Myriam Lamrani
Research Interests
Politics, Revolution, Violence, Intimacy, Multimodal Anthropology, Filmmaking, and Affect Theory, Mexico, Greece, and MENA Region.
Myriam Lamrani is a visual anthropologist of Moroccan, Portuguese, and Spanish heritage. She is a Marie Curie Skłodowska Fellow (2021–2024) in the departments of anthropology at Harvard and PanteionUniversity of Social and Political Sciences. She has studied Art History and Archaeology at Université Libre de Bruxelles and holds a PhD degree in Social Anthropology from University College London. Her current research focuses on national and community uses of political and religious images, especially in Greece and Mexico. She has most recently published in American Ethnologist, The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology and Anthropological Quarterly. In 2019, she was a recipient of the Royal Anthropological Institute’s J.B. Donne Prize on the Anthropology of Art. Her first monograph, The Intimacy of Images. Saints, Death, and Devotion to La Santa Muerte in Oaxaca, Mexico is slated for publication by University of Texas Press (2025) examines people’s intimacy with the image of death—Mexico’s symbol—through an ethnographic study of the cult to La Santa Muerte in a context of criminal and political violence.
Publications:
Monograph
2025. Myriam Lamrani. The Intimacy of Images. Saints, Death, and Devotion to La Santa Muerte in Oaxaca,
Mexico. Austin: Texas University Press.
Edited Book
2023 Charlotte Al Khalili, Narges Ansari, Myriam Lamrani, & Kaya Uzel.
The Afterlives of Revolution: Radical Politics Beyond the Event. London: UCL Press.
Journal Articles
2024 “Saintly Devotion, Art, and Indigenous Sovereignty in Oaxacan Transnational Migration.”
Anthropological Quarterly 96(1): 63–94.
2022 “The Ultimate Intimacy: Death and Mexico, an Anthropological Relation in Images.”
American Ethnologist 49(2): 204–220.
2021 Martin Holbraad & Myriam Lamrani “Revolutionary Circles. A Morphology of Radical Politics,”
Special Issue Focaal. Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology (91): 1–13.
Edited Special Issue
2021 Myriam Lamrani. Editor and Introduction. “Beyond Revolution. Reshaping Nationhood through
Senses and Affects.” Special Issue, Cambridge Journal of Anthropology 39(2): 1–18.
Cover Photograph
2022 Myriam Lamrani. Cover Photograph, American Ethnologist Volume 49 | Issue 2
Date of Publication: May 2022
Photograph of an altar to the dead and to La Santa Muerte in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Award
2019 J.B. Donne Essay Prize on the Anthropology of Art
“Images on the Move. Migrant Saints ‘Beyond’ the Mexico-US Border.”
—Expanded version Published by Anthropology Quarterly