Shall we kill again? Violence and intimacy among the Awajun “new leaders” in the northeastern Peruvian frontier por Romio, Silvia

“…The socio-cultural transformation this indigenous group was forced to undergo in order to attain membership in the wider national society, is described. Using the tools which ethno history and the anthropology of affectivity provide, and paying particular attention to the topic of the building of the “heroic body”, the present text focuses on how Awajun society suffered significant changes regarding the of the use of force and of the symbolic management of violence, leading to the assimilation of new styles of indigenous leadership. …”
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“Running from Behind.” An Analysis of the Neighborhood Councils of Montevideo por Ferla, Paula, Marzuca, Alejandra, Serdüit, Uwe, Welp, Yanina

“…With the intention of exploring one of the central themes in current studies on participatory democracy, this study analyzes the influence of institutional design on citizens’ participation, focusing on a concrete experience –the neighborhood councils of Montevideo. …”
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Bolivia’s Land Reform: Does it really exist? por Fornillo, Bruno

“…This study attempts to shed light on the actual process of land redistribution, including the property types that are currently being applied, as well as the dilemmas that might arise were the elites to unite and exert political or economic pressure against the policy. …”
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Introduction to dossier. The Corpus Mysticum of the State or How Are We To Think the State in Latin America Today? Introduction to Dossier by Christopher Krupa y Mercedes Prieto por Krupa, Christopher, Prieto, Mercedes

“…The Corpus Mysticum of the State or How Are We To Think the State in Latin America Today? …”
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La insurrección de abril no fue sólo una fiesta by Franklin Ramírez Gallegos por Campuzano Arteta, Álvaro

“…Review of La insurrección de abril no fue sólo una fiesta…”
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Se fue, ¿a volver? Imaginarios, familia y redes sociales en la migración ecuatoriana a España (1997-2000) por Goycoechea, Alba

“…Este texto pretende trabajar tres aristas que explicarían la masiva migración de ecuatorianos a España durante los años 1997-2001: a) el análisis de los ‘imaginarios migrantes’ producidos por individuos y familias, así como la relación entre “migración” e “ilusión”; b) el rol de la familia y sus estrategias colectivas para posibilitar la salida migratoria, y, c) la conformación de redes sociales, espacialmente situadas, a partir de los vínculos que establecen familiares, amigos y organizaciones legales e ilegales para facilitar y reproducir el proceso.…”
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Constructing Interculturalism: Education Policy, Cultural Diversity and Inequality in Ecuador por Rodríguez Cruz, Marta

“…With the intention of deepening the study of the uses and abuses of these discourses in bilingual-intercultural education, we present the results of an ethnographic research project on these issues. …”
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La globalización de la Amazonía: una perspectiva andina por Fontaine, Guillaume

“…In the introduction we review a few basic facts about the geografic and demografic state of the region. …”
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Civil Society and the Democratization of Communications in Latin America por Segura, María Soledad

“…We cover their achievements in terms of influence in regulations in this area, as well as challenges that this new situation implies for them. …”
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Brazilian and Chinese Cooperation in African Agriculture. A Practice-based Study. por Goulet, Frédéric, Gabas, Jean-Jacques, Sabourin, Eric

“…In this article we analyze Brazilian and Chinese practices in terms of cooperation in Africa, focusing on the agricultural sector. …”
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Organizations and Social Problems. A Systemic Approximation por Gonnet, Juan Pablo

“…On the basis of these studies, we go on to analyze modes of observation tied to the evaluation of the organization-social problem relation. …”
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Literary Criticism and Social Discourse: Femininity and Women’s Writing por Luongo, Gilda

“…First, we establish a dialogue between critical and social discourses, and then were late these discourses with our interpretations of female texts. …”
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Of Trips and Drifts: Anthropological Groove and Nightlife as an Ethnographic Space por Blázquez, Gustavo, Liarte Tiloca, Agustín

“…This article analyses the epistemological, methodological and ethical issues faced during ethnographic research examining nightlife, music, dance and eroticism in Córdoba, Argentina. First off, we conceptualize the meanings that “nightlife” had for the subjects in the research process and describe the diversity of “nights” that we encountered in the research process. …”
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Towards the decolonization of the extractive regime: Patterns and limits of judicialization in mining conflicts por González-Serrano, María Ximena, Montalván-Zambrano, Digno José, Viaene, Lieselotte

“…At the same time, we wove an interdisciplinary dialogue between authors with different backgrounds and integrated a variety of academic sources and judicial sentences. …”
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Entrepreneurs, Convertibility, and Crisis: Between Dollarization and Devaluation? por Salvia, Sebastián

“…In particular, we question the conceptualization of business conflict as a polarization between two alternative solutions to convertibility –the devaluation of money and the dollarization of the economy. …”
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Archive, Memory and History: Intersections and Approaches por Murgia, Eduardo Ismael

“…These questions include the following: In what ways does the archive configure memory and history? …”
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Multiscale juridification of the mining industry: Experiences in Central America and Mexico por Montoya, Ainhoa, Sieder, Rachel, Bravo-Espinosa, Yacotzin

“…We also argue that such struggles facilitate connections between jurisdictions, subjects and places, and generate new political grammars.…”
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Punitive privatization in Mexico: Labor subjectification in relation to prison outsourcing por Hoyos-González, Pablo, Gutiérrez-Gallardo, Nadia Patricia, Escobedo-Conde, Francisco Javier

“…In historical context, we will see how the privatization of prisons and the expansion of precariousness and incarceration as a form of government began with the signing of the Merida Plan, amidst the crossfire of the war declared against drug trafficking, which brought the neoliberalizing impulse with which the prison outsourcing model would begin. …”
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The Acoustic Dimension of Social Protest: Notes from an Ethnography of Sound por Martin, José Luis, Fernández Trejo, Santiago

“…In this article we analyse the role of sound in protest marches from an interactional communication perspective. …”
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“Nobody says anything”: Students’ perception of university sexual harassment in Ecuador por Verdú-Delgado, Ana D., Guarderas-Albuja, Paz

“…To obtain data, we conducted interviews with 63 students between 18 and 23 years of age enrolled in a private university located in Quito. …”
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