Artigo Acesso aberto Revisado por pares

Carl Lumholtz y la objetualización de la cultura indígena en la Sierra Madre Occidental

2015; National Autonomous University of Mexico; Volume: 50; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.ehmcm.2015.08.001

ISSN

2448-5004

Autores

Regina Lira Larios,

Tópico(s)

Indigenous Cultures and Socio-Education

Resumo

The present article analyzes the context during which the expeditions of explorer Carl Lumholtz took place in the Western Sierra Madre between 1890 and 1905, supported by the American Museum of Natural History. This is done within the framework of the political, business and intellectal relations between Mexico and the US during the Porfiriato and the "Museum Era" in the history of anthropology, processes that merge in the indigenous question ("problema del indio")in Northwestern and West Mexico. The Gran Nayar is taken as a particular example of an emerging historicalcultural region and anthropology laboratory to reflect on the role of ethnographic colectionism as practiced under the asumption of the inevitable dissapareance of indigenous societies in their incorporationasMexicancitizens withinthemodernNation-State.Itherefore adress the "objectification of indigenous culture", alongside with the process of land expropiation and national education in Spanish, constructed as an ethnographic collection that is catalogued, preserved and consumed in the museum space.

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