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| National School of Anthropology and History (Mexico) | |
|---|---|
| Name | Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia |
| Native name | Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia |
| Established | 1938 |
| Type | Public research school |
| City | Mexico City |
| Country | Mexico |
National School of Anthropology and History (Mexico) is a Mexican higher education and research institution focused on archaeology, ethnology, and history, operating within the framework of national cultural policy. It participates in scholarly networks and collaborates with museums, universities, and research institutes across Latin America, Europe, and North America. The school trains professionals who work in heritage management, museum curation, and academic research connected to prehispanic and modern cultural studies.
The school was founded amid cultural reforms associated with Lázaro Cárdenas and institutional developments linked to the National Institute of Anthropology and History and the creation of national heritage frameworks involving figures such as Manuel Gamio, Alfonso Caso, Andrés Barreda, and Eduardo Matos Moctezuma. Early decades saw exchanges with scholars from Claude Lévi-Strauss, Alfred Kroeber, Franz Boas, and institutions like the Smithsonian Institution, University of Chicago, École pratique des hautes études, and Institute of Archaeology (UCL). Throughout the 20th century the school engaged with projects associated with the recovery of sites such as Teotihuacan, Monte Albán, Chichén Itzá, and events like excavations tied to the legacy of Miguel Covarrubias and publications influenced by Octavio Paz and José Vasconcelos. Political contexts including the administrations of Plutarco Elías Calles and later cultural policies under Gustavo Díaz Ordaz shaped regulations related to heritage laws exemplified by measures similar to those debated in the context of the Ley Federal sobre Monumentos y Zonas Arqueológicos, Artísticos e Históricos reforms. Collaborations extended to continental networks such as Latin American Studies Association, American Anthropological Association, and museum partnerships including Museo Nacional de Antropología (Mexico City) and the British Museum.
The school offers programs influenced by curricula at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, El Colegio de México, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, and international models from University of Cambridge, Harvard University, and University of California, Berkeley. Degree tracks encompass archaeology linked to field techniques used at Palenque, Tikal, Uxmal, and Copán; ethnology connected to regional studies of Oaxaca, Chiapas, Yucatán, and Veracruz; and history engaging sources from archives like Archivo General de la Nación (Mexico), Biblioteca Nacional de México, and collections associated with INAH projects. Graduate seminars reference theoretical currents from scholars such as Claude Lévi-Strauss, Marshall Sahlins, Mary Douglas, Eric Hobsbawm, and Fernand Braudel and foster partnerships with doctoral programs at University of Oxford, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and National Autonomous University of Mexico faculties.
Research outputs include monographs, journals, and series comparable to publications by Cambridge University Press, University of Chicago Press, and specialized periodicals like Ancient Mesoamerica, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, and regional bulletins used by institutions such as Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. Projects have produced studies on chronology frameworks relating to work by Alfonso Caso, settlement analyses in the style of Gordon Willey, ceramic typologies following methods of William F. Albright, and ethnohistorical syntheses that reference sources like the Florentine Codex and analyses akin to those by Miguel León-Portilla. Collaborative volumes have involved editors and contributors affiliated with Smithsonian Institution Press, Dumbarton Oaks, Fundación Mexicana para la Historia de las Ciencias y la Tecnología, and research centers such as CEAH (Centro de Estudios de Antropología e Historia).
Collections curated by the school and its associated institutes interact with major repositories including Museo Nacional de Antropología (Mexico City), the holdings of Palacio Nacional, and regional museums in Oaxaca City, Puebla, and Veracruz City. Object-based research connects with artifact types from Teotihuacan, iconography comparable to that studied by Miguel Covarrubias, and epigraphic work in line with studies of Diego de Landa sources and decipherment efforts echoing the contributions of Yuri Knórosov and J. Eric S. Thompson. Conservation collaborations have been undertaken with institutions such as Getty Conservation Institute and ICCROM, and exchanges have occurred with collections at the British Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Field campaigns have involved long-term excavations and survey projects at major sites like Teotihuacan, Monte Albán, Tenochtitlan, Tula, and regional programs in Baja California, Sierra Tarahumara, and Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Interdisciplinary teams have applied methods from paleoenvironmental studies used by researchers at Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and dating techniques comparable to those at Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit. Projects have partnered with international missions such as those from University of Pennsylvania Museum, Dumbarton Oaks, Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas (UNAM), and field surveys coordinated with regional authorities like the Consejo de Arqueología.
Faculty and alumni networks include figures connected to major names in Mesoamerican studies such as Alfonso Caso, Miguel León-Portilla, Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, Román Piña Chán, Ignacio Bernal, Leticia Ramos, Eugene Loewy, Alejandro Pastrana, Elsa Hernández, Sylvia Marín, Linda Manzanilla, Michael Coe, Karl Taube, Flora S. Clancy, George Vaillant, Daniel Ludlow, Beatriz de la Fuente, Brumfield, Héctor Barba, Ruth Shady, Luis Barjau, Herbert Spinden, María Teresa Uriarte, Ana Elizabeth Figueroa, Víctor Manuel Salazar, and others who later worked with institutions like UNAM, El Colegio de México, Dumbarton Oaks, and the Institute of Archaeology (UCL).
The campus in Mexico City houses laboratories for archaeometry comparable to facilities at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, conservation studios modeled on protocols from Getty Conservation Institute, specialized libraries echoing collections of Biblioteca Nacional de México and partnerships with archival repositories such as Archivo General de la Nación (Mexico). Seminar rooms and lecture halls support visiting scholars from University of Cambridge, Harvard University, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and equipment for field logistics coordinates with agencies like INAH and logistical partners including Comisión Nacional para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas.
Category:Research institutes in Mexico