Abstract
The Mexican Historical geography hasn’t paid enough attention to the contributions made from social anthropology. People such as Miguel Othon de Mendizabal, Paul Kirchhoff, Pedro Armillas, Angel Palerm and Eric Wolf are among the most outstanding contributors of such an intellectual tradition of social anthropology. In particular, Kirchhoff’s concept of Meso-America, coined in 1943, has promoted a whole set of research, which has focused not only on providing meaning to that term, but also on paying more attention to the existence of pre-hispanics States. Its formation is linked to irrigation systems that made it possible to increased crop production and to supply a growing population. To think about the making of modern Mexico from an anthropological research on the prehispanic past provides another point of view on the process of the formation of the current national States and their relationship with large-scale infrastructure irrigation systems that were developed in Mexico after Revolution.
Highlights
The Mexican Historical geography hasn’t paid enough attention to the contributions made from social anthropology
México: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS), 2000, p. 95- 152
American Anthropologist, 1963, Vol 65, N° 2, p. 410-414
Summary
La geografía y en particular la geografía histórica tiene en México una larga tradición que ha sido reconocida por diversos investigadores tanto nacionales como extranjeros, si bien el propio término, al menos en el sentido que hoy se le reconoce, no ha tenido la implantación que merecía sino hasta tiempos relativamente recientes[3]. Finalmente, fue el propio García Martínez quien decidió dedicarse a cubrir las deficiencias que en este tipo de temática existía en el país y parece haber asentado unas ciertas bases para la comprensión de México desde el punto de vista de la geografía histórica[6]. Dedicaré mi atención a conceptos marco que vale la pena explicar, para entender la aportación de los antropólogos a la geografía histórica; presentaré, a continuación, sus principales contribuciones y, para acabar, mostraré algunas ideas que pueden servir para la comprensión de los grandes proyectos nacionales de finales del siglo XIX y principios del XX en México
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