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Selma Jackson (2008 - 2009)
Project Director
4W Circle of Art and Enterprise, Inc.
William H. Ransford Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race
Columbia University
Claudio Lomnitz works on culture and politics in Mexico 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). Claudio Lomnitz is currently the editor of the journal Public Culture, and he writes a weekly column in Excelsior, a Mexico City daily. Lomnitz is William H. Ransford Professor of Anthropology at Columbia, and directs the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race.
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