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...
The social impacts of neoliberal capitalism combined with colonial legacies have supported the instrumen- talization of a politics of resentment on the part of the far-right in many countries. With an ethnographic perspective, we explore in depth how a politics of hate implanted itself in contemporary Brazilian society. With data...
Colombian attitudes are analyzed in relation to the peace treaty signed between the government and the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forced (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia farc). For this, related phenomena are examined regarding the plebiscite through which such an agreement was approved or refused: campaign strategies for or against, opinion...
Este artículo busca construir una ruta antropológica para explorar la migración en tránsito a través de la mirada de la violencia y el género, mediante la categoría feminista experiencia vivida. Se realiza un análisis en relación con un continuo de violencias que mujeres migrantes centroamericanas pobres enfrentan desde etapas tempranas...
This work approaches the origin of physical anthropology as part of the general anthropological project, on the basis of the principle that all knowledge translates to ways of interacting with the world. Thus, physical anthropology was built with a heterophobic and racist vision of the human diversity. This, stemming from...
Se presenta una revisión del libro de Orlando Aragón Andrade, De la “vieja” a la “nueva” justicia indígena. Transformaciones y continuidades en las justicias indígenas en Michoacán, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Unidad Iztapalapa/Ediciones del Lirio, México, 2016, 508 pp. Repasa los abordajes teóricos y metodológicos, señalando la estructura y aportaciones del texto....
This article reports an investigation carried out in Morelos on traditional Mexican midwifery, medicine composed of different tools that contribute to a harmonious pregnancy. A qualitative ethnographic research, especially accompanying midwife Angelina Martinez Miranda through the method of observation and participant perception and interviews with women who gave birth in...
Se buscan algunas interrelaciones entre el espacio construido urbano y sus habitantes. El método para producir información es la observación participante realizada en tres recorridos etnográficos por el espacio público de la ciudad de Barcelona. Aplicando la teoría de los tres momentos del espacio de Lefebvre y la metáfora teatral...
The objective of this article is to respond to what subjec- tive strategies we employed and how we participated in the reproduction, administration or transformation of the differences in gender and in class. Thus, methodologically, the experiences of school youth in Cúcuta, Colombia, are a starting point, from which they...
