Vol 5, No. 9 (2022)

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Temáticas

Sense Rendered Obtuse: Visuality and Ethnographic Practice

Presentation

  • Richard Kernaghan and Gabriela Zamorano Villarreal

For Barthes, the obtuse sense exposes the limits of the world of representations. It occurs when certain elements underlying the image emerge surprisingly to mark accents or changes of intonation in the visual message. This collection takes up the notion of the obtuse to reassess the weight and potency of the image for ethnography. Each contribution to this volume analyzes the notion of the obtuse to probe the ethnographic possibilities of the image considered from its most common, diverse and unexpected expressions. The contributions attend to the "third" or "non-obvious" meanings that emerge through empirical encounters.

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Dossier

“Apparently Meaningless” Images in the Place of Memory, Tolerance and Social Inclusion

  • Olga González Castañeda

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The Distant Thunder-Images that Persist in the Huallaga River

  • Richard Kernaghan

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Fragments of a Relocation: The Insistence of Images

  • Sandra Rozental

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

  • Gabriela Zamorano Villarreal

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Realidades socioculturales

Married Life, Gender and Care in the Couple in Times of COVID-19 in the Metropolitan Areas of Colima and Guadalajara, Mexico

  • Rocío Enríquez Rosas, Ana Josefina Cuevas Hernández and Ana Gabriel Castillo Sánchez

Keywords: covid-19 pandemic, intimacy, conjugality, gender role, mutual care, heterosexual couples

In this article we set out to answer the following question: how has the covid-19 pandemic disrupted the intimacy of three generations of heterosexual couples residing in the metropolitan areas of Guadalajara and Colima in the dimensions of conjugality, gender roles, and mutual care? The objective of this article is to describe and analyze the main findings of a survey conducted online in the first week of May 2020 in the metropolitan areas of Guadalajara and Colima to learn how these dimensions of intimacy of couples in the study region have been disrupted. The application of the survey on the aforementioned date favored a timely inquiry to account for the experience of confinement.

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Postdenominational Christianity and the Coronavirus: Religious Field and Innovation in Mexico and the United States

  • Carlos S. Ibarra and Edson F. Gomes

Key words emerging christianity, coronavirus, postdenominational churches, religious innovation, Mexico, United States

Postdenominational Christianity has considerable changes in the styles of worship and in the organizational congregational structure, transforming the way in which their devotees relate to their beliefs, with the world around them and the way in which they experience Christianity. This article presents examples of Postdenominational Churches in Mexico and the United States in the context of social distancing as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 pandemic. Using these examples, we observe the innovation in the religious field that Postdenominational Churches represent and how they not only have online resources, but in certain cases, they are what we call semi-virtual Churches.

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Sex Work Dynamics in Tijuana: Ethnographic Narrations of the Zona Norte and Coahuila Street

  • Alberto Hernandez Hernandez

This article presents accounts and social dynamics of the red light district or tolerance zone in Tijuana, Baja California, based on findings obtained after almost five decades of visiting this peculiar space on the border, and specifically from a period of three years (2015 to 2018) in which ethnographic tours were conducted collecting accounts of sex workers, employees of establishments, users of these services and visitors, in which they share experiences around sex work in the area.

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Encartes multimedia

Bazaar Economy on the Puente del Papa (Pope’s Bridge). Monterrey

  • Efrén Sandoval Hernández

The objective of this essay is to show the co-participation of merchants and merchandise in the reproduction of particular ways of doing and being in the broader context of urban reality. The essay consists of a reflection and photographs taken at the points of sale of these merchants. By characterizing this trade as a bazaar economy, the gaze is directed towards the goods, their types, characteristics and dispositions, including those of the merchants. The geographical centrality of the location of this activity is contrasted with its marginality in relation to the economy and hegemonic discourses in the city. Just as the goods here find a second or third life, the merchants seem to do the same by managing to remain despite having already been discarded by the labor market and other life circumstances.

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Entrevistas

The Rootless Migrant: A Historical Depredation

  • Jorge Durand

  • Manuela Camus

Jorge Durand is the guest in this interview section of the magazine. Encartes. Anthropologist and researcher at the University of Guadalajara, where he holds the Chair of Migration, Jorge Durand is a specialist in U.S.-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.

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The Radical Right and Trans-Media Digital Narratives in the United States of America. Interview with Mark Potok

  • Mark Potok

  • José Antonio Abreu Colombri

Political current affairs around the world, especially in Europe and the United States, are conditioned by a multitude of disruptive discourses that provoke great social upheaval and permanent controversy in the media. The main motivation of the interview lies in knowing the interpretations of Mark Potok, one of the leading experts on current political thought and radical and violent right-wing movements in Europe and North America, on this phenomenon.

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Discrepancias

migrantes

Debates on Cultural Heritage and the Commercialization of Collective Expressions

  • Aura Cumes, Jesús Antonio Machuca, Suely Kofes and Xóchitl Zolueta

  • moderator Rachel Barber

In the last decade, there has been a wave of accusations against brands and companies for using cultural elements of indigenous groups. While it seems unfair for private companies to appropriate and profit from the iconography and designs produced by indigenous communities, what is less obvious is how rights over collective cultural expressions should be thought of.

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Reseñas críticas

Break everything. The history of rock in Latin America. Television series

Picky Talarico, Nicolás Entel and Nicolás Gueilburt, 2020, New York, Red Creek Productions.

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

  • Ma. del Carmen de la Peza Casares

Despite the pretension of universality announced in the subtitle of the series, the particular point of view of its producer, main speaker of the documentary and one of the participants in the dialogue, prevails. The documentary is an ode to Gustavo Santaolalla, who made a career in the music industry and promoted multiple rock groups in which he discovered aesthetic values, original proposals and an economic potential as a product of popular consumption.

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Gender and Rarámuri ethnicity in the city of Chihuahua. Organization and participation of women in congregate settlements.

Marco Vinicio Morales Muñoz, 2020, Secretaría de Cultura - inah - Escuela de Antropología e Historia del Norte de México (eahnm), Mexico, 256 pp.

Urban Rarámuri Women. Gender Reconfigurations From Ethnicity

  • María Teresa Sierra Camacho

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. It is a hopeful book that puts at the center the creative responses of Rarámuri women and men to reconfigure their lives in spaces very different from those they have traditionally occupied in the Sierra Tarahumara.

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Methods in Action. Studies on documentary and social research

Lourdes Roca (coordinator), 2020, Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. José María Luis Mora, Mexico, 299 pp.

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

  • Maria Aimaretti

The book offers a plurality of research and epistemological approaches -situated analytical practices- that illuminate different aspects of a conflictive copula: documentary film/audiovisuals and social, historical and anthropological research. In the essays, the question hovers over the question: how to approach the dialogues, borrowings and tensions between art and science in the documentary phenomenon; between sensitive stimulation and forms of knowledge about the world, culture and history?

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Director

Renée de la Torre Castellanos

Edition

Arthur Temporal Ventura

Correction

Maria Palomar

Cecilia Palomar

Design and layout

Veronica Segovia

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