Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

The main objective of this research is to highlight the impact of tourism on cultural heritage, in addition to analyzing factors that derive from this phenomenon such as the transformation of land use due to gentrification, without forgetting other problems that may develop when having high tourist demand. As a result, we find that there is an absence of policies oriented towards a city project and that citizen participation is key to strengthening urban strategies to drive its continuous improvement. This way, the areas of sustainable development can be influenced: political, economic, social, cultural and environmental, making known how tourism currently works and impacts on this historic city in relation to the risk of depopulation and loss of identity. This concludes with recommendations oriented towards a harmonious relationship between tourism and cultural heritage for which it is necessary to implement environmental, social, economic and cultural policies for the conservation of historical-cultural heritage, which stops the gentrification process thus ensuring its protection along with its culture and identity values ??of its neighborhoods, which are increasingly attractive and important for the tourist and economic development policies of this city.

The aim of this article is to analyze the productive configuration of the house-workshop in the garment industry of Moroleón y Uriangato, Guanajuato. Through ethnography and archival work in both locations, the characteristics and work dynamics of the rebozo workshops and their transition to the house-workshop are shown. To do this, the productive trajectories of the workshops were reconstructed, as well as the labor history of former gardeners, clothing manufacturers and seamstresses. We reflect on how elements of the formal and informal economies combine in this clothing market and generate a series of social resources that articulate manual or artisanal work with intensive work.  The research concludes that in the framework of contemporary capitalism, the moral aspects of the economy persist in the configuration of forms of production and workforce. Subjects are challenged by intimate dimensions from which labor elements are negotiated, which, in turn, respond to the pressures of the market and the production of garments.

Pilgrimage is probably the most obvious example of the dual nature of a journey: a movement that happens outside and inside the person at the same time. From this notion, the objective of this paper is to propose a theoretical study that explores the similarities between the experience of a tourist (here, a pilgrim) who travels through space and someone who follows the path from home (armchair pilgrim). Having made this consideration, it is questioned whether it is possible to state what is central to the notion of travel and to challenge the idea that it is basically a movement through space. For this, the album Finisterra de Mägo by Oz (2000) is used as a case study, in which a pilgrimage is narrated following the Camino de Santiago (Spain). Methodologically, we will follow the the analysis format proposed by Cuesta and Gómez (2013), which relates the lyrics of the songs to the narrative thinking of Bruner (1988). Comparing the result of this analysis with the results of studies of experience of real walkers, we will see that it is indeed possible to obtain a comparable interior experience without leaving home.

Utopias, as a guiding story, contain future projects through which societies imagine the transition to a better life. However, the transition from the imaginative dimension to the political implementation of utopias, transforms them into projects that provoke adherence but also rejection; from ideal to ideological. Political utopias, those that seek to be implemented through the exercise of political power, are characterized in this proposal not by their fantasy character or their future dimension opposed to the present, but by the search for the end of the antagonisms that obstruct their discourse. Consequently, they avoid valuing the political process that always produces partial solutions. In this work, some reflections on the political aspects involved in the process of implementing these narratives, will be presented, in light of the relationship that emerges between the cultural and the political.

The text presents elements of the life and work of the American anthropologist Hortense Powdermaker, with some information about her social origin in a Jewish family in the Northern part of the United States, and her social commitment that made her contribute to the trade union development in her region. The text discusses her fieldwork in four different regions: in Melanesia, in the Deep South in the United States, in Hollywood and in central Africa, but above all attention is drawn to the methodological features that are a result of her studies of anthropology with Malinowski in London and the characteristic style inherited from her work with Edward Sapir at Yale in the United States. In the first part of the text mention is made of her career of thirty years´ teaching of anthropology at a college in New York.

The main objective of this research is to demonstrate that the strategies of power in La Celestina pass through language, eloquence and rhetoric to impose a vertical model of authority among the characters. Celestina is the main source of manipulation in this tragicomedy thanks to what Mikhail Bakhtin calls “authoritative discourse”. The characters move in a chaotic and multidirectional world sponsored by various instances of manipulation that permeate the discourse of Celestina. The approach used is that of textual and comparative analysis. As a result, this investigation shows that the death of Celestina is directly related to the ideological awakening of Pármeno and Sempronio or what Bakhtin calls "internalpersuasivediscourse."

This article analyzes the practices of feeding the cornfield and applying chemical supplements that most Wixaritari from San Andrés Cohamiata (sanandreseños or tateikietari) have to take care of corn as their divinized ancestor Tatei Niwetsika (Our Mother Corn). Turning to the contributions of ontological anthropology and the discussion about modernity in indigenous cosmologies, I support my arguments with participant observation and interviews carried out in the wixarika community of San Andrés Cohamiata (Jalisco) during six months between 2018 and 2019. My collaborators were wixaritari farmers, civic-religious authorities or teachers; men and women of different ages. Through these sources, I propose that wixaritari simultaneously carry out cosmological and agro-modern practices to maintain their corn cultivation and to give care to Mother Niwetsika who cares them during each agro-ceremonial cycle. These practices develop changes in the way the wixaritari identify the Niwetsika’s existence –or ontology– as an actor or as an object. This work seeks to contribute towards the contemporary analysis of cosmologies in indigenous communities and the ways in which modern practices are appropriated by them to dynamize their links with non-human actors.

In this text I analyze the contemporary practice of urban professional midwives in a midwifery house. I am interested in showing how the parties build their profession and workplace in dialogue with local, national and global processes. My reflection emerges through ethnographic work with the team of La casa de Iemanjá, a house of midwifery located in one of the most densely populated metropolis in the country. I argue that these midwives mutually construct their professional practice and the midwifery house as sacred expressions in an effort to demarcate themselves from the dominant biopolitical regime of birth care. Through the anthropological analysis of practices, speeches, objects and spaces I show the relevance of understanding the delivery house as a heterotopic space-time based on a logic that aims to subvert and compensate the process of violence attributed to the biomedical exercise, not without overlaps, ambiguities and contradictions.

The main goal of this article is to know the past of the Korean people from the first years of the Japanese colonial period. Thus, the content of the movie Arirang (1926), directed by Kim Ki-duk, was analyzed, as well as the traditional song with the same name. The applied methodology is underpinned with historiographical analysis and the marxist stance of Eric Hobsbawm. Two dissimilar, and yet very interlinked, sources are analzyed: music and cinema, which are usually underrecognized in historical science. This aspect provides the movie a role as a first hand historical source that gives it validity to be taken into account in its diverse constitution fields to the construction and revalorization of the past of the Korean Peninsula. This work allows to conclude that the study of historical science through music and cinema amplify the possibilities of analysis, because it is not the progressive development of processes, but the analysis, understanding and interpretation of the source. 

This research deals with the experiences and narratives of a group of men who chose biological/human non-reproduction (B/HNR). Most of them belong to a motorcycle club and as part of it they have developed other narratives about kinship without blood ties, in addition to metaphors of a type of parenthood and/or offspring of non-human agents (pets, motorcycles, objects). This study is focused on an analysis of the different configurations and discourses on alternative families (interactors) that are created from the anthropomorphization of pets and objects to define them as non-human children.