Immutable: Decolonizing What Was Known As Mexican Anthropology. Part 2 Session 4 of the digital lecture series „Decolonizing Anthropology: A Self-Critical Appraisal of the Current State of Research and Teaching"; German speaking departments of social and cultural anthropology.
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Title
Decolonizing What Was Known As Mexican Anthropology. Part 2 Session 4 of the digital lecture series „Decolonizing Anthropology: A Self-Critical Appraisal of the Current State of Research and Teaching"; German speaking departments of social and cultural anthropology.
Author
Macip, Ricardo F.
Editor
boasblogs
Other contributor
Zillinger, Martin
Zinn, Dorothy
Publishing institution
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Date of publication
02 May 2024
Terms of use
(CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) Namensnennung + nicht kommerziell + keine Bearbeitung
Abstract
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 “Indigenist Thought”, the second after the crumbling of the “paradigms” that same generation was able to make canonical by the very same exercise of critical anthropology and the “Zapatista Uprising”. 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 “naturalized” 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.
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 “Mexican national identity” 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.
Keywords
Decolonizing Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
Social Anthropology
Ethnologie
Decolonization
History of Ideas
Methodology
Epistemology
Mexico
GND Keywords
Ethnologie; http://d-nb.info/gnd/4078931-7
Sozialanthropologie
Kulturanthropologie
Ideengeschichte
Mexiko
Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional
Lokales Wissen
DDC
300 Sozialwissenschaften/301 Soziologie und Anthropologie
300 Sozialwissenschaften/306 Kultur und Institutionen
300 Sozialwissenschaften/370 Bildung und Erziehung/378 Hochschulbildung (Tertiärbereich)
900 Geschichte, Geografie und Hilfswissenschaften/970 Geschichte Nordamerikas/972 Mexiko, Zentralamerika, Westindien (Antillen), Bermudainseln
RVK
LB 53625
Language
eng
Publication type
CourseMaterial
File format
MP4
Publisher DOI
Duration
00:41:59