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Translating the Queer
What does it mean to queer a concept? If queerness is a notion that implies a destabilization of the normativity of the body, then all cultural systems contain zones of discomfort relevant to queer studies. What then might we make of such zones when the use of the term queer itself has transcended the fields of sex and gender, becoming a metaphor for addressing such cultural phenomena as hybridization, resignification, and subversion? Further still, what should we make of it when so many people are reluctant to use the term queer, because they view it as theoretical colonialism, or a concept that loses its specificity when applied to a culture that signifies and uses the body differently? Translating the Queer focuses on the dissemination of queer knowledge, concepts, and representations throughout Latin America, a migration that has been accompanied by concomitant processes of translation, adaptation, and epistemological resistance.
Ontologies and Natures
In Ontologies and Natures: Knowledge about Health in Visual Culture, Fernando Gonzalez Rodriguez argues that visual culture offers insights into how societies perceive the role of nature in pursuits to cure and care for the human body. By using a set of visual surfaces and artefacts as entry points the book sheds light on ideas about nature as a healing source.
Critical Medical Anthropology
Critical Medical Anthropology presents inspiring work from scholars doing and engaging with ethnographic research in or from Latin America, addressing themes that are central to contemporary Critical Medical Anthropology (CMA). This includes issues of inequality, embodiment of history, indigeneity, non-communicable diseases, gendered violence, migration, substance abuse, reproductive politics and judicialisation, as these relate to health. The collection of ethnographically informed research, including original theoretical contributions, reconsiders the broader relevance of CMA perspectives for addressing current global healthcare challenges from and of Latin America. It includes work spanning four countries in Latin America (Mexico, Brazil, Guatemala and Peru) as well as the trans-migratory contexts they connect and are defined by. By drawing on diverse social practices, it addresses challenges of central relevance to medical anthropology and global health, including reproduction and maternal health, sex work, rare and chronic diseases, the pharmaceutical industry and questions of agency, political economy, identity, ethnicity, and human rights.
The Flower and the Scorpion
Sigal argues that sixteenth century Nahua sexuality cannot be fully understood only through colonial sensibilities and sources. He examines legal documents, clerical texts, pictorial manuscripts, images and glyphs of Nahua gods and goddesses and descriptions of fertility rituals and other historical accounts and stories to show the complexity of Nahua sexuality.
El sujeto sexuado: entre estereotipos y derechos
Pareja heterosexual monogámica, familia, sentido patriarcal, sociedad, censura, persecución, discriminación sexista, prejuicios, actúan sin cesar y con distintos grados de violencia física, moral psicológica para imponer el estereotipo heterosexual-patriarcal.
Políticas y prácticas alimentarias en México
Esta obra contiene contribuciones al estudio de las prácticas culinario-gastronómicas y alimentarias en el contexto contemporáneo de la globalización. La obra permite entender los discursos, prácticas, políticas y desafíos culturales relacionados con la definición de lo que es el patrimonio cultural de un grupo y las implicaciones del reconocimiento de las tradiciones culinario-gastronómicas desde enfoques
Tradición y patrimonio alimentario
En esta obra se exploran las reconfiguraciones que las cultura alimentarias y sus cocinas presentan en diversos momentos históricos a partir de la integración de once investigaciones enriquecidas por la historia, la antropologia y la agroomía.
Diversidad sexual, religión y salud.
Abuso sexual en el Hospital de los hipólitos durante el siglo XVI, el activismo cibernético y los problemas generados por la misoginia y la homofobia, se analiza la incomprensión de la bisexualidad y la consecuente bifobia, la diferencia entre género y sexo, la violencia y la discriminación, la percepción de los problemas de personas con discapacidad o que padecen alguna enfermedad, el embarazo adolescente y, desde luego, las políticas de inclusión y apoyo tan necesarias para estos sectores.
Mexico Reading the United States
"A provocative and uncommon reversal of perspective."--Elena Poniatowska.
