Doing Anthropology in Yucatan: Notes from a Mexican Periphery

Humanizing De‐Afrikanerized South African Anthropology

“…Again the key word is internationality, and it is taken as a central measure of quality and excellence in science (Aufderheide 2011;Buela-Casal and Zych 2012). Currently in Mexico, as I said earlier and several recent publications also state (Maldonado-Maldonado and Malee Bassett 2014;Vargas-Cetina and Ayora-Diaz 2014), internationality entails incentives that produce marked stratification among faculty within publicly supported institutions.…”

Internationalization for Economic Growth: Aspiring to a World‐Class Mexican Research and Education Environment

“…Again the key word is internationality , and it is taken as a central measure of quality and excellence in science (Aufderheide ; Buela‐Casal and Zych ). Currently in Mexico, as I said earlier and several recent publications also state (Maldonado‐Maldonado and Malee Bassett ; Vargas‐Cetina and Ayora‐Diaz ), internationality entails incentives that produce marked stratification among faculty within publicly supported institutions.…”

“…The competition for resources that exists between Mexican state universities and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) is far from a fair game. It is particularly evident in the effects of ranking and evaluations that have been introduced by the Mexican government, a point already made by Gabriela Vargas‐Cetina and Steffan Ayora‐Diaz () in their very recent intervention in this section of the September 2014 issue of American Anthropologist . The competition does not stop there.…”

“…Under these conditions, Vargas‐Cetina and Ayora‐Diaz () are right in arguing that there is very little chance to be distinguished by the SNI. Because every member of Mexico's academy is not highly qualified in those specific ways and not well linked internationally or nationally, the existing evaluation system then creates a small elite that enjoys better working conditions and salaries (Altbach :27).…”

Goodbye to Print

“…Her piece is followed by comments by two scholars from Latin America and one from the United States. Readers might compare the ideas in López Varela's article and those presented in an article about Mexican anthropology in a recent issue of AA (Vargas‐Cetina and Ayora‐Diaz ).…”