Revista Alteridades
Revista Alteridades
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Emergencia de las organizaciones sociales de Oaxaca: la lucha por los recursos forestales hot!
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Chapela, Francisco. Emergencia de las organizaciones sociales de Oaxaca: la lucha por los recursos forestales
THE EMERGENCE OF SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS IN OAXACA: THE STRUGGLE FOR THE FOREST RESOURCES.There have been two main forestry approaches world-wide: State Forestry, where forest management is a public issue, and Private Forestry, where forests are a private asset to use under market laws. In the last 15 years, Oaxaca has witnessed the emergence of social organizations, both for production and technical support, that have been leading an intense change process in the sector, from State Forestry to a Community Forestry approach. Synergism between social organizations, leads traditionally marginalized communities through a development processes based on a privatized forest management and the socialization of economic benefits.
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Los productores del campo en Oaxacahot!
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Carrasco, Tania. Los productores del campo en Oaxaca
THE RURAL PRODUCERS IN OAXACA.Oaxaca is the state in which most of the indigenous population dwell and it is the first state in regards to cultural diversity in all the country, followed by Veracruz, Chiapas and Yucatán. There are 3 million 228 thousand inhabitants in the state and 1 million speak fifteen different indigenous languages. Recent studies about the situation of indigenous people in this state show that 85% of the surface of it relates to indigenous people and even though the severe drop in the agriculture productivity, the repetitive debts within the indigenous peasants, etc. They represent the present and future of rural Oaxaca. The local government cannot ignore the importance that this fact implies to the economy of the entity and above all, the search of feasible alternatives should be supported by the communication with the indigenous producers and the recognition of their economical and cultural strategies, as well as a fair distribution of the resources.
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Las carreras rarámuri y su contexto: una propuesta de interpretación hot!
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Rodríguez López, Juan. Las carreras rarámuri y su contexto: una propuesta de interpretación
THE RARAMURI’S RACES AND ITS CONTEXT: AN INTERPRETATIVE PROPOSAL.This work applies some methodological principles and analytical concepts of Claude Lévi-Strauss, Edmund R. Leach and Umberto Eco to the raramuri’s races inquiry, keeping the author’s convergences and divergences with the structuralism implicit. In the first place, the history, qualities and ecological environment of the raramuri, an indian group of North Mexico as well known as tarahumar, are briefly introduced. Then social importance and functional richness of the batari (fermented corn drink) are analized in order to explain raramuri social relations essential features and races’ place in them. Finally, a semiotic interpretation proposal is put forth by linking simbolic social and material issues.
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La vida en Ãndice. Las nuevas enciclopedias de antropologÃa hot!
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Vázquez Léon, Luis. La vida en índice. Las nuevas enciclopedias de antropología
¿Qué más podríamos decir que no haya sido indexado (perdonando el neologismo) en estas tres enciclopedias de antropología sociocultural de reciente factura? Bueno, tal eclosión de conocimiento compendiado vale un comentario por sí misma. Aparte de que al parecer 1996 fue un año apropiado para semejante florecimiento (en realidad se prolongó a 1997 con la Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology editada por Tim Ingold, y que no he podido incluir en este comentario simplemente por no disponer de ella), es llamativo que las tres tengan en común provenir de la misma matriz disciplinaria, lo que en un primer acercamiento pudiera provocar en el lector la idea de una rediviva pulsión por hacer de la antropología sociocultural una suerte de ciencia unificada, tal como Otto Neurath quiso hacer con una economía y una psicología fisicalizadas en 1938, dentro de la famosa International Encyclopaedia of Unified Science, o sea, un producto típico del programa filosófico del Círculo de Viena.
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