Interviewees

Entrevistas

Three-way conversations on community feminism in Guerrero

Interview with
  • Tranquilina Morales and María del Carmen Mejía

  • Lina Rosa Berrio

Keywords: feminism, community feminism, Guerrero, Me'phaa, Mexico, indigenous women.

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.

Entrevistas

Autobiographical testimonials. Part Two: Marxism and Internal Colonialism

Interview with
  • Rodolfo Stavenhagen

  • Guillermo de la Peña

In the previous issue of Encartes the first part of these testimonies was published. In it, Rodolfo Stavenhagen spoke of episodes from his childhood and early youth: the first years in Mexico, the discovery of anthropology and experiences with indigenism. This second part jumps back to the 1960s: doctoral training in Paris, followed by two years of professional work in Brazil that culminated in the return to their adopted country.

Entrevistas

Masculinities in northern Mexico

Interview with
  • Misael Hernandez

  • Joel Pedraza Mandujano

The Dr. Misael Hernández, research professor at El Colegio de la Frontera based in Matamoros, talks about how new masculinities are constructed from gender studies and cultural studies. The researcher makes a historical review about the subject and the way in which it has interacted with other fields, such as studies queer. It delves into the way in which the concept of hegemonic masculinity has changed, both temporally and geographically, throughout history from the 1980s to now.

Entrevistas

Autobiographical testimonials. First part

Interview with
  • Rodolfo Stavenhagen

  • Guillermo de la Peña

ROdolfo Stavenhagen (1932-2016) was one of the most important social scientists in Latin America in the last six decades. He had to live and participate in significant moments and scenarios in the history of Mexico and the world: of "interesting times", Eric Hobsbawm would say (alluding to the Chinese proverb: "God save us from interesting times"). On several occasions, during the second half of 2015, Rodolfo agreed to talk with me about his life and work. They were informal conversations, and for me fascinating, in which he let his memory flow spontaneously, while we enjoyed a good tequila on the terrace of his house in Cuernavaca. Not only was I interested in exploring his intellectual development in the context of the Mexican, American, French and Latin American academic world, I also wanted to understand the moral search of a human person committed to his circumstance.

Entrevistas

Derecho de playa: my experience as an anthropologist in documentary film production

Interview with
  • Cristina Alfaro Barbosa

  • Santiago Bastos

The interviewee describes her work as a sociologist and anthropologist in documentary film production and reflects on it; specifically through the collaborative experience in the documentary Derecho de playa.

Entrevistas

School of cross-border studies

Interview with
  • Carlos Velez-Ibáñez

  • Joel Pedraza Mandujano

As part of the activities of the Guadalajara International Book Fair, we interviewed Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez, founder, professor and director of the School of Cross-Border Studies at Arizona State University (asu for its acronym in English). He told us about the history, academic programs and research projects that are developed at the School, focused on migrants and children of migrants. He also described a project for the digitization of maps dating from the century xvi to the century xix from the southwestern United States, particularly Arizona, New Mexico, and California.

Coloquios interdisciplinarios

Comment to the colloquium "Global turn to the right and the relevance of anthropology" by
  • Gustavo Lins Ribeiro
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Between the twists, the conceptual platitudes, and the critical nature of anthropology

  • Paul wright

Keywords: Anthropology, criticism, universities.

Lhe problems mentioned in [Gustavo Lins Ribeiro's] work stem from changes in the discipline itself in the face of other modes of analysis such as cultural, postcolonial, gender, and science and technology studies, which seem to have appropriated concepts such as culture and an apparently sui generis application of ethnographic methodology, which, in terms of public knowledge and intellectual fashions, seem to be in a moment of growth in the face of the apparent decline of anthropology as a discipline.

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Road anthropology, a proposal for the study of mobility as a cultural field

Interview with
  • Paul wright

  • Christian O. Grimaldo-Rodríguez

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.

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Social sciences here and now: meanings and perspectives of the research profession

Interview with
  • Alan knight

  • Claudio Palma Mancilla
  • Joel Pedraza Mandujano

In the framework of the conference Social Sciences Here and Now. Senses and Perspectives of the Research Profession, developed at Ciesas Occidente on November 6 and 7, 2014, we had the opportunity to interview the English historian Alan Knight, from the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Oxford. The meeting not only served as a platform for debate and communication between the exhibitors and attendees, but also to dialogue on a more personal level with researchers about the themes and central axes on which it was discussed in the work meetings.