Tag: Photography; History of Anthropology; Indigeneity; Tajin; Cold War Anthropology

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

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.