Toni Kuhn's work is a continuity and part of this great tradition of Mexican cinematographers, such as Gabriel Figueroa, Alex Phillips, Jack Draper, Agustín Jiménez, to name a few. They were his teachers, his references, although they did not give him - as he tells us - a visual, photographic eye, because whether you are born with it or not, it is almost a substitute for the language itself, for the multiple languages, which, he says, he learned in his native Switzerland and which he knew, in one way or another, how to translate into images and capitalize it with a reality that Mexico imposed on him. In this interview, Toni tells us about the beams of light that he has captured throughout his long-lived work.

During the interview, the theme of creativity, present in Lomnitz's career, is highlighted. While we know that it is necessary not only in the phase of scientific dissemination but also to conceive new topics and risky questions, we must recognize that it is a complex issue that, as Jesús Martín Barbero said, leads us to navigate in dark seas without maps to discover new seas.

This interview rescues a phenomenological perspective of Claudio Lomnitz's trajectory as a researcher, but also of what encourages Lomnitz to leave the comfortable boundaries of academic communities.

What benefits, in the end, has globalization offered to one part of the world as well as another? What are the risks of the interaction of diverse societies? How can we understand over time the different "colonizations" in history, not only that of the New World, but also those that had already occurred in other parts of the planet? Complete interview with one of the most outstanding experts on the process of globalization and the history of Mexico.

Felipe Paz is an independent Colombian anthropologist and documentary filmmaker, with a very extensive career having made cultural videos and also worked in the mass media in Colombia and Venezuela. His medium-length film Putchi Pu can be described as collaborative ethno-fiction, as it portrays how conflicts are settled among the Wayúu people. Putchi Pu makes visible the figure of the indigenous "palabrero" and his role in the peaceful resolution of conflicts.

This interview with María Gabriela Lugones explores the concept of "continuing conversation" as a fundamental discursive genre that avoids the crystallization of meaning and creates an "intersection" between the text and the reader or listener. Lugones, a leading scholar with a background in History and Social Anthropology, shares her unique experiences and perspectives. Originally from Santiago del Estero, Argentina, her focus is on the relationship between management and pedagogy in governmental contexts, and her research seeks to understand the production of subjectivities in relation to forms of state subjection.

Jorge Durand is the guest in this interview section of Encartes magazine. Anthropologist and researcher at the University of Guadalajara, where he holds the Chair of Migration, Jorge Durand is a specialist in the United States-Mexico migration dynamics. On this occasion, he describes his incursion into the northern countries of Central America and the new protagonist figure in the region: the uprooted.

The interview was conducted in the second half of August 2021 through the exchange of several questionnaires and texts (via email). At the beginning the interviewer and the interviewee did not know each other personally. The main motivation for the interview lies in getting to know the interpretations of Mark Potok, one of the foremost experts on current political thought and radical and violent right-wing movements in Europe and North America. His career has been characterized by great social sensitivity, a hyperactive work pace and a selfless commitment to the dissemination of his areas of expertise in all types of media.

Pedro and Andrés talked about the ways of interacting when researching in the regions: drinking beers, playing cards, telling jokes and other ways to get close to the people under study to talk, play and laugh with them, and at the same time get to know their culture and get to know them. These interactions give rise to affection and friendships. They are coexistence in the heat of a campfire in which each researcher "must accept a certain alteration of his or her vision of the world," as Andrés pointed out. An interculturality that goes back and forth.

In April 2020, shortly after a new anniversary of Jorge Mario Bergoglio's assumption of the Petrine See in March 2013, we interviewed Brazilian theologian Dr. Maria Clara Bingemer by video call with the purpose of discussing the role of the women, the Synod of the Amazon and the current challenges of the Catholic Church. Recognized for her works Theology and Literature: Afinidades e segredos compartilhados (Editora Vozes, Petrópolis, 2016), Latin American Theology: Roots and Branches (Orbis Books, New York, 2016), Mística e Testemunho em Koinonia: a Inspiração que vem do Martírio de Duas Communities do Século xx (Paulus Editora, San Pablo, 2018) and Simone Weil: Contra o colonialismo (Bazar do Tempo, Rio de Janeiro, 2019), Bingemer, a Brazilian feminist theologian, represents an intellectual effort to continue articulating the social sciences and Theology in Latin America. A graduate of Social Communication in Rio de Janeiro and a doctorate in Theology at the Gregorian University of Rome, she inherited the chair of Leonardo Boff at the Franciscan Theological Institute of Petrópolis after the ban on the renowned Brazilian theologian by John Paul II. Bingemer, specialist in Systematic Theology, works as coordinator of the Carlo Martini chair at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and advises the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil, but also as editor of the Revista Eclesiástica Brasileira, Concilium and Journal of the American Academy of Religion (2003-2008).

On January 22, 2021 we had a conversation with Professor Thomas Csordas in which he presented the reflections that preceded and those that accompanied the development of one of his contributions to the field of Anthropology, the paradigm of embodiment, also enunciated by him as a methodological orientation for the study of culture and the self from the processes of embodiment.

The discussion of this interview revolved around the story of how it was possible for women to vote and be voted in Mexico, a historical chapter that we seem to take for granted. Likewise, I took the opportunity to talk with Dr. Cano about the feminist implications of such inclusion, the visibility of certain activists and their recent foray into the viral world of cybernetic memes.

This interview is a conversation that occurred during the summer of 2019, planned in the context of an international intensive summer course offered by the Western Institute of Technology and Higher Education (iteso) entitled Social Psychology, gentrification and culture. We seek to raise parallels and distinctions between the way in which urban dispossession processes operate in both Latin American and European cities, especially from the situated analysis of Guadalajara, Mexico, and Barcelona, Spain. The discussion addresses the relationship of abstract concepts such as public space and citizenship; sociocultural constructions such as race and gender, and the political, economic and cultural phenomenon known as gentrification, understood as a global process based on a city model based on the commercialization of urban life.

TO Below are some fragments of that dialogue between two Me'phaa women, community feminists from the Guerrero mountain, and a feminist anthropologist interested in better understanding this proposal. It is not about “the spokespersons” or an “official” position on what community feminism is, but rather what this proposal means for them in their lives and how it relates to their own identity.

Se then presents a conversation about the role of anthropology in the study of road behavior, the relationships between material infrastructures and symbolic structures, the political expressions of urban mobility and the discussion of various ideas and positions of Dr. Pablo Wright about what he calls a "road anthropology". It delves into some details such as the symbolic rebellion of urban pedestrians, the design and implementation of mobile methodologies for research and road behaviors as a field in dispute between the State and citizens in the context of Latin America.