Showing papers in "Revista De Dialectologia Y Tradiciones Populares in 2017"
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TL;DR: A review of the anthropology of food in Spain and Latin America from a recent historical perspective is presented in this article, which analyzes the origin of the anthropology of food and the difficulties for the establishment of this specialty in the context of sociocultural anthropology to the present day.
Abstract: In this article we propose a review of the anthropology of food in Spain and Latin America from a recent historical perspective. The article analyzes the origin of the anthropology of food in Spain and in Latin America and the difficulties for the establishment of this specialty in the context of the sociocultural anthropology to the present day, and includes an overview of current and emerging subjects. The article is organized mainly around three axes that group the subjects and trends of professionals who have worked in this field: food heritage between locality and globalization; hunger and food deficiencies; and food symbolism and meaning.
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TL;DR: The anthropological, sociological and educational roots of Prisoner's Base have been only very slightly researched by as mentioned in this paper, who adopted an approach that covers historical-genealogical and interdisciplinary phenomenological aspects (the latter concerning anthropology, sociology and education), supported by a broad-ranging documentary review of primary sources.
Abstract: The collaborative game of Prisoner’s Base (also called Prisoner’s Bars) has formed part of the cultural repository of Western civilisation from very remote times. Nevertheless, the anthropological, sociological and educational roots of this game have been only very slightly researched. Starting with a cultural assessment of its origins, we attempt to ascertain exactly why this physical-recreational game has remained practically unaltered over the centuries. The study adopts an approach that covers historical-genealogical and interdisciplinary phenomenological aspects (the latter concerning anthropology, sociology and education), supported by a broad-ranging documentary review of primary sources. The results lead us to sustain that, within the internal logic of Prisoner’s Base, there are the underlying socialising codes of contemporary education, through which its lasting presence guarantees the theory of the «process of civilisation» in the West. This interpretation also contributes to valuing its phenomenological comprehension within the history of physical games and the role that these play in society.
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TL;DR: In this paper, an exhaustive review of the literature aimed at analysing the paths taken, the transformations effected and the areas of interest relating to work on sexual and gender diversity in Spanish anthropology from 1980 to 2017 is presented.
Abstract: The study of sexuality from a social and cultural standpoint has acquired great importance in the social and human sciences in recent decades. This is reflected in a growing number of ethnographies and anthropological analyses that provide a new understanding of sexual and gender diversity that goes beyond clinical and biomedical interpretations. This article is the product of an exhaustive review of the literature aimed at analysing the paths taken, the transformations effected and the areas of interest relating to work on sexual and gender diversity in Spanish anthropology from 1980 to 2017. Currently, this specialised discipline comprises a wide variety of subjects since, in addition to studies on homosexuality, there has been a rapid expansion in new areas of interest, such as trans and intersex studies. The aim of this work is to contribute to the construction of the history of anthropology of sexual and gender diversity in Spain from a situated perspective. This article demonstrates that despite the indisputable international influence on the development of this specialty in Spain, there have also been specific local developments heavily influenced by the socio-historical context and feminist anthropology in the country.
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TL;DR: In this article, the conditions in which masculinity is constructed among the young men known as ''falcons'' engaged in surveillance and security for drug cartels are examined, and the role these young men play and what their work means for their gender identities.
Abstract: This article seeks to examine the conditions in which masculinity is constructed among the young men known as «falcons» engaged in surveillance and security for drug cartels. It analyses the ethnographic experience collected in two scenarios: Ciudad de Mante in the state of Tamaulipas and the Coatzacoalcos prison in Veracruz. We show methods of recruitment and operations, the roles these young men play and what their work means for their gender identities. We also reflect on ethnography in contexts of violence and suggest tools like cyberethnography and websites specializing in the issue with discussion forums, as a direct source of information for individuals outside the law.
10 citations
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TL;DR: The authors argue that a crucial transformation has taken place within the activation of heritage assets: we have moved from the political nationalism which triggered collective heritage in the nineteenth century, to a nationalism of consumption during the twenty-first century.
