On the Improbable Popularity of Friedrich Katz

Claudio Lomnitz is an anthropologist and historian working on culture and politics in Mexico, whose recent publications include Death and the Idea of Mexico (Zone Books, 2005), El antisemitismo y la ideología de la Revolución Mexicana (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2010), and “Los orígenes de la ‘raza mexicana’: breve arqueología de la unidad nacional” (Prismas, 2011). Lomnitz is Campbell Family Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University.