Arturo Warman
Encyclopedia
Arturo Warman Gryj was a Mexican
anthropologist
, member of the cabinets of Carlos Salinas
and Ernesto Zedillo
, also an author of nine books, two of which have been translated to English
. He also wrote multiple articles for the magazine Nexos.
immigrants of Jewish origin who immigrated to Mexico through France in 1927. Warman studied elementary school
at the Colegio Israelita de México
and dropped after starting his secondary-level
courses amidst a brief religious conflict with himself. He then enrolled in the Escuela Bancaria y Comercial because he wanted to be a banker, and graduated in 1955. He enrolled in the Mexican Navy
and played american football
until he experienced a bone fracture in his hand.
In 1956 he became interested in music and started recording his own songs, he enrolled in writing courses at the UNAM but dropped out after not being able to apply his knowledge to songwriting. In 1957 he continued his secondary-level studies graduated and enrolled in high school
while he enrolled at the Sociedad Folklórica de México (then headed by Vicente T. Mendoza
, he dropped off in 1960 and in 1961 he enrolled at the Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia graduating with a master's degree
in anthropology in 1968.
), 1988–1991, Procuraduría Agraria (1991–1994) and Secretaría de la Reforma Agraria (SRA, Secretariat of the Agrarian Reform
1994–1999) which was the new name for the Secretaría de Agricultura y Recursos Hidráulicos (SARH, Secretariat of Agriculture and Water Resources) of the federal government of Mexico.
As director of the Procuraduría Agraria during the Carlos Salinas
administration, he fought for the preservation of the ejido
s while there was a discussion on disappearing them. He was part of a team that discussed and elaborated initiatives of Constitutional
Reforms and the Agrarian Law. He also established guidelines for a delegation of the Procuraduría in each state, a residency for every 300 ejidos and rural communities and a representative to each 30 rural nuclear groups.
. It was signed by the following institutions:
The Cátedra will award those who it considers have contributed to the fields Warman dedicated his life to.
Support book for the proposal to add Warman to the Rotonda de los Hombres Ilustres Article on Warman at La Jornada
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
anthropologist
Anthropology
Anthropology is the study of humanity. It has origins in the humanities, the natural sciences, and the social sciences. The term "anthropology" is from the Greek anthrōpos , "man", understood to mean mankind or humanity, and -logia , "discourse" or "study", and was first used in 1501 by German...
, member of the cabinets of Carlos Salinas
Carlos Salinas
Carlos Salinas de Gortari is a Mexican economist and politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party who served as President of Mexico from 1988 to 1994. Earlier in his career he worked in the Budget Secretariat all the way up to Secretary...
and Ernesto Zedillo
Ernesto Zedillo
Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León is a Mexican economist and politician. He served as President of Mexico from December 1, 1994 to November 30, 2000, as the last of the uninterrupted seventy year line of Mexican presidents from the Institutional Revolutionary Party...
, also an author of nine books, two of which have been translated to English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
. He also wrote multiple articles for the magazine Nexos.
Biography
Warman's parents, Elena Gryj and Isaac Warman, were PolishPoland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
immigrants of Jewish origin who immigrated to Mexico through France in 1927. Warman studied elementary school
Elementary school
An elementary school or primary school is an institution where children receive the first stage of compulsory education known as elementary or primary education. Elementary school is the preferred term in some countries, particularly those in North America, where the terms grade school and grammar...
at the Colegio Israelita de México
Colegio Israelita de México
The Colegio Israelita de México, A.C. is a private K-12 school in Mexico City. It is also known by its acronym, CIM, or as the Idishe, the first word in its Yiddish name....
and dropped after starting his secondary-level
Secondary education
Secondary education is the stage of education following primary education. Secondary education includes the final stage of compulsory education and in many countries it is entirely compulsory. The next stage of education is usually college or university...
courses amidst a brief religious conflict with himself. He then enrolled in the Escuela Bancaria y Comercial because he wanted to be a banker, and graduated in 1955. He enrolled in the Mexican Navy
Mexican Navy
The Mexican Navy is the naval branch of the Mexican military responsible for conducting naval operations. Its stated mission is "to use the naval force of the federation for the exterior defense, and to help with internal order". The Navy consists of about 56,000 men and women plus reserves, over...
and played american football
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
until he experienced a bone fracture in his hand.
