In horizontal position there are many things to invent: horizontality in knowledge production institutions: Perspective or paradox?

• José Manuel Valenzuela Arce

I highly recommend La horizontalidad en las instituciones de producción de conocimiento: ¿perspectiva o paradoja?, as I consider it essential for researchers and teaching staff interested in the construction of research processes that seek to influence social reality to transform it into a better place to live, more inclusive, more democratic and happier.

A Multidimensional View of Human Mobility

• Ofelia Woo Morales

The author invites us to "look at mobilities from the Global South", exposes and analyzes how the stories of those who participate and participated in a process of (in)mobility as a result of the migration and asylum policies of both the United States and Mexico are interwoven; But it also explains the context of origin of Central Americans, the structural violence of the neoliberal model, as well as the organized crime, gangs and family violence to which they are exposed, until reaching what it calls "the unsustainability of life", when the population has to leave their country.

The Community in the Latin American Anthropological Debate

• Andres Fabregas Puig

Community, Utopias and Futures. Debates for the 21st century is one of those books that mark important moments in the discussion of central issues for society and for the social sciences themselves.

Religion, conspiracy theories and pandemic in southern Mexico

• Alejandro Rodríguez López

The Reptilians is an ethnographic study that explores in detail how the pandemic intensified the circulation of explanations based on complex narratives that either distanced or articulated religious beliefs, scientific information and intergalactic conspiracies, all seen from the crucible of contemporary global culture, which mobilizes multiple symbolic goods through digital communication channels.

Frantz Fanon, a man without masks

• Blanca Cardenas

The docudrama Black Skin, White Masks, directed by Isaac Julien in 1995, presents the racist panorama that prevailed in the first half of the 20th century, based on a journey through emblematic moments in the life of Frantz Fanon, a prominent psychiatrist and intellectual whose reflections are at the foundation of contemporary critical theories and the rise of post-colonialist views.

Paris on a daily basis: a personal and sociological diary

• Gilda Waldman

Hugo José Suárez can also transform the personal diary -an intimate and reserved refuge, recondite and profound, self-reflective and risky- into a new sociological gaze through an act of free writing, which proceeds almost gropingly and without arriving at certain and absolute conclusions. This is the case of Paris a diario, recently published by the Coordinación de Humanidades of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (unam).

Toward a Geographic and Historic Interpretation of Neo-gothic Architecture in Jalisco

• Francisco Javier Navarro Jiménez

The book Neogothic in Jalisco. Guía básica para la apreciación del entorno cultural edificado, by Martín Checa-Artasu, presents an interesting investigation of the historical development, typologies and geographic distribution of neo-Gothic architecture in the Mexican state of Jalisco, as a cultural phenomenon of adaptation and reinterpretation on a regional scale of a global architectural trend. To address the subject, the author adopts an interdisciplinary perspective in which time and the territorial diffusion of ideas about the design and symbolism of Gothic Revival are central when interpreting the current panorama of Jalisco's neo-Gothic architecture built between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The Wixarika Territoriality, Between Sacred Geography and Modern Rearrangements

• Frédéric Saumade

Divided between historical anthropology and extensive ethnography, this short book focuses on a specific problem to clarify the political meaning of a shamanic culture and a mythical-ritual complex based on a cosmocentric relationship with the territory and the consequent dialectic of identity and otherness.

Combine-ism: They Are the Gods Who Never Left. Spiritual Ethnography in Veracruz’s Huasteca Region

• Mauricio Genet Guzmán Chávez

This book is a proposal for an analysis of ethnicity understood as the socio-cultural, historical and political condition in which broad sectors of the Mexican population find themselves, whose ancestors are counted as the original inhabitants upon the arrival of the Spaniards in the 16th century. Inhabitants bearers of a culture whose central characteristic has been its persistence, the capacity to resist and reinvent themselves as collectivities throughout five centuries and the years that have elapsed in the XXI century.

The Ideal and What Is Actually Experienced: The Ethnography of the Ritual of the First Communion

• Guillermo de la Peña

The first communion of which this book speaks gives us a key to understanding the Catholic world of the 20th century, especially in Latin countries and in middle-class urban Mexico.

Rompan Todo: One of Many Possible Latin American Rock´N´Roll Stories

• Ma. del Carmen de la Peza Casares

Rompan todo is a documentary series of the historical, participatory and testimonial genre distributed by Netflix. It consists of six chapters with an approximate duration of one hour each. The chapters present chronologically the development of rock in Latin America, each one covers a period of approximately 10 years.

