Novedades del último mes en libros de Antropología social y cultural

El autor se permite expresar el hondo sentimiento de asombro que experimentamos los observadores objetivos y bien informados al constatar día tras día cómo sociedades tenidas por cultivadas siguen siendo ciegamente tributarias de una cosmovision esencialmente religiosa, o, al menos, conformada por un enfoque ontologico dualista de lo que hay, en abierta contradiccion con los resultados de las ciencias y de las reglas logicas aplicadas a la experiencia. La religiosidad -que es una hipotesis objetivamente falsa nacida al calor de un sentimiento de temor y perplejidad ante lo enigmatico y ominoso- es un producto de la mente humana siguiendo una senda equivocada.

Relatos secuenciados sobre el mundo rural castellano, centrándose en los pueblos de la Sierra Norte de Guadalajara. El autor ha vivido muy directamente las costumbres de los Pueblos Negros de Guadalajara y relata sus vivencias, recuerdos, anecdotas y peripecias que retratan un mundo que intenta sobrevivir.

En lo que atañe a la biología, las distinciones raciales fueron derogadas por los desarrollos de la teoría evolutiva. Con todo, las designaciones raciales, además de operar significativamente en el marco de investigaciones epidemiologicas, tambien se muestran imprescindibles tanto en el desarrollo de estudios sociales como en la articulacion e implementacion de politicas publicas. Es necesario, por eso, comprender y establecer la legitimidad de esos usos vigentes de las designaciones raciales.

When spirits guard forests, conservation becomes revolution - and liberation grows from the soilIn 2011 Myanmar emerged from what was by some counts the longest ongoing war in the world. Amid the flurry of ceasefires and constitutional reforms, Indigenous communities moved to reterritorialize land that was fiercely contested in the preceding decades of conflict. In southeast Myanmar, the Indigenous people of Karen State, activists, and revolutionaries transformed their war-torn land into the Salween Peace Park - a conservation area that is home not only to endangered species like tigers and gibbons but also to territorial spirits and ancestors.Set in the highlands of the Myanmar-Thai border, Possessed Landscapes introduces a world where land is understood as both spiritually inhabited and politically claimed. Pwakanyaw cosmologies blur boundaries between human and more-than-human ownership, presence, and possession. Anthropologist Tomas Cole's concept of more-than-human political ecology captures the nuanced, playful, and often deeply strategic ways in which local communities negotiate power, land, and identity amid civil war and state violence. Through vibrant ethnography and grounded political analysis, Cole illuminates how Indigenous Karen communities and their allies are defining conservation, autonomy, and peace building on their own terms.A case study in reimagining sovereignty through ecological stewardship, Possessed Landscapes is essential reading for scholars and practitioners in anthropology, environmental humanities, and peace and conflict studies, as well as anyone seeking to understand how revolutionary politics and conservation can be inseparably entwined.

When spirits guard forests, conservation becomes revolution - and liberation grows from the soilIn 2011 Myanmar emerged from what was by some counts the longest ongoing war in the world. Amid the flurry of ceasefires and constitutional reforms, Indigenous communities moved to reterritorialize land that was fiercely contested in the preceding decades of conflict. In southeast Myanmar, the Indigenous people of Karen State, activists, and revolutionaries transformed their war-torn land into the Salween Peace Park - a conservation area that is home not only to endangered species like tigers and gibbons but also to territorial spirits and ancestors.Set in the highlands of the Myanmar-Thai border, Possessed Landscapes introduces a world where land is understood as both spiritually inhabited and politically claimed. Pwakanyaw cosmologies blur boundaries between human and more-than-human ownership, presence, and possession. Anthropologist Tomas Cole's concept of more-than-human political ecology captures the nuanced, playful, and often deeply strategic ways in which local communities negotiate power, land, and identity amid civil war and state violence. Through vibrant ethnography and grounded political analysis, Cole illuminates how Indigenous Karen communities and their allies are defining conservation, autonomy, and peace building on their own terms.A case study in reimagining sovereignty through ecological stewardship, Possessed Landscapes is essential reading for scholars and practitioners in anthropology, environmental humanities, and peace and conflict studies, as well as anyone seeking to understand how revolutionary politics and conservation can be inseparably entwined.