Fleeting Encounters between Mexican Anthropologists, Psychologists and Criminologists

Abstract

This essay explores key moments and figures in this fleeting disciplinary convergence between anthropology, psychology and criminology in Mexico, as well as its impact, at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries, when the interest of these fields was the study of human behavior. Researchers and intellectuals dedicated themselves to analyzing human beings within their social context, delving into their minds and conduct. Key figures such as Cesare Lombroso, Enrico Ferri, Rafael Garofalo, Rafael de Zayas, Francisco Martínez Baca, Manuel Vergara, Ezequiel Chávez, Franz Boas, and Santiago Genovés Tarazaga played a fundamental role in the development of theories and methodologies that enriched the understanding of behavior, morality, and crime in Mexico. This text highlights their contributions and the impact they had on the knowledge of human beings within their social environment.