
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 2024 - Fri 31 May 2024
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 2024 until Friday 31 May 2024 (except on Bank Holidays)
All times
Mon 22 April 2024 | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Tue 23 April 2024 | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Wed 24 April 2024 | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Thu 25 April 2024 | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Fri 26 April 2024 | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Mon 29 April 2024 | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Tue 30 April 2024 | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Wed 1 May 2024 | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Thu 2 May 2024 | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Fri 3 May 2024 | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Tue 7 May 2024 | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Wed 8 May 2024 | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Thu 9 May 2024 | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Fri 10 May 2024 | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Mon 13 May 2024 | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Tue 14 May 2024 | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Wed 15 May 2024 | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Thu 16 May 2024 | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Fri 17 May 2024 | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Mon 20 May 2024 | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Tue 21 May 2024 | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Wed 22 May 2024 | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Thu 23 May 2024 | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Fri 24 May 2024 | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Tue 28 May 2024 | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Wed 29 May 2024 | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Thu 30 May 2024 | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Fri 31 May 2024 | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |