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The Anthropology of Resource Extraction
This book offers an overview of the key debates in the burgeoning anthropological literature on resource extraction. Resources play a crucial role in the contemporary economy and society, are required in the production of a vast range of consumer products and are at the core of geopolitical strategies and environmental concerns for the future of humanity. Scholars have widely debated the economic and sociological aspects of resource management in our societies, offering interesting and useful abstractions. However, anthropologists offer different and fresh perspectives – sometimes complementary and at other times alternative to these abstractions – based on field researches conducted in ...
Proceso de paz en Colombia:
Durante la primera semana del mes de septiembre de 2012, el presidente Juan Manuel Santos dio a conocer, formal y públicamente, los acercamientos que habían tenido lugar entre las FARC y el Gobierno nacional, y anunció el inicio de diálogos de paz para octubre de este mismo año. A pesar que existían rumores sobre estos acercamientos, el anuncio sorprendió a muchos y muy diversos sectores de la vida nacional e inicio un debate de grandes proporciones sobre la naturaleza, conveniencia, dificultades y obstáculos que enfrentarán las conversaciones. La intención de este libro, es contribuir a la construcción de un debate informado sobre una dimensión crítica de los procesos de paz en Colombia: la participación de actores internacionales.
El ocaso de la guerra
Este libro describe y analiza los contextos históricos y políticos en que se suscitaron el conflicto armado y los diálogos y procesos de paz que los gobiernos y las guerrillas colombianas establecieron durante la segunda mitad del siglo XX y comienzos del XXI; relata la manera en que los actores del conflicto buscaron posicionar, legitimar y validar sus concepciones, posturas y determinaciones frente a la confrontación armada y frente a sus maneras de solucionarla; destaca la manera en que las dinámicas de la contienda bélica afectaron el curso de los diálogos y negociaciones, y subraya la grave afectación que padecieron millones de personas por efecto del conflicto. A manera de idea...
Ethnographies of ‘On Demand’ Films
Over the last two decades, the advent of cheap, user-friendly video technologies has contributed to a revolution in representational agency. Videos are now made by production units that are at times composed of families, churches, musical groups, community associations or other institutions. Thus, on-demand videos produced and distributed within local and atypical networks profoundly shape contemporary urban imaginaries. This book explores the intertwined relations among infrastructure, technology, and modernity through an ordinary, yet little studied field of "on-demand" audiovisual production, which involves processes of negotiation and interaction between clients and commissioned video makers. On-demand films are considered as a space of collaboration and self-representation, that allows to reflect on the potential of fiction, artifice, and montage to render material desires, aspirations, and ideas of the future.
A Piece of My Heart
Robard Hewes has driven across the country in search of a woman named Buena who, twelve years ago, infused him with a feeling that has now turned into obsession. Sam Newel has travelled from Chicago seeking the missing piece of himself. They both find themselves on an uncharted hunting island in the Mississippi owned by an old man named Lamb. When these men converge on this strange land, each discovers the thing he's looking for yet triggers a conflagration of inevitable violence in this tense and brutal yet moving tale.
Verdad, justicia y memoria: derechos humanos y justicia transicional en México
México se encuentra inmerso en una espiral de violencias criminal, política y social sin precedentes. Sería un error reducir esta sombría realidad al lucrativo negocio de las drogas, pero sería igualmente equivocado ignorar el papel que las cadenas internacionales de éstas, y las políticas que han buscado sujetarlas, han desempeñado como motores y multiplicadores de tales violencias. Los capítulos de este libro exploran los senderos de la justicia transicional como una posible ruta para atajar el ciclo de impunidad y violencia gestado por los mercados ilícitos de drogas. Los textos aquí reunidos comparten una convicción: sin atender las cuentas del pasado y las violaciones masivas y sistemáticas de derechos humanos del presente, tareas centrales de la justicia transicional, tanto la estabilidad como la legitimidad del Estado y de la democracia permanecerán en duda.
Among Strange Victims
Slackers meets Savage Detectives in this polyphonic ode to the pleasures of not measuring up.
The Charismatic Gymnasium
In The Charismatic Gymnasium Maria José de Abreu examines how Charismatic Catholicism in contemporary Brazil produces a new form of total power through a concatenation of the breathing body, theology, and electronic mass media. De Abreu documents a vast religious respiratory program of revival popularly branded as “the aerobics of Jesus.” Pneuma—the Greek term for air, breath, and spirit—is central to this aerobic program, whose goal is to labor on the athletic elasticity of spirit. Tracing the rhetoric, gestures, and spaces that together constitute this new theological community, de Abreu exposes the articulating forces among evangelical Christianity, neoliberal logics, and the rise of right-wing politics. By calling attention to how an ethics of pauperism vitally intersects with the neoliberal ethos of flexibility, de Abreu shows how paradoxes do not hinder but expand the Charismatic gymnasium. The result, de Abreu demonstrates, is the production of a fluid form of totalitarianism and Christianity in Brazil and beyond.
Environmentality
An investigation of environmental politics in light of Foucault's work, drawing on and extending work done in feminist environmentalism, political ecology, and common property scholarship, explains why villagers in the Kumaon Himalaya have begun to conser
The Dialogic Emergence of Culture
Major figures in contemporary anthropology present a dialogic critique of ethnography. Moving beyond sociolinguistics and performance theory, and inspired by Bakhtin and by their own field experiences, the contributors revise notions of where culture actually resides. This pioneering effort integrates a concern for linguistic processes with interpretive approaches to culture. Culture and ethnography are located in social interaction. The collection contains dialogues that trace the entire course of ethnographic interpretation, from field research to publication. The authors explore an anthropology that actively acknowledges the dialogical nature of its own production. Chapters strike a balance between theory and practice and will also be of interest in cultural studies, literary criticism, linguistics, and philosophy. CONTRIBUTORS: Deborah Tannen, John Attinasi, Paul Friedrich, Billie Jean Isbell, Allan F. Burns, Jane H. Hill, Ruth Behar, Jean DeBernardi, R. P. McDermott, Henry Tylbor, Alton L. Becker, Bruce Mannheim, Dennis Tedlock
