The political events that accompany the current configuration of the world system have in cultural diversity an inevitable source of contradictions, resistances and intrasocial conflicts. Contrary to what was foreseen decades ago, the so-called...

The article analytically revisits the concept and reality lived in the southern border/ frontier of Mexico in the context of contemporary Borderlands debates, inquiring how peripheral the region continues to be today. Analyzing the so called...

This article analyzes the xix Anniversary of the Repopulation of San Antonio de Los Ranchos as a political ritual related with beings and forces of human society, through which the historical memory become evident. Following the tenets of...

There is a tendency to assume that the Tsotsil and Tseltal communities in the Chiapas Highlands (Altos de Chiapas) share the same notion of personhood. However, the way this notion is constructed does vary substantially without losing a common...

Social sciences have had to face the challenge of developing conceptual and analytic frameworks to approach the transformation processes in contemporary societies. Important challenges are faced in the fields of economic development,...

This paper describes how the student movements in El Salvador and Mexico perform annual commemorations of the massacres they suffered and explains why it is so important for them to continue the memory of the «martyrs». It also shows how these...

Sugarcane cultivation is part of an agricultural tradition established during the colonial period. During that time, sugarcane production was organized by large land holdings known as haciendas. This has changed. With the revolutionary...

This paper presents an ethnographic description of various factors present in land use conservation and change dynamics, predominantly forest land-use on the Eastern slope of Cofre de Perote Volcano in Veracruz State based on an historical...

The book See, hear, shut up. In the depths of a Salvadoran gang is a partial result of the research that the author developed to ethnographically support his undergraduate work in Sociocultural Anthropology at the University of El...

Texts on the road traveled offers us the history of the struggle of the communities of the Sierra Norte de Oaxaca for the defense of their forests and to preserve their communality against the onslaught of the State and the capitalist...

As part of the growing process of adoption of interdiscipline in the social sciences, anthropology has expanded its fields of action. This leads us that studies in the last quarter century have compromised their disciplinary limits and dialogue...