culture

Landscape and Cultural Identity

Gloria Aponte García, Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca

“Aquí fue Troya” – Women, Theater and Cultural Agencies

Diana M. Gómez Correal marcelantropologia@hotmail.com Universidad Nacional de Colombia Abstract: This paper explores the relationship between the agency, culture, politics, and the possibility of transforming reality through the use of a theatrical piece created collectively by a group of young feminist women and the participation of some of the audience members. Starting from an ethnographic […]

Diversity and Culture: Objectification and Situationality

Alejandro Grimson agrimson@unsam.edu.ar Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina Abstract: Anthropology has theoretically confronted racism and discrimination. The paradox is that once the concept of culture started to become widely accepted, it was also redefined as race. Another paradox is that the arguments for diversity and relativism were appropriated by sectors that promote discrimination. This […]

Cultural studies in postgraduate programs in Latin America: A pegagogical and methodologi- cal proposal

Mónica Szurmuk mszurmuk@mora.edu.mx Instituto Mora, México Robert McKee Irwin university of california, Davis, uSa University of California, Davis, USA Abstract: In this paper, we deliver a genealogy of cultural studies presence in postgraduate programs in Latin America, along with an analysis of the different forms students postgraduate training assume throughout the region. Notwithstanding the supposed […]

Waking from sleep: Walter Benjamin and the shock issue

Guido Vespucci, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina

Intersections between anthropology and cultural studies: an analysis on the “political” and the politics in our field of study

Diana Bocarejo dbocarejo@gmail.com Universidad del Rosario, Colombia Abstract: In spite of their mutual caricaturization, anthropology and cultural studies share a set of analytical approaches which could result in immensely fruitful dialogues. In this brief reflection I intend to present some contributions from both fields of study compared to the analysis both theoretical and empirical on “the […]

On desires, interventions and trajectories: anthropology and cultural studies in Colombia

Juan Ricardo Aparicio japarici@uniandes.edu.co Universidad de los Andes, Colombia Abstract: In this paper, I will give a look to the relationship between anthropology and cultural studies through a common research platform on the relationship between culture and power. Thus, far from following the stereotypes under which anthropology and cultural studies are called in Colombia, this […]

Transculturation and cultural studies. A brief approach to Fernando Ortiz’ thinking

Erelis Marrero León, Universidad de La Habana, Cuba

Conflict and Violence: Gendered Relationships, Cultural Expressions and Distress

Anna María Fernández Poncela, UAM/Xochimilco, México