In 1956 he became interested in music and started recording his own songs, he enrolled in writing courses at the UNAM but dropped out after not being able to apply his knowledge to songwriting. In 1957 he continued his secondary-level studies graduated and enrolled in high school
High school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....
while he enrolled at the Sociedad Folklórica de México (then headed by Vicente T. Mendoza
Vicente T. Mendoza
Vicente Teódulo Mendoza Gutiérrez was a Mexican musicologist, composer and drawer.In 1907 when Vicente T. Mendoza was 13 years old, he went to Mexico City where he studied piano and composition at the National Conservatory. At the same time he studied drawing. Between 1912 and 1930 he worked as a...
, he dropped off in 1960 and in 1961 he enrolled at the Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia graduating with a master's degree
Master's degree
A master's is an academic degree granted to individuals who have undergone study demonstrating a mastery or high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice...
in anthropology in 1968.
Work with the government
He was the director of the Instituto Nacional Indigenista (INI, National Institute for the Indigenous PeopleIndigenous peoples of the Americas
The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of North and South America, their descendants and other ethnic groups who are identified with those peoples. Indigenous peoples are known in Canada as Aboriginal peoples, and in the United States as Native Americans...
), 1988–1991, Procuraduría Agraria (1991–1994) and Secretaría de la Reforma Agraria (SRA, Secretariat of the Agrarian Reform
Agrarian reform
Agrarian reform can refer either, narrowly, to government-initiated or government-backed redistribution of agricultural land or, broadly, to an overall redirection of the agrarian system of the country, which often includes land reform measures. Agrarian reform can include credit measures,...
1994–1999) which was the new name for the Secretaría de Agricultura y Recursos Hidráulicos (SARH, Secretariat of Agriculture and Water Resources) of the federal government of Mexico.
As director of the Procuraduría Agraria during the Carlos Salinas
Carlos Salinas
Carlos Salinas de Gortari is a Mexican economist and politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party who served as President of Mexico from 1988 to 1994. Earlier in his career he worked in the Budget Secretariat all the way up to Secretary...
administration, he fought for the preservation of the ejido
Ejido
The ejido system is a process whereby the government promotes the use of communal land shared by the people of the community. This use of community land was a common practice during the time of Aztec rule in Mexico...
s while there was a discussion on disappearing them. He was part of a team that discussed and elaborated initiatives of Constitutional
Constitution of Mexico
The Political Constitution of the United Mexican States is the current constitution of Mexico. It was drafted in Santiago de Querétaro, in the State of Querétaro, by a constitutional convention, during the Mexican Revolution. It was approved by the Constitutional Congress on February 5, 1917...
Reforms and the Agrarian Law. He also established guidelines for a delegation of the Procuraduría in each state, a residency for every 300 ejidos and rural communities and a representative to each 30 rural nuclear groups.
Cátedra Interinstitucional Arturo Warman
Upon his death in 2003, the Cátedra Interinstitucional Arturo Warman, an agreement in honor of the contribution of Warman to the culture of MexicoCulture of Mexico
Mexico has changed rapidly during the 20th century. In many ways, contemporary life in its cities has become similar to that in neighboring United States and Europe. Most Mexican villagers follow the older way of life more than the city people do. More than 45% of the people of Mexico live in...
. It was signed by the following institutions:
- National Autonomous University of MexicoNational Autonomous University of MexicoThe Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México is a university in Mexico. UNAM was founded on 22 September 1910 by Justo Sierra as a liberal alternative to the Roman Catholic-sponsored Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico The Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) (National Autonomous...
(UNAM) - National Institute of Anthropology and HistoryNational Institute of Anthropology and HistoryThe Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia is a Mexican federal government bureau established in 1939 to guarantee the research, preservation, protection, and promotion of the prehistoric, archaeological, anthropological, historical, and paleontological heritage of Mexico...
