Why African Studies Matters

One of my tasks as the former director of the Centre of African Studies (2014–2020) would be to welcome our new Masters students each year. In my short speech, and later in teaching our compulsory Introduction to African Studies course, I would try to …

Infancia y juventud en Walter Benjamin.

 La intención del presente texto es reconstruir un tramo de la infancia y la juventud de Benjamin, vista como experiencia, a través de algunos apartes de sus propias narraciones haciendo uso de su tercera tesis, Sobre el concepto de historia —“el …

Hombres cabrones y responsable.

El objetivo de este artículo es mostrar la construcción de identidades masculinas entre hombres y mujeres que residen en un asentamiento urbano-popular de una ciudad del noreste de México. A partir del descubrimiento etnográfico de dos etiquetas o clas…

Espiritualidad y salud laboral

Este artículo analiza la relación entre salud, trabajo, y el papel de la espiritualidad en el entorno laboral. Desde el momento en que nos relacionamos con otras personas y grupos con los que compartimos creencias, sentimientos y valores podemos entend…

The Metrical Features of Old Swahili Dance Poems

This paper aims to describe the metrical features of tumbuizo, Swahili poems which, allegedly due to their antiquity, present very different stylistic elements from later compositions based on regular metres inspired from Arabic poetry. The particulari…

Objects of Survivance

The work is a book review considering the title Objects of Survivance: A Material History of the American Indian School Experience by Lindsay M. Montgomery and Chip Colwell.

Cataloguing Culture

This work is a book review considering the title Cataloguing Culture: Legacies of Colonialism in Museum Documentation by Hannah Turner.

Annotating Colonialism

This exhibition review essay compares three recent interventions into historic cultural representations at the American Museum of Natural History: the Digital Totem that was placed in the Northwest Coast Hall in 2016 to partially modernize its content,…

A Language Fair, a Community and a Museum

Founded in 2003 the Oklahoma Native American Youth Language Fair (ONAYLF) has become one of the largest gatherings of Native American language learners in the United States. The Fair is unquestionably the most significant and sustained interaction with…