Scientific approaches to the mexican mestizo [Aproximaciones científicas al mestizo mexicano]


Por: López-Beltrán C., García Deister V.

Publicada: 1 ene 2013
Resumen:
The colonial category of mestizo was an ideological tool that shaped national identity in the post-revolutionary period in Mexico. The Indian-mestizo axis functioned to organize the ethnic and political interactions of the state. Doctors and anthropologists reinforced this dual taxonomy in studies of human populations, using biomedical markers to produce differentiated descriptions of the Indian and the mestizo. Genomic descriptions have contributed both to the construction of the scientistic notion of the mestizo based on the percentage of Indian, European and African ancestry, and also to the rise of two technoscientific objects that we call the molecular mestizo and the bioinformatic mestizo. Here we describe the interactions between the ideological and scientific incarnations of the mestizo.

Filiaciones:
López-Beltrán C.:
 Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Circuito Mario de la Cueva, s.n, Ciudad Universitaria 04510 - México, Mexico

García Deister V.:
 Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Calzada de los Tenorios, 235, Granjas Coapa, Tlalpan 14330 - México, Mexico
ISSN: 01045970
Editorial
Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz, AV BRASIL 4365, 21045-900 RIO DE JANEIRO, RJ, BRAZIL, Brasil
Tipo de documento: Article
Volumen: 20 Número: 2
Páginas: 391-410
WOS Id: 000322566600003
ID de PubMed: 23903910

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