Prof. Salas Landa has contributed a chapter to The Visual in Latin American History, edited by Ernesto Capello and Jessica Stites Mor and published by the University of Texas Press. Her chapter, “The Tajín Totonac in and outside the Frame: Violence and Alterity in the …
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. …