The Native American Studies Committee

 

Claudio Lomnitz

Claudio Lomnitz works on culture and politics in Mexican and in the Americas.  His books include include Evolución de una sociedad rural (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1982); Exits from the Labyrinth: Culture and Ideology in Mexican National Space (University of California Press, 1992); Modernidad Indiana: nación y mediación en México (Planeta, 1999); Deep Mexico, Silent Mexico: An Anthropology of Nationalism (University of Minnesota Press, 2001); and, most recently, Death and the Idea of Mexico (Zone Books, 2005).  The Spanish version of this book was awarded the García Cubas prize for the best scientific contribution to anthropology and history, and the award of Mexico’s Camara de la Industria Editorial (CANIERM) for the best sociological essay.  Claudio Lomnitz is currently the editor of the journal Public Culture.  He also writtes on a regular basis for the Mexico City press.  Lomnitz is William H. Ransford Professor of Anthropology at Columbia, and directs the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race.