3 codices on contemporary indigenous issues that you should know

28th July 2022
BY SDCELAR TEAM| POSTED IN Blog

‘Made in Latin America’ – S1E7 New codices, new messages

 

Artists and activists are expressing their political positions in Mexico and US-Mexico border through the format of the codex. The following images represent the codices mentioned in Episode 7 of ‘Made in Latin America‘, where you can listen to more details about them and their stories. Click on each one to see more photos.

 

‘El «dónde estoy» va desapareciendo (The “Where I am” is Vanishing)’

Mariana Castillo Deball, Mexico City (1975)

El donde voy esta desapareciendo, Mariana Castillo Deball, Mexico City (1975)

© Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía

 

Códice Rodriguez-Mondragón

Sandy Rodriguez (2019)

Códice Rodriguez Mondragón, Sandy Rodriguez (2019)

© Studio Sandy Rodriguez

 

El Códice de Ayotzinapa

Diego and Juan Manuel Sandoval, Mexico City (2014)

El Códice de Ayotzinapa, Diego and Juan Manuel Sandoval, Mexico City(2014)

© UBC Museum of Anthropology

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)

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