Urban Rarámuri Women. Gender Reconfigurations From Ethnicity

• María Teresa Sierra Camacho

The book Género y etnicidad rarámuri en la ciudad de Chihuahua. Organización y participación de las mujeres en asentamientos congregados analyzes the sociocultural and gender transformations experienced by indigenous Rarámuri men and women who have settled in the city of Chihuahua in search of alternative livelihoods. From an ethnographic and culturally situated perspective, the author offers a comprehensive look at gender relations that are redefined in the urban context as part of processes strongly linked to ethnicity, inequality and subalternity.

A Toolbox to Think of Documentaries and an Invitation to Create Images for Social Research

• Maria Aimaretti

Published by the Instituto de Investigaciones José María Luis Mora, with the support of conacyt and the support of logo Editores, Métodos en acción. Estudios sobre documental e investigación social brings together eight essays that describe and analyze with an interdisciplinary perspective, diverse audiovisual phenomena where social research and the documentary field interact in a complex way, opening theoretical, methodological, ethical and aesthetic questions.

The Teaching of Anthropological Documentary: Paradoxes and Controversies.

• Antonio Zirión Pérez

The new book by Carlos Y. Flores provides an excellent opportunity to reflect on some crucial issues for visual anthropology and allows us to discuss certain paradoxes and controversies found within anthropological cinema. To begin with, we could question the very category of "anthropological documentary", which could have been "ethnographic cinema" -perhaps more consolidated in the field at the international level- or some other of the various terms proposed by different authors (cinetnography, ethnocinema, ethnofiction, etc.).

Books in 20th Century Latin America

• Juan Carlos Gaona Poveda

The history of books and publishing is a historiographical current in the process of consolidation, in which the development of print capitalism is often linked to the emergence of imagined national communities, in a process that dates back to the nineteenth century (Anderson, 2006). Hence, the study of print culture has developed within the framework of a methodological nationalism that must be overcome (Bourdieu, 2002). In Ibero-America we have works for countries such as Spain (Martínez, 2015), Argentina (De Diego, 2014) and Mexico (Bello and Garone, 2020). However, the phenomena of production, circulation and reception of ideas through printed media overflow the frameworks of the nation-state, as pointed out by Gustavo Sorá (2003; 2017), Antonio Largo and Nicanor Gómez (2006) and Alejandro Dujovne (2014). It is a transnational approach taken up on a Latin American scale in the new book by Argentine anthropologist Gustavo Sorá, A History of Book Publishing in Contemporary Latin America, published in February 2021.

Citizenship and Organization in the Light of the World Environmental

• Yanga Villagómez Velázquez

Environmental problems are already affecting the entire planet, regardless of countries, cultures, continents or social classes. Climate change due to the emission of greenhouse gases is having an evident impact on urban and rural societies in different parts of the world.

Interamerican Protestantisms

• Ezer Roboam May May

Schäfer shows that the same religious dispositions of American Protestantism are re-signified in different ways in the Latin American adoption process; one can speak of a Protestantism of the left and of the right, which, in turn, maintain ties with religious organizations in the North.

Transatlantic Dialogs: The Paths of Believing. Circulation, Relocation and Reinterpretation of the Orisha Tradition

• Gabriela Castillo Terán

Although there is a long tradition of important research on Santeria and African culture in Mexico, the work of Nahayeilli Juarez Huet is undoubtedly the most important recent research because it is current, complete, extensive and careful. This work is essential reading to understand the dynamics of the orisha tradition in Mexico and its relationship with Cuba and Nigeria, where she also explores the links with Christianity and Islam.

OKTUBRE, the Montage of an Era or “Rock as All Cries”

• Maria Monica Sosa Vasquez

Both the oktubre The Redondos and Carolina Bello's do not constitute a partisan propaganda, as was the case with the Oktubre by Eisenstein and Aleksandrov (1928). However, this does not mean that politicization is excluded, nor that it is only present through references to Chernobyl. "Fuegos de Octubre", the first song of the album, seems -as the characters reflect- to break down that conception of politics as a task linked to a party or, in any case, only towards one.

Nostalgia, Nationalism, and Cultural Colonialism: The Taco Chronicles

• Steffan Igor Ayora Diaz

There is a Chilanga Mexicanness that is confused with a nationalist Mexicanity represented as a tendency to reduce regional, local, ethnic culinary complexity, in what is only one vehicle for food: the taco.

