Desarticular el indigenismo oficial. Miradas al Instituto Nacional Indigenista (1940-1960)

Despite its centrality for the discipline of anthropology and for the practice of indigenista policy, the ‘field’ has rarely been interrogated as a productive site of historical analysis. In this article I explore a set of ethnographic fieldnotes produced for the Instituto Nacional Indigenista betwe...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:5f62e452fa8049e9be117a6e2e3b574c2021-12-02T11:22:42ZDesarticular el indigenismo oficial. Miradas al Instituto Nacional Indigenista (1940-1960)1141-71612268-424710.4000/cal.12410https://doaj.org/article/5f62e452fa8049e9be117a6e2e3b574c2021-09-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/cal/12410https://doaj.org/toc/1141-7161https://doaj.org/toc/2268-4247Despite its centrality for the discipline of anthropology and for the practice of indigenista policy, the ‘field’ has rarely been interrogated as a productive site of historical analysis. In this article I explore a set of ethnographic fieldnotes produced for the Instituto Nacional Indigenista between 1948 and 1960 in different parts of Mexico. I show that these documents allow us to reconstruct another history of indigenismo and anthropology. One that does not start out from their doctrines, programs and outcomes, but rather focuses on the mechanisms, actors and contradictions that condition the construction and reproduction of this institutional project, but down at the bottom, in the field. This ‘capilary’ gaze on the institution allows me to problematize what I call the ‘indigenista archive’, that is, the system of discursivities that this institution was in the process of consolidating. Thus by using the field to disarticulate these institutional narratives, I intend to offer, in the last analysis, an ethnography of the State.Paula López CaballeroUniversité Paris 3articlefieldnotesindigenous promotorsindigenista womeneveryday racismrural educationLatin America. Spanish AmericaF1201-3799Social sciences (General)H1-99FRCahiers des Amériques Latines, Vol 95 (2021)
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indigenous promotors
indigenista women
everyday racism
rural education
Latin America. Spanish America
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indigenous promotors
indigenista women
everyday racism
rural education
Latin America. Spanish America
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Social sciences (General)
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Paula López Caballero
Desarticular el indigenismo oficial. Miradas al Instituto Nacional Indigenista (1940-1960)
description Despite its centrality for the discipline of anthropology and for the practice of indigenista policy, the ‘field’ has rarely been interrogated as a productive site of historical analysis. In this article I explore a set of ethnographic fieldnotes produced for the Instituto Nacional Indigenista between 1948 and 1960 in different parts of Mexico. I show that these documents allow us to reconstruct another history of indigenismo and anthropology. One that does not start out from their doctrines, programs and outcomes, but rather focuses on the mechanisms, actors and contradictions that condition the construction and reproduction of this institutional project, but down at the bottom, in the field. This ‘capilary’ gaze on the institution allows me to problematize what I call the ‘indigenista archive’, that is, the system of discursivities that this institution was in the process of consolidating. Thus by using the field to disarticulate these institutional narratives, I intend to offer, in the last analysis, an ethnography of the State.
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title Desarticular el indigenismo oficial. Miradas al Instituto Nacional Indigenista (1940-1960)
title_short Desarticular el indigenismo oficial. Miradas al Instituto Nacional Indigenista (1940-1960)
title_full Desarticular el indigenismo oficial. Miradas al Instituto Nacional Indigenista (1940-1960)
title_fullStr Desarticular el indigenismo oficial. Miradas al Instituto Nacional Indigenista (1940-1960)
title_full_unstemmed Desarticular el indigenismo oficial. Miradas al Instituto Nacional Indigenista (1940-1960)
title_sort desarticular el indigenismo oficial. miradas al instituto nacional indigenista (1940-1960)
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