UF Center for Latin American Studies
Day: Wednesdays
Times: 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Location: Grinter 376
NO PREREQUISITES OR INSTRUCTOR APPROVAL NEEDED FOR REGISTRATION
This class will look at how memory has been discussed theoretically and empirically in Latin America and beyond. We will consider the debates differentiating memory from history, how memory blurs the boundaries between disciplines, temporalities and writing and visual genres of communication. The class will explore the difficulties of finding documentation on marginalized points of view, human rights violations, and daily life under authoritarian regimes. We will consider the usefulness of family and community oral sources and fragmented and scattered private archives. Students will read about memory based social movements, legislation on memory and reparations, and the politics of memorialization and memory museums. The class will consider cases from the southern cone of Latin America, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, Guatemala, Spain and more. Students will put together and write a memory project of their own throughout the semester.
Dr. Carmen Martínez Novo
Center for Latin American Studies
Department of Anthropology
Grinter 382
Email: m.martineznovo@ufl.edu
Tel: 352-273-4716
Research Interests
Race and ethnicity, political anthropology, indigenous politics and rights, political ecology, anthropology of the state and elites, “study up” and collaborative methodologies
Geographic Expertise
Ecuador, Andes, Amazon, Mexico
