Explorando los límites del deseo. El viaje transformador de Y tu mamá también.
Read Time:9 Minute, 28 Second «La vida es como el oleaje, así que déjate llevar como el mar». -Luisa Cortés. A finales de la década de…
Tag: Mexico
On Menstruation and Feeling Shame
Menstruation as a subject of study is not new. Margaret Mead, Mary Douglas, Chris Bobel, Miren Guillo, and Karina Felitti, among many others, have discussed how menstruation has…
The Evolution of the Digital Divide: New Dimensions of Digital Inequality
This text explores the evolution of digital inequality, highlighting how emerging phenomena pose new challenges to digital inclusion, particularly with the incorporation of artificial intelligence (AI…
Chaotic Oscillation: Understanding the Paradoxical Presence of Video Games in Contemporary Society
Common sense tells us that play and work are opposing categories. However, in our society we often encounter situations where the boundaries between these two categories become difficult…
Congresos de antropología en España: academia, siesta y networking
Precioso jardín de una de las residencias académicas de la Universidad de Granada Mi esposo y colega Steffan Igor Ayora Diaz y yo estuvimos durante junio y julio…
Challenging Normalized Surveillance: “Birds on the Wire” Surveillance in Mexico
There are Birds on the Wire In Mexican slang, “hay pájaros en el alambre” (there are birds on the wire), is an expression used to imply that a…
SAFN Anthro Day Photo Contest, Part 2: Eating Well in a World Gone Bad
Yesterday we announced the winner of the annual SAFN Anthropology Day Photography contest and posted the photographs they submitted. You can see them here. We are now happy…
Food And Expertise: My Research on Oaxacan Food
Andrew MitchelPhD CandidateThe Ohio State University What does it mean to be an expert on food? This piece will argue that my scholarly work and the knowledge and…
Healthcare in the age of inequality
I had just begun my year of social service when I met a patient I will never forget. Let’s call her María. She was around 50 years old…
Review: National Dish
Anya von Bremzen. National Dish: Around the World in Search of Food, History, and the Meaning of Home. New York: Penguin Press. 2023. ISBN: 9780735223165. pp. 340. Rich…
Memorializing Eruption
Perched on a makeshift stage, a trio dressed in wool ponchos sings pirekuas, the region’s most acclaimed and loved musical genre in a mix of Purépecha and Spanish.…
Ingrid Kummels discusses her book, Transborder Media Spaces
Interview by Alana Mazur https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/KummelsTransborder Alana Mazur: One of the main themes running through your book is Indigenous audiovisual media and mediatized …
¡Compañeras! ¡El patriarcado quiere fuego!
Read Time:8 Minute, 0 Second Recomendaciones para ir a la manifestación del 8M, sobre todo, si es la primera vez que asistes Busca…
Xantolo
Read Time:6 Minute, 46 Second En un sistema capitalista que todo lo convierte en mercancía, no es de extrañar que las tradiciones c…
In ajibal in chemélom ti bitxow tének. Fiesta de los muertos en un pueblo Huasteco
Read Time:9 Minute, 58 Second En el oriente de México, los pueblos Tének que habitaban la sierra de Otontepec, veneraban a Dhipak, …
Platypod, Episode Three: Disability, Toxicity, and the Environment
Platypod In this episode, Platypod presents a conversation between Elizabeth Roberts (the University of Michigan) and Sophia Jaworski (the University of Toronto). They discuss the complexities of corp…
El chocolate: historia y elaboración
Read Time:11 Minute, 18 Second Es el alimento que se obtiene mezclando azúcar con dos productos derivados de la manipulación de las…
Cuentepec: una comunidad nahua de Morelos que lucha contra el capitalismo
Read Time:9 Minute, 30 Second La comunidad de Cuentepec es uno de los pueblos nahuas de estado de Morelos en México, está ubicado e…
Mark Sicoli on his book, Saying and Doing in Zapotec
Interview by Grace East https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/saying-and-doing-in-zapotec-9781350142169/ Grace East: Your book takes us on an immersive journey through the complex and varied social…
Anya Peterson Royce reflects on her career
What profession other than your own would you like to attempt? I am turning your question around because I have had two professions each of which I have…
In ajíp an chemélon: la fiesta de los muertos
Read Time:11 Minute, 6 Second El 7 de noviembre de 2003 la UNESCO declara el Día de Muertos en México como patrimonio inmaterial de…
In the Journals – Militarization
Officers wearing a traditional late 1960s uniform (left) and a new demilitarized uniform featuring a blazer (right), Riverside County Sheriff, 1969 by Stuart Schrader via Journal of Urban…
The ‘chronic’ lives of failing organs: afflictions of ambivalent care in Mexico by Ciara Kierans
Life has always been difficult, Maria del Rosario told me, but she coped. That was before all the sickness. When her mother’s kidneys began to fail, she felt…
Envisioning a Different Park: Border Walls, Transborder Ties, and Militarized Ecologies
When news broke out on January 20th, 2021, that newly inaugurated President Joe Biden signed a proclamation ending Trump’s Executive Order 9844, which declared a national emergency at…