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La fundación de la UACM: entre la descalificación y el silencio.
En este libro se reconstruye y analiza el debate público que despertó la fundación de la UACM (2001-2004) entre los actores políticos de la ciudad de México y aborda, con especial atención, el silencio de la comunidad académica frente a ese acontecimiento. A partir de la revisión de fuertes hemerográficas (diarios de circulación nacional y revistas especializadas en temas educativos) y la realización de entrevistas a profundidad (a cuatro académicos de prestigio y a los tres principales responsables del proyecto educativo del Gobierno del Distrito Federal) el trabajo revela el contenido de una disputa que, en torno al contenido y alcance del derecho a la educación, confrontó y confronta a la UACM con lo que se considera legítimo y pertinente hoy en México en material de educación superior. A su vez, el propósito de formular una explicación sobre el silencio de los académicos orienta al trabajo a reflexionar sobre la trayectoria de los intelectuales mexicanos en las últimas décadas a enunciar una interpretación crítica acerca de algunos de los rasgos que signan hoy la identidad del académico mexicano.
The Relevance of Education
"Education is in a state of crisis. It has failed to respond to changing social needs—lagging behind rather than leading." The crisis that Jerome Bruner identifies in this volume admits of no easy solutions. But the noted American psychologist makes clear that educational reform must begin with the understanding of how a child acquires information and converts knowledge into action. Drawing on his current work on infant development, Bruner underscores the importance of formulating educational strategies that expand rather than constrict the skills of the young learner. Since education takes place under conditions imposed by a technological society, Professor Bruner maintains that it is not enough to attempt reform through minor curriculum revisions. The program that fails to set knowledge within the context of action must be replaced. And to be truly relevant to our social needs, the scope of education must be extended toward overcoming the severe handicaps faced by children from impoverished areas.
Nature and Society
The contributors to this book focus on the relationship between nature and society from a variety of theoretical and ethnographic perspectives. Their work draws upon recent developments in social theory, biology, ethnobiology, epistemology, sociology of science, and a wide array of ethnographic case studies -- from Amazonia, the Solomon Islands, Malaysia, the Mollucan Islands, rural comunities from Japan and north-west Europe, urban Greece, and laboratories of molecular biology and high-energy physics. The discussion is divided into three parts, emphasising the problems posed by the nature-culture dualism, some misguided attempts to respond to these problems, and potential avenues out of the current dilemmas of ecological discourse.
Mirror for Humanity
This text is designed to provide a concise introduction to cultural anthropology, carefully balancing coverage of core topics with contemporary changes in the field.
Theorising Media and Practice
Although practice theory has been a mainstay of social theory for nearly three decades, so far it has had very limited impact on media studies. This book draws on the work of practice theorists such as Wittgenstein, Foucault, Bourdieu, Barth and Schatzki and rethinks the study of media from the perspective of practice theory. Drawing on ethnographic case studies from places such as Zambia, India, Hong Kong, the United States, Britain, Norway and Denmark, the contributors address a number of important themes: media as practice; the interlinkage between media, culture and practice; the contextual study of media practices; and new practices of digital production. Collectively, these chapters make a strong case for the importance of theorising the relationship between media and practice and thereby adding practice theory as a new strand to the study of anthropology of media.
Anthropology of the Brain
A novel study on consciousness and the brain that places culture at the center of the analysis.
Anthropology: The Basics
Peter Metcalf explains and explores anthropological ideas, key anthropologist thinkers, concepts and themes, and the history of anthropological ideas.
On Human Diversity
"Tzvetan Todorov, an internationally admired scholar, aims in this book to salvage the good name of the Enlightenment so that its ideas can once more inspire humane thought and action. The question he poses is of urgent relevance to the conflicts of our age: How can we avoid the dangers of a perverted universalism and scientism, as well as the pitfalls of relativism? Since the French were the ideologues of universalism and played a preeminent role in the diffusion of Enlightenment ideas in Europe, Todorov focuses on the French intellectual tradition, analyzing writers ranging from Montaigne through Tocqueville, Michelet, and Renan, to Levi-Strauss. He shows how theories of human diversity were developed in the eighteenth century, and later systematically distorted.
