Middle American Anthropology. Special Symposium of the American Anthropological Association. Assembled by Gordon R. Willey, Evon Z. Vogt, and Angel Palerm. Pan American Union, Social Science Monographs, No. 5, Washington, 1958. viii + 60 pp. $0.50.

The war and the present preoccupation with post-war plans have brought about a general awareness of the fact that the Americas have been a testing ground for the orderly organization of relations among sovereign states, especially in the development of cooperative principles and techniques. The construction of a political organization within which these principles and techniques could be consolidated has not, however, characterized the American experience. The Pan American Union, for example, is expressly denied the right to consider political or controversial questions, and proposals for the creation of a “league” or “association” of American states has met with courteous but definite coolness.

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Report of the Delegates of the American Anthropological Association to the Social Science Research Council for the Year 1925

American Anthropologist ◽

10.1525/aa.1927.29.2.02a00170 ◽

1927 ◽

Vol 29 (2) ◽

pp. 338-349

Keyword(s):

Social Science ◽

Research Council ◽

Social Science Research ◽

Science Research ◽

Social Science Research Council ◽

American Anthropological Association ◽

The Social ◽

Science Research Council

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Mexican Indigenismo and the International Fraternity of Science

Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910-1950 ◽

10.5149/northcarolina/9781469636405.003.0002 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 29-59

Author(s):

Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt

Keyword(s):

Social Science ◽

Mexican Revolution ◽

Close Relation ◽

Demographic Characteristics ◽

Carnegie Institution ◽

Franz Boas ◽

Demographic Heterogeneity ◽

Corrado Gini ◽

Pan American ◽

Eugenics Movement

Mexican racial science developed in close relation to foreign scholars and institutions including Corrado Gini of Italy, a proponent of Latin eugenics, Franz Boas, the Carnegie Institution in Washington, the international eugenics movement, and the Pan-American child welfare movement. Along with the mobilization of rural peoples during the Mexican Revolution, growing international interest in Mexico and the international eugenics movement galvanized Mexican indigenismo, the state-sponsored movement championing the nation’s indigenous heritage. This chapter focuses on Manuel Gamio, who founded Mexico’s Dirección de Antropología and worked in the powerful Secretaría de Educación Pública (SEP). Gamio conveyed Mexican social science abroad and foreign social science to Mexico. He attempted to create a social science that was both “Mexican” and modern, but found it hard to delineate a modernity that could accommodate Mexico’s demographic heterogeneity. Gamio creatively reconciled Mexico’s demographic characteristics with liberal universalism and scientific rationality, yet still suffered the intellectual imperialism and condescension of his U.S. counterparts.

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