Miguel Ángel Gutiérrez Ávila

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Miguel Ángel Gutiérrez Ávila (June 2, 1955 – July 25, 2008) was a Mexican anthropologist whose work focused on the state of Guerrero. In 1988, he developed an approach in his work on the Costa Chica of Guerrero where "the corrido poet is a social critic who praises violent action when it is justified and condemns it when it is not".^[1]

He was murdered on July 25, 2008, as he was returning from investigating attacks against , La Palabra del Agua, with whom he collaborated. His badly beaten body was found along with his Chevy on the Acapulco-Pinotepa federal highway.

Works[]

• Corrido y violencia entre los afromestizos de la Costa Chica de Guerrero y Oaxaca. Mexico City: Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero, 1988.
• Nabor Ojeda Caballero, el batallador del Sur. [México:] Centro de Estudios Históricos del Agrarismo en México: Confederación Nacional Campesina, 1991.
• Derecho consuetudinario y derecho positivo entre los mixtecos, amuzgos y afromestizos de la Costa Chica de Guerrero. México: Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero: La Comisión Nacional de Derechos Humanos, 1997.
• Déspotas y caciques. Una antropología política de los amuzgos de Guerrero. México: Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero, 2001.

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External links[]

• One year on, silence surrounds murder of anthropologist (International Pen, 29.7.09)