The Spanish Gitanos of Mexico City: Rhythmicity, Mimesis and Domestication of the Payos

This text addresses a tentative approach to groups in Mexico such as the Roma, who remain poorly known. The analysis focuses on problematizing the particular cultural and economic reproduction strategies of an urban group of Gitanos (Calós) in Mexico City. Greater attention is placed particularly onthe performance and the mimesis in economic exchange with the Payos (non-Gitanos). The idea is that the processes of cultural identification refer to the basic Caló social universe, which reveals epistemological beliefs and assumptions shared by the group in relation to the Payo universe. The idea is that the Calós construct idealized models of the real world during everyday experience in the ecological context within the community. Instead, it relates to the direct perceptual involvement of subjects in a relational context of shared patterns of daily activities in environments that are experienced. The effect is the domestication of the Payo’s world

After Barth: The Mexican Calós’s lived identity

The reasons for adopting a problem in terms of the survival of a Roma anthropological and historical system are not factual, but theoretical. This text analyses some dimensions of this system in relation to cultural identity, an idea that is close but not identical to the concept of ethnic identity of Fredrik F. Barth. The ethnography with the Gitanos of Mexico City dialogues with previous ethnographies and inquiries about the lived identity. The memory of the life of the Calós are constructed subjectively and through sociability are objectified in a cultural identity, opposed to the legal-political identification. The discourse on modernity, the economic activities, the social rhythms and practices of the place, as well as the transnational and diasporic dimension are the object of reflection

Authorship attribution in portuguese using character N-grams

For the Authorship Attribution (AA) task, character n-grams are considered among the best predictive features. In the English language, it has also been shown that some types of character n-grams perform better than others. This paper tackles the AA task in Portuguese by examining the performance of different types of character n-grams, and various combinations of them. The paper also experiments with different feature representations and machine-learning algorithms. Moreover, the paper demonstrates that the performance of the character n-gram approach can be improved by fine-tuning the feature set and by appropriately selecting the length and type of character n-grams. This relatively simple and language-independent approach to the AA task outperforms both a bag-of-words baseline and other approaches, using the same corpus.Mexican Government (Conacyt) [240844, 20161958]; Mexican Government (SIP-IPN) [20171813, 20171344, 20172008]; Mexican Government (SNI); Mexican Government (COFAA-IPN)

Atlas de islas lejanas [fragmento] Judith Schalansky

Versión y nota de Marco Laguna

Manchester y el teatro

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Cuento que aborda los deseos de una televidente enajenada que busca acercarse a su actor favorito

El Buen Gitano. Imaginarios, poder y resistencia en la periferia de la Gran Barcelona

En este texto mi objeto de reflexión es doble. Por un lado, retomo los planteamientos de Miriam Lee Kaprow sobre la conformación de los gitanos en el contexto multiculturalista del mundo contemporáneo como una actualización del mito del buen salvaje rousseniano. Por el otro, analizo cómo este imaginario es reapropiado por los propios actores mostrando un caso particular, el de un grupo de gitanos andaluces de un barrio marginal de la periferia de Barcelona, La Mina, quienes desde finales de los años 70 desarrollan estrategias e implementan políticas de la identidad que responden al paternalismo institucional y al racismo popular e institucional. En este sentido, La Mina es un escenario ideal para tomar posición, en la experiencia y en la teoría, frente a los anodinos y políticamente irrelevantes debates intelectuales (teoría poscolonial, especialmente) de la actualidad, algunos de ellos tendentes a mantener la vigilancia y la disciplina en la academia

Student Life: School Environment, Safety, Punishment

In the U.S., many K-12 public schools utilize a variety of safety measures, such as security guards, police officers, metal detectors, and cameras to monitor students in response to recent instances of school violence. This qualitative study features semi-structured interviews with ten students and ten parents of students who attended a high school in Waukegan, Illinois that features intense security measures. Throughout the interviews, the researcher examined students’ and parents’ perceptions of metal detectors, guards, surveillance cameras, and law enforcement officers. This study also stands to provide insight into the fairness of school punishment measures.https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/urs2021cjs/1005/thumbnail.jp

Discipline as a habit: cacicazgo and alienation in the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo

El caciquismo y el autoritarismo encuentran espacios de articulación en la transición hacia la democracia en México. Las formas de dominación del sistema de camarillas, característico del viejo régimen del PRI, convergen con efectos sorprendentes en el seno de la Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo.The caciquism and authoritarianism find spaces of articulation in the transition to the democracy in Mexico. The forms of domination of the camarillas system, characteristic of the old PRI regime, converge with surprising effects in the Autonomous University of Hidalgo State