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DESEO, SANGRE Y PODER – GEORGES BATAILLE Y EL ESTUDIO DEL TANTRA HINDÚ EN EL NORESTE DE LA INDIA

Revista Científica Arbitrada de la Fundación MenteClara, 2016
Este artículo analiza el tantra hindú y la adoración de la diosa en el noreste de la India. Para esto se vale de varias de las ideas de Bataille sobre el erotismo, el sacrificio y la transgresión, al tiempo que las repiensa de manera crítica ...
Hugh B Urban
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Policy, Waste, and Power: Textile Dumping in Chile's Atacama Desert

Latin American Policy, Volume 17, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Globally, 87% of textile fibers end up incinerated or in landfills, with Chile bearing the brunt of this crisis. Every year, 39,000 tons of discarded clothing are illegally dumped in the Atacama Desert, turning it into a sacrifice zone for the Global North's waste economy.
Emma Minerva Brambilla
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El sacrificio como origen de lo divino y lo humano en la teoría mimética de René Girard

Pensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica
En el presente artículo, se estudia el concepto de «sacrificio» en el antropólogo René Girard. Para éste, el sacrificio es el cimiento mismo de la existencia social del hombre y de él brotan nuestra capacidad simbólica y cultural, así como todo lo que ...
Unai Buil Zamorano
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Red Algae From Insular Environments in the Mexican Atlantic: Taxonomic Diversity, Conservation, and Biogeographic Affinities

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 3, March 2026.
In this study, we present the first analysis of diversity and distribution of red algae from insular environments in the Mexican Atlantic, with the aim to identify and describe their patterns of taxonomic diversity, to propose priority areas for conservation, and show their biogeographical affinities.
Martha Isabel Vilchis, Oscar E. Hernández, María Luisa Núñez Resendiz, Kurt M. Dreckmann, Ileana Ortegón‐Aznar, Abel Sentíes   +5 more
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Respatializing Toxic Harm: The Case Against Sacrifice Zones

Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT Describing heavily polluted areas as “sacrifice zones” has become commonplace in recent decades, as diverse groups resist their unwitting exposure to destructive and toxic industrial, municipal, and military activities. However, pollutants tend to seep, spill, leak, and drift from wherever they are concentrated, defying any notion of physical ...
Kimberley Anh Thomas, Caitlin Joseph, Britt Crow‐Miller   +2 more
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Escribir en comunidad: Construcción de relaciones y responsabilidad en la producción de conocimiento

American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 3, Page 447-465, September 2025.
ABSTRACT As anthropology reckons with its past, present, and future, anthropologists increasingly seek to challenge inequities within the discipline and academia more broadly. Anthropology, regardless of subdiscipline, is a social endeavor. Yet research often remains an isolating (though not necessarily solitary) process, even within research teams and
Jordi Armani Rivera Prince, Emily M. Blackwood, Madeleine Landrum, Emily B. P. Milton, Elizabeth L. Rodgers, Monica Barnes, Elizabeth Chin, Christa Craven, Kristina Douglass, María José Figuerero Torres, María A. Gutiérrez, Sarah Herr, Lisa Hodgetts, Kirk A. Maasch, Kylie E. Quave, Danilyn Rutherford, Daniel H. Sandweiss   +16 more
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The Earliest Maya Farmers of Peten: New Evidence from Buenavista‐Nuevo San José, Central Peten Lakes Region, Guatemala

Journal of Anthropology, Volume 2017, Issue 1, 2017., 2017
The origins and cultural affiliations of the first sedentary agricultural and pottery‐producing communities in the southern Maya lowlands remain hotly debated. Here, we describe the discovery of a new early farming settlement at the small site of Buenavista‐Nuevo San José on Lake Peten Itza in northern Guatemala.
Jeanette E. Castellanos, Antonia E. Foias, Laura Del Puerto   +2 more
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La alquimia del alimento: el sacrificio ritual

Arys. Antigüedad, Religiones y Sociedades, 2020
Como presentación del tema colectivo, este trabajo explora las relaciones entre los alimentos, sus consumidores, la sacralización y el sacrificio. A través de algunos ejemplos procedentes de las fuentes literarias y de los restos arqueológicos se hace ...
Jaime Alvar Ezquerra
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The sacrificed lives of the caring class: crises of social reproduction, unequal Europe, and modern forms of slavery

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 474-492, June 2025.
Abstract There have been plenty of interpretations regarding the meaning and function of sacrifice within the discipline of anthropology. Going beyond sacrifice as a ritual and exploring a wide range of its manifestations and functions as contemporary cultural practices, discourses, and underlying logics, we reveal its role in the social organization ...
Angelina Kussy, Dolors Comas‐d'Argemir
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Tools for relatedness: “Fetishes” in Burkina Faso and the work of enacted metaphors

American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 2, Page 233-243, June 2025.
Abstract In West Africa, certain objects can act in the world and interact with people as subjects. Labeled “fetishes” by Europeans, these material things have generated centuries of debates on the nature of their agency. In this article, I rely on participant fieldwork as a student in a group of initiated donso hunters in Burkina Faso, which involved ...
Lorenzo Ferrarini
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