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The present article is part of the result of postdoctoral research work that seeks to find, in international and Latin American jurisprudence, favorable criteria for agreements that guarantee respect for the multiethnic and multicultural condition of our nations and, in this way, the human rights of indigenous peoples of the region.  In this sense, the proposed analysis pursues to find possibilities to contribute to the development of Brazilian jurisprudence on the subject matter, considering that Brazilian indigenous peoples are currently facing a new period of dispossession and violence towards their community forms of life in their territories.  We employ the socio-historical analysis of the current situation in the field of struggle that is the discourse of human rights in Brazil, and its effectiveness for the defense of the collective rights of indigenous peoples, especially their right to territory and natural resources.  Then, we move on to the exercise of jurisprudential analysis, to the standards of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on the subject, in order to find in them favorable meanings to the protection of the collective rights of peoples.  Thus, the present work finds in these legal discourses criteria that can be recommended to the Supreme Court of Brazil, as legitimate approaches for the respect and protection, of both the collective right to territory and natural resources that indigenous peoples have in accordance with international and Inter-American law, and as grounds to affirm the importance of consultation to guarantee the right to self-determination of peoples.

La memoria, más aún, la memoria reciente de un grupo social determinado, en un espacio, tiempo y contexto, constituye parte del patrimonio social y colectivo; en efecto, la memoria es también parte del patrimonio, concepto que ha evolucionado desde la concepción monumentalista, a nuevos enfoques presentes en las ciencias sociales en la actualidad.  En esa línea, la entienden y defienden las mujeres que padecieron la prisión política y tortura, en el Campo de Prisioneros de Pisagua, ubicado en la región de Tarapacá, Chile, distante a 163 kilómetros de Iquique, la capital regional. El centro de reclusión política funcionó a partir de septiembre de 1973, tras el golpe militar ocurrido en Chile; sin embargo, en otras dos oportunidades, cumplió también ese rol. Las expresas adultas mayores, hoy, deciden entregar su testimonio en esta etapa de sus vidas, motivadas por un sentimiento profundo que se traduce en una frase consigna de: Para que nunca más.  Y junto con ello, visibilizan su particular situación de mujeres sobrevivientes, que, pese a todo el dolor, se han reintegrado a la sociedad, han conformado familias y mantienen vivos como ayer, o con más fuerzas, sus ideales.

The article reviews the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on the protection of the right to property of natural person shareholders of companies.  The objective is to evidence the manner in which this Court has protected the right, despite the provision of Article 1.2 of the American Convention that excludes the recognition of rights of legal persons. The present work argues that the Inter-American Court has managed to protect the right to private property of natural person shareholders in two ways.  First, through the distinction it has made between the rights of the natural person as a partner or shareholder of a company and the rights of the company itself as a legal person.  Secondly, through the interpretation it has made regarding the exhaustion of domestic remedies, as an admissibility requirement set forth in Article 46.1.a) of the American Convention, when such remedies can only be exhausted by the legal person and not by shareholders, when distinguishing between the analysis of the exhaustion of resources and the analysis of the ownership of the rights of legal persons. In this manner, the Court has eliminated access barriers to the organs of the Inter-American Human Rights System and has reaffirmed the object and purpose of the Convention as an instrument that recognizes and protects the human rights of all natural persons.

In the present work I analyze the relationship that, as a student of musical practices, I established with my object of study, and the way in which such a relationship -constructed by listening to ethnomusicological field recordings and recordings of the New Latin American Song- determined the choice of my objects of study, the ways of constructing and analyzing them. This relationship was observed in the fieldwork carried out among the Huaves of San Mateo del Mar (Oaxaca), and in the way in which I articulated this experience with other instances of ethnomusicological work: analysis of the data collected, writing and communication of results of investigation. The abstraction of the subject of the study was the approach used to analyze the experience and "the subjective relationship [of the knowing subject] with the object [of study]" (Bourdieu 2001: 182-183); as well as "the social conditions of possibility [...] of that experience and [...] of the act of objectification" (Bourdieu 2003: 44). Thanks to this exercise, I locate some of the epistemological and historical-social determinations of ethnomusicology in Mexico, a disciplinary field in which I was placed. This exercise allows us to conclude that the analysis of the determinations that guide the relationships that we engage with our study objects enable more reflective professional praxis.

