Sistema Regional de Información
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el Caribe, España y Portugal

The article proposes the analysis of newspaper news that focuses on the ambiguity of various reports from the newspaper La República and that reported on indeterminacy, sex change, hermaphroditism, or androgyny in the 1990s. During those years, at the international level, not only economic, political, or cultural changes were accentuated in which a neoliberal vision was deepened, but also within Costa Rica the importation of cultural models from the Global North was strengthened through the construction of malls, the viewing of music videos or movies and Internet access. Within this context, two concerns about ambiguity in the reviewed news were found. First, there were the references that were linked to sex change, hermaphroditism, or cross-dressing. On the other hand, the concerns that contained more angry rebukes were concentrated in certain singers and musical groups that were proposed as ambiguous. Most of the news made references to subjects classified as men by birth assignment, which proposed a marked interest in indeterminate masculinity. The purpose of this paper is to analyze these perceptions of ambiguity in order to highlight the tensions that were produced by the sensation of a supposed imprecision in gender, in sex, or in an indeterminate sexuality.

Each of the indigenous territories that make up Mesoamerica are valuable sources that allow us, through research, to rescue transcendental data on the role they played and their influence on the different and changing social dynamics.  For the purposes of this article, an analysis of the book was made: Brief history of the Mesoamerican religious tradition, by the author Alfredo López Austin, where the value of the different indigenous religious beliefs is evidenced, in addition to exposing the conquest as a fundamental axis in the configuration of a new society, which leaves a legacy of religious practices to the following generations, which in turn has worked for the power apparatuses over the years.

Este libro forma parte de la colección “Palabras clave. Lecturas para este siglo”, que tiene como intención revisar conceptos de manera accesible para públicos diversos interesados en las ciencias sociales. En este volumen se examinan las dimensiones y categorías que forman parte de la conceptualización de las políticas de cuidado, concepto tratado por varias disciplinas, que se suma al cuerpo analítico de una rama de los estudios de la antropología del trabajo. 

En referencia al clásico de Karl Polanyi, la colección de ensayos A grande regressão. Um debate internacional sobre os novos populismos – e como enfrentá-los, editada por Heinrich Geiselberger, surgió en la ola de recesión democrática mundial. Con heterogeneidad ideológica y política, bajo un amplio espectro teórico y analítico, los ensayos hablan del debilitamiento de la democracia y el surgimiento de nacionalismos de extrema derecha. Al final, queda la impresión de que el conjunto hace poco por el subgénero de la crisis de la democracia, pues pocas colaboraciones ofrecen insumos orgánicos e inéditos, y la mayoría tiende a repetir la jerga y los clichés de otras publicaciones. 

Siempre es difícil discutir ideas que se han vuelto fundamentales en una disciplina. No se discute con el fundamento, se discute sobre el fundamento. En este caso, se trata de los fundamentos de la antropología médica y uno de sus constructores principales en países de Latinoamérica, en especial Argentina y México, además de España y otras tierras plus ultra...

This paper presents a critical and descriptive inventory of the ensembles of white people in blackface that took part in the carnival of Buenos Aires between 1865 and 1909. On a reliable list thus established, the paper offers a description of their main characteristics and types of performance. The description of ensembles includes data on gender, costumes and accessories, dances and musical instruments, genre of songs and content of their lyrics. Following the name of each ensemble in the final listings, whenever possible, we include information on size, period of existence and name of members and authorities. This piece proves that there was a visible change in social background of participants in this sort of ensembles and explains the reasons of their abrupt decline after 1894. The Conclusions discuss comparability between blackface in Buenos Aires and in the Anglo-Saxon context and offer some clues on the relationship between whites performing as blacks and the afro-porteño community.

This article aims to identify and analyze psychosocial risk factors of artisanal amber mining carried out by the Tsotsil population of Simojovel, Chiapas, Mexico. This is a qualitative ethnographic research study that made use of semi structured interviews, field notes and participant observations. The participants were former miners, active miners, female and male artisans, consumers and employees from cultural institutions. The results indicate that the psychosocial risk factors of artisanal mining are associated with working conditions, work informalities, multiple activities and aspects related to the ethnic origin, gender and group affiliation of those who participate in mining work. It is concluded that it is necessary to generate strategic alliances, specific proposals and actions that aim to the construction of a public policy that considers the formalization of artisanal mining, access to technology, environmental care and the improvement of living, working and health conditions of the population dedicated to mining.

En un contexto global vinculado a múltiples crisis (sanitaria, ecológica, económica, social) que aumentan la incertidumbre y vulneran al tejido social más frágil, el libro Una mirada a la pobreza en la formación universitaria nos ofrece una visión precisa sobre la problemática de la pobreza en México, así como propuestas innovadoras que, a través del quehacer universitario, permiten tener una guía para el involucramiento desde la academia a esta dificultad que nos aqueja como sociedad. Tan solo en México, en 2020, más de 50 millones de habitantes se concentraban en una condición de pobreza (43.9% de la población total) de acuerdo con las cifras del Consejo Nacional de Evaluación de la Política de Desarrollo Social (CONEVAL).

This work analyzes the discourses on gender socialization among female teachers of basic education in public schools in Tijuana, B.C., México. The study is theoretically guided by the gender perspective and a qualitative-interpretive research approach. It is based on information obtained through the technique of focus groups. Overall, research findings indicate a gap between the teachers' speeches about gender categories and their behaviors and/or attitudes toward the gender roles and identities that their students manifest. On one side, there is an acceptance speech towards gender diversity that do not corresponds to what is socially expected about gender roles associated to sex. On the other, the exercise of gender diversity is rejected both among the student population and among the teaching staff. Evidently, there is a need of creating and implementing new strategies in the professional training and development growth programs on gender aim to educators in Baja California.

The contemporary world is a context of palpable technological, media, ideological and consumer confluences, where cultural identities are reconfigured at an accelerated pace, breaking down historically shared cultural constructions in their wake. The objective of the research was to reveal the trends of continuity, rupture and emergence of the contents of the associative subdimension of the cultural identity of young people from Havana. The study was carried out in a context marked by the economic crisis that Cuba is going through, which leaves its mark on the experiences of young people and on the configuration of their cultural identity. The methodology was adjusted to the mixed design of concurrent triangulation. As result, it stands out that all the indicators of the associative sub-dimension evoked material deficiencies and limitations to deploy healthy recreational practices, sometimes disrupting traditional forms of recreation for youth; with the same negative impact on access to food.