The family seen from CIESAS

• Patricia arias

The argument most shared in this book is that the family has been, before and now, a mediating instance between the individual, the community, and social forces. But apart from that, the authors had ample freedom to raise issues, levels and research methods.

The audiovisual as an extended space among native peoples

• Oscar Ramos Mancilla

Kummels' ethnography describes the media practices in the town of Tamazulapam (Oax.) And their circulation between the population that lives in the place and that emigrant who has formed ramifications of the community.

Facing the failure of capitalist globalization, the search for alternative globalizations

• Jorge Alonso

This is a very important book, because it brings together the long career of a deep researcher, with novel and highly suggestive views. These are searches that highlight aspects that could not be visualized and that are approached with great originality. An alternative emphasis prevails, but the predominant is also studied very acutely.

Challenging neoliberal territorialities: disputed lives, bodies and land

• Inés Durán Matute

From a look inspired by anthropology, critical geography and feminism, it shows us how capitalism has affected the daily lives of P'urhépecha women in Zirosto and Cherán (Michoacán) by favoring violence and accentuating the precariousness of bodies, lives and land.

Ethno-Racial Dynamics In Mexico: An Approach To The Racist Discourses In The Yucatecan Elite

• Angie Edell Campos Lazo
• Jorge Rafael Ramirez

The ways in which the racialization traverse the cotidianities, and therefore the forms of analysis of racism and the social phenomena related to the category race, vary depending on the context. In this review, Angie Campos and Jorge Rafael investigate Eugenia Iturriaga's proposal to anthropologically theorize racism in Yucatán, starting from a study of the meridian elites with an extremely interesting methodology.

The dream of the mara'akame. Ethno-fiction, allochrony and indigenous modernity

• Paul liffman

Wl dream of mara'akame is about the drama of an indigenous Wixárika teenager (Luciano Bautista) who is dealing with the supposed poles of urban modernity, expressed in popular music, and rural tradition, embodied in his father (Antonio Parra). It is part of a new generation of cinema about wixaritari, but not yet directed by them.

Eternal life thanks to religious conversion

• Miguel Lisbona Guillén

WIn a classic format, logical because it is a book resulting from a doctoral thesis, the work of Antonio Higuera Bonfil contains three life stories of members of the religious group Jehovah's Witnesses in El Palmar, a town in the state of Quintana Roo (Mexico ), an ejido that is described in profusion of detail, beyond its religious characteristics.

Culture, harassment and society; of hegemonies and feminisms

• Maria Monica Sosa Vasquez

Marta Lamas is a Mexican anthropologist and feminist with an important career. In 1992 he co-founded the Information Group on Elected Reproduction, vital in the discussion about abortion in Mexico, decriminalized in Mexico City (2007). Within the framework of his latest work -Culture, harassment and society; of hegemonies and feminisms-, Mónica Sosa analyzes and questions the bases of her postulates, underlining the previous discussion in this regard.

"It is love that bleeds": social anxieties, activisms and new subjectivities around the menstrual cycle

• Karina Felitti

Out of blood brings together eleven essays that analyze the culture and politics of menstruation and connect them with identity politics (feminism, anti-racism, queer subjectivities), body awareness and knowledge, social inequities and the possibilities of transformation that they generate activisms and solidarity that are woven based on the body. From an interdisciplinary approach that combines feminist theory, social sciences, psychotherapy discourses, cultural studies, trans, sexuality and gender studies, Fahs wonders in what ways ordinary bodily processes can have implications for social justice and the construction of new menstrual stories, individually and collectively.

Osho in America: between the counterculture and the conservative reaction

• Nicolas Viotti

PRemembered at the Sundance festival and celebrated as one of Netflix's phenomena, Wild Wild Country catches the eye within minutes of watching it. In six one-hour episodes, each one traces the experience of the spiritual movement led by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (later known as Osho) in the United States. The plot recounts in detail how the followers of one of the most famous and influential Indian gurus of the last decades bond with the inhabitants of Antelope, a town of fifty people in the northwestern United States.

Wixárika art, a door of recognition to the sacred

• Isaac Mariscal

With regard to the exhibition Great masters of Wixárika art. Juan Negrín Collection, exhibited at the Cabañas Institute from June 20 to October 2019, I present the following reflections on the approach to Wixaritari sacred art through the museum or commercial medium.