In the present article, Todd McGowan points several introductory considerations on the usefulness of the concept of “the gaze”, as it is understood by Jacques Lacan, for cinematic language. This is in order to show the links of psychoanalysis with film theory, and the political potential of this relationship. It is complemented with a brief introduction by the translator.

In this article, I make the case that women have been represented as subjects attached to the domestic sphere and as caregivers of the nation. This history of representation has been persistent throughout colonial history, the independent period of the Mexican Republic, and even transcended the revolutionary period. Here I analyze and discuss existing sociological and historical literature on ideas about women, family and nation. I argue that ideas of “good” women were first supported by colonial institutions, and later by state institutions. Ever since the colonial era, images of domestic women and, afterwards, of caregivers of the nation, have recreated sexist, racist and classist logics. I then argue that the same images of women have subsequently served modern state institutions as biopolitics to establish which groups did and did not conform to the idealized nation.

This text presents the natural and cultural heritage of Malinalco (State of Mexico), as well as the territorial identity of its inhabitants. It focuses on the perceptions, opinions, ratings and attitudes of the population around their village. Two are the objectives being pursued, the view of its inhabitants on the site: what they like and dislike, people, what has unique or special, their characterization and the feeling of living there. Secondly, an assessment of its heritage: festivities, the chinelos and the concheros, neighborhoods and Center, the ex-convent and the archaeological, the hills and the nature of the environment. Therefore applied a survey on the issue among the population, in order to obtain, as stated, the perceptions and opinions of the inhabitants of the village. Often question them identity and heritage are defined from political or academic authorities on this occasion this is done through the eyes and voice of the people of the place. Almost all the issues requested throughout the survey, the population of the place shows very positive and favourable with regard to their place of residence. The identity is considered important and the feelings are positive, as well as the assessment of their heritage is also satisfactory. It is possible to say that there is a grounded emotional attachment and appreciation of their identity and heritage, and within some diversity of opinion on some issues, emphasizes the taste of living in the place, the appreciation for its people, feel good, happy and calm.  

The purpose of this work is to present an outlook of the subsistence economu by means of patterns of mobility practiced by current inhabitants of the area of Centla, on the coast of Tabasco. In particular, the production of charcoal in the magrove ecosystem is documented. In the same way, as a first step to study the espacial patterns of forestal deterioration, a model on the impact on the enviromental impact, caused by charcoal production, is presented.

Clifford Geertz wandered through philosophy, enriched the intellect with literature and inflamed the foundations of a "new anthropology." In the attempt dramatized his writing, he directed to other ways of doing ethnography. In his proposals we experience expressions, actions and creative intentions. The following notes are inspired by "Confusing genres: the refiguration of social thought", an article from the 80's. Geertz says that social scientists have changed their course, have a dramatized social life with actors, scenes and performances. It sounds interesting to think of Geertz as the protagonist of a play, as an actor who simulates his own image. He recounts his intellectual life, he is said to be a trickster (a playful creator, a protagonist of the action) that wanders between anthropology and philosophy, to mean a way of life in which he plays with the public and the author of a script that in each act is represented. It seeks to exalt a literary dramatization that subsists in geertzian interpretations.

This document is a review of a recent book edited by the Federación Mexicana de Psicología and written by a very prestigious psychologist and educator, the doctor Luis Felipe El-Sahili. The book is more than just an introduction to psychology, is also a study of the modern and clasic topics of the discipline and  an explanation of how psychosociology is important to consider nowadays.