Ron Loewe
Ron Loewe
| Title: | Professor |
| Email: | Ronald.Loewe@csulb.edu |
| Phone: | (562) 985-5034 |
| Office: | F03-324 |
Education History
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1995
M.A., University of Illinois, 1983
B.A., Earlham College, 1979
Courses Taught
| ANTH 436 | Medical Anthropology |
| ANTH 323 | Peoples of Mexico and Central America |
| ANTH 205I | Radical Social Analysis |
| ANTH 353 | Health and Healing |
| ANTH 417/517 | Applied Anthropology |
| ANTH 505 | Practicing Anthropology |
| ANTH 120 | Introduction of Cultural Anthropology |
| ANTH 498 | Senior Thesis |
| ANTH 597 | Directed Reading |
| ANTH 697 | Directed Research |
Research Focus and Teaching Specialties
I did my dissertation research in Maxcanu, Mexico. Maxcan is a mestizo community of approximately 15,000 inhabitants in the northwestern part of Yucatan. I conducted most of my research on diabetes mellitus at Cook County Hospital in Chicago.
Description
My research on Yucatan covers the period between 1935 and the present, and examines the Integration of Maya villagers into a modernizing Mexican nation. As such, my research looks at economy at henequen workers. In examining these processes I describe the ways in which Maya have resisted acculturation and proletarianization through a variety a variety of expressive forms including myth, dance, adn spritism. See Maya or Mestizo: Nationalism, Modernity and its Discontents (University of Toronto Press).
Selected Publications
Books
- Loewe, R. Making Maya into Mestizo: Nationalism, Modernity and its Discontents. University of Toronto Press. September 15, 2010
Articles
- Loewe, R. 2009. Maya Reborn, Reviews in Anthropology. 38(3):1-26 [Invited review article]
- Loewe, R. and Sarah Taylor. 2008 “Neoliberal Modernization at the Mexican Periphery: gender Generation and the Construction of of New, Flexible Workforce. Urban Anthropology Volume 37, Number 3-4, Fall and Winter, 2008, pp. 357-392