Abstract

MALDONADO ALVARADO, Benjamín. Social movement and indigenous appropriation of anthropological knowledge. The Escuela Nacional de Antropologia e Historia in Oaxaca (1982-1993). Revista Col. San Luis [online]. 2019, vol.9, n.20, pp.345-365.  Epub Mar 14, 2022. ISSN 2007-8846.  https://doi.org/10.21696/rcsl92020191096.

This paper highlights the transcendence in Oaxaca of the link between the anthropological thought and the magisterial development of indigenous education. Its methodological basis is testimonial-analytical; archives and personal memories and documents published by the National School of Anthropology and History-Oaxaca were reviewed. The text recovers a part of the unknown history of this school, when in the 1980s it opened a degree in Oaxaca to train indigenous teachers who were members of the recently initiated democratic movement. Critical anthropology provided useful insights to guide teaching practice and the social movement in which it is inserted. The paper contributes to see anthropology applied from the appropriate anthropology perspective by mobilized indigenous people. It concludes that the closure of the National School of Anthropology and History-Oaxaca and the lack of a degree did not prevent appropriate knowledge from giving life to a growing number of proposals and solid activities in indigenous schools and communities since 1993.

Keywords : Anthropology; indigenous education; teacher training; social movement; role of education.