An Introduction to the Cultural Anthropology and Preservation of the Rio Grande Valley

Anthropology is the study of human behavior and culture, and anthropologists in the United States divide their research into four sub-fields of study: physical anthropology; archaeology; linguistic anthropology; and cultural anthropology. North American anthropology draws its impetus from the foundational work of Franz Boas, a professor at Columbia University who lived along the Arctic Circle on Baffin Island, Canada for one year in the late nineteenth century where he kept copious notes of the language, life ways and customs of the Inuit. The following year, Boas collaborated with several museums conducting fieldwork along the North Pacific Coast setting the tone for anthropologists working closely with native peoples taking extensive field-notes about their world and worldviews as well as collaborating with museums to educate the public about these very issues. Following Boas’s example, anthropologists have conducted ethnographic research on cultures throughout the world and have, through museums, archival collections, and publications, created a rich record of humanity’s diverse belief systems, forms of social organization, and political dynamics.The Border Studies Archive, with it focus on the U.S. Mexico border in general and the Rio Grande Valley in particular, represents one such documentation and preservation initiative

Socialno varstvo starejših ljudi v Upravni enoti Slovenska Bistrica

La profundización de la crisis mexicana desde la década de los ochenta, y su peligrosa prolongación en los noventa tras la frustrada esperanza de la modernización integral de los primeros años, ha estado íntimante asociada al brutal impacto del endeudamiento externo y "políticas de ajuste" sobre los niveles de bienestar social, es decir, fomentando un mayor deterioro en aquellos sectores ya de por sí empobrecidos, lo que ha incidido de manera notable en los años que pertenecen a este enorme contingente. Niños abandonados, marginados, maltratados y explotados, generalmente carentes de techo y alimentación, "niños de la calle" sujetos a la peor suerte, incluido el exterminio. Esta problemática ha sido el estímulo para que un grupo de estudios de diferentes ámbitos profesionales emprendiéramos este esfuerzo interdisciplinario, asumiendo que el mismo tiene limitaciones, es decir, que está lejos de ser exhaustivo, sin embargo, cada autor ha abordado un aspecto de esta amplísima problemática con responsabilidad, conscientes de los daños a la infancia, analizando, planteando delaciones y críticas e intentando algunas propuestas específicas, mediante las cuales se pueda dar a los niños de hoy la dignidad y la estatura histórica que requieren los hombres del México futuro

El relajo de la cultura de la pobreza

In this article, the author tells us to consider a poverty culture the way Oscar Lewis exposed it, to express the performance of poor urban population who has built the Mexican social beliefs. In the second part, using material taken from the work ''Anthropology of poverty'' by Oscar Lewis, shows how Guillermo Gutiérrez plays with Lewis, who did not understand his informant's speech, due to an incapacity, very common within dominant sectors of society, to recognize narratives of subordinate groups

Fencing in Democracy: Border Walls, Necrocitizenship, and the Security State

Border walls permeate our world, with more than thirty nation-states constructing them. Anthropologists Margaret E. Dorsey and Miguel Díaz-Barriga argue that border wall construction manifests transformations in citizenship practices that are aimed not only at keeping migrants out but also at enmeshing citizens into a wider politics of exclusion. For a decade, the authors studied the U.S.-Mexico border wall constructed by the Department of Homeland Security and observed the political protests and legal challenges that residents mounted in opposition to the wall. In Fencing in Democracy Dorsey and Díaz-Barriga take us to those border communities most affected by the wall and often ignored in national discussions about border security to highlight how the state diminishes citizens\u27 rights. That dynamic speaks to the citizenship experiences of border residents that is indicative of how walls imprison the populations they are built to protect. Dorsey and Díaz-Barriga brilliantly expand conversations about citizenship, the operation of U.S. power, and the implications of border walls for the future of democracy.https://scholarship.richmond.edu/bookshelf/1340/thumbnail.jp

Citizenship.

Since the 1990s, citizenship has been transformed into an anthropological genre. Anthropologists have employed terms such as “transnational,” “insurgent,” and “patriotic” to describe the subjective, cultural, and political dimensions of citizenship. Anthropologists have also differentiated between formal and substantive, legal and cultural, and full and partial citizenship to theorize the disjunction between the promise of state-granted rights and everyday experiences of belonging to a nation-state. And, with increasing mobilities, anthropologists have reconceptualized the politics of exclusion that underlies state policies aimed at undocumented migrants. Now more than ever, anthropology is needed in the study of citizenship and noncitizenship both to illuminate the particulars of how social actors navigate national belonging and to rescue citizenship from state policies aimed at exclusion, death, and the diminution of rights