Culture, politics and daily life in Mexico from a gender perspective

• Agustin Vaca

The collective work Gender at the crossroads of the social and cultural history of Mexico is directed, above all, to the frontal combat against prejudices, biological, social, religious or of any other kind, which historically have prevented, and some still do, the full participation of women in public life, at the same time that it is an effort to penetrate deep into the historical thickness that corresponds to them in their own right.

Questions about social movements

• Jorge Alonso

Those who wanted to get away from capitalism from above, failed to get out of it and returned. Taking power to change society, it has been seen that it is not the way. The question is how to get out of capitalism from below, transforming society to end the dominant power. You have to learn to think slowly so as not to be devastated by urgency. We must gradually calibrate the challenges, dilemmas, problems, contradictions, but also the possibilities that open to certain options. In all these reflections, reading this book can encourage us to continue delving into the contributions of social movements.

See with the others. A dialogic and horizontal proposal in research

• José Manuel Valenzuela Arce

Ver con los otros. Comunicación intercultural is a powerful work that breaks new ground in academic debates concerned with the role of academia in the (re) production of the colonial order and social inequality. It is also committed to critical research that aims to transform the world together with those who are subalternized in the research process, and made invisible from a supposed condition of objects or mere transmitters of knowledge.

Gender inequalities in northern Mexico

• Maria Eugenia de la O

This work brings together different specialists who offer an interesting overview of the social, economic and political conditions in which women in northern Mexico live from a gender perspective. The book offers the reader detailed information on research carried out with academic rigor, but with a language accessible to a non-specialized audience. The text addresses classic and constitutive themes of the field of gender studies such as the social division of labor, the family, violence, the construction of meanings, power, participation and political representation.

TO Over the course of 44 years, Juan dedicated his efforts to compiling data on the language, oral history, sacred and contemporary art, as well as the rituals of the Wixárika people. Starting with art and continuing with territorial defense through autonomous productive projects, this work has bequeathed a unique heritage on the Wixárika culture. Negrín's writings include notebooks, diaries, multiple handwritten and typewritten drafts, but he also left hundreds of audios, mainly conversations with artists and the elderly. kawiterutsiri, where core concepts of the Wixárika worldview are deepened.

Written culture, intersectionality and subjectivity

• Maria Teresa Fernandez Aceves

TOnita Brenner. A Jewish writer with Mexico in her heart focuses on the writings of Anita Brenner (1905-1974), daughter of Jewish immigrants from Latvia who worked in Aguascalientes. It is a refined and innovative study in the historiographies of written culture, autobiography, biography, universities, Jewish migration, women's history, and gender in revolutionary and post-revolutionary Mexico.

Indigenous domestic workers and employers in contemporary Mexico: changes, continuities and convergences

• Santiago Canevaro

The book by Séverine Durin represents a significant contribution to analyze and understand the processes through which the inequality of the place of indigenous domestic workers in contemporary Mexico is naturalized and legitimized. Product of more than ten years of research on the situation of indigenous people in the metropolitan area of Monterrey, the author proposes from an anthropological perspective to see with a critical and relational perspective and make a nodal contribution to the debate on the precariousness and vulnerability of female workers of the “plant” home, from a perspective that intersects the cleavages of gender, class and ethnicity.

A look at the past of Nueva Galicia

• Andres Fabregas Puig

The history of the Kingdom of New Galicia is part of the process of expansion of Western Europe, modernization and capitalism, in the form of colonialism. Likewise, it is part of the decolonization processes in general and of the formation of the Mexican nation and the Mexican national State in particular. The texts that make up the work document the above, describe the results of the colonial enterprise that lasted three centuries, the expropriation of the lands from their original owners, the disruption of the territories and the forging of new regional realities, evangelization and, therefore, Of course, the anti-colonial resistance of which the Mixtón war is already an icon.

Biography of the Guadalupano Ex-Voto

• Renée de la Torre Castellanos

The votive offerings are pictographic materials that were made to ask, thank and witness the miraculous power (Faser, 2000), in this case of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Its ritual practice is carried out within a system of votive practices that occur in the system of the Catholic popular religion. But in addition to this original meaning, votive offerings have been valued by collectors and art lovers as aesthetic works (the Frida Kalho collection accounts for this), but they have also been considered by anthropologists and historians as period testimonies (see works by Patricia Arias and Jorge Durand, 2003). In this book, Margarita Zires takes them up as social texts that can be interpreted and analyzed as discursive genres.