Abstract: The heritage phenomenon has undergone spectacular growth in recent decades in a boom that can be interpreted as an aspect of the third spirit of capitalism. The arrival of the economy of intangibles with its emphasis on this new production of value has changed the rules of the game for the global economy. In this article, we argue that a crucial transformation has taken place within the activation of heritage assets: we have moved from the political nationalism which triggered collective heritage in the nineteenth century, to a nationalism of consumption during the twentyfirst century. In this context, we focus on the different impact of heritage processes depending on where a location is positioned within global markets. This position will then condition the bid to become a smart city or charming village. We contend that both are two sides of the same coin.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyse the youth emigration process as a ''total social fact'' (Marcel Mauss), setting up a dialogue between the economic, family, political and ideological resources of Spanish society, in the context of the current economic crisis and its aim for social renewal.
Abstract: One of the side-effects of the financial crisis that started in 2008 has been youth emigration abroad, especially to Europe. The cultural narratives around the phenomenon are ambiguous: on one side it is seen as an attractive adventure (promoted by some politicians and businessmen), while on the other it is seen as a forced exile (denounced by social movements and youth organisations). Although this migration process is reminiscent of a previous massive emigration wave —which took place in the 50s and 60s— its character has changed: these are not rural or working class young people with low educational capital but young urban mesocracy often with very high levels of education. Mobility and communication strategies have also changed: the train, the letters and the one-way journeys have been replaced by low-cost flights, Skype and pendular journeys. In any case, this process is inscribed in the dynamics of transnational intra- and extra- European juvenile mobility, and accompanies the «anthropological journey» from the study of the «other» (young people in transit from the Global South to Spain) to the study of «us» (our own young people in transit to the global North). The article introduces texts for this edition on Emerging Themes and aims to analyse the youth emigration process as a «total social fact» (Marcel Mauss), setting up a dialogue between the economic, family, political and ideological resources of Spanish society, in the context of the current economic crisis and its aim for social renewal.
6 citations
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TL;DR: This paper examined the role of gastronomy in the construction of culinary national identities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing on the late gastronomic Canary nationalism, examining national and regional cookbooks aimed at a female audience.
Abstract: This paper follows recent discussions about the role of gastronomy in the construction of culinary national identities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing on the construction of late gastronomic Canary nationalism. It examines national and regional cookbooks —aimed mainly at a female audience— and extends the study to the kitchen, analysing the effects of cookery bestsellers on the diet of the social elites of the Canary Islands and gauging the impact of other influences like British gastronomy, through research on handwritten recipes in family archives. Finally, the transmission cycle of this domestic knowledge within the female socialisation universe will also be analysed.
6 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focused on the discourse produced by both governmental and non-governmental agents responsible for ensuring the welfare of the most vulnerable population and examined the support system for trafficking victims.
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to reflect some of the advances in our research on the work done by Dominican women at cantinas located in Puerto Rico and on the women’s access to the American social protection system. The fieldwork was conducted in 2014, using an ethnographic methodology. In this context, we have focused on the discourse produced by both governmental and non-governmental agents responsible for ensuring the welfare of the most vulnerable population. In particular, bearing in mind that, as a population on the move subjected to situations of exploitation, these women could have access to resources related to human trafficking, we have also examined the support system for trafficking victims.
Trafficking cannot be understood without reference to international regulations governed by specific ideologies and definitions about what constitutes a trafficking victim. We have therefore focused on how such regulations are put into practice on the ground. We will consider how, by constructing a «trafficking victim» category, both the regulations and their practical implementation make racialized working-class Dominican women invisible, even though they are extensively present throughout the country and can be found in labor exploitation spaces.
6 citations
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TL;DR: In this article, a preliminary exploration of the impact of Mexican anthropology in Catalonia in the last third of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first century, with special attention to the work of professionals in the Mexican anthropological sciences, derived from the Spanish republican exile, is presented.
Abstract: This article constitutes a preliminary exploration, of an eminently biographical nature, of a longer project that seeks to analyse the impact of Mexican anthropology in Catalonia in the last third of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first century, with special attention to the work of professionals in the Mexican anthropological sciences, derived from the Spanish republican exile. After a first section dedicated to the presentation of the process of introducing anthropology at the University of Barcelona, around the figure of Claudi Esteva Fabregat, a second section is dedicated to the characterisation of the social and institutional environment in which the arrival of the exiles to Mexico is framed.
