As part of its ongoing lecture series on anthropology and globalization, Carleton’s Department of Sociology and Anthropology presents “From Local Identities to a Global Movement: Indigenous Rights Today” by Jay Levi, department chair. The lecture is at 8:30 a.m. on Friday, October 30, in Leighton Hall, room 330. All lectures in the series are free and open to the public; coffee and bagels will be provided.

Levi focuses his research on the American southwest, northwest Mexico, and Mesoamerica. In this country, he has worked with the indigenous peoples of southern California and on a Hopi-Navaho land dispute. His work in Mexico is among the isolated Tarahumara tribes of the Sierra Madre in Chihuahua and the Tzotzil Maya of Chiapas. Levi’s current research is on the politics of identity, symbolism, and interethnic relations among the Tarahumara. Beyond his personal research, Levi has also worked with the World Bank in Africa as a consultant on indigenous peoples, poverty, and development.

This event is sponsored by the Department of Sociology and Anthropology with assistance from the Dean of the College Office’s visiting speaker fund. For more information and disability accommodations, contact Liz Musicant at (507) 222-4108. Leighton Hall is located at the end of College Street, between the Sayles Campus Center and the Gould Library.