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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.  Drugs, Thugs, and Divas:  Telenovelas and Narcodramas in Latin America. University of 
          Texas Press, Austin.
          Read a press interview with the author about this book.

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

2009.  “Disciplining the Past, Policing the Present: The Postcolonial Landscape of Ecuadorian 
             Nostalgia,” 
Archaeologies 5(1):134-160. 

2009.  “Translating Ecuadorian Modernities: Pre-Hispanic Archaeology and the reproduction of 
             Global Difference.” In Cosmopolitan Archaeologies, Lynn Meskell, ed., pp. 228-
             248. Duke University Press, Durham, NC.

2009.  “Narratives of Power, The Power of Narratives: The Failing Foundational Narrative of the 
             Ecuadorian Nation.” In Contested Histories in Public Space: Memory, Race, and  
             Nation
, Daniel J. Walkowitz and Lisa Maya Knauer, eds, pp. 178-196. Duke University 
             Press, Durham, NC.

2009.  “The Recovery of Archaeological Heritage in the Ecuadorian Andes: Ethnography, 
             Domination, and the Past,” In Ethnographies and Archaeologies: Iterations of the 
             Past
, Lena Mortensen,and Julie Hollowell, eds. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.

2008.  “Historical Disruptions in Ecuador: Reproducing an Indian Past in Latin America.” In 
             Cultural Heritage and Human  Rights
, Helaine Silverman and D. Fairchild Ruggles, eds, 
             pp. 132-143. Springer, New York.

2008.  ”Archaeology and Development.” In Encyclopedia of Archaeology, Deborah Pearsall, 
             ed., Volume 2, pp. 1088-1093. Academic Press, New York.

2008.  “Archaeology, Globalization and the Nation: Appropriating the Past in Ecuador.” In 
            Handbook of South American Archaeology
, Helaine Silverman and William Isbell, eds, 
            pp. 1063-1072. Springer, New York.

2004.  "Anthropology's Native Conundrum: Uneven Histories andDevelopment,"
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; SocialTheoryin 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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