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Office: Emil
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Phone: 520-621-4395 |
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Email:
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alonso@email.arizona.edu |
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Degree:
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Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1988 |
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Affiliation:
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Associate Professor,
Department of Anthropology
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Interests:
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Socio-Cultural Anthropology; History and Social
Memory; Northern Mexico 18th century to present; Zapotecs; Oaxaca; Law, Language and Culture;
Gender and Law; Ethnoracial Formation; Mestizaje; Mexican Revolution; Regionalism and
Nationalism; the State; Museums
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Current Research:
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Plenary talk at the Berkshire Conference in Women's
History, June 2005; research project on the role of anthropology (especially anthropology
museums) in creating a national public culture and "integrating the Indian into the
nation" in postrevolutionary Mexico (support from Vice-President’s Office for
Research and Reicker Fellowship, Anthropology); Love, sex and gender in Mexican legal
narratives; the Spatialization of Mestizaje in public culture: aesthetic statism in
post-revolutionary Mexico; "Sovreignty," gender and the state: a perspective from
Latin America |
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| in press |
"Territorializing the Nation and 'Integrating the Indian': Mestizaje in Mexican
Official Discourses and Public Culture." In Sovereign Bodies: Citizenship, Community
and State in the Postcolonial World, edited by Thomas Blom Hansen and Finn Stepputat.
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ. |
| 2004 |
"Conforming Disconformity: 'Mestizaje,' Hybridity and the Aesthetics of Mexican
Nationalism." Cultural Anthropology 45:5. |
| 2002 |
"'What the Strong Owe to the Weak': Rationality, Domestic Violence and Governmentality
in Nineteenth Century Mexico." In Gender's Place: Feminist Anthropologies of
Latin America, edited by Rosario Montoya, Lessie Jo Frazer and Janise Hurtig. Palgrave. To
be translated into Spanish by PUEG, Mexico . |
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"Nation States, Nationalism and Gender;" International Encyclopedia of the
Social and Behavioral Sciences, edited by N.J. Smelser & P.B. Baltes. Elsevier Science,
Amsterdam. |
| 2000 |
“Afterword; the Use and Abuse of Feminist Theory: Fear, Commensality and Dust.”
In Gender Matters: Rereading Michelle Z. Rosaldo, edited by Alejandro Lugo and Bill
Maurer. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI. |
1995
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Thread of Blood: Gender, Colonialism and Revolution on Mexico's Northern
Frontier. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ. First recipient of the Clara Lee
Tanner Puiblishing Fund. Reprinted in 1997.
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