Susan Drucker-Brown, © Biblioteca de Investigación Juan de Córdova
A woman in the field: Susan Drucker-Brown’s photographs and anthropological fieldnotes (Mexico 1957-1958)
Mon 22 April - Fri 31 May
Alison Richard Building
This exhibition, curated and researched by Paula López Caballero, displays photographs and ethnographic fieldnotes produced by Cambridge-based anthropologist Susan Drucker-Brown (1936-2023) in the Mixtec-speaking village of Jamiltepec (Oaxaca, Mexico) in 1957 and 1958. She was one of the first women anthropologists in Mexico, and a pioneer in the study of women’s clothing and the changes they were undergoing, with the replacement of handmade (loom) clothing by industrial one.
The exhibition not only presents this little-known aspect of Drucker-Brown’s work. It also invites us to reflect on three aspects: Firstly, the processes of mestizaje, indigeneity and modernisation experienced in Mexico in the mid-twentieth century at an indigenous and rural locality. Secondly, the everyday life of ethnographic research and, in particular, the role of women in fieldwork. And thirdly, the afterlives of the materials produced during fieldwork, either as collections in museums or archives, or as part of restitution processes to the villages where the anthropologists worked.
Join us for refreshments and an exhibition tour from 18:00 - 19:00 on 22 April.
Cost: free
Enquiries and booking
Enquiries: Judith Weik Website Email: enquiries@crassh.cam.ac.uk
Timing
In person
9:00am-7:00pm on weekdays from Monday 22 April until Friday 31 May (except on Bank Holidays)
All times
Mon 22 April | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Tue 23 April | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Wed 24 April | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Thu 25 April | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Fri 26 April | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Mon 29 April | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Tue 30 April | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Wed 1 May | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Thu 2 May | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Fri 3 May | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Tue 7 May | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Wed 8 May | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Thu 9 May | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Fri 10 May | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Mon 13 May | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Tue 14 May | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Wed 15 May | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Thu 16 May | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Fri 17 May | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Mon 20 May | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Tue 21 May | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Wed 22 May | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Thu 23 May | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Fri 24 May | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Tue 28 May | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Wed 29 May | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Thu 30 May | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Fri 31 May | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |