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Benavides









O. Hugo Benavides, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Anthropology (at Rose Hill)
Director, M.A. in Humanities & Sciences Program
B.A., Queens College; M.A., Hunter College; Ph.D., City 
University of New York, 1999

Dealy Hall 402E
Bronx, NY  10458-9993
tel: (718) 817-3869
fax: (718) 817-3846

benavides@fordham.edu

 
Research Interests
Social Theory, historical and national production, sexuality and identity, Latino politics, Latin America.
 
Selected Publications

Books

2008.  Melodrama and Culture:  Politics Latin American Style. University of Texas Press, Austin.

2006.  The Politics of Sentiment: Imagining and Remembering Guayaquil. University of Texas 
           Press, Austin.

2004.   Making Ecuadorian Histories: Four Centuries of Defining Power. University of Texas
           Press, Austin.

Articles

2004.  "Anthropology's Native Conundrum: Uneven Histories and Development," Critique of 
            Anthropology
24(2):159-178.

2003.  "Seeing Xica and the Melodramatic Unveiling of Colonial Desire," Social Text 21(3 76):
             109-134.

2002.  "The Representation of Guayaquil's Sexual Past: Historicizing the Enchaquirados," Journal 
             of Latin American Anthropology
7(1):68-103.

2001.  "Returning to the Source: Social Archaeology as Latin American Philosophy," Latin 
           American Antiquity
12(4):355-370.

 

Courses Taught

Undergraduate

Introduction to Cultural Anthropology; Social Theory in Anthropology; Vampires and Kinship; Cultural Politics of Latin America; TV and Pop Culture in the U.S.; Comparative Cultures; Peoples and Cultures of Latin America

Graduate

National Identity and Development; Interdisciplinary Culture

 

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