Roger Bartra
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Roger Bartra is a Mexican
sociologist and anthropologist, recognized as one of the most important contemporary social scientists of his country.
Bartra, son of Spanish Civil War refugee writers Agustí Bartra
and Anna Muriá, is well known for his work on Mexican identity in The Cage of Melancholy. Identity and Metamorphosis in the Mexican Character, his social theory on The Imaginary Networks of Political Power and, recently, for his anthropo-clinical theory of the “exocerebro” (exo-brain), that argues that the brain is partly constructed by its “cultural prostheses”, external socio-cultural elements that complete it.
Trained as an anthropologist in Mexico, Bartra earned his doctorate in sociology atLa Sorbonne and he is an Emeritus Researcher at Mexico´s National Autonomous University
, where he has worked since 1971; in 1985 he was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship
. He is also Honorary Research Fellow at the Birkbeck College of the University of London
.
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...
sociologist and anthropologist, recognized as one of the most important contemporary social scientists of his country.
Bartra, son of Spanish Civil War refugee writers Agustí Bartra
Agustí Bartra
Agustí Bartra i Lleonart was a Catalan poet, writer, translator and University Professor in Catalan language.- Biography :...
and Anna Muriá, is well known for his work on Mexican identity in The Cage of Melancholy. Identity and Metamorphosis in the Mexican Character, his social theory on The Imaginary Networks of Political Power and, recently, for his anthropo-clinical theory of the “exocerebro” (exo-brain), that argues that the brain is partly constructed by its “cultural prostheses”, external socio-cultural elements that complete it.
Trained as an anthropologist in Mexico, Bartra earned his doctorate in sociology atLa Sorbonne and he is an Emeritus Researcher at Mexico´s National Autonomous University
National Autonomous University of Mexico
The 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...
, where he has worked since 1971; in 1985 he was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Each year, the foundation makes...
. He is also Honorary Research Fellow at the Birkbeck College of the University of London
University of London
-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...
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