This is followed by a presentation of the foundational role played by Pere Bosch i Gimpera and Joan Comas i Camps, exiled at the zenith of their academic careers. The following sections address the biography and major contributions of young exiles educated in Mexico (ENAH and UNAM), who had come from Barcelona (Angel Palerm, Claudi Esteva and Pedro Armillas), Valencia (Santiago Genoves), Madrid (Pedro Carrasco, Jose L. Lorenzo and Carmen Viqueira) and Logrono (Enrique Nalda). They all become essential figures in anthropology in the second half of the twentieth century. We also report on the work of eight members of the second generation who were children of exiles: Gloria Artis Espriu, Gloria Artis Mercadet, Armando Bartra, Roger Bartra, Andres Fabregas, Jordi Gussinyer and finally Jacinta and Juan Vicente Palerm. The text concludes with examples of existing bilateral connections.
5 citations
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the case of London, where the Spanish community created a movement in order to be part of the fight that was going on in Spain: 15-M London; which became Marea Granate London to welcome more people.
Abstract: The ‘Indignados’ or Indignant movement in Spain took place when part of Spanish society was leaving the country due to the economic crisis. This article will analyze the case of London, where the Spanish community created a movement in order to be part of the fight that was going on in Spain: 15-M London; which became Marea Granate London in order to welcome more people. After analysing how the movement is organised, we will consider whether Marea Granate London is a transnational movement or an international expression of a national movement.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the same attitudes of obedience and submission that common people had toward the religious figures also had them to the social ruling figures (the nobility, the clergy and the subsequent absolute monarchy) were also used to promote that the common people adopt these attitudes towards religious figures and, indirectly, also towards the civilian ones.
Abstract: This article attempts to answer the question: what role have religious and patroness festivities in society, now and throughout history? They belong to what is called popular religiosity, are utilitarian —because they were used as a solution to natural and epidemic calamities— and are mainly a symbol of local or regional identity. But besides this, they have always had a social and ideological role, which can be summarized as maintaining the established social order, mainly by making that a part of the population identifies itself with the Crown and the ruling aristocracy. The parallel between God, the Virgin and the saints with the kings, feudal lords and members of the nobility in general favored that the same attitudes of obedience and submission that common people had toward the religious figures, they also had them to the social ruling figures (the nobility, the clergy and the subsequent absolute monarchy). Therefore, religious festivities (Easter, Christmas, Kings and, especially, the patron-saints’ festivities) were the most suitable cultural event to promote that the common people adopt these attitudes towards religious figures and, indirectly, also towards the civilian ones.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored surviving local knowledge of local tomato varieties and concluded that a substantial part of this knowledge is on the verge of disappearance, due to ageing farmers and a lack of generational replacement, but parttime farmers and some professional farmers using quality labels are contributing to the recovery and preservation of the biocultural memory of local varieties of tomato on the island.
Abstract: Memory linked to seeds, and specifically the knowledge associated with local varieties of tomato, has been preserved thanks to oral transmission across the generations. Since the 1950s, the aging of the rural population, the modernisation of agriculture and the exodus to urban areas have led to the gradual loss of farming culture and the genetic erosion of landraces. The objective of the article is to discover those actors who continue to grow and preserve local tomato varieties in Majorca, and the knowledge associated with them. Through qualitative techniques such as participatory observation and semi-structured interviews, we explored surviving local knowledge of these varieties and concluded that a substantial part of this knowledge is on the verge of disappearance, due to ageing farmers and a lack of generational replacement. However, parttime farmers and some professional farmers using quality labels are contributing to the recovery and preservation of the biocultural memory of local varieties of tomato on the island.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the identity creation that emerges among young people who have emigrated to London searching for work is analysed, with a view to understanding how identity is negotiated in an interconnected global context, with media arbitration and where the nation state has lost its monopoly over the construction of identity.
Abstract: This article describes the identity creation that emerges among young people who have emigrated to London searching for work. The discourse and imaginary arising from the general media and self-representations of young people are analysed, with a view to understanding how identity is negotiated in an interconnected global context, with media arbitration and where the nation state has lost its monopoly over the construction of images of identity.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors tackle the centrality of cultural imaginaries in International Adoption and the prolificacy of audiovisual research in anthropology to gain a better understanding.
