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Prof. Charlton
Prof. Diaz-Barriga, Chair
Prof. Ezawa
Prof. Ghannam
Prof. Hultin
Prof. Keith
Prof. Mullan
Prof. Muñoz
Prof. O'Connell
Prof. Piker
Prof. Sheller
Prof. Smithey
Prof. Wagner-Pacifici
Prof. Willie
Rose Maio

Miguel Diaz-Barriga, Chair

Professor of Anthropology

Phone: (610) 328-8108
email: mdiazba1@swarthmore.edu
Office Hours: Fall 2006
Wednesday 1:00-4:00 p.m.
Kohlberg 243

Education:

Ph.D., Anthropology, Stanford University, 1991
M.A., Anthropology, Stanford University, 1985
B.A., Anthropology, University of Chicago, 1982

Selected Publications and Activities:

"Vergüenza (shame) and Changing Chicana Narratives." Men and Masculinities, In Press, 2000.

with Luis Tlaseca, "La Virgen de Guadalupe and Activism in Pennsylvania," Works in Progress, Philadelphia: Philadelphia Folklore Project. 13(2), 2000: 6-7.

"The Domestic/Public in Mexico City: Notes on Theory, Social Movements, and the Essentializations of Everyday Life." Article for a collection edited by Alejandro Lugo, Theory and Practice in Feminist Anthropology: The Legacy of Michelle Rosaldo, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 2000: 116-142.

"Beyond the Domestic and Public: Colonas Participation in Urban Movements in Mexico City, 1970-1980," Article for a collection edited by Sonia Alvarez and Arturo Escobar, Cultures of Politics/Politics of Culture: Revisioning Latin American Social Movements, Westview Press,1998: 252-277.

"The Culture of Poverty as Relajo," Aztlán, A Journal of Chicano Studies, 22(2), 1997: 43-66.

Teaching and Research Interests:

Latin America, Mexican and Chicano/a Culture, Symbolic Anthropology, Culture and Power, Social Movements, Visual Anthropology.


Courses and Seminars Taught


Cultural Borderlands (SOAN 002B)
Introduction to Latinos in the United States (SOAN 002C)
Visual Anthropology (SOAN 022C)
Latin American Urbanization (SOAN 022D)
Indigenous Resistance and Revolt in Latin America (SOAN 022E)
Social Movements in Latin America (SOAN 022G)
Practicum in Visual Ethnography (SOAN 091B)
Visual Ethnography (SOAN 121)

 

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