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This work focuses on examining some of the pasta and current funerary customs of a Yucatecan people town today. It focuses, above all, on a series of precepts that people must keep to a tree or ram, in the Mayan language, k’ojobché ’or k’ojonché’ that served as the main instrument when burying the deceased. The objective is to describe and interpret the cultural practice of offering him, until today, cigarettes and liquor, as well as keeping him respect and even a certain fear. An interpretation of the "resistance" of the local people to abandon this custom is proposed even when the practical use of said instrument is no longer valid. The main material on which this work is based is a short, unpublished writing by a professor of the town and of popular knowledge about this cultural phenomenon. The conclusion is that the tree represents, in symbolic terms, a person, but a person with a strong stigma for the work he performed and the cultural practices associated with the burial and funeral of people: the gravedigger.  

Natividad is a municipality in the Sierra Norte de Oaxaca that emerged and developed around the mining of gold and silver. Therefore, the objective of the article is to show the diversification of work activities aimed at obtaining a livelihood in a mining community located in the mountains. To achieve the objective, two life experiences of people who live in Natividad and who, at some point in their life, had a working relationship with the mining company are presented. The information was obtained from semi-structured interviews conducted between 2011 and 2015 in the municipality. The main results that are reached is the importance of multi-activities in the work environment, which generates diversification to obtain a livelihood and, in turn, better support the lack or cancellation of the main source of income. Finally, it is concluded that the mine is a direct and indirect driver in the various ways of obtaining of livelihood.

This photo essay describes the cosmovision about the teonanácatl entheogen in Nahuatl, ndxisti-santo in Mazateca or also known as sacred fungus (Psyilocybe aztecorum) as a social imaginary, which symbolizes the otherness that exists between two ontological spaces, one concerning the world we inhabit and one from the holy world.

En la actualidad se han presentado múltiples adversidades para el desarrollo del pensamiento filosófico en la educación superior, debido a todos los cambios que se han generado por la pandemia, ya que las instituciones centraron sus esfuerzos en realizar una adaptación de emergencia a la virtualidad. Por lo anterior, el propósito de este ensayo es analizar la importancia que tiene la filosofía dentro de la formación de los estudiantes de educación superior y las maneras en las que se puede desarrollar mediante los recursos tecnológicos que son indispensables para la educación virtual. Para esto, se realizó una extensa revisión literaria con el fin de conocer el estado actual del pensamiento filosófico en la educación de México y establecer las estrategias utilizadas por docentes de diversas instituciones para incluir estos componentes dentro de sus prácticas educativas virtuales. El análisis muestra que existe mucho camino por recorrer para que el pensamiento filosófico recupere su  relevancia como el eje central de la formación de estudiantes universitarios, pero también se encontraron  diversos esfuerzos de profesionales que ya se están implementando para conseguirlo.

The article aims to study the dispossession of land experienced by indigenous Mayan families of a sub-province in the state of Yucatán. Perceptions were analyzed such as the subjective dimension of the territory to explain the symbolic and material aspect of the space appropriation. The memory of social injustice highlights the importance for the analysis of the power relations from the intersection race-gender. It is essential to present the social injustice the Mayan women suffer through their legalized exclusion by the State in the Mexican agriculture. Ethnography was conducted from August 2018 to January 2020, from observation and interview life story, to make those affected visible. In conclusion, the State, from its various levels, federal, state, and municipal, along with other entities, such as Non-Governmental Organizations, universities, and power groups generate oppression and marginalization, by failing to respect the indigenous rights agreed in the convention 169 of the International Labor Organization in 1989.

The Covid-19 pandemic had a broad impact on people's lives. Educational processes were affected due to the fact that schools had to change from a face-to-face to a virtual modality abruptly in order to provide continuity to the educational process. This article aims to analyze the didactic materials and strategies used by teachers during the confinement period, based on a review following an argumentative approach of some research published between 2020 and 2021that described university experiences during Covid-19, considering the type of subject and the perception of students in this regard. As a main result, difficulties were identified as a consequence of the contents being transformed as they were already without considering the advantages of online education; however, despite the situation, professors identified methods that could be used during their classes. Due to the lack of time to carry out an adequate planning and structuring of the courses, an Emergency Remote Teaching (ERE) was adopted, a situation that made teachers and students unprepared for a totally online teaching, mainly causing a negative perception.

El objetivo de este trabajo es comprender los problemas que han restringido la consolidación democrática en Tabasco durante los gobiernos de la alternancia emanados del PRD y Morena en los años 2012 y 2018. Para ello se empleó un enfoque sociológico e histórico. A partir del método cualitativo se recuperaron testimonios de actores claves en el proceso. Se aplicaron otros instrumentos de recolección de información como la observación participante, las entrevistas semiestructuradas y la revisión bibliográfica y hemerográfica. Los resultados permiten observar que el proceso de alternancia ha derivado en un significativo pluralismo que está permeado por los valores y prácticas de una cultura política autoritaria que limitan la consolidación democrática. La investigación permite concluir que la debilidad democrática se configura a partir una endeble sociedad civil frente a una clase política hegemónica y los magros resultados de gobierno.

The transition toward distance learning, due to an indication to close schools for COVID-19, modified the process of teaching and learning math of students with special educational needs. With this scenario, this paper focuses on analyzing the problems of mathematics education through inclusion in distance education with the aim of identifying the challenges of the mathematics education of these students during the pandemic. Based on the analysis of the literature framed in mathematics education and inclusive education, we found that the difficulties these students deal with when learning mathematics are: a) difficulties in the development of teaching strategies in mathematics supportive by technology, b) disconnection between the curriculum and resources with features, needs and specific context of these students, c) difficulties in collaborative between teachers, parents and specialist teachers, and d) limited or lacking curricular adjustments. Findings suggest developing specific and varied programs to help learning mathematics in students based on their needs, difficulties, and particular context.

Desde la consideración de la mayoría de los habitantes de la comunidad zapoteca de San Miguel Suchixtepec, en la región Sierra Sur de Oaxaca, las nupcias tradicionales tienen un lugar fundamental en la vida ritual, ceremonial y social, más importante aún que la ceremonia que se realiza en el templo católico, ya que, como la propia gente dice, es la manera en cómo se casaban los antepasados. Un momento significativo y que otorga uno de los nombres a dicha ceremonia es la entrega de viandas por parte de la familia de la novia a la familia del novio, entre ellas destaca un canasto con una guajolota y un guajolote muertos, los cuales simbolizan la unión entre familias distintas, así como a la mujer y al hombre. Algo en común entre ambos procesos rituales es que existen distintas formas y códigos de comunicación entre las personas y las ánimas de los difuntos y de los antepasados en general, así como con entidades sagradas. Se destaca también la vigencia de códigos numéricos que se proyectan mediante la disposición de depósitos rituales.

The objective of this paper is to analyze the importance of emotional intelligence in the performance of higher education students in the virtual modality, a situation derived from the health crisis caused by COVID-19. The characteristics of emotional intelligence and its relationship with virtual environments are described, and this information is contrasted with the affectations that currently impact on academic performance, highlighting socioemotional factors. It is concluded that emotional intelligence is a resource that can support the overcoming of these difficulties through curricular strategies such as the implementation of emotional education, which allows students to face adverse situations towards a successful performance.