Geographic Areas, Peoples and Cultures:
- Latin America, México, Guatemala, Mesoamerica
- Indigenous Peoples, US Latina/os, Maya Cultures
Sub-Fields and Topical Specialties:
- Visual Ethnography, Ethnographic Film, Anthropology of Art
- Tourism, Heritage, Museums, Ethnographies of Archaeology
- Indigenous Identity Politics, National Imaginaries, Racial Formations
- Ethnography, Fieldwork Methods, Multi-Media Documentation and Research
- Governance, International Organizations, Non-Governmental Organizations
- History of Anthropology, Ethics, Theory
His current research continues this exploration of the ethnography of archaeology or what is also called archaeological ethnography.
In addition, Castañeda has worked on projects in the history of anthropology, anthropological ethics, and methods of ethnography. His research on the history of anthropology focuses on the Carnegie Institution of Washington -- CIW -- as a major non-government, non-university and non-museum mode of anthropological science and knowledge production. He is also continuing his research on the role of the CIW in the historical processes leading to the formation of the science-military-industrial complex from WWI through to the end of WWII.
