Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Este artículo cuestiona una narrativa predominante promovida por el Estado mexicano desde el conflicto bélico que sostuvo con diferentes grupos de narcotraficantes desde 2006: la oposición categórica entre víctimas y victimarios, con las connotaciones …
El presente artículo analiza los procesos y narrativas que anticipan una nueva fase de la estrategia de seguridad en México en la era de Donald Trump y en vísperas de una elección presidencial clave en la Unión Americana. Se describe aquí la evolución …
La intención de este trabajo es analizar el reportaje fotográfico “Mexican (B)order movies” de Fabio Cuttica en tanto producto del imaginario sobre la violencia en México. A través de un enfoque teórico que se centra en el uso del dispositivo de la iro…
En este texto reflexionaremos sobre la construcción de un nuevo discurso estético de la violencia del narco a través del audiovisual en América Latina. Esa imagen se elabora entre diferentes artes: la literatura o la música popular (los narcocorridos)….
Se presenta aquí la trayectoria mediática de los personajes masculinos ligados al narcotráfico en México y la configuración de imaginarios en torno al estilo y la moda por diferentes vías. Entre ellas, el desplazamiento transmedial de las noticias de l…
La literatura sobre el narcotráfico comienza a ampliar su discurso a partir de una nueva geografía. La aparición más o menos reciente de un conjunto de ficciones gallegas sobre el tráfico de cocaína en el Norte de España y las conexiones entre los capo…
En Colombia, con el trasfondo del denominado “Posconflicto” y en el marco de la Ley 1448, que pretende reparar el dolor a las víctimas del conflicto armado, han surgido varios cómics de no ficción patrocinados por el Estado que buscan reconstruir la me…
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Based on long-term fieldwork experiences among both the Guna in Panama and the Kakataibo in Peruvian Amazonia, this article proposes to examine the transgender phenomenon in indigenous America. Making use of the notions of performance and status, w…
Based on the analysis of Evangelical Biblical translations, as well as on the school writing of Wari’ (Southwestern Amazonia) students, produced in indigenous secondary school classrooms and at the intercultural university, this article aims to sho…
Inspired by Stephen Hugh-Jones’s suggestion of a fit between Tukanoan writing genres and their sociocultural systems, in this article we explore Shuar autobiographical writings in light of Chicham (Jivaroan) individualism. By exploring first-person…
In dialogue with Stephen Hugh-Jones’s work on Tukanoan writing, this article analyzes the boom in patrimonial writing among Chicham (Jivaroan)-speaking Shuar people. Patrimonial writing foregrounds collective identity and understandings of culture …
This paper aims to demonstrate how, by combining the foundation of an indigenous school with the construction of a longhouse (maloca), the Tukano indigenous association of the Hausirõ and Ñahuri Porã clans, Middle Tiquié river, produces social rela…
With particular reference to works by Tukano and Desana authors, this paper examines some of the cultural and historical factors that underlie the unique propensity of indigenous peoples of Northwest Amazonia to publish their narrative histories in…
Published in French in 1996, the original article for which this comprises a post-script set indigenous Amazonians’ attitudes to meat alongside those of Euro-Americans. With the accelerating deforestation of Amazonia linked with the cultivation of …
Originally written for a conference on meat attended by farmers, anthropologists, people involved in cultural affairs, and other members of the public, and seeking to avoid emphasis on cultural difference, this paper explores common ground between …
In this comment on Hugh-Jones’s article “The Origin of Night,” Geraldo Andrello argues that the politics of myth narrations and ritual performances are enacted through the regulation of temporality and explains why it is that all-important status d…
Based on a survey of published material complemented by original fieldwork, this paper shows that Northwest Amazonian Arawakan, Tukanoan and Makuan stories of the Origin of Night form parts of a single, more inclusive myth about the sequential crea…
Stephen and Christine Hugh-Jones were the first anthropologists not only to demonstrate that the gender value of places and directions depends on the frame of reference and the point of view but to turn this insight into a fruitful principle on whi…
In this comment on Stephen Hugh-Jones’s “Thinking Through Tubes” Françoise Barbira Freedman offers a feminist meditation on the semiotics of androgyny in Northwest Amazonian shamanism, ritual life and mythology. By focusing on processes of detotali…