Frances Paola Garnica Quiñones is a postdoctoral researcher at the Secretariat of Science, Humanities, Technology and Innovation (sehciti) at El Colegio de San Luis (colsanHer current project focuses on the implications of the exploration of the therapeutic potential of peyote from a biocultural territory defense approach. Her lines of research are the perception and social imaginary of spaces and the methodologies and applications of visual anthropology in social research. She is co-director of the documentary ¡…Y del barrio no me voy! Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6957-1299

Discrepancias

Holistic well-being or cultural extractivism? Who decides? Questions on the consumption of psychedelic substances and their territorial impacts in Latin America.

  • Ezequiel Alí Cortina Bello
  • John Scuro
  • Sarai Piña Alcántara

  • moderator Frances Paola Garnica Quiñones

El consumo masivo de psicodélicos ha intensificado debates sobre sus impactos en comunidades indígenas latinoamericanas. Mientras la globalización impulsa el uso comercial y terapéutico de plantas sagradas, se generan tensiones entre el bienestar holístico occidental y la preservación del patrimonio cultural indígena. Este texto examina cómo el extractivismo psicodélico desterritorializa plantas y saberes ancestrales, creando nuevos mercados que transforman las relaciones tradicionales con estos seres considerados agentes político-espirituales por los pueblos originarios.

EncArtes multimedia

The awareness of being looked at: giving a view of the tianguis stall

  • Frances Paola Garnica Quiñones

This photographic essay shows the process of giving view, a practice of presentation of the stall conformed by certain aesthetic elements that allow a crucial communication flow with other actors of the tianguis to ensure its continuity. The importance of the materiality and visuality of the stall is exposed in terms of its aesthetic production and the affectivities and values that are associated with it and that result in a visual language of the market. This essay is derived from the ethnographic work carried out between 2012 and 2013 in collaboration with Ruta 8, one of the associations of merchants enrolled in the Mercado Sobre Ruedas (msr) program, coordinated by the Secretaría de Desarrollo Económico (sedeco) of Mexico City (cdmx).

Entrevistas

The Iridescence of the Lanterns: Hiroshima Behind the Lens of Seiji Shinohara

Interview with
  • Seiji Shinohara

  • Arturo Humberto Gutiérrez del Ángel
  • Frances Paola Garnica Quiñones
  • Greta alvarado lugo

Seiji Shinohara's photographs seem to question this image and turn it upside down, because his gaze is not that Hiroshima, but that place that does not coincide with our imagination, lined with large gates, with Buddhist offerings among the alleys, architectural details of Shinto shrines, cobblestone roads, cherry trees reflected in the rivers and daily announcements that insinuate inhabited streets, vivid... leaving out of the frame any silhouette or individual.