Temáticas It is a section made up of a specialized dossier on relevant sociocultural issues. Collaborators of the issue will be invited to participate in the magazine due to the recognition of their work as specialists in the particular subject. All works will be refereed in double blind.

Vol 8 No 16 (2025)

  • Laura Machuca Gallegos
  • Nahayeilli Juárez Huet
  • Rosa Claudia Lora Krstulovic

In this issue of Encartes we present a selection of the most recent contributions of the Audiovisual Research Network (Red de Investigaciones Audiovisuales (riav) of the ciesasThe work of the Foundation has also been contributed by researchers who have been linked to it through various collaboration programs and projects, and from different latitudes and fields of action. Some of these contributions are the result of years of research, while others are part of projects currently under development.

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From the bottom of a shoebox, a trickle of memory emerges: some photographs on rural communication.

  • Daniel Murillo Licea

Uses and meanings of the female portrait in the Guatemalan press, 1890-1924. Making social history with images: a methodological proposal.

  • Paulina Pezzat Sánchez

The Documentary as Witness: Dance Memories in the Costa Chica (part 1)

  • Rosa Claudia Lora Krstulovic

Lo prieto: Antiracism, sexogenic dissidence and self-representation in the work of two Mexican visual artists.

  • Itza Amanda Varela Huerta

Between the visual and the narrated: approaches to the collection of photographs of Mexico at the American Historical Exposition of 1892.

  • Marisol Domínguez González

Companies of Negritos. Representations of "lo negro" in the theatrical scene of Mérida during the first decades of the 20th century.

  • Luisangel García Yeladaqui

Mérida's carnival in 1913, social contrasts of a city through the lens of a German photographer

  • Laura Machuca Gallegos

Vol 8 No 15 (2025)

Routes, dynamics and responses to migration: from the Darien to Tapachula

  • Alberto Hernandez Hernandez
  • Carlos S. Ibarra

Las movilidades y las migraciones son fenómenos inherentes a la historia de la humanidad, pero en el contexto contemporáneo se presentan con una complejidad y diversidad de dimensiones que suelen desafiar las capacidades analíticas de las ciencias sociales. Este dosier tiene como objetivo principal contribuir al análisis crítico de las rutas, experiencias y redes que configuran la movilidad migratoria en la región.

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Migratory processes and shelter networks in Mexico

  • Rafael Alonso Hernández

From the Darien Gap to the Tapachula Gap. Mapping and shaping of new routes for migrants moving to the United States.

  • Alberto Hernandez Hernandez
  • America A. Navarro López

Venezuelans in Costa Rica: between transit and settlement. The ethno-survey of recent immigration as a methodological contribution to the study of migration in countries of arrival.

  • Jéssica Nájera

Social media and digital platforms in the migratory journey from the Darien jungle to Mexico's northern border

  • Alberto Hernandez Hernandez
  • Arturo Fabian Jimenez
  • Carlos S. Ibarra

Ethnography of the migrant route: the "walkers" of the coastal highway in Chiapas, Mexico.

  • Abbdel Camargo Martínez
  • Iván F. Porraz Gómez

Devotions in transit: an ethnographic approach to the Soconusco Isthmus-Costa migratory circuit.

  • Blanca Mónica Marín Valadez

Vol 7 No 14 (2024)

The making of the community utopia. Doubts, certainties and imaginaries in the construction of the future.

  • Delázkar Noel Rizo Gutiérrez

The ethnographies in this dossier show the frictions, differences and even contradictions in cultural dynamics when traditional ways of organizing life, the longing to recover the past and keep it alive, internal social rules, moral principles, the demands and aspirations of younger generations, external and internal intellectual proposals, learning to organize political struggles and dialogues with the State, the influence of markets, national policies and the multiple paths to achieve the desired futures come together. If there is one tradition worth remembering from the utopian proposals of the last centuries, it is that the subject of change requires the collectivity to develop its capacity for agency towards change, towards the dreamed horizon.

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Community utopias as bets for the future among the Purhépecha people

  • Eduardo Zarate

Nahua writers: community utopias and practices about possible futures in the Sierra de Zongolica, Mexico.

  • Carlos Alberto Casas Mendoza

The future in common. Indigenous communities in the cities of the lower Negro River, Norpatagonia Argentina.

  • Javier Serrano

Composing and fragmenting the communitarian utopia. Living autonomy between dreams and disappointments.

  • Delázkar Noel Rizo Gutiérrez

Ejido El Porvenir in Valle de Guadalupe, Baja California. Experiences and memories of an agricultural community

  • Rogelio E. Ruiz Rios

Vol 7 No 13 (2024)

The soundscape in culture

  • Miguel Olmos Aguilera

The relevance of sound studies is due, among other reasons, to the fact that sound is a phenomenon immanent to matter. Every object in the universe is susceptible to acoustic qualities. Therefore, the way of expressing and experiencing the sonorous qualities of the landscape and objects evokes at the same time the qualities of the culture and of the individuals involved in the sonorous expression.

