La antropología de los sentidos y el sentido del borde

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Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz es Profesor Investigador en la Facultad de Ciencias Antropológicas de la Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán. Ha realizado investigación de campo en Canadá, Italia, México y España. Ha sido Presidente de la Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (2012-2014). Es autor de Foodscapes, Foodfields and Identities in Yucatan (CEDLA / Bherghan 2012). Editor del libro Cooking Technology: Transformations in Culinary Practice in Mexico and Latin America (Bloomsbury, 2016) y co-autor del libro Cocina, Música y Comunicación. Tecnologías y estética en el Yucatán contemporáneo (UADY, 2016).

Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz is Professor and Researcher at the Faculty of Anthropological Sciences of the Autonomous University of Mexico. He has been President of the Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (2012-1014). His recent publications include the edited volume Cooking Technology: Transformations in Culinary Practice in Mexico and Latin America (Bloomsbury, 2016) and, as co-author, the book Cocina, Música y Comunicación. Tecnologías y estética en el Yucatán contemporáneo (UADY, 2016).

Veredas a Zoópolis

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Cristina Ramírez Barreto es Profesora Investigadora en la Facultad de Filosofía de la Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, en Morelia, Michoacán. Es autora de un libro (De humanos y otros animales), varios capítulos y artículos y ha sido editora de cuatro libros. Actualmente trabaja en un libro sobre équidos en México en el que, apreciándolos, logre avanzar hacia un estado que cosas que vuelva impensable usarlos, por ejemplo, en el nuevo juego llamado torneo de lazo o toros matacaballos.

Cristina Ramírez Barreto is Professor-Researcher at Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia. She has authored one book (De humanos y otros animales), several chapters and articles, and served as editor of four books. Currently, she is working on a book about Equids in México, in which, by trying to appreciate them, she wishes to move towards it becoming unthinkable to use them, for example, in the new game called torneo de lazo or toros matacaballos (horse-killer bulls).

Stories at the Edges of Anthropology and History: On the Art of Writing and Illustration in the Interest of Public Scholarship

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Alisse Waterston is Presidential Scholar and Professor of Anthropology, City University of New York, John Jay College of Criminal Justice. She is author of six books, served as editor of North American Dialogue, and founding editor of Open Anthropology. As International Scholar of the Open Society Institute, Dr. Waterston co-edited Gender in Georgia: Feminist Perspectives on Culture, Nation and History in the South Caucasus (2017). Professor Waterston served as president, American Anthropological Association (2015-2017). She is currently working with artist-anthropologist Charlotte Hollands in developing a graphic nonfiction book based on her 2017 Presidential Address, “Four Stories, A Lament, and an Affirmation.”

Virginia R. Dominguez, Organizer and Chair

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Mesa redonda "La antropología en sus límites"

Organizadora y coordinadora: Virginia R. Dominguez

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Virginia R. Dominguez (Ph.D. Yale University, 1979) is the Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professor of Anthropology (and member of the Jewish Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Global Studies, and Caribbean Studies faculty) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (in the U.S.). She is also Co-Founder and Consulting Director of the International Forum for U.S. Studies (first established in 1995 at the University of Iowa, in the U.S.) and Co-Editor of its book series, Global Studies of the United States. A political and legal anthropologist, she was president of the American Anthropological Association from late 2009 to late 2011, editor of American Ethnologist from 2002 to 2007, and president of the AAA’s Society for Cultural Anthropology from 1999 to 2001. In 2013 she helped the WCAA establish the Brazil-based Antropologos sem fronteiras (Anthropologists without Borders).