this book discusses the work of Quetzil Eugenio as a USA anthropologist doing his projects of fieldwork in Yucatan, Mexico. The book theorize major inquiries on the relation between the representation of culture and the mise in scene of fieldwork in textual and visual displays in the field of anthropology in the united states such as exhibits and film, demonstrating with empirical research cases, the mutual benefits of such a conjunction, on how exploring the mise in scene of fieldwork in visual display helps to a best representation of culture and visebersa while also theorize several issues of cultural anthropology regarding the relation between the markets of the museum and the communities of tourism between the united states and Mexico seen from the united states perspective and around Quetzil work as practitioner. Discussing his film on the Equinox at the university of Houston and a curatorial practice we both presented together in the lake forest college the book define Quetzil anthropology as mainly an anthropology of archaeology to discuss several major issues on research methodology, from how such an attention to the museum, mediated between him and the community the ways he has stablished his fieldwork, films, school of language, exhibits and some other projects
The book discusses how his Film on the Equinox challenged previous stereotypes on Etnographic film by exploring two forms of performativity and how the curatorial practice we experience in lake forest redicussed and relocated the boundaries between anthropology, curatorial practice and fieldwork in the ways of research. Mostly turning the attention from a more near relation between the everyday life of Ethnometodology and approaching from cultural anthropology, the book mainly discusses the visual expression of fieldwork in Quetzil Eugenio anthropology discussing performativity, elicitation and visual displays and how Quetzil has completely renewed the relation between my concept of Being in Culture and previous parameters on the relation between fieldwork and representation.
Stablished living in Texas as permanent resident since 1998 Abdel Hernandez San Juan is a theoretician in the hard science working epistemology, phenomenology and hermeneutic with a research focused in the analytical philosophy of science, sociology and cultural anthropology, a well know national and international theoretician, writer and ethnographer in the united states field of sociology and anthropology northern American academic world as well as in Venezuela. He is essentially an independent author, theoretician and writer of successful literary works books of theory such as Rethinking Urban Anthropology, Anthropology of archaeology: A Perspective from Ethnometodology and cultural anthropology, The Intramundane Horizont: Hermeneutic and Phenomenology of Everyday Life, Being and Monad, Self and Acerbo: The Self and the social between writing, research and culture, The Thresholds of the Couple: Self-Ethnography, The Given and the Ungiven, The Presentational Linguistic, The World Correlate: Interpretant and Structure in Posmodern Cultural Theory, The Constelations of Common Sense: sociology of common sense and anthropology research theory, the Subject in Creativity, amongst many others. A Guest Scholard of the faculty of sociology and anthropology of the lake forest college of Illinois in his area of research of anthropology, ethnography, the museum, curatorial practices, collection and the representation of culture convoqued around the issue of the archaeological and tourist markets of Yucatan and the ruins of chichen itza, the anthropological fascination with the Maya and previously a guest lecturer panelist at the faculty of anthropology of the university of Houston, congress of Ethnometodology to discuss on the equinox film. Since 1997 he is a complimentary research associate anthropology faculty at rice university and artistic director of the transart foundation of Houston. He Previously lived many years in Caracas, Venezuela were he has being research director of his individual projects at the Center of Research of the University of Visual Art Armando Reveron and curator at the alejandro otero museum of visual art doing his individual research and fieldwork in Venezuelan popular markets and lecturing theoretical courses and seminars at museums, universities and institutions