Abstract: In this article, I inquire about the kind of new knowledge audiovisual insights could provide in the field of International Adoption studies, and how these outcomes could give rise to new ways of approaching that subject. In doing so, I tackle the centrality of cultural imaginaries in International Adoption and the prolificacy of audiovisual research in anthropology to gain a better understanding. Hence, I consider adoptive itineraries as culturally situated contexts that render folk ideologies visible and may become foundational imaginaries that demand the encompassment of academic research with a more general ethnographic comprehension of such cultural representations and ideologies.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyse the conflict that has existed since 1970 between different social players regarding one of the major black vulture colonies ( Aegypius monachus ) in the Iberian Peninsula: between those who defend the eucalyptus plantations and those supporting the black Vulture.
Abstract: We seek to analyse the conflict that has existed since 1970 between different social players regarding one of the major black vulture colonies ( Aegypius monachus ) in the Iberian Peninsula: between those who defend the eucalyptus plantations and those supporting the black vulture. The conflict is both about heritage and the environment. We will see how the black vulture on the one side, and the eucalyptus on the other, have become the lynchpin of a symbolism that confronts the paradigm of productivism and environmentalism in their respective evaluative hierarchies.
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TL;DR: In this article, a series of semi-structured interviews with parents who had been treated at an interventionist medical center were conducted to explore maternal experiences related to pain and suffering in medicalized birth, concluding that there is a hegemony in the biologicist representation of pain in clinical settings.
Abstract: The article explores maternal experiences related to pain and suffering in medicalized birth. The information was obtained from a series of semi-structured interviews with parents who had been treated at an interventionist medical center. The analysis was made from a culturist position which is critical of the somaticist representation of pain. The results suggest assistance dynamics which favor the transformation of pain in suffering, a reality which, together with cultural world views of science and technology, is classified as nonsense, leading mothers into standardized pharmacological treatment of pain. We conclude that there is a hegemony in the biologicist representation of pain in clinical settings, with perspectives that fail to contemplate its moral, social and functional dimensions, thereby underestimating the value of other non-pharmacological approaches.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the relationship between the nation state in Spain in the late nineteenth century and the production of social knowledge of the movement of its population across its borders, and examine how this knowledge is generated and circulated by an intellectual elite of bourgeois origin in the context of a liberal and nationalist ideology.
Abstract: This article analyses the relationship between the nation state in Spain in the late nineteenth century and the production of social knowledge of the movement of its population across its borders. A historical-anthropological perspective, supported by cultural history, the sociology of knowledge and political anthropology is used to demonstrate the existence of structural and structuring relations between different social fields (political, economic, military, etc.), the implementation of state policies controlling population movement and the production of knowledge about Spanish emigrants. The article also examines how this knowledge is generated and circulated by an intellectual elite of bourgeois origin in the context of a liberal and nationalist ideology. This context sets up the conditions for a long debate involving the state’s body of technicians and scientists authorised to speak about social issues.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the data from an ethnographic study on Spain's caravans of women, which consist of meetings arranged between the men and women, both of whom are actively seeking partners.
Abstract: I will present the data from an ethnographic study on Spain’s «caravans of women». These unusual events have been taking place in recent years in territories with disparate geographies, varied historical, economic and social development, and also varied demographic compositions. The events consist of meetings arranged between the men and women, both of whom are actively seeking partners. We were interested in this type of dating because it also tells us about: 1) depopulation, rural masculinisation and bachelorhood; 2) rural areas as contexts offering an opportunity to migrant women and the impact their presence generates; 3) the coexistence of more traditional courtship models; and, 4) the evidence of social inequalities in a space that is questioned for displaying the active search for a partner.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors connect the recent debates on secularism and a certain anthropology of religion/spirituality involved in an exercise of radical participation, symmetry and ontological recognition of the objects it studies.
Abstract: In these pages I intend to connect the recent debates on secularism and a certain anthropology of religion/spirituality involved in an exercise of radical participation, symmetry and ontological recognition of the objects it studies. Detranscendentalising religion is effective as far as the effects of this intellectual operation cancel out the agency and methodological reality of the beings, energies and forces with which subjects deal. To disguise or omit the most exceptional or incommunicable aspects of ethnographic experience and field notes, diluting them in a scientifically-acceptable discourse —a common procedure according to Favret-Saada— is all the more disturbing when one does not share the premise according to which epistemes, religious narratives and practices belong to the universe of the irrational, the imaginary, the unobservable, when they arise from an error of perception or an intellectual delusion, which turns truth into a knowledge independent of the statements of the natives. This article, which deals with all of this and is eminently theoretical, would be inconceivable without years of fieldwork dedicated to the methodological, epistemological and ontological issues involved in the understanding of religions/spiritualities, understood as politics, but also as an exceptional form of perceptual and sensory alterity.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the ethnographic experience of starting from scratch in a new and different place, without forgetting the coexistence of thirst for the new and yearning for the usual.
