History

The present anthology gathers the work of Marina Anguiano Fernández (1945-2023). Born in Mexico City, she studied her Bachelors of Arts in Ethnology and Masters in Anthropology from the National School of Anthropology and History with the honors of Cum Laude. She worked as a  full-time researcher in the Direction of Ethnology and Social Anthropology in the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH for its Spanish acronym). She obtained several national and international grants from the UNAM, Mexico; French Government; Fulbright, United States; and from the Complutense of Spain.

This article was co-written by longtime intellectual collaborators, Juan Negrín and William Meyers, based on a journey they took together to Wixarika territory and ongoing conversations they shared about comparative spirituality, religion, and studies on shamanism. The article is illustrated with photographs taken by Juan Negrín and was published in New York City's long running Free Spirit magazine that Meyers served on.

Article written as a tribute to Carla Lumholtz for the Mexican anthropology magazine, México Desconocido, or Unknown Mexico, a name taken precisely from the two volume study by the Norwegian scientist on Western and Northern Mexico.

Read the full Spanish-language article illustrated with photographs from Carl Lumholtz here.

The Huichol or Wixárika people are one of the 68 original populations that make up the multicultural nation called Mexico. Various foreign and Mexican researchers have considered the Huichol or Wixaritári an artist society. At the beginning they made ritual and utilitarian objects of great plastic beauty, which during the last 70 years have not ceased to have these functions. However, currently they have also undergone a commercialization process.

Co-authored text for an anthology on the experiences of Indigenous university students in Mexico and Brazil. The text was coordinated by Diana Negrín da Silva and written with Lisbeth Kupuli Bonilla (Wixárika), Ana García (Ñuu savi), Antonio Hayuaneme García (Wixárika), Isaura García (Ñuu savi), Tukarima Carrillo (Wixárika), Tutupika Carrillo (Wixárika), and Maximino Muñoz (Wixárika). It was published by E-Files in Rio de Janeiro in the year 2017 and the anthology was edited by Assis da Costa Oliveira and Lucia Helena Rangel.

Download and read full chapter here.

A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan. We suggest viewing this book in full screen mode.