Kata Beilin Aruxes are woken up stones, stones that have come to life. They are pieces of ancient temples carved by pre-Hispanic Mayas that contemporary Mayas find while opening new patches of forest for milpa or exploring the areas of cenotes, little yet deep lakes in the Yucatan karst that are sacred. These ancient remains …
Will Baynard This past semester, after three years of coursework and preliminary research, I became a doctoral candidate in the UW–Madison Anthropology department. In my doctoral research, I explore concepts of sovereignty and governance expressed by members of the Tohono O’odham, an indigenous group with communities on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. My proposed …
Alicia Barceinas Cruz Early one morning in June, I joined a group of volunteers to work on a potrero (a piece of land with cattle pasture) neighboring the Guatemala-Mexico border. We spent the previous afternoon carefully packing seedlings of tropical trees in a rustic nursery in the Selva Lacandona, in Mexico’s southern state of Chiapas. …
Alberto M. Vargas Many top research universities in the US and elsewhere are becoming leaders in cutting-edge research on psychedelics. The University of Wisconsin–Madison recently launched the Transdisciplinary Center for Research in Psychoactive Substances (TCRPS), aiming to coordinate ongoing research and education in psychedelic compounds, and to promote outreach in this rapidly expanding field. This …
Jack Brown Jalisco es México: así saluda la página oficial de turismo de este estado mexicano al potencial turista, sus letras vestidas de arcoiris, como si procurara convencerlo de que sí, Jalisco es lo más netamente mexicano que jamás existió. Hasta cierto punto tiene razón puesto que el estado presume de ser el origen de …
Carolyn Kellenborn Intercambios: Art, Stories, & Comunidad presented collaborative works from artists in Madison, Wisconsin, USA, and the Central Valleys of Oaxaca, Mexico. The work on textiles, photography, printmaking, papermaking, music, and video visually explores intersections of cultures and media. As the eleven artists in the exhibition, we come from diverse backgrounds. We are from …
Joseph Wager Perhaps the most widely studied case of disappearances is that of the last cívico-militar dictatorship in Argentina. The number of disappearances is generally recognized as 30,000. Resistance to this regime of terror has been influential domestically and internationally, from the human-rights report Nunca Más to the Madres de Plaza de Mayo. Today, the …
Arturo Ruiz-Mautino The question of the border as a question of genre is no new affair for the examination of the symbolic and discursive affordances of the former. Already in 1987, Gloria Anzaldúa turned to ethno-poetics as a field that was capable of refining the relationship between literary discursivity and her theorization of the border. …
Nilvio Alexander Punguil Bravo Nota del Autor En cada rincón del mundo, existen relatos que definen culturas, identidades y experiencias personales. Las historias que narramos a menudo se convierten en espejos de sociedades más grandes y testimonios de la complejidad humana. Lo que sigue es una narración auto-etnográfica, una reflexión personal situada en la intersección …
Addison Nace Cultural appropriation in fashion has been a buzzword for at least a decade and yet the fashion industry still perpetuates this act. Cultural appropriation can be defined as the taking of a cultural aspect, in this case a design or motif, from a non-dominant culture for the use by the dominant culture. This …