Oral Presentation Session - Invited Status Awarded

Invited by: Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists

Of interest to: Practicing and Applied Anthropologists, Students

Primary Theme: Borders

Secondary Theme: Identity and Equity

(5-0880) The Extraordinary Work and Thought of Roberto R. Alvarez : In honor of his contributions to the changing of the narrative concerning the U.S. Mexico Border Region and its people.

For more than 40 years Professor Robert R. Alvarez has made central contributions to the manner in which the U.S. Mexico transborder region is understood and conceptualized. His works initiated a new way of considering the movement of Mexican populations from south to north following in the steps of much earlier populations from the pre Hispanic periods to the present. His central foci embrace the economic, demographic, ecological and social systemics that gave rise to and development of transborder populations and set the stage for the development of transborder studies as a significant discipline. This session is to honor those achievements and to recognize his singular achievements. Divided into two Panels:

Organizer(s)

• Carlos Velez-Ibanez

  Regents' Professor
  Arizona State University

Chair(s)

• Carlos Velez-Ibanez

  Regents' Professor
  Arizona State University

Presenter(s)

• Faye Harrison

  Professor
  University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign

• Miguel Diaz-Barriga

  Professor
  University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley

• Patricia Zavella

  Professor Emerita
  University of California, Santa Cruz

• Maria Cruz-Torres

  Arizona State University

• James Vigil

Discussant(s)

• Josiah Heyman

  Professor and Director
  University of Texas, El Paso

Presentations:

• 2:00 PM - 2:15 PM

  Navigating Anthropology’s Gendered, Pluriethnic and Transnational Terrain: Reflections on the Praxis of Robert Alvarez
  Faye V. Harrison – University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign
• 2:15 PM - 2:30 PM

  A Manifesto for Bridge Builders
  Miguel Diaz-Barriga – University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley
• 2:30 PM - 2:45 PM

  Grounding Transnationalism and Borders in the Work of Roberto Alvarez
  Patricia Zavella – University of California, Santa Cruz
• 2:45 PM - 3:00 PM

  Transborder Commodities and the Anthropology of Debt and Credit in Mexico
  Maria L. Cruz-Torres – Arizona State University
• 3:00 PM - 3:15 PM

  Peasant Culture Change in Modern Day Chiapas
  James Vigil
• 3:15 PM - 3:30 PM

  Discussion
  Josiah Heyman – University of Texas, El Paso