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The earth rumbles. Ténabarim, koyolim and senaaso. Amerindian mythology of Pajko'ola musical instruments.

  • Fidel Camacho

The sonic border of the wixaritari ceremonial experts. Liminality for the control and protection of the rains.

  • Xilonen María del Carmen Luna Ruiz

Noises and silences in the migrant waiting: sound environments and racialization of listening in the Haitian community in Tapachula.

  • Mónica Bayuelo García

The sound creation of the jaranero community: Reflections and analysis on the practice of son jarocho on the Tijuana-San Diego border.

  • Madison Ree Koen
  • Miguel Olmos Aguilera

Scientific dissemination as science, technique and art. The case of "musicaenelnoreste.mx".

  • José Juan Olvera Gudiño

Vol 5 No 9 (2022)

  • Gabriela Zamorano Villarreal
  • Richard Kernaghan

The movement of the obtuse direction is wandering. It follows an eccentric trajectory. It departs from the domain of representations. In this issue, by presenting different ethnographic situations, we show how the concept of the obtuse allows us not only to address the legal-evidential value of the ethnographic record but to extend and even reimagine it.

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“Apparently Meaningless” Images in the Place of Memory, Tolerance and Social Inclusion (lugar de la memoria, la tolerancia y la inclusión social-lum)

  • Olga González Castañeda

The distant thunder: lingering images of the Huallaga River

  • Richard Kernaghan

Fragments of a Relocation: The Insistence of Images

  • Sandra Rozental

Mending the Image: Subjectivities and Desires in the Photographic Archives of Michoacán, México

  • Gabriela Zamorano Villarreal

Vol 5 No 10 (2022)

  • Claudia C. Zamorano Villarreal
  • Guénola Capron

The guiding question of this dossier seeks to understand how women deal with, protect themselves and fight against urban insecurity in Latin America. It is a question we answer through six articles, all written by women who, whether from sociology, geography, communication or anthropology, mobilize qualitative observation techniques.

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An Analytical Framework for the Study of the Geographies of Fear of Women From the Empirical Evidence in Two Mexican Cities

  • Paula Soto Villagrán

Living in and Circulating in Mexico City: Social Representations of Female University Students

  • Lorena Umaña Reyes

Care Strategies Against Sexist Violence by Men in Public Spaces of Mexico City

  • Paola Flores Miranda

Girls No Longer Want to Have Fun: Gender Violence and Self-Care in the Mexico City Suburbs

  • Miriam Bautista Arias

Security Strategies by Women From Working-Class Sectors in the Urban Periphery of La Plata

  • Gimena Bertoni

Digital Strategies for the Everyday Mobility of Young Women in Mexico City

  • Carmen Icazuriaga Montes
  • Gabriela García Gorbea

Vol 4 No 8 (2021)

Popular music, globalization and economy. Introduction

  • José Juan Olvera Gudiño
  • Shinji Hirai

The social spaces of northern Mexico and the United States are the protagonists of most of the proposals and stage cross-border and transnational cultural flows, armed violence, creativity and innovation, and adaptation to the impacts of the global economy. All these phenomena are crossed by digital contexts of production, circulation and consumption of symbolic forms and, as new forms of social life, of subjectivities and intersubjectivities that social scientists are just beginning to study.

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The Lives of the Accordion. Repairers and Social Life of a Musical Instrument in Monterrey

  • Jacqueline Peña Benitez
  • José Juan Olvera Gudiño

The Conquests of the Accordion. From the Old Worlds to New Horizons

  • Helena Simonett

Construction of Romantic Love, Ideals of Couples and Gender Relations from the Lyrics of Norteña Music and Banda Sinaloense

  • Ana Isabel Sánchez Osuna
  • César Jesús Burgos Dávila
  • Mariangel Estefania Urrecha Arce

Composition of Narcocorridos in Real Time: Sociomusical Construction of October 17th, the Culiacanazo

  • César Jesús Burgos Dávila
  • Julián Alveiro Almonacid Buitrago

Construction of Bajo Sextos in Three Cities of Coahuila, Mexico. Tradition and Innovation in the Visual Image of the Instrument

  • Ramiro Godina Valerio

Migration Soundscapes. Music, Emotions and Consumption in the Texas-northeastern Mexico Migration Circuits

  • Raquel Ramos Rangel
  • Shinji Hirai

Vol 4 No. 7 (2021)

Promises of tomorrow. Calculations of the future in today's financial practices

  • Magdalena Villarreal

The problem of calculating the future in financial practices has been a recurring theme in the Seminar on the Anthropology of Money and the Economy that we organized in the ciesas West. The articles in this section have been the object of discussion and dialogue in that seminar; In them, the imaginaries of the future are explored from different sectors of society in Mexico, Ecuador, Chile and the Basque Country. The works not only show the ways in which financialization processes have been installed with the preponderance of economic lives almost totally dependent on virtual money as a result of indebtedness, but we also see people building their lives around it, exerting their efforts in the Procurement of a better life, or at least stable. In this process, the economy is mobilized largely based on debt, that is, money that does not yet exist can be activated in the present with the expectation that they will materialize in the future.

