| FA-51704-05 | Research Programs: Fellowships for University Teachers | Deborah Ann Poole | Cultural Properties and the Liberal State in Oaxaca, Mexico | 1/1/2006 - 6/30/2006 | $40,000.00 | Deborah | Ann | Poole | | | | Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore | MD | 21218-2608 | USA | 2004 | Anthropology | Fellowships for University Teachers | Research Programs | 40000 | 0 | 24000 | 0 |
I am requesting NEH support to complete a historical ethnography about the discursive and representational practices through which claims to cultural distinction and indigeneity have been debated in Oaxaca, Mexico. I explore nineteenth century debates about property and genealogy, post-revolutionary state and educational programs, and the gendered visual canons of cultural type. I argue that culture in Oaxaca is conceived of as at once a natural or genealogical connection to locality, and a personal attribute that must be constantly worked on and secured. Ethnographic analysis focuses on suspicion and uncertainty as responses to this notion of culture. |