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

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The objective of this paper is to analyze the knowledge of Tseltal children regarding agricultural production systems, the products derived from such systems, and their cold or hot classification. Through a workshop, interviews with informants, and field research, we analyze children’s knowledge concerning the production systems, plants and animals associated with them, and their cold or hot characteristics. Our results show that children’s participation in food production systems and other subsistence activities is the best way of transmitting traditional ecological knowledge. Tseltal children have extensive knowledge of their environment, production systems, and food traditions. Preservation of traditional food systems can sustain the environment and ensure food security and food self-sufficiency.

The objective of this article is to contrast how the state and public policies understand adolescent pregnancy when compared to views held by adolescents and their families in vulnerable conditions. The article is based on fieldwork with pregnant women aged 12 to 19 from three municipalities in the state of Quintana Roo. Adolescent pregnancy has great risks to the health of mothers and newborns, as well as social and psychological impacts. Thus, in order to reduce pregnancy within this group, public policies should be prepared in a way that responds to adolescents’ immediate socio-economic context and gender status.

The aim of this paper is to show that young people’s educational experience at the Intercultural University of Chiapas (UNICH) is unequal, violent, and conflictive, thus negatively affecting students’ emotions. Far from the intercultural education project promoting dialog and equal relationships, the university experience actually demobilizes students, pits them against one another, drives them away from community values, and encourages individualism. Our approach focused on subjectivity in pedagogy, using the categories of experiences and emotions. Our fieldwork demonstrated how the university, as an educational space, does not help to create or reproduce sociocultural integration, but rather promotes, at a very subjective level, perhaps unwittingly, conflict and disappointment.

This article analyzes academic research of tourism on the north coast of Honduras, using a bibliometric study of documents involving a systematic review of multidisciplinary databases (Scopus) between 1988 and 2018. The review yielded 25 papers with this theme. Most academic production occurred between 2010 and 2018 with 14 documents, indicating a growing interest among some authors to study the area in recent years. Researchers in United States produced the most publications, followed by those in Canada and England. The main topics covered were evaluation of social, economic, and environmental impacts of tourism, privatization of coastal lands, green neoliberalism and tourism, and commodification of culture.

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In this paper, I discuss the 2012 performances of Regina José Galindo, using Mieke Bal’s concept of theoretical object as a benchmark. An initial observation of her performances reveals that they do not denounce gender violence, as is common in her work. Yet, this apparent absence allows me to delve deeper into the relationship between performance, performativity, gender, sex, and desire. Galindo’s presentations are examples of Judith Butler’s argument that sex is as culturally constructed as gender. We also see that the spectator plays an active role in gender performativity. Finally, turning to Audre Lorde’s definition of the erotic as power, I conclude that desire is not only an unconscious impulse, but also a thoughtful act that involves the spectator in the search for social justice.

This article analyzes the paradigmatic work Juan Pérez Jolote (1948) by the anthropologist Ricardo Pozas, as a boundary space for a dialog between anthropology and literature in post-revolutionary Mexico. Pozas’s text can be viewed as a semiotic "frontier" according to the terminology developed by Yuri Lotman. I conclude that due to its position as a frontier, it is impossible to understand Juan Pérez Jolote through the dichotomy "anthropology or fiction."

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Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, this article seeks to explain how P’urhépecha communities in the region called the Cañada de los Once Pueblos in Michoacán regulate their lands in accordance with what they call el costumbre (customs), as well as the tensions and imbrications that arise in relation to the terms established in agrarian law. To do so, we contrast the juridical natures of legal and de facto agrarian communities, where the former reflect what we call "negotiated normativity", while in the latter we observed greater communal autonomy and less influence by the state in regulating people’s lands. Through their communal practices, local indigenous people challenge the monist idea of the state while striving to defend their inclusion in it as collective subjects, simultaneously demanding recognition of their communal property system and their own means of settling boundary conflicts. Certification programs and agreements to lease lands to agribusinesses are two of the challenges that today are testing local practices of communal autonomy and the communities’ permanence as collectivities.