Devalle, Susana B(eatriz) C(ristina)

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DEVALLE, Susana B(eatriz) C(ristina)

DEVALLE, Susana B(eatriz) C(ristina). Argentine. Genres: Cultural/Ethnic topics. Career: Buenos Aires National University, Buenos Aires, Argentina, researcher at Institute of Anthropology, 1966-67; El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico City, researcher at Center for Asian and African Studies, 1970-72, professor and researcher of Asian and African studies, 1973-, director of research group on ethnicity and nationalisms in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and coordinator of research group on the culture of violence, coexistence, and human rights, both 1994-. Australian National University, visiting fellow in Asian studies, 1983, 1984; University of Hawaii at Manoa, visiting fellow in ethnic studies, 1990; lecturer at Universidad Iberoamericana. Mexican Ministry of Education, national researcher in the social sciences, Sistema Nacional de Investigadores, 1987-; consultant to the Australian Parliament (foreign affairs). Publications: (with P. Mukherjee, C. Aguero, and others) Movimientos Agrarios y Cambio Social en Asia y Africa (title means: Agrarian Movements and Social Change in Asia and Africa), 1974; La Palabra de la Tierra: Protesta Campesina en India, siglo XIX (title means: The Word of the Land: Peasant Protest in India, Nineteenth Century), 1977; (ed. with C. Aguero and M. Tanaka, and contrib.) Peasantry and National Integration, 1981; (ed. and contrib.) La Diversidad Prohibida: Resistencia Etnica y Poder de Estado (title means: Forbidden Diversity: Ethnic Resistance and State Power), 1989; Discourses of Ethnicity: Culture and Protest in Jharkhand, 1992. Work represented in anthologies. Contributor of to academic journals. Address: Center for Asian and African Studies, El Colegio de Mexico, Camino al Ajusco No. 20, 01000 Mexico City, DF, Mexico. Online address: [email protected]