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Introduction: well-beingâs re-proportioning of social thought
In describing the Nuer of the southern Sudan, Evans-Pritchard describes Nuer happiness as âthat in which a family possesses several lactating cows, for then the children are well-nourished and there is a surplus that can be devoted to cheese-making and to assisting kinsmen and entertaining guests.â (Evans-Pritchard 1940: 21) This is in line with the Nuerâs larger interest in cattle. Men are addressed by names that describe the colour and shape of their favourite oxen; women and children often take their names
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from the cows they milk. Cattle names also figure profusely in songs and poems; and it is cattle, too, that are used to prescribe marriage payments, and to define kinship rights and obligations. Moreover, men establish contact with the spirits of their ancestors through cattle. Kinship and genealogy are thus expressed through the movement, transference and circulation of cattle.Peer reviewe
âMadrid âen construcciĂłnâ: polis y apocalipsis en una sociedad hipotecariaâ
Este artĂculo versa sobre los modos en que un grupo de jĂłvenes profesionales
residentes en Madrid se representan el funcionamiento de la economĂa polĂtica y la
convivencia democråtica a través de la imaginación de la ciudad (polis) como
escenario inmobiliario e hipotecario. Tal escenario define y da forma a la ciudad
como proceso polĂtico âen construcciĂłnâ, que se auto-genera precisamente por no
estar todavĂa terminado, por habitar una suerte de lĂmite o apocalipsis democrĂĄtico.
QuĂ© significa habitar este espacio apocalĂptico, y quĂ© rasgos le atribuyen mis
informadores, es lo que el artĂculo intenta explicar.Peer reviewe