Seminar on Indigeneity in the Era of Development / Seminario Indigeneidades en la Era del Desarrollo (SIED)

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Oaxaca Resurgent: A Conversation with A. S. Dillingham

Presenters:
A. S. Dillingham, Albright College
Guillermo de la Peña, CIESAS Occidente
Benjamin Smith, Warwick University

Moderators:
Paula López Caballero, CEIICH–UNAM
Tony Wood, PLAS

This is the inaugural event for the Seminar on Indigeneity in the Era of Development / Seminario Indigeneidades en la Era del Desarrollo. Coordinated by Paula López Caballero (CEIICH-UNAM) and Tony Wood (PLAS), this binational virtual forum seeks to bring together established and early career scholars interested in the political and cultural history of indigeneity in the Americas. The seminar will encompass not only the populations identified or self-identified as indigenous, but also the experts charged with studying these peoples, as well as the institutional mechanisms designed to “integrate” them into the nation.

This event is devoted to a discussion of A. S. Dillingham’s new book, Oaxaca Resurgent (Stanford UP, 2021), which draws on declassified surveillance documents and original ethnographic research to examine how indigenous people in one of Mexico’s most rebellious states shaped local and national politics during the twentieth century. Focusing on the experiences of anthropologists, government bureaucrats, trade unionists, and activists, Dillingham explores the relationship between indigeneity, rural education and development, and the political radicalism of the Global Sixties. A conversation between Dillingham and Paula López Caballero will be followed by comments from distinguished Mexican anthropologist Guillermo de la Peña and British historian Benjamin Smith.