Elisabeth Cunin is Researcher at the IRD, posted in Mexico (2007-2011).
elisabeth.cunin@ird.fr
CIESAS Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropologàa Social – Sede Peninsular
Calle 61 #443 entre 50 y 52, Centro, Mérida, CP 97000, Yucatán, México
Member of the GDRI Slavery Board http://www.esclavages.cnrs.fr
Research themes
Ethnic mixing and multiculturalism
Emergence of the “Afrodescendant” category in Colombia: political and cultural dimensions
The production of alterity and policies of otherness in two very different national contexts, Mexico and Belize
These research programmes are undertaken in a threefold framework:
CIESAS-CEMCA-IRD Research Convention (2007-2009): Inclusion and exclusion along a border: nation and alterity in Mexico and Belize
ANR Suds- AIRD AFRODESC programme: Afrodescendants and slavery: domination, identification and inheritance in the Americas (15th-21st centuries) 2008-2011 – http://www.ird.fr/afrodesc
European EURESCL programme: Slave Trade, Slavery, Abolitions and their Legacies in European Histories and Identities (2008-2011)
Main publications and more information on french version of this page