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On the margins of the labor society. Resistance to employment and seizure of the future of individuals against work

  • Ducange Médor

The Ziona of Ecuador, their monetarization process and other future uncertainties: analysis of a collection economy

  • Maria Fernanda Solórzano Granada

"What do you throw at when you save, Mexican?" The futures of savings under a neoliberal individually funded pension regime

  • Sayuri Gallardo Kishi

The shadows of the future that are no longer. The social reconfigurations of hope in the deindustrialized city of Errenteria, Basque Country

  • Uzuri Aboitiz

Get along, resist and adjust: partner negotiations to manage debts and make ends meet

  • Lorena Pérez-Roa

Economic alternatives to the construction of other possible worlds. A mapping of the local scene in Guadalajara

  • Elizabeth Chaparro and Peredo

Vol 3 No. 5 (2020)

Towards a transient paradigm: approaching culture from daily journeys

  • Christian O. Grimaldo-Rodríguez

This dossier aims to discuss the sociocultural role of transit in the configuration of social subjects, political actors, symbolic places, collective actions and, in general, the social order to which we ascribe ourselves through the daily practice of moving between different points of the geographical space.

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Road bodies, culture and citizenship: anthropological reflections

  • Paul wright

Centrality of the senses: movements of a blind person through the center of Mexico City

  • Miguel Angel Aguilar Diaz

From El Hombre-camión to the Users and Operators United Front: Annals of Collaborative Audiovisual Methodology Research

  • Hector Robledo
  • Lirba Cano

Bystanders Imaginaries: Outdoor Advertising and Its Relation to the Moral Geography of Guadalajara

  • Christian O. Grimaldo-Rodríguez

Vol 2 No 3 (2019)

Resist dehumanization. Civil society in the face of disappearances, coercion of freedom of expression and forced displacement in Mexico

  • Severine durin

Parents looking for traces of their children in vacant lots. Journalists who have nightmares in which they are executed by high-powered weapons. Young people who testify to obtain recognition of forced disappearances in Mexico before international actors. Human rights activists who keep track and record of the invisible victims of the so-called war on drug trafficking, that is, displaced people. These themes make up the four texts in this dossier, which were written by women who move between academia and activism. In them the dehumanization of discourse and militaristic actions are exposed, the meanings of those who suffer and resist such circumstances are illuminated, and the cruel way in which Mexican society has been hit by the militarization of public security is evidenced.

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Combing history against the grain: reflections on the search and exhumation of mass graves in Mexico

  • Carolina Robledo Silvestre

Mexicans in Exile and their political performance: a trench of resistance to the war on drug trafficking

  • May-ek Querales Mendoza

Journalism under fire. Lethal Methods of Press Coercion During the Drug War

  • Severine durin

Fleeing violence: the hidden victims of the war in Mexico, the case of forced internal displacement

  • Brenda perez
  • Montserrat Castle

Vol 1 Issue 2 (2018)

Visual cultures. Towards the pluralization of visual culture

  • Sarah Corona Berkin

In this dossier we think about the importance of approaching visual cultures, in the plural, to know the multiple constructions of reality that are crystallized in images in various social settings. Today not only an immense amount of images invades and represents us, but digital options and social networks build in real time the material and symbolic world in which we live. This dossier explores the term visual culture in its plural form, visual cultures, to highlight the existence of a diversity of them.

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Three snapshots of the relationship between scientific photography and anthropology in Mexico

  • Citlalli González Ponce

The methodology is movement. Proposals for the study of the urban experience of transit supported by the use of the image

  • Christian O. Grimaldo-Rodríguez

Images of the gang body. Representations of identity from a collaborative dialogue

  • Rogelio Marcial

The reconstruction of the image of women in the Puente Grande prison, Jalisco

  • Martha Ileana Landeros Casillas

Participation in anthropological cinema: the case of Question Bridge, from video installation to online collaborative interface

  • Ariadna Ruiz Almanza
  • Carmen Lucia Gómez Sánchez
  • Fabiola Alcala Anguiano

From the portrait to the selfie wixárika: A visual history of ours

  • Sarah Corona Berkin