The purpose of this work is to analyze theoretically how the sexual liberation movements of the sixties of the twentieth century deconstructed the social, political and cultural precepts of citizenship, public life, family and the idea of the body itself. Subsequently, after an ethnographic approach that allowed to register in...
This article addresses the meanings of blood in traditional and biomedical systems in a Chatino’s context from the state of Oaxaca. For both systems blood represents life, however, while blood is part of a body that is an independent physical structure clinically, culturally it is linked to home and land....
Based on ethnographic material obtained from 2006 to 2018 among Otomis of the eastern mountain range of Hidalgo in Mexico, this research aims to untangle the meanings regarding native concepts to refer to the body and its contents. These categories include beings that are recognized as people, as well as...
