Mauricio Sánchez Álvarez is a Colombian-Mexican anthropologist, photographer and translator. D. in Anthropology from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. For more than 40 years he has researched in the fields of human-environmental studies, intercultural education and audiovisual anthropology, of which he has both publications and didactic and aesthetic projections. He has taught at the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, the Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Unidad Iztapalapa, the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. He has worked as a consultant for the Secretaría de Educación Pública, coordinator of the Laboratorio Audiovisual del ciesas and translator of texts by American political scientist Jonathan Fox (ucsc and American University) and the Violence Policy Center. She is currently developing projects related to the teaching of audiovisual production in anthropology. She is a member of the Academy of Social Sciences and Humanities of the State of Morelos, Red de Estudios Sociales sobre el Medio Ambiente (ream) and the Audiovisual Research Network of the ciesas (riav).

Reseñas críticas

Laerte-se, Paloma

Lygia Barbosa da Silva and Eliane Brum, Marcelo Gomes, 2017, 2022 True Lab, Carnaval Films, Brazil.

Contrasted transgender female subjectivities (urban and rural) in two Brazilian film narratives: Laerte-se and Paloma (2017).

  • Mauricio Sánchez Álvarez

Este texto analiza desde una perspectiva antropológica dos películas brasileñas sobre mujeres transgénero: el documental Laerte-se (Barbosa da Silva y Brum, 2017) y el largometraje Paloma (Gomes, 2022). Ambas obras presentan contextos contrastantes: Laerte es una artista urbana de São Paulo, mientras que Paloma es una trabajadora agrícola del Sertão rural. A pesar de sus diferencias, ambas protagonistas viven su identidad transgénero con claridad y gozan de aceptación en sus entornos inmediatos. La reseña examina cómo estas mujeres construyen espacios de supervivencia y dignidad en sociedades donde predomina el patrón heterosexual, explorando los factores socioculturales que permiten su aceptación en el nivel microsocial frente a las tensiones del nivel macrosocial.

Entrevistas

Interview with Colombian anthropologist and documentary filmmaker Felipe Paz, director of the medium-length film "Putchi Pu".

Interview with
  • Felipe Paz

  • Mauricio Sánchez Álvarez

Felipe Paz is an independent Colombian anthropologist and documentary filmmaker, with a very extensive career having made cultural videos and also worked in the mass media in Colombia and Venezuela. His medium-length film Putchi Pu can be described as collaborative ethno-fiction, as it portrays how conflicts are settled among the Wayúu people. Putchi Pu makes visible the figure of the indigenous "palabrero" and his role in the peaceful resolution of conflicts.