The Santo Domingo Centre of Excellence for Latin American Research (SDCELAR) at the British Museum was created in 2019 with the aim to develop and support collection-based projects in collaboration with communities across Latin America and the Caribbean. Funded by the Santo Domingo family, it fostered a long-lasting network of heritage communities, researchers, artists, and partnerships with the Museum.
As it reached the end of its funding cycle at the end of 2025, SDCELAR’s main outputs aimed to:
The SDCELAR team at the British Museum advocates for the co-creation of collection and community-based projects and research initiatives centred around the vast cultural heritage of Latin America and the Caribbean.
We worked alongside Indigenous, Afro-descendant and traditional communities in Latin American and Caribbean in documenting and (re)interpreting the British Museum collections.
Our projects have promoted transdisciplinary approaches and plurivocal perspectives by encouraging different ways of engaging with collections and supporting local heritage initiatives.
Publications related to women’s and maternal health with Wixárika communities by the author of this exhibition
Gamlin, Jennie B. (2013)
Shame as a barrier to health seeking among indigenous Huichol migrant labourers: An interpretive approach of the “violence continuum” and “authoritative knowledge”
Social Science and Medicine 97 75-81
Gamlin, Jennie B. (2023)
Wixárika Practices of Medical Syncretism: An Ontological Proposal for Health in the Anthropocene
Medical Anthropology Theory 10 (2) 1-26
Gamlin, Jennie B. (2020)
“You see, we women, we can’t talk, we can’t have an opinion…”. The coloniality of gender and childbirth practices in Indigenous Wixárika families
Social Science and Medicine 252, 112912
Jennie Gamlin and David Osrin (2020)
Preventable infant deaths, lone births and lack of registration in Mexican indigenous communities: health care services and the afterlife of colonialism
Ethnicity and Health 25 (7)
Jennie Gamlin and Seth Holmes (2018)
Preventable perinatal deaths in indigenous Wixárika communities: an ethnographic study of pregnancy, childbirth and structural violence BMC
Pregnancy and Childbirth 18 (Article number 243) 2018
Gamlin, Jennie B. and Sarah J Hawkes (2015)
Pregnancy and birth in an Indigenous Huichol community: from structural violence to structural policy responses
Culture, health and sexuality 17 (1)
