\/11916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boasblogs.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"autor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boasblogs.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/autor?post=11754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}