Abstract: Why do young people leave their countries to find new opportunities? Do they leave for socio- economic reasons? Is this what society expects of them? Nowadays, many young people can tell us about their experiences and each may have a different story. This article explores the ethnographic experience of starting from scratch in a new and different place. It talks about taking control, alone, in another country with fears, doubts and perseverance, without forgetting the coexistence of thirst for the new and yearning for the usual. It tells of conflicting emotions throughout the journey, even when you feel you have achieved what you were looking for, because the most difficult of these is probably deciding to return and ultimately returning.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on symbolic aspects of fan behaviour to describe, characterise and make sense of the most outstanding myths among followers, and evaluate the effect of stadium attendance on the construction of the identity and alterity of spectators.
Abstract: Based on research work into stadium culture generated at Granada Football Club, conducted over the course of three football seasons (2013-2014, 2014-2015 and 2015-2016), we focus on symbolic aspects of fan behaviour to achieve three key objectives: 1. to describe, characterise and make sense of the most outstanding myths among followers; 2. to do the same with rites taking place in the stadium and around the meeting; and 3. to evaluate the effect of stadium attendance on the construction of the identity and alterity of spectators.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of the economic crisis on the international mobility of young Spaniards from a critical perspective are discussed, and the results presented in this paper point to a relative decline in the young population due to reduced fertility and increased youth mobility.
Abstract: This article discusses the effects of the economic crisis on the international mobility of young Spaniards from a critical perspective. The difficulties in finding employment resulting from the economic crisis have changed the international mobility of young people. The results presented in this paper point to a relative decline in the young population due to reduced fertility and increased youth mobility. On the one hand, this new trend has generated a relative media distortion. On the other hand, it could have future implications for the sustainability of the Spanish welfare state.
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TL;DR: The II Seminar of the Environmental Anthropology Network was held at Pablo de Olavide University in Seville as mentioned in this paper, with ten ethnographies focusing on research into human-animal relationships.
Abstract: In order to accommodate contemporary reflections and debates in the discipline, the Environmental Anthropology Network has organised a series of thematic seminars aimed at the epistemological, methodological and practical discussion of issues that cross the socio-environmental sphere. On April 6-7, 2017, the II Seminar of the Environmental Anthropology Network was held at Pablo de Olavide University in Seville. It was entitled «Alter-human ethnographies: encounters in the animal phase». The seminar was attended by more than thirty participants from various Spanish and international universities, with ten ethnographies focusing on research into humananimal relationships.
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TL;DR: The study of correspondence between anthropologists Alfred Metraux (1902-1963) and Jules Henry (1904-1969) helps us to reconstruct the background to Chaco ethnology during the decade of the 1930s as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The study of the correspondence between anthropologists Alfred Metraux (1902-1963) and Jules Henry (1904-1969) helps us to reconstruct the background to Chaco ethnology during the decade of the 1930s. The letters between Metraux and Henry, and between both of them and several academic correspondents (Ruth Benedict, Paul Rivet, John Arnott, Enrique Palavecino, etc.), show the daily operation of academic networks, the logistics machinery of ethnographic fieldwork, Metraux’s stark opinions about Argentinian academic and cultural milieu, Henry’s adverse reaction to his correspondent’s advice and Metraux’s thoughts on indigenous peoples, Anglican missionaries and international scientific institutions. In the process, they reveal unexpected nuances of the «culture and personality» of both anthropologists.
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TL;DR: Young Catalans in London build their identity as immigrants in a close dialectic between their own imaginary about immigration in their country of origin and British perceptions of them as discussed by the authors, and not all recognise themselves as such.
Abstract: Young Catalans in London build their identity as immigrants in a close dialectic between their own imaginary about immigration in their country of origin and British perceptions of them. Given the negative stigma attached to the category of «immigrant», not all recognise themselves as such. Some simply refuse to acknowledge they belong to this category, while others use the projection of prejudices on immigrants towards Spaniards as a strategy from which they distance themselves by establishing a distinction between Catalans and Spaniards.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors deal with the study of Spanish rough music known as cencerradas, an oral literary composition that, due to its erotic and offensive content (they were often composed to ridicule "censurable" marriages), is barely documented in Spanish.
