Ethnicity and the Making of Nations in Latin America
May 18-19 1994, Room 242
Recent events in Chiapas, Mexico dramatically express
one of the persistent, and apparently constant sources
of tension in Latin American history and politics--the
conflict between "ethnic" and "national" forms of asso-
ciation, identity and interest. Yet the precise
nature, forms, and expressions of these conflicts have
not been constant, and we can learn much about the his-
tory and dynamics of particular Latin American states
by exploring the ways in which specific images of eth-
nic, racial, regional, and national collectivities,
communities, and hierarchies have been created and con-
tested. Through what material and ideological process
have particular indigenous identities been formed and
expressed? What images of nation, race, region, or
ethnicity have been especially implicated in specific
processes and policies of economic development? What
alternative forms of collectivity or community are
denied?
May 18th
7:00 P.M. Panel Discussion:
Judith Friedlander--Anthropologist, Dean of the Gradu-
ate Faculty, New School for Social Research
Friedrich Katz--Historian, The University of Chicago
Brooke Larson--Historian, State University of New York
at Stony Brook
Claudio Lomnitz--Anthropologist, New York University
May 19th
9:30 A.M Session I
Daniel Nugent--Anthropologist, University of Arizona
"Making Nations, Unmaking Peoples: State Forma-
tion and Community Deformation in Northwest in
Northwest Chihuahua, Mexico"
Elena Arengo--Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology, Graduate
Faculty, New School for Social Research
"Identity at the Margins: Nations, Regions, and
Indians in the Argentine Chaco"
David Nugent--Dept. of Anthropology, Colby College
"Does Making Nations Homogenize Ethnic Difference?
The Rise and Near Demise of El Pueblo Chachapoyano
in Peru, 1900-1990"
Discussants:
Fred Murphy--PhD Candidate in Political Science,
New School for Social Research
William Roseberry--Chair, Department of Anthropol-
ogy, Graduate Faculty, New School for Social
Research
2:00 P.M Session
Jeffrey Gould--Department of History, Indiana
University, Bloomington
"What's in a Name: From Ladino to Mestizo in Cen-
tral America"
Ricardo Salvatore--Department of History, Program in
Agrarian Studies, Yale University
"Rituals of Federalism in Buenos Aires Province:
Some Reflections on the Social Basis of the
Rosista State, 1829-1852"
Deborah Poole--Anthropology Dept.,Graduate Faculty, New
School for Social Research
"Refining the Face of a Nation: Race, Physiognomy
and Nation in M.A. Fuentes' Lima"
Discussants:
Catherine LeGrand--Dept.of History, McGill
University
Aldo Lauria Santiago--Committee for Historical
Studies/Eugene Lang College, New School for Social
Research
For further information: lauria@cssc.newschool.edu