The Huichols or Wixáritari: Between Tradition and Modernity. Anthology of texts 1969-2017

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. Since 1968 she conducted research in Wixarika communities in Western Mexico and in May of 2018, she marked 50 years of ethnographic work in the region. Anguiano was the author of nine books and numerous articles. She has also participated in ethnographic films and videos on several topics.

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