Diana Negrin

Author(s): Negrin, Diana Michele | Advisor(s): Manz, Beatriz | Abstract: While the population of indigenous peoples living in Mexico's cities has steadily increased over the past four decades, both public policy and popular representations have failed to recognize this geographic heterogeneity. As a result, indigenous peoples are largely expected to reside in romanticized rural landscapes considered anathema to a modern Mexico. The present work examines the discursive and material legacy of the racial imaginary in Mexico with a specific focus on popular and governmental representations of the Wixarika (Huichol) indigenous peoples. I subsequently explore how Wixarika university students and professionals living in the western cities of Tepic and Guadalajara experience and negotiate these racial and spatial representations. I draw on over five years of collaborative ethnographic research with Wixarika students, professionals, and their respective organizations. During the 2011-201...

A lo largo de 44 años Juan dedicó sus esfuerzos a la compilación de datos sobre el idioma, la historia oral, el arte sagrado y contemporáneo, así como los rituales del pueblo wixárika. Comenzando con el arte y siguiendo con la defensoría territorial a través de proyectos productivos autónomos, esta labor ha legado un acervo singular sobre la cultura wixárika. Los escritos de Negrín abarcan cuadernos, agendas, borradores múltiples escritos a mano y a máquina, pero también dejó centenares de audios, principalmente conversaciones con los artistas y ancianos kawiterutsiri,1 en donde se profundizan conceptos medulares de la cosmovisión wixárika.