Manuel Gamio
Mexican anthropologist and sociologist
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anthropology in Latin America
- In anthropology: Anthropology in Latin America
…Latin American anthropologists such as Manuel Gamio in Mexico and Gilberto Freyre in Brazil used cultural relativism to shape their nations on the ideal of racial mixture. Gamio’s Teotihuacán project (1922) was notable not only for its accomplishments in the fields of archaeology and ethnography but also because it guided…
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