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…
Tag: Mexico
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…
In the Journals – Policing Migration
A Macedonian police officer raises his baton toward migrants by Freedom House via creativecommons Welcome back to In the Journals! This ongoing series aims to bridge conversations that…
People of the Bean
An heirloom bean club brings culinary community and diverse foodways to its legume lovers’ doors. Alubia Blanca, Good Mother Stallard, Vaquero, Eye of the Goat. Four times a…
Escape, Exposure, and Life on the Pacific Crest Trail
An act of walking into the wilderness implies an act of walking out of somewhere or something. The Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), which extends over the US states…
Christine Wilson 2020 Undergraduate Award Winner!
SAFN is happy to announce that the winner of the 2020 Christine Wilson Award for an Undergraduate Student is Adele Woodmansee of Harvard University for her paper “’It…
Cantar en mexicano es conectarme con mis abuelos y mis antepasados
Los movimientos migratorios dan como resultado una mezcla de personas, con formas de vida diferentes. Las migraciones del campo a la ciudad han llevado a cientos de jóvenes…
Connectedness in a Time of Pandemic
Right now, many of us are reevaluating what it means to be connected. In the United States, we often think of connectivity as having wireless broadband service, or…
Mi lengua, mi origen
Si bien en los países desarrollados, la migración del campo a la ciudad ha terminado, en los países en vías de desarrollo la migración campo- ciudad sigue dándose.…
Ruben Enrique Campos III takes the page 99 test
Destiny again. It had to be El Legendario Bombay. It had to be page 99. Upon entering, I immediately saw why the place was called legendary. It oozed…
How the Zapotec Are Fighting COVID-19
Some Indigenous Mexican communities protect themselves against the novel coronavirus by using age-old practices. zug zwang/Flickr This article was originally published at The Conversat…