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Anthropology and the Policy of Indigenism in Mexico in the 20th Century: Dialogues and Confrontations

[Antropologiia i indikhenistskaia politika v Meksike ХХ v.: dialogi i konfrontatsii]

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7868/S0869541518030077

Type of publication: Research Article

Submitted: 22.03.2017

Accepted: 14.03.2018

About author(s)

Andrés Medina Hernández | http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1266-1952 | tacubaya18@gmail.com | Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas, de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Circuito exterior s/n, Ciudad Universitaria, Código Postal 04510, Ciudad de México, México)

Keywords

natives of Mexico, anthropology, indigenismo, policy of indigenism, crisis of indigenism

Abstract

Over the course of the 20th century, complex relationships between anthropology and the state developed in Mexico: on the one hand, academic research was taken into account when state institutions were set up; on the other hand, the interests of the state, especially in issues related to nation-building, exerted an influence on the development of scholarly theories and concepts. The connection between academic research and the policy of indigenismo, whose foundations were laid by Manuel Gamio, underwent substantial changes over time. During the recent decades, it has been significantly influenced by various Indean movements, while the native peoples themselves have come into the focus of state policies. Anthropological research, in its own turn, has not lost connection with state policies for the most part; however, it has become more diverse at the same time.

Citation

Medina Hernández, A. 2018. Anthropology and the Policy of Indigenism in Mexico in the 20th Century: Dialogues and Confrontations [Antropologiia i indikhenistskaia politika v Meksike ХХ v.: dialogi i konfrontatsii]. Etnograficheskoe obozrenie 3: 80-97. https://doi.org/10.7868/S0869541518030077

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