Análisis de enredos religiosos en desfiles de escuelas de samba de Río de Janeiro (2016-2022) como performances críticas de cultura y derechos.

Debate entre tres especialistas y ChatGPT-5 sobre los LLM desde las ciencias sociales.

The massive consumption of psychedelics has intensified debates about their impacts on indigenous communities in Latin America. As globalization drives the commercial and therapeutic use of sacred plants, tensions are generated between Western holistic wellbeing and the preservation of indigenous cultural heritage. This text examines how psychedelic extractivism de-territorializes plants and ancestral knowledge, creating new markets that transform traditional relationships with these beings considered political-spiritual agents by native peoples.

Debate on how the Palestinian situation is perceived from different Latin American perspectives. Experts from Mexico, Brazil, Chile and Argentina reflect on the current Israeli occupation in Palestine, analyzing the political, social, religious and student reactions in the countries of the region. The influence of Christian Zionism, pro-Palestinian mobilizations and geopolitical dynamics that shape the understanding of this conflict in Latin America are addressed.

For Mauss, the gift encompasses innumerable phenomena, but, more than a phenomenon, he considers it a relationship. They are goods, words, people, visits, parties, music, gestures, violence, signs, among other significant realities, which may or may not circulate as commodities, from which, once given, emanate some forms of retribution; they are "obligations," says Mauss.

The Anthropocene, as a concept and framework for thinking and producing knowledge on contemporary issues, has given rise to multiple debates on the validity and scope of its proposals. The natural and Earth sciences debate whether or not it is a new geological era, in which the intervention of the human species would have a primordial role; however, other debates arise from the social sciences and humanities.

For some, perspectivism is a revolution in anthropological thought, while for others it is not a theory, but rather an ideology forged by bringing into the arena of discussion old, unearthed and outdated paradigms that were long ago superseded.

Sex has been problematized and is no longer considered only a biological phenomenon, to give way to the discussion on sexuality and to make the body visible as the space where meaning-producing relationships materialize.

The covid-19 pandemic and the confinement it brought with it led the whole world to seek new ways of organizing daily life. They also imposed the need to rethink the way we relate to nature and the meaning of our individual, social and species existence.

In the last decade, a wave of accusations has been launched against brands and companies for using cultural elements of indigenous groups. In Mexico, several cases have had considerable resonance: the complaint by the Mixe community of Tlahuitoltepec against the French company Isabel Marant for copying its Xaam nïxuy blouse; the protest by the Secretary of Culture, Alejandra Frausto, against the fashion house of Carolina Herrera for the use of embroidery from Tenango de Doria and the sarape from Saltillo; and on three different occasions the fashion clothing company Zara has been accused of plagiarism for using designs from Aguacatenango, Chiapas.