Revista Alteridades
Revista Alteridades
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Práctica religiosa e identidad social entre los pueblos de Tlalpan, México, D.F.hot!
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Portal Ariosa, María Ana. Práctica religiosa e identidad social entre los pueblos de Tlalpan, México, D.F.
Religious practice and social identity amongst people from Tlalpan, México, D.F.In this article, we shall attempt to analyse the popular religious phenomenon within the regional perspective of the Tlalpan area. The basic references are the contacts which are established by patronal parties amongst the people inside such areas as well as at other external communities. The central hypothesis is that urbanity is built from the integration of complex forms in relationship to what is known as rural, incorporating a variety of practices, where popular religion plays a fundamental role. Thus, the recreation of urban identities are favored even in those fields which were, until not long ago, rural spaces. The former concept comes to reality only if people from Tlalpan and from adjacent communities (whether they belong to the state of Mexico or to Morelos) keep and recreate a system of duties that we have called “urban” through which religious rituals of the communities are organized, and the collective “memory” is reproduced as well as a specific way to face the world, and a special type of social organization is established.
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El derecho a la diferencia de las identidades étnicas y el Estado Nacionalhot!
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Maldonado Aranda, Salvador. El derecho a la diferencia de las identidades étnicas y el Estado Nacional
The right to ethnic identity difference and the national state.In this article, when dealing with the problems of ethnic identity in the national state, the importance of their rights to differ and the projects as one of the main elements in political building of democracy needs to be enhanced. To achieve this, the author starts to contemplate upon the political environment of the statesnation crisis and the role of nationalistic movements of the nation’s reorganization as a political model to imitate. It distinguishes itself amongst European and Latin American process as well as the challenge each of one faces regarding the autonomous or separatist requests, taking as a reference the assimilation and differences with which ethnic groups were subdued. Lastly, a final thought regarding the present possibilities and difficulties is presented, which has the autonomous proposal to solve the problem of ethnic differences and to contribute to the development of a democratic process.
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Concierto para dos voces. El DÃa Mundial del SIDA en dos contextos urbanoshot!
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Orozco Núñez, Emanuel and Roberto Castro Pérez. Concierto para dos voces. El Día Mundial del SIDA en dos contextos urbanos
Concerto for two voices. The world AIDS day in two urban contexts.This work is a situational survey regarding VIH-AIDS and also the world AIDS day is analysed in two social contexts: One civil association in Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl (ASPANAME), and a concert in Carrillo Gil museum in Mexico city. From this, an analysis is presented where the role of the cultural background of each of the mentioned contexts is emphasized, towards obscure and explicit codes and values regarding morality, sexuality and the way the information is handled regarding the illness.
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La enfermedad y la curación ¿Qué es medicina tradicional?hot!
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Menéndez, Eduardo. La enfermedad y la curación ¿Qué es medicina tradicional?
Illness and cure. What is traditional medicine?In this work, some characteristics of popular knowledge are analysed, regarding the health/illness/care (from now on; h/i/s process) as well as hegemonical medical knowledge, considering that even though biomedicine shows proof of a continuous process of technological and expansive change, popular knowledge is also characterized by a constant process of modification, in which the beliefs and resulting practices from different roots, including biomedical, are provisionally synthesized.
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