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Dossier Presentation: Agencies and Materialities in Afro-Latin America

Mediações: Revista de Ciências Sociais, 2020
This text is based on ethnographic researches about the relationships between people and Afro-descendant collectives in Caribbean and Latin American with monuments, artifacts, performances, artworks, collections, food, spiritual and ‘natural’ beings, and
Alline Torres Dias da Cruz, Magdalena Sophia Ribeiro de Toledo   +1 more
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The Omnivorous Science: Jean and John Comaroff on the Politics of Anthropology, Capitalism and Contemporary States [PDF]

Antropólogos Iberoamericanos en Red, 2012
Few social scientists reach the status of contemporary classics. Jean and John Comaroff are among those who could be included in that category.
Luis Fernando Angosto Ferrández
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The birth of an earth being: ‘Rights of nature’ in Brazilian Amazonia and elsewhere Naissance d'un être de la terre : « droits de la nature » en Amazonie brésilienne et ailleurs

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In June 2023, the Laje River, located in the traditional territory of the Wari’ Indigenous people in Rondônia, Brazil, was declared a legal entity, an earth being, with rights, following the co‐ordinated action of an indigenous councillor and non‐indigenous activists.
Aparecida Vilaça
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Aplicando teorías caducas: el estructural funcionalismo y su influencia en la antropología hecha en Colombia

Maguaré, 2007
Este artículo sostiene que aunque las antropologías colombiana y latinoamericana declararon haber abandonado cualquier influencia de la antropología clásica social británica a favor de una antropología marxista y comprometida (y más tarde de una ...
Mauricio Caviedes Pinilla
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Animal translations: AI and the intelligibility of non‐human worlds Traduire l'animal : l'IA et l'intelligibilité des mondes non humains

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Amid the general sense of worry that large language models will soon drown out human voices, some researchers are optimistic that machine learning will allow humans to listen to and understand animal voices to an unprecedented extent. As part of a broader project aimed at interspecies communication, a loosely connected set of animal behaviourists, AI ...
Courtney Handman
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‘Everything is a signal’: speaking circuits and noisy signs in the making of language‐oriented AI « Tout est signal » : circuits parlants et signes bruyants dans la création de l'IA orientée langage

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Contemporary artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are often presumed to be capable of revealing unmediated truths about the world, including the truths language might hold, echoing the long‐standing assertion that language's primary function is to directly translate reality.
Beth M. Semel
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Mapping Autonomies in Chiapas: an International Research Networks Workshop (poster), April 24, 2003

, 2003
Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies; Rockefeller Postdoctoral Program in Race; Rights; Resources in the Americas; Ford Foundation; Mexico; Center for Latin American Social Policy; School of Law; Center for Indigenous Languages of Latin
Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS)
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Latin American Studies 101

, 2014
The objectives for this course are as follows:\ud 1) To introduce students to the basic concept, theories, and approaches that are foundational to Latin American Studies\ud 2) To give students a basic understanding of the effect of colonization and its ...
Jerry, Anthony
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Neoliberal Multiculturalism and Indigenous Movements

, 2009
Más que un indio (More Than an Indian): Racial Ambivalence and Neoliberal Multiculturalism in Guatemala. By Charles R. Hale. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press, 2006. Pp. xii + 292. $34.05 paper.
Jackson, Jean E.
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Migration, Repression and Homosexual Sociability in Francoist Spain: An Analysis of the Case Files of the Special Courts of Barcelona (1965–1975)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Spain, under General Franco's regime, homosexuality was regarded as an antisocial and dangerous behaviour. It was thus pursued both by the police and judicial courts. The Law on Vagrants and Crooks (1954) and, subsequently, the Law on Dangerousness and Social Rehabilitation (1970) constituted the legal mechanisms used by the dictatorship to
Jordi Mas Grau, Rafael Cáceres‐Feria
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