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Reconfigurando o meio ambiente. Reflexões sobre migrações e disputas ambientais na ilha de santa Catarina
A Ilha de Santa Catarina, a partir dos anos oitenta, começou a ser destino turístico e de moradia para muitos brasileiros e estrangeiros, normalmente pessoas com elevado capital cultural ou econômico. A análise da dinâmica entre transformações que “che…
Writing about Crime in Absentia: The Case of Sara Uribe’s Antígona González
This article analyzes the role of absence in Sara Uribe’s Antígona Gonzalez through the work’s construction of characters, portrayal of violence, and conceptualization of justice. By considering Antígona González as a “narconarrative”, this study illus…
Entre víctimas y victimarios… desollar, enmascarar, encarar
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 …
Carteles Inc. Paramilitarismo criminal, energía y la nueva “Guerra contra el Narco” en México
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 …
Mexican B(order) movies en Tijuana: ironía como crítica a la hegemonía en las fotos de Fabio Cuttica
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…
Estética y contexto de los audiovisuales sobre narcotráfico en Latinoamérica en la era Netflix
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)….
Narco-estética mexicana. La re-configuración del imaginario a partir del estilo, la moda y el consumo
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…
Nuevas geografías del narcotráfico. La novela gallega sobre el tráfico de drogas
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…
Del narco a la víctima: la nueva narrativa hegemónica del conflicto armado en Colombia a través del cómic de no ficción
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…
‘To anthropology, from meat prison’
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A stain in the picture
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Faith and agency on the Camino: walking between shared ‘substance’ and cultural (dis)appearance
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Obituary: Nicholas Justin ‘Nick’ Allen, 1939-2020
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Fifty years of JASO
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Gender in the Making: A Pragmatic Approach to Transgender Experiences in Lowland Tropical America
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…
Christianity + Schooling on Nature versus Culture in Amazonia
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…
Singularity on the Margins: Autobiographical Writings among the Shuar of Ecuadorian Amazonia
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…
The Shuar Writing Boom: Cultural Experts and the Creation of a “Scholarly Tradition”
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 …
Maloca-Escola: Transformations of the Tukanoan House
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…
Patrimony, Publishing, and Politics: Books as Ritual Objects in Northwest Amazonia
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…
Good Reasons or Bad Conscience: A Postscript
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 …
Good Reasons or Bad Conscience? Or Why Some Indian Peoples of Amazonia Are Ambivalent about Eating Meat
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 …
A Brief Comment on Hugh-Jones’s “The Origin of Night and the Dance of Time”
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…