Mariana Almaraz Reyes
International Research Training Group 'Temporalities of Future in Latin America'
Postdoctoral Fellow
Anthropology
Project: "Between shadows and reflections: Futurities, futurizations and futurabilities of local heritage in Teotitlán del Valle (Oaxaca) by and from the Binnizá community"
14195 Berlin
Education
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Since June 2025 |
Postdoctoral Researcher, International Research Training Group ‘Temporalities of Future’, Freie Universität Berlin |
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05/2022 – 05/2025 |
PhD at the International Research Training Group ‘Temporalities of Future’ |
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10/2018 – 10/2021 |
Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Latin American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin |
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07/2008 – 07/2013 |
Bachelor of Arts in Restoration and Conservation of Cultural Heritage, National School of Restoration, Conservation and Museology (ENCRyM), "Manuel del Castillo Negrete", (INAH), Mexico City. |
Work experience
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Since June 2025 |
Postdoctoral Researcher, International Research Training Group ‘Temporalities of Future’, Freie Universität Berlin |
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05/2022 – 05/2025 |
Researcher, International Research Training Group ‘Temporalities of Future’ |
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01/2019 – 02/2022 |
Student Assistent, Prof. Dr.Ingrid Kummels, Freie Universität Berlin
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09/2014-02/2017 |
Coordinator of the Conservation and Restoration Department. Textile Museum of Oaxaca (MTO), Oaxaca. |
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10/2014-09/2016 |
Professor at the Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez Oaxaca (UABJO), Oaxaca. |
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08/2013-08/2014 |
Restorer at the Coordinación Nacional de Conservación del Patrimonio Cultural (CNCPC) Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH), Mexico City. |
Awards
| 11/2022 |
"Fray Bernardino de Sahagún Prize", National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), Mexico City Award for the best master thesis in cultural and social anthropology: “Tejiendo archivos lat(i)entes: Tensiones entre patrimonio cultural y memoria comunitaria, Teotitlán del Valle, Oaxaca”. |
| 10/2015 |
"Paul Coremans Prize", National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), Mexico City Award for the best thesis in conservation and restoration: “Study and conservation of a feathered textile: the mantle of San Miguel Zinacantepec, XVIII. Jhd”. |
| 09/2012 |
"Student Poster Award", International Institute for the Conservation of Historical and Artistic Works (IIC), 24th International Biennale of Decorative Arts, Vienna, Austria. |
Project: "Between shadows and reflections: Futurities, futurizations and futurabilities of local heritage in Teotitlán del Valle (Oaxaca) by and from the Binnizá community"
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stephanie Schütze, Freie Universität Berlin
From an anthropological perspective, this paper explores the temporalities of the future in the field of heritage. It focuses on the notions of futurizations, futurities and futurabilities that emerge from the reactivation or updating of the past. Contrary to the perspectives that conceptualise heritage as a mere evocation of the past, whose temporality is considered concluded and closed, this paper proposes to understand it as a field of projection and possibility. This investigation focuses on a case located in Teotitlán del Valle, Oaxaca, and explores the ways in which local actors re-interpret, re-appropriate and reactivate their heritage through their own practices, archives and repertoires. The research distinguishes itself from hegemonic discourses by emphasizing local forms of relationality, alternative temporal configurations, and collective care practices. The present work aims to contribute to the existing discourse within disciplines such as archaeology, museology, restoration and cultural management, whilst providing practical methodologies for the conservation of heritage, the study of territory and memory, and the utilisation of these as sites for political imagination and social transformation.
The linking of futurity with heritage elements involves a novel approach that challenges static conceptions of heritage. This approach not only broadens the framework of study in related disciplines, but also has practical implications.
Articles
Almaraz Reyes, Mariana (2022). "Contra-archivos texturizados. Irrumpiendo el archivo colonial, una mirada a las prácticas textiles contemporáneas en Teotitlán del Valle, Oaxaca, México”, Antropología Experimental 22: 15-26. https://revistaselectronicas.ujaen.es/index.php/rae/article/view/6570/6624
Almaraz Reyes, Mariana, Lanzagorta Cumming, Ana and Lara Barrera, Emmanuel (2013). “IIC Vienna Congress 2012: la experiencia internacional de restauradores mexicanos en formación.” Intervención 7: 45-52. https://revistaintervencion.inah.gob.mx/index.php/intervencion/article/view/98
Almaraz Reyes, Mariana, Lanzagorta Cumming, A., & Lara Barrera, E. (2013). “IIC Vienna Congress 2012. Our Experience as Students”, News in Conservation, International Institute for Conservation 34: 6-8 https://www.iiconservation.org/system/files/publications/journal/2013/b2013_1.pdf
Chapters
Almaraz Reyes, Mariana (2014). "Estudio y conservación de un textil emplumado: El manto de San Miguel Zinacantepec del siglo XVIII". In: Conservación de arte plumario. Mexico City: INAH, CONACULTA, Escuela Nacional de Conservación, Restauración y Museografía. pp. 46-67 https://mediateca.inah.gob.mx/repositorio/islandora/object/libro%3A526
