Danna A Levin Rojo
Full-time profesor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana - Azcapotzalco, México. She is a historian and social anthropologist, holding a BA degree from the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UNAM, and a PhD from London School of Economics and Political Science. She chaired the Postgraduate Program on Historiography at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana. Her main interests are Hispanic American colonial historiography, transculturation in colonial New Spain, and interethnic relations in the United States Southwest with particular emphasis on contemporary New Mexico. More recently she has also carried out research on documentary ethnographic film and the interface between anthropology and contemporary art. Member of the Editorial Board of the academic review Anales del Instituto de Investigciones Estéticas (UNAM, México), the Red de Cuerpos Académicos que Investigan sobre Cine CACINE (Mexico), and the board of directors of The Americas Research Network ARENET (formerly Mexico Research Network MEXRE). Her book Return to Aztlan: Indians, Spaniards, and the Invention of Nuevo México is published by Oklahoma University Press (2014). She has coedited several books, like The [Oxford] Handbook of Borderlands in the Iberian World, edited with Cynthia Radding (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019); Variaciones sobre cine etnográfico: entre la documentación antropológica y la experimentación estética, edited with Deborah Dorotinsky, Alvaro Vázquez, and Antonio Zirión (México: UAM-A, IIE-UNAM, 2017); Las vías del noroeste III: genealogías, transversalidades y convergencias, edited with Carlo Bonfiglioli, Arturo Gutiérrez and Marie-Areti Hers (IIA-UNAM, IIE-UNAM, 2011); Los grupos nativos del septentrión novo hispano ante la independencia de México 1810-1847, edited with Martha Ortega Soto and María Estela Báez Villaseñor (México: UAM-I, UABC, 2010); El territorio disputado en la guerra de 1846-1848, edited with Martha Ortega (México: UAM, UABJO, 2007), and Indios, mestizos y españoles. Interculturalidad e historiografía en la Nueva España, edited with Federico Navarrete (México: UAM-A, IIH-UNAM, 2007).
Address: Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico
Address: Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico
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Se trata de una reflexión metodológica sobre el recorrido de mi trabajo por diferentes momentos de la historia de Nuevo México y los espacios relacionados con él, desde el siglo XVI hasta el siglo XXI.
Ponencia presentada en la mesa "Contested terrirories and layered sovereignties: Rethinking power and allegiance from the Americas", LASA 2018.
Brief reflection on borderlands that in different historical periods were under the jurisdiction of different sovereign regimes, like the present-day United States Southwest or the north of Chile. These regions are palimpsests of layered conquests and sovereignties that have produced multicultural environments where languages, religions, and social conventions coexist but are contested with different degrees of conflict, giving way to the negotiation and renegotiation of identities and allegiances.
through historical processes in specific times and places. It provides a broad approach to borderlands applicable to time periods predating the modern nation-state and areas not standing at the limits between two constituted polities, addressing important issues for the understanding of indigenous America and the character of early Iberian empires.
1) Si bien la danza de matachines en Nuevo México articula significados alusivos a la conquista y la cristianización de la población indígena colonizada por los españoles en el siglo XVII, puede tener también un sustrato mesoamericano y ha servido, además, como elemento identitario para resistir a la penetración anglosajona posterior a 1847.
2) La reciente feminización de la danza se asocia con las dificultades que ésta encuentra para seguir cumpliendo funciones de cohesión social y reproducción cultural en una situación de modernización capitalista y segregación étnica como la que hoy se vive en el norte de Nuevo México.
Autora de la reseña: Laura A. Suárez de la Torre
The INVENTION of NUEVO MEXICO... Listen the PODCAST HERE:
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Interview with Dr. Danna Levin Rojo, author of "Return to Aztlán". ESPEJOS DE AZTLÁN (hosted by Cristina Baccin)
Ponencia presentada en la mesa "Contested terrirories and layered sovereignties: Rethinking power and allegiance from the Americas", LASA 2018.
Brief discussion on the study of borderlands that in different historical periods were under the jurisdiction of different sovereign regimes, like the present-day United States Southwest or the north of Chile.