Month: January 2025

Looking beyond the glass Prof. Mónica Salas Landa challenges students to view museum exhibits from a different angle.
January 31, 2025

Looking beyond the glass Prof. Mónica Salas Landa challenges students to view museum exhibits from a different angle.

Looking beyond the glass In fall 2023, our class exhibit “Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism” drew inspiration from Ariella Aïsha Azoulay’s book of the same title and aims to confront the profound legacy of violence deeply ingrained within museum collections. Building on her ideas, our physical …

Teaching
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by Monica Mariella Salas Landa
Part II Seminar on Indigeneity | The “Tajin Totonac” In and Outside the Frame Representation and Alterity in the Photographic Archive of Isabel T. Kelly
January 31, 2025

Part II Seminar on Indigeneity | The “Tajin Totonac” In and Outside the Frame Representation and Alterity in the Photographic Archive of Isabel T. Kelly

Photo credit: Isabel T. Kelly Ethnographic Archive, DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, series 5: Photographs, Negatives, Slides, box 51. This presentation will look at the critical role ethnographic photographs played in actualizing the “indigenous other” imagined by midcentury Mexican anthropology and state-led developmentalism. …

Research
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by Monica Mariella Salas Landa