Ángeles Romero Frizzi

Ángeles Romero Frizzi
Born(1946-06-22)22 June 1946
Mexico City, Mexico
Died25 April 2026(2026-04-25) (aged 79)
OccupationEthnologist
SpouseManuel Esparza
Awards
Academic background
Education
Academic work
Sub-discipline
InstitutionsCentro Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia Oaxaca

María de los Ángeles Romero Frizzi (22 June 1946 – 25 April 2026) was a Mexican historian and ethnologist who wrote several books about the Mixtec people and Oaxaca, including El sol y la cruz (1996). She was a researcher at the Centro Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia Oaxaca for four decades and was a 1988 Guggenheim Fellow. She was elected to the Academia Mexicana de la Historia in 1999.

Biography

María de los Ángeles Romero Frizzi born on 22 June 1946 in Mexico City.[1] in addition to brief periods in Guadalajara and Puebla, she was raised in her birthplace.[2] She graduated from the National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH), where she obtained a maestría in the early 1970s.[a] Her master thesis was titled La industria Textil novohispana (lit. "The Textile Industry of New Spain").[2] She also worked as a research assistant for the National Tourism Council and the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH).[3]

Following her graduation from ENAH, she became interested in Oaxaca's cultural diversity after being assigned to designing a project for the Museo de las Culturas de Oaxaca.[2] In the early 1970s,[b] she joined Centro INAH Oaxaca;[3] she started as an ethnographer at INAH, before being promoted to research professor in 1975.[1] In 1985, with the help of Ángel Palerm, she obtained a PhD in social sciences at the Universidad Iberoamericana; her doctoral dissertation was about 16th/17th century colonial trade in the Mixteca Alta, particularly the Mixtec people's active role in it.[5][1] In 2012, she retired from INAH Oaxaca as emeritus researcher.[2][6]

In 1985, she became a Consejo Nacional de Humanidades, Ciencias y Tecnologías (CONAHCYT) Level I National Researcher, she was promoted to Level II in 1991.[3] She was a visiting professor at El Colegio de México (1986) and the Benito Juárez Autonomous University of Oaxaca (1986–1987).[1] She also worked as an academic coordinator for local units of other institutions, more specifically the University of Pennsylvania (1992–1997) and Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (1993–1994).[3]

She wrote and edited several books – Economía y vida de los españoles en la Mixteca Alta: 1519–1720 (1990; lit. "Economy and Life of the Spaniards in the Mixteca Alta: 1519–1720"), El sol y la cruz: Historia de los Pueblos Indígenas de Oaxaca (1996; lit. "The Sun and the Cross: History of the Indigenous Peoples of Oaxaca"), Escritura zapoteca, 2000 años de antigüedad (lit. "Zapotec Writing: 2,000 Years Old"), Escribir para dos mundos: testimonios y experiencias de los escritores mixtecos (lit. "Writing for Two Worlds: Testimonies and Experiences of Mixtec Writers") – and co-authored textbooks for primary and secondary education.[3] In 1988,[7] she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship "for a study of acculturation and conquest in 16th-century Oaxaca".[1] On 9 November 1999, she was admitted to the Academia Mexicana de la Historia's chair 23.[8]

She was married to Manuel Esparza.[4]

She died on 25 April 2026.[2] Following her death, she received tributes from the INAH and its Oaxaca division, Seculta, and the Fundación Alfredo Harp Helú Oaxaca.[2]

Works

  • Economía y vida de los españoles en la Mixteca Alta: 1519–1720 (1990)[3]
  • El sol y la cruz: Los pueblos indios de Oaxaca colonial (1996)[c]
  • (ed.) Escritura zapoteca, 2000 años de antigüedad[3]
  • Escribir para dos mundos: testimonios y experiencias de los escritores mixtecos[3]

Notes

  1. ↑ Sources dispute when the degree was conferred - 1971,[2] 1972,[1] or 1973[3] - as well as on whether the degree is in anthropology[1] or ethnology.[4][3]
  2. ↑ Sources differ on whether the exact year was 1972[1] or 1973.[4]
  3. ↑ Reviews of this book: [9][10]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Reports of the President and the Treasurer. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 1989. p. 143.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Muere la historiadora María de los Ángeles Romero Frizzi". oaxaca.media. 26 April 2026. Archived from the original on 20 July 2026. Retrieved 20 July 2026.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Curriculum Vitae of Angeles Romero Frizzi" (PDF). www.acadmexhistoria.org.mx (in Spanish). 2003. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 January 2011. Retrieved 20 July 2026.
  4. 1 2 3 Manzo, Diana (27 April 2026). "Fallece María de los Ángeles Romero Frizzi, la historiadora que descifró los pueblos de Oaxaca". Página 3 (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 20 July 2026. Retrieved 20 July 2026.
  5. ↑ "Miembros de la Academia · Sillón No. 23". Academia Mexicana de la Historia. Archived from the original on 9 September 2011. Retrieved 20 July 2026.
  6. ↑ "Reconoce INAH a Romero Frizzi como investigadora emérita". Ciudadania Express (in Mexican Spanish). 21 February 2012. Archived from the original on 26 July 2026. Retrieved 25 July 2026.
  7. ↑ "Maria de Los Angeles Romero Frizzi". Guggenheim Fellowships. Archived from the original on 20 July 2026. Retrieved 20 July 2026.
  8. ↑ "DISCURSO DE RECEPCIÓN DE LA: Dra. María de los Ángeles Romero Frizzi" (PDF). Mexican Academy of History. Archived (PDF) from the original on 10 April 2026. Retrieved 20 July 2026.
  9. ↑ Chance, John K. (1998). "Review of El sol y la cruz: Los pueblos indios de Oaxaca colonial". The Americas. 54 (3): 448–450. doi:10.2307/1008421. ISSN 0003-1615. JSTOR 1008421.
  10. ↑ Terraciano, Kevin (1999). "Review of El sol y la cruz: Los pueblos indios de Oaxaca colonial". The Hispanic American Historical Review. 79 (1): 120–122. ISSN 0018-2168. JSTOR 2518231.
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