In 2022, the Hay Festival and the British Museum teamed up to create the anthology Untold Microcosms: Writers in the Archives of the British Museum, in which a group of ten writers delved into narratives on the past using a collection of Latin American and Caribbean objects in the Museum, a collection never seen by the public.
In 2023 we present the anthology Explorers, Dreamers and Thieves: Writers in the Archives of the British Museum, in which six fiction writers engaged with a fascinating miscellaneous set of documents related to the Museum collection, to come up with a new compilation of texts that question and reimagine the predominant narratives. The authors are Selva Almada (Argentina), Philippe Sands (France/UK), Josefa Sánchez Contreras (Mexico), Juan Gabriel Vásquez (Colombia) and Gabriela Wiener (Peru).
Hay Cartagena 2024 (25-28 January) will feature three events where the authors will share their experiences working alongside SDCELAR curators to create their stories inspired by these archives called ‘Ethnographic Documents’. The talks will be in person in Cartagena de Indias (Colombia) and will have simultaneous interpretation in English and Spanish. Click on the titles to book your ticket.
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Saturday 27 January 2024, 10am EVENT 39 – EXPLORERS, DREAMERS AND THIEVES: WRITERS IN THE ARCHIVES OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM Centro de Convenciones (Salón Barahona) |
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Friday 26 January 2024, 5.30pm EVENT HJ15 – EXPLORERS, DREAMERS AND THIEVES: WRITERS IN THE ARCHIVES OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM Universidad de Cartagena, Claustro de San Agustín (Aula Máxima de Derecho) |
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Friday 26 January 2024, 6pm EVENT HJ17 – EXPLORERS, DREAMERS AND THIEVES: WRITERS IN THE ARCHIVES OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar (Sede Manga) – Auditorio Jorge Taua |
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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)
