sex and sin, witchcraft and the devil in late‐colonial Mexico

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Anthropology's Epiphanies: Some Things I Learned from James Fernandez

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Ethnography in a Time of Blurred Genres

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Expanding the Boundaries of Anthropology: The Cultural Criticism of Gloria AnzaldÚa and Marlon Riggs

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The Death of the Angel: Reflections on the Relationship between Enlightenment and Enchantment in the Twenty-first Century

Tango artist Astor Piazzolla’s composition, ‘La muerte del ángel’, serves as inspiration for a few reflections on the relationship between enlightenment and enchantment in the 21st century. Piazzolla wrote the fugue as accompaniment to a play, ‘Tango del angel’, about an angel who tries to heal broken human spirits in Buenos Aires and ends up dying in a knife fight. Drawing on tango’s melancholy, longing, and hesitant hoping, I share stories from my travels where I engage with the struggle to sustain an ethnographic art that brings heart to the process of knowing the world

Lucky Broken Girl : Book Presentation by Author Ruth Behar | Comments by Richard Blanco

In this unforgettable multicultural comlng-of-age narrative—based on the author\u27s childhood In the 1960s—a young Cuban-Jewlsh Immigrant girl Is adjusting to her new life In New York City when her American dream Is suddenly derailed. Ruthle\u27s plight will Intrigue readers, and her powerful story of strength and resilience, full of color, light, and poignancy, will stay with them for a long time. Ruthle Mizrahi and her family recently emigrated from Castro\u27s Cuba to New York City. Just when she\u27s finally beginning to gain confidence in her mastery of English—and enjoying her reign as her neighborhood\u27s hopscotch queen—a horrific car accident leaves her in a body cast and confined her to her bed for a long recovery. As Ruthie\u27s world shrinks because of her inability to move, her powers of observation and her heart grow larger and she comes to understand how fragile life is, how vulnerable we all are as human beings, and how friends, neighbors, and the power of the arts can sweeten even the worst of times.https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/cri_events/1374/thumbnail.jp

Reflections

This final section presents a literary excerpt and three personal reflections on the theme of Aboagora, as well as on the experience of taking part in Aboagora. It opens with a story written by Ruth Behar, dealing with her personal experience of mastering the English language. Professor Behar read this story as an artistic comment within a workshop entitled ‘Between Art and Research: Rethinking Professional Borderlands’, which dealt with the experiences of people who combine an academic professional career with artistic work. The story is followed by a personal reflection by Bishop Björn Vikström, presented within the context of a session dealing with objectivity and the problem of combining academic research with personal engagement and activism. Finally, two of the organisers of the Aboagora conference, Professor Hannu Salmi and Dr Ruth Illman, reflect on the outcome of the event, evaluating the new insights and perspectives it has facilitated, as well as looking to the future and the potential of Aboagora to develop into a permanent forum for encounters between the arts and sciences

WHAT WILL REMAIN...? SOME RESPONSES FROM AUTOETHNOGRAPHY AND YOUNG PEOPLE’S FICTION

I keep thinking lately that I am writing for the next generation, for those like my grand- daughter who have come into the world during this time of the pandemic, with all its anx- iety and insecurity. Vulnerability, I imagine, will be for her a normal part of life that no longer knows how to define its normality. Thinking about these issues, I will try to give some answers about the legacies we are leaving behind and how autoethnography and young people’s fiction propose ways of looking for the confluence between the past, the present, and the future. Among what will remain, I hope to show the importance of the moments of connection that we achieve in anthropological encounters, as well as artistic creation, mo- ments that allow us to feel that we share a human heritage that belongs equally to all of us because we exist in the world