Decoding Gender: Law and Practice in Contemporary Mexico

Notes on Contributors

265 ANA M. ALONSO is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Arizona. She was born in Havana, Cuba. Her great-great-uncle Manuel Márquez Sterling was an early supporter of feminism in Latin America. After receiving a BA from Wellesley College, she did graduate work in anthropology at the University of Chicago. Her first fieldwork was in Namiquipa, Chihuahua , Mexico, and this formed the basis for her book, Thread of Blood: Gender, Colonialism, and Revolution on Mexico’s Northern Frontier (University of Arizona Press, 1995). Her work in Mexico has explored topics such as social memory, nationalism and ethnicity, and gender and law, as well as the Mexican Revolution . She is currently writing a book on Mexican museums and their role in the construction of national and ethnic identity. Her most recent fieldwork has been in Santa Ana, Oaxaca, Mexico. HELGA BAITENMANN is an associate fellow of the Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London. She received her PhD in anthropology at the New School for Social Research in 1998. Before moving to London, she taught and conducted research at the Colegio de la Frontera Norte (Tijuana). Her research has been supported by the Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and the Ejido Reform Research Project at the Center for U.S.–Mexican Studies (UCSD). Among her most recent publications is “Blueprints of Governance: Agrarian Reform and State Formation in Postrevolutionary Mexico,” Journal of Latin American Studies (forthcoming). She is currently preparing a book manuscript on the history of the agrarian reform in Mexico from a gendered perspective. VICTORIA CHENAUT is a research professor at the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (Xalapa, Mexico). A member of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SNI), she has conducted fieldwork in the fishing communities of the Baja California Peninsula and in Yucatán, as well as in rural and indigenous communities in the states of Puebla, Quinta Roo, and Veracruz. Dr. Chenaut has published numerous book chapters and journal articles, and she is the author of Aquellos que vuelan: Los totonacos en el siglo XIX (CIESAS and Instituto Nacional Indigenista, 1995) and NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Notes on contributors.qxd 4/7/07 11:23 AM Page 265 editor of Procesos rurales e historia regional (Sierra y costa totonacas de Veracruz) (CIESAS, 1996). Her research area is legal anthropology, and her topics include legal practices, justice, gender, and honor in multicultural societies. JANE F. COLLIER is a professor emerita of anthropology at Stanford University . She is the author of Law and Social Change in Zinacantan (Stanford University Press, 1973), Marriage and Inequality in Classless Societies (Stanford University Press, 1988), and From Duty to Desire: Remaking Families in a Spanish Village (Princeton University Press, 1997). She is also coeditor with June Starr of History and Power in the Study of Law (Cornell University Press, 1989) and of two journal special issues, Law and Society in Southeast Asia (Law and Society Review 23 [3]) and Sanctioned Identities (Identities 2, [1–2]). ROSÍO CÓRDOVA PLAZA is a researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Histórico-Sociales of Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico, and a member of the SNI. Dr. Cordova has extensive experience in anthropological research, focusing on gender, sexuality, family, migration, and peasant societies in central Veracruz. She has received the Gender Section Award “Helen I. Safa” for 2000 from the Latin American Studies Association and the 1996 Family Research Award given by the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico and Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana. Her publications include more than forty book chapters and journal articles, which have appeared in Mexico, Holland, France, Italy, Cuba, Spain, Brazil, Turkey, Costa Rica, and Poland. She is author of Los peligros del cuerpo: Género y sexualidad en el centro de Veracruz (2003), and is coeditor of In God We Trust: Del campo mexicano al sueño americano (forthcoming ). CARMEN DIANA DEERE is a professor of economics and the director of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida. Her PhD is in agricultural economics from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a past president of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) and of the New England Council of Latin American Studies, and was a founding member and on the first executive board of the Latin American and Caribbean Economics Association (LACEA). Deere serves on numerous editorial boards, including those of World Development and Feminist Economics. Her most recent book (with Magdalena León...