Andres Fabregas Puig He is an ethnologist specializing in ethnohistory and holds a master's degree in Anthropological Sciences from the National School of Anthropology and History; he holds a Ph. ciesas-Mexico. He is a founding member of the Department of Anthropology of the uam-Iztapalapa and ciesas-He also contributed to the reorganization of the Chiapas Institute of Culture. He was awarded the Latin American and Caribbean Prize for Social Sciences, granted by the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (clacso). He has taught anthropology in several Latin American countries, in Spain and in Mexican universities. He has published books, essays, articles, reviews and popularization texts; he is a member of the National System of Researchers.

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Communities, utopias and futures. Debates for the 21st century

José Eduardo Zárate (ed.), 2022 El Colegio de Michoacán, Mexico, 442 pp.

The Community in the Latin American Anthropological Debate

  • Andres Fabregas Puig

Community, Utopias and Futures. Debates for the 21st century is one of those books that mark important moments in the discussion of central issues for society and for the social sciences themselves.

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Historia del Reino de la Nueva Galicia

Thomas Calvo and Aristarco Regalado Pinedo (coords.), 2016 University of Guadalajara, Mexico, 877 pp.

A look at the past of Nueva Galicia

  • Andres Fabregas Puig

The history of the Kingdom of New Galicia is part of the process of expansion of Western Europe, modernization and capitalism, in the form of colonialism. Likewise, it is part of the decolonization processes in general and of the formation of the Mexican nation and the Mexican national State in particular. The texts that make up the work document the above, describe the results of the colonial enterprise that lasted three centuries, the expropriation of the lands from their original owners, the disruption of the territories and the forging of new regional realities, evangelization and, therefore, Of course, the anti-colonial resistance of which the Mixtón war is already an icon.