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Guillermo Bonfil Batalla was a Mexican ethnologist who studied at the National School of Anthropology and History ( Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia , ENAH) and received his doctorate in anthropology at Mexico's National Autonomous University ( Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México , UNAM). He is one of the most important representatives of the new generation of Mexican anthropologists who began to dominate the academic panorama after 1968. This generation was characterized by its strong criticism of the state's official indigenismo , which is understood as the set of state policies, institutions, and laws in relation to indigenous people. In light of both his theoretical reflections and his political work, Guillermo Bonfil Batalla is frequently considered one of the precursors in Latin America of the theoretical and ideological emergence of the autonomies of autochthonous peoples and of academic reflections on the consolidation of pluricultural states. Throughout his life, Bonfil Batalla held various political positions, such as director of the National Institute of Anthropology and History ( Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia , INAH) in 1972, director of INAH's Center for Research and Higher Studies ( Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores del INAH , CISINAH) in 1976, and director of the National Museum of Popular Cultures ( Museo Nacional de ... log in or subscribe to read full text