Abstract: The present paper deals with the study of the Spanish rough music known as cencerradas, an oral literary composition that, due to its erotic and offensive content (they were often composed to ridicule «censurable» marriages), is barely documented in Spanish. Firstly, we will describe the written texts in which cencerradas are mentioned or where they are partially or fully recorded (in newspapers, literary texts, and legal proceedings), in order to show that this written register offers only an incomplete and deficient corpus that needs to be expanded and improved by means of fieldwork and documentation. Secondly, a number of cencerradas from oral records will be analysed in detail, paying special attention to their contents and formal aspects. This will allow us to distinguish between two types of cencerradas: dialogue cencerradas and individual cencerradas, in which an individual representing the voice of the community condemns acts considered censurable.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a presentation on the nostalgia suffered by Basque shepherds who emigrated to America, by analyzing their production of improvised verses, which addressed their homesickness, desires, opinions and concerns in a declarative and emotional way.
Abstract: The aim of this presentation is to reflect on the nostalgia suffered by Basque shepherds who emigrated to America, by analysing their production of improvised verses. These improvised verses addressed their homesickness, desires, opinions and concerns in a declarative and emotional way. While other narrative genres tend to represent these feelings in a more rationalized way, these verses tend to be evocative and emotional, with a testimonial function that is perceived more directly. In that respect, they become complex and multifaceted texts that influence the representation of identity and the migratory project.
Nowadays, the consensus is that literature and cinema are cultural products with an enormous social relevance, and that they elaborate and represent social and historical discourses. Similarly, the verses of emigrants to America constitute social and historical discourses that let us reflect on the construction of the social reality of Basque emigration.
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TL;DR: The tuna lexicon as mentioned in this paper is a slang created by professionals involved in the process of catching and processing tuna fish, which is a symbol of Mediterranean culture and has been used to describe cooperation and cultural, technological, economic and linguistic intervention made by some communities in others.
Abstract: The tuna lexicon is a slang created by professionals involved in the process of catching and processing tuna fish. This social work-related group, made up of humble communities, has historically faced discrimination from other social strata, a factor which has contributed to the construction of their own lexicon. Another significant contribution in the configuration of trap-netting words has come from groups of migrant fishermen who speak different languages, which also distinguishes these professionals from other speakers. Thus, the study of the terms that make up this lexicon, and of its social and historical context, will allow us to visualize the relationships of cooperation and cultural, technological, economic and linguistic intervention made by some communities in others, making the tuna lexicon a symbol of Mediterranean culture.
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TL;DR: This article presented food as a metaphor of the youth migration process to London during the economic crisis, and is based on three elements: how they construct their identity, their transition to adulthood and their condition as transmigrants.
Abstract: My own experience as a young Spanish migrant in London drove me to consider the importance that Spanish food has for emigrants and to consider its role within the community. This article presents food as a metaphor of the youth migration process to London during the economic crisis, and is based on three elements: how they construct their identity, their transition to adulthood and their condition as transmigrants.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the relationship that occurs between different actors involved in the process of health-disease-care Achuar population, analyzing the relationships that occur between the different actors.
Abstract: The implementation of a health program among the Achuar people of the Ecuadorian Amazon, under the logic of development cooperation and the Western biomedical model redefines the health model of society in which intervenes; and their health workers. The indications trainings, infrastructure precepts contribute to the construction of a prototype that relegates the traditional therapeutic practice, the different categories of evils, and the explanations derived on the origin of the disease, despite maintaining a critical discourse and a theoretical framework that seeks to integrate all models. This article tries to approach the process of health-disease-care Achuar population, analyzing the relationships that occur between the different actors involved in the process. The implementation of a project to promote health, emergency responses and strategies both accommodative and local resistance is analyzed. The recapitulated ethnography, tries to show some reflections on the fragility in the formulation and implementation of health programs, to endure the lack of local perspective and the perspective of the state. Other cultural skills that appeal to the inclusion of these groups and their therapies in health policies are also shown, and not only rhetorically or as political projects-beyond a mere ideological rescue. Nevertheless, the inevitable hybridization and necessary negotiation between the actors involved in the process described.