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Jóvenes en America Latina en tiempos de la globalización
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Se analiza los significados de ser joven desde la cultura maya así como las actualizaciones que los jóvenes le dan hoy a su identidad, en interacción con la educación escolarizada, los medios de comunicación, la migración, las instituciones nacionales, y las iglesias de diferentes denominaciones.
Esta obra analiza las aportaciones y problemas de la producción cultural del Museo Nacional de Culturas Populares, tomando como eje las concepciones y construcciones museográficas de lo popular. Busca resolver la parcialidad con que generalmente han sido estudiados los museos en el mundo mediante una perspectiva integral y explora los nuevos retos de los museos contemporáneos interesados en satisfacer las demandas de públicos y sectores sociales cada vez más exigentes y diversos.
Despite international congresses and international journals, anthropologies of education differ significantly around the world. Linguistic barriers constrain the flow of ideas, which results in a vast amount of research on educational anthropology that is not published in English or is difficult for international readers to find. This volume responds to the call to attend to educational research outside the United States and to break out of “metropolitan provincialism.” A guide to the anthropologies and ethnographies of learning and schooling published in German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Slavic languages, Japanese, and English as a second language, show how scholars in Latin America, Japan, and elsewhere adapt European, American, and other approaches to create new traditions. As the contributors show, educators draw on different foundational research and different theoretical discussions. Thus, this global survey raises new questions and casts a new light on what has become a too-familiar discipline in the United States.
This book presents the concerns, visions and struggles of women in Chiapas, Mexico in the context of the uprising of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN). The book is organized around three issues that have taken center state in women's recent struggles-structural violence and armed conflict; religion and empowerment and women's organizing. Also includes maps.
In recent years Latin American indigenous groups have regularly deployed the discourse of human rights to legitimate their positions and pursue their goals. Perhaps nowhere is this more evident than in the Maya region of Chiapas and Guatemala, where in the last two decades indigenous social movements have been engaged in ongoing negotiations with the state, and the presence of multinational actors has brought human rights to increased prominence. In this volume, scholars and activists examine the role of human rights in the ways that states relate to their populations, analyze conceptualizations and appropriations of human rights by Mayans in specific localities, and explore the relationship...
This Oxford Handbook comprehensively examines the field of Latin American history.