May N. Diaz Home  Directory May N. Diaz
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Professor Emerita |
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mndiaz@ucsc.edu |
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Social Sciences 1, 333 |
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Teaching Specialties: Cultural anthropology (theory, comparative peasant societies, complex society), Mexico, contemporary Latin American and European peasants, anthropology and history.
Area of Research: Peasants and social change in Mexico; village organization and local political structure in Sweden. Culture and food.
Area of Fieldwork: Mexico and Sweden. |
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May Diaz maintains a continuing interest in comparative peasant studies, with a focus on the ways in which peasant culture cannot be subsumed under a stereotypic category of "traditional." She is interested in how cultural forms among peasants are immanent, continuing, pervasive, contingent, or contested. Such a focus emphasizes human actors within specific historical situations. She is interested in the relationship of history and the anthropology, as well, in re-examining anthropological theory. |
| Education History | |
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B.A., Ph. D., University of California, Berkeley |
| Selected Publications | |
Dialectics and Gender: Anthrpological Approaches (edited with R. Randolph and D. Schneider). Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1988.
Peasant Society (with J. Potter and G. Foster). Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1967.
Tonala: Conservatism, Responsibility, and Authority in a Mexican town T. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966. |
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