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Into the Hearts of the Amazons
Into the Hearts of the Amazons is part rousing travel adventure through a little-known world and part popular ethnography, exploring how Zapotec women earned their legendary status in a remote corner of southern Mexico. To satisfy his curiosity about this culture, Tom DeMott journeyed to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, where he discovered a thriving modern-day matriarchy among the people of the Isthmus—a cultural crossroads, breeding ground for rebels, and home to a half-million Zapotecs. DeMott integrated himself into the culture by joining in the rites of spring (where women pelt the men with fruit); by interviewing the women who control the marketplace where men are rarely seen; and by hono...
Queering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil
Queering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil is a groundbreaking comparative analysis of the historical development and contemporary dynamics of LGBT activism in Latin America’s two largest democracies. Rafael de la Dehesa focuses on the ways that LGBT activists have engaged with the state, particularly in alliance with political parties and through government health agencies in the wake of the AIDS crisis. He examines this engagement against the backdrop of the broader political transitions to democracy, the neoliberal transformation of state–civil society relations, and the gradual consolidation of sexual rights at the international level. His comparison highlights similarities betw...
Behind the Mask
"This book challenges Mexican narratives of the partriarchal gender binary by looking at the Muxes, a gender fluid indigenous group readily accepted by their community"--Provided by publisher.
Indigeneity in the Mexican Cultural Imagination
Since the end of the Mexican Revolution in 1917, the state has engaged in vigorous campaign to forge a unified national identity. Within the context of this effort, Indians are at once both denigrated and romanticized. Often marginalized, they are nonetheless subjects of constant national interest. Contradictory policies highlighting segregation, assimilation, modernization, and cultural preservation have alternately included and excluded Mexico’s indigenous population from the state’s self-conscious efforts to shape its identity. Yet, until now, no single book has combined the various elements of this process to provide a comprehensive look at the Indian in Mexico’s cultural imaginati...
Vivere (con) il diabete
I contesti sanitari sono sempre più ambito specifico di analisi antropologica per la peculiarità dei loro codici e regole, la complessità delle pratiche di cura e dei protocolli messi in atto e le conseguenti potenzialità applicative. Il volume della collana Antropologia (double blind peer-review), frutto di un lungo lavoro di ricerca sul campo, un contesto ospedaliero occidentale, descrive e analizza, nella prospettiva dell'antropologia medica e con una rigorosa metodologia etnografica, le problematiche collegate alla diagnosi di diabete mellito di tipo 1 in età evolutiva e le modalità di cura messe in atto dal personale sanitario per fronteggiare la cronicità. L'autore si muove nel ...
The Resurrection as a Messianic Anticipation
One of the temptations of the preacher is to make all conversations about grace too “nice”. But a true preacher of grace, like Carlos, knows that this does not help people grow in faith at all. In this book, Carlos continues his ambitious, multi-volume quest to make it possible to live the Christian faith authentically without either dumbing down our intelligence or forcing us into a Stockholm syndrome of speaking “well” while tamping down the realities through which we are really living. Hence, Carlos has put his nets deep into the life experiences of different groups of those who have lost, of those for whom the outrage of death is a constant reality, and who have had to learn a ne...
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.
The Church at the Grassroots in Latin America
This text assesses the impact of the liberationist Catholic Church on Latin American society and culture. Moving away from focusing on leaders, clergy and institutional elites, it analyzes the local, grassroots level and provides accounts of the reality of progressive movements within the Church.
Estudios sobre la cultura y las identidades sociales
Este libro arroja luz sobre un sinnúmero de problemas centrales en el desarrollo de nuestros tiempos. Y en esa línea, elabora una amplia y profunda reflexión en torno a los dos grandes temas, complejos e indisociables, de su tarea como intelectual y científico social: la cultura y la identidad. Dos temas que no podrían ser más pertinentes en la época actual, en la que resulta cada vez más necesario contribuir a la discusión intelectual desde una posición seria y crítica que pueda incidir en las diversas realidades sociales, y en la que es indispensable formar personas críticas y conscientes, informadas y capaces de proponer, crear, cuestionar y transformar su entorno. (ITESO) (Universidad ITESO); https://publicaciones.iteso.mx/catalogo/