(INAH) - El Colegio de MéxicoEl Colegio de MéxicoEl Colegio de México, A.C. is a prestigious Mexican institute of higher education, specializing in teaching and research in the social sciences and the humanities...
, A.C. (COLMEX) - Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS)
- Universidad Autónoma MetropolitanaUniversidad Autónoma MetropolitanaThe Metropolitan Autonomous University is a public university located in Mexico City, Mexico...
(UAM) - Universidad IberoamericanaUniversidad IberoamericanaThe Ibero-American University is a Mexican private institution of higher education sponsored by the Society of Jesus...
(UIA) - Colegio de Etnólogos y Antropólogos A.C.
The Cátedra will award those who it considers have contributed to the fields Warman dedicated his life to.
Books
- Los indios mexicanos en el umbral del milenio ("Mexican Indians on the threshold of the new millennium" (2003) Mexico, Fondo de Cultura EconómicaFondo de Cultura EconómicaFondo de Cultura Económica is the most important publishing house in Mexico and one of the most important ones in Latin America. It was originally established in 1934 by Daniel Cosío Villegas as a way to provide students of economics with books in Spanish on the subject...
. - El campo mexicano en el siglo XX (2001) Mexico, Fondo de Cultura Económica.
- La historia de un bastardo: maíz y capitalismo (1988), Mexico, Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales–UNAM / Fondo de Cultura Económica. Published in English as Corn and Capitalism: How a Botanical Bastard Grew to Global Dominance, Chapel Hill and Londres, by The University of North Carolina PressUniversity of North Carolina PressThe University of North Carolina Press , founded in 1922, is a university press that is part of the University of North Carolina....
. - Estrategias de sobrevivencia de los campesinos mayas (1985) Mexico. Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales–UNAM.
- Ensayos sobre el campesinado en México (1980) Mexico, Nueva Imagen.
- Y venimos a contradecir, los campesinos de Morelos y el Estado nacional (1975) Mexico Centro de Investigaciones Superiores del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia and (1988) by the Secretaría de Educación PúblicaSecretaría de Educación PúblicaThe Secretaría de Educación Pública is a Mexican federal government authority with Cabinet representation and responsibility for overseeing the development and implementation of national educational policy and school standards in Mexico.Additionally, it has the following responsibilities:*Creation...
. Translated in English by Stephen Ault as We Come to Object, the Peasants of Morelos and the National State (1980) Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins UniversityJohns Hopkins UniversityThe Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...
Press. - Los campesinos hijos predilectos del régimen (1972) Mexico, Editorial Nuestro Tiempo
- La danza de moros y cristianos (1972), Mexico, Secretaría de Educación Pública and (1985), Mexico, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia.
- La danza de moros y cristianos, master'sMaster's degreeA master's is an academic degree granted to individuals who have undergone study demonstrating a mastery or high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice...
thesisThesisA dissertation or thesis is a document submitted in support of candidature for an academic degree or professional qualification presenting the author's research and findings...
for the Anthropology Science degree at the Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico.
External links
Biography at the catedrawarman.org, the site of the Cátedra Interinstitucional Arturo Warman Profile at the Procuraduría de la Reforma Agraria Presentation of the book Los indios mexicanos en el umbral del milenio at the Senate of MexicoSenate of Mexico
The Senate of the Republic, constitutionally Chamber of Senators of the Honorable Congress of the Union After a series of reforms during the 1990s, it is now made up of 128 senators:...
Support book for the proposal to add Warman to the Rotonda de los Hombres Ilustres Article on Warman at La Jornada
La Jornada
La Jornada is one of Mexico City's leading daily newspapers. It was established in 1984 by Carlos Payán Velver. The current editor is Carmen Lira Saade...
- Chapter from Corn and Capitalism at the University of North Carolina PressUniversity of North Carolina PressThe University of North Carolina Press , founded in 1922, is a university press that is part of the University of North Carolina....