Articles about "natives"

Discrepancias

Debates on Cultural Heritage and the Commercialization of Collective Expressions

  • Aura Cumes
  • Jesús Antonio Machuca Ramírez
  • Suely Kofes
  • Xóchitl Eréndira Zolueta Juan

  • moderator Rachel Barber

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.

Reseñas críticas

El Sueño del mara’akame

Federico Cecchetti [Tsikiri Temai] (director), José Felipe Coria and María del Carmen de Lara (producers), 2016 CUEC, Estudios Churubusco-Azteca and IMCINE, Mexico.

The dream of the mara'akame. Ethno-fiction, allochrony and indigenous modernity

  • Paul liffman

Wl dream of mara'akame is about the drama of an indigenous Wixárika teenager (Luciano Bautista) who is dealing with the supposed poles of urban modernity, expressed in popular music, and rural tradition, embodied in his father (Antonio Parra). It is part of a new generation of cinema about wixaritari, but not yet directed by them.

Entrevistas

The struggle of an Ecuadorian indigenous woman, a migrant in Spain, for the right to housing and against banking abuses

Interview with
  • Aida Quinatoa

  • Olga L. González

Aída Quinatoa is an indigenous Ecuadorian economic migrant in Spain, where she has been the leader of the mobilization of migrants against the so-called “real estate scam”, against banks and real estate companies. This same fight made Ada Colau known and led her to the Mayor of Barcelona (2015-2019). In this interview, Aída details the role of the National Coordinator of Ecuadorians in Spain, CONADEE, an organization that she led between 2006 and 2013. This mobilization became visible beyond the circles that work with migrants as of mid-2011, due to their presence in evictions.

Reseñas críticas

“Yo trabajo en casa”. Trabajo del hogar de planta, género y etnicidad en Monterrey

Severine durin, 2017 Publications of the Casa Chata, CIESAS, México, 414 pp.

Indigenous domestic workers and employers in contemporary Mexico: changes, continuities and convergences

  • Santiago Canevaro

The book by Séverine Durin represents a significant contribution to analyze and understand the processes through which the inequality of the place of indigenous domestic workers in contemporary Mexico is naturalized and legitimized. Product of more than ten years of research on the situation of indigenous people in the metropolitan area of Monterrey, the author proposes from an anthropological perspective to see with a critical and relational perspective and make a nodal contribution to the debate on the precariousness and vulnerability of female workers of the “plant” home, from a perspective that intersects the cleavages of gender, class and ethnicity.