Mónica Salas Landa

Thank you to Colby Ristow for his generous and thoughtful review of my book in HAHR!

read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/article...

I’m really excited to be a finalist for the LASA Visual Studies Section Book Award. Please join us! @utexaspress.bsky.social

“By critically examining the provenance, trajectories, and decontextualization of objects, students confront how libraries and museums have extracted materials produced by marginalized groups and how these violent histories are rarely taught or confronted, allowing for their reproduction.” Salas Landa & Xu 2024

In "Extraction on Display," Salas Landa & Xu provide an excellent reflection on how they use object-centered research to encourage students to explore the extractive practices that have shaped museum and library collections.

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#libraries #AcademicSky #OA

As Luis mentioned, Shane’s book Oaxaca Resurgent is also worth exploring, among others! There is some recent and fascinating work on mid-20th century anthropology and indigenismo in Mexico that utilizes anthropologists’ archives, fieldnotes, and images as key sources of study.

Also Karin Rosemblatt’s ch. on Eulalia Guzmán in Empire, Colonialism, and the Human Sciences; and Lewis’s Rethinking Mexican Indigenismo.

I would also recommend checking out the superb work of Haydee López Hernández, especially her new book on the Mezquital; Diana Schwartz’s doctoral dissertation Transforming the Tropics or her ch. in the book Beyond Alterity (José Luis Escalona-Victoria’s ch. in the same volume is also relevant)

Shedding Light on Labor: Photography, Archaeology, and the Making of Monumentality in Tajín, Mexico | Bulletin of the History of Archaeology The Bulletin of the History of Archaeology (BHA) was inaugurated over 20 years ago as a forum to exchange research, information on on-going projects, and resources devoted to a growing interest in the...

Also: archaeologybulletin.org/articles/10....

Domesticating Social Taxonomies: Local and National Identifications as Seen Through Susan Drucker's Anthropological Fieldwork in Jamiltepec, Oaxaca, Mexico, 1957–1963 Abstract. This article proposes an archaeology of the anthropological research undertaken by Susan Drucker in Jamiltepec, Oaxaca, in the late 1950s. I contrast the book that stemmed from this research...

Paula López Cabello’s article in HAHR is excellent! Here is the link: read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/article...

Visible Ruins An examination of the failures of the Mexican Revolution through the visual and material records. The Mexican Revolution (1910–1920) introduced a series of...

For work based on the archives of ethnographers rather than archaeologists, see Chapter 4 of my book: utpress.utexas.edu/9781477328712/

Here is the link to my article published in HAHR: read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/article...

All welcome! 👇🏽

Gracias al Instituto de Investigaciones Histórico-Sociales de la Universidad Veracruzana por abrir su espacio! #VisibleRuins #Xalapa #anthropology #history #estudiosregionales #presentaciondelibro @utexaspress.bsky.social

If you’re attending AHA in NYC, you can get #VisibleRuins at a discount! ;) #AHA25 #nyc @utexaspress.bsky.social

Happy to have contributed to the special issue of the Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship, ‘Libraries and/as Extraction.’

cjal.ca/index.php/ca...

newbooksnetwork.com/visible-ruins

I had a great time talking to Reighan Gillam about my book, Visible Ruins, for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. You can listen to the podcast episode here 👇🏽 @universityoftexas.bsky.social
#anthropology #history #visualstudies #Latibamerica #Mexico

Looking beyond the glass - Lafayette - The alumni magazine Prof. Mónica Salas Landa challenges students to reconsider museum exhibits.

magazine.lafayette.edu/looking-beyo...
Thank you for this article! @Lafayette College @Skillman Library #anthropology #museumstudies #pedagogy #liberalarts #slacs

Anthro friends, if you’re attending #AAA2024Tampa be sure to visit Booth #318 and check out many @utexaspress.bsky.social titles, including my own. If you’re browsing the virtual book exhibit, use the code UTXAAA at checkout to receive 30%