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Enactive Narrativities: Rubber-Times Historicity and Indigenous Media in Peruvian Amazonia
Full text linkThis article analyzes the intersection between historicity and politics expressed in Kukama media-making practices. It examines the political and enactive dimensions involved in the Indigenous mediatization of rubber-era narratives in Peruvian Amazonia. I focus on the case of Radio Ucamara, a Kukama radio station from the Peruvian town of Nauta, and the ways in which they confront private and state powers through the production of digital and non-digital media. I specifically analyze Indigenous media-makers’ instrumentalizations of rubber-times narrativity by virtue of aesthetic mastery. Radio Ucamara media relies on a polyphonic strategy that encapsulates both narrative and meta-narrative discourses aimed to reveal mytho-histories’ political messages to defy hegemonic modes of historical imagination in Peru. By engaging in the literature on Amerindian myth and history, I argue that when turned into media (e.g., audiovisual creations and mural art), Indigenous narrativity becomes amplified and deemed as a transformative force capable of intervening in contemporary political realities. Drawing on the concepts of “embedded aesthetics” by Faye Ginsburg (1994) and “enactive aesthetics” by Patience Epps and Danilo Paiva Ramos (2020), I make the case for a notion of “enactive narrativity” operating in Radio Ucamara media practices whereby power is fueled by expressive means. Kukama mediatizations not only represent a tool for empowerment but also illustrate the new forms of aesthetic agency taking place in contemporary Amazonia
Adam Smith and Sympathetic Cosmopolitanism
No full textIs cosmopolitanism something to explain or is it the lack of cosmopolitanism that needs explaining? Is cosmopolitanism natural or something we need to try to achieve? Is cosmopolitanism an end result or a starting point? The answer depends on the anthropological assumptions one makes. If human beings are assumed to be isolated individuals, then cosmopolitanism is something to explain, something to be taught, a possible end result. But if human beings are assumed to be intrinsically and naturally social, then cosmopolitanism may be a starting point and what needs to be explained is its absence.
I suggest that for Adam Smith humans are intrinsically social and thus his starting point is cosmopolitanism. Given human natural sociability, part of Smith’s task is to explain the absence of cosmopolitanism, which he attributes to either dire living conditions or the ability of some special interest groups to affect public opinion to their benefits
“La violencia no es solo matar a otro”: representaciones de violencia en el cine latinoamericano sobre la migración
No full textThe Social Construction of Biomedical Risk: A Content Analysis of NIH Grants for Transgender People Living with HIV/AIDS
No full textOutras antropologias e seus desafios cosmopolíticos: reflexividades indígenas
No full textEste texto é resultado “Dueto”/keynote com Tânia Stolze Lima do Congresso da Salsa em Letícia, intitulado: “Outras antropologias e os seus desafios cosmopolíticos”, proferida no dia 29 de novembro de 2023, onde propõe uma reflexão sobre os desafios enfrentados pelos estudantes indígenas no campo da Antropologia, especialmente no contexto universitário de pós-graduação. Como também discute os limites e tensões entre o pensamento indígena e a lógica ocidental acadêmica, marcada pela pretensão de universalidade e pela classificação redutora dos conhecimentos dos povos indígenas. Coloca-se em pauta a desconstrução dos corpos e pensamentos que os indígenas são submetidos ao adentrar na universidade, destacando o risco de internalização e reprodução de conceitos eurocêntricos que fragmentam o conhecimento e deslegitimam formas indígenas de pensar, conhecer e existir. Valorizar as epistemologias indígenas, que são ancoradas em princípios próprios e os conceitos próprios como Kihti-ukuse, Bahsese e Bahsamori (tripé conceitual Yepamahsã/Tukano), é convocar a Antropologia a reconhecer os povos indígenas como sujeitos epistêmicos e a abrir espaço para traduções simétricas e colaborativas
The future for sport officiating research: an expert statement
Full text linkResearch, coverage, and understanding in sport officiating related scholarly activity have increased markedly in the last decade. Sport officials (referees, judges, umpires) have been historically underrepresented in the sport management, psychology, and physiology literature, but this collection of experts provides avenues for collaboration and exploration that can contribute to understanding systems, individuals, and initiate real-world changes for sporting organisations, policy makers, and officials themselves. Focused and organised around the key research areas and priorities of physiology, decision making, psychology, mental health, management, and training and development, this statement offers detail on the development of the research and associated literature and provides proposals for future scholarship linked to each of the key research areas
Formation and extent of the Cretaceous West Mountains plutonic complex
No full textThe West Mountains plutonic complex is a series of intrusive bodies, presently located in Idaho, that formed during a continuous period of Early to mid-Cretaceous magmatism in the northwest North American Cordillera. Granitoids of the West Mountains plutonic complex were emplaced across the boundary between accreted terranes and Laurentia following the Jurassic accretion of the Blue Mountains Province. New U-Pb zircon crystallization dates from the West Mountains plutonic complex ranging from 130 to 109 Ma and new zircon εHf isotopic compositions ranging from +12.1 to +4.7 suggest the complex is older and compositionally distinct from the younger than 85 Ma peraluminous granites of the Idaho batholith to the east. Instead, metaluminous compositions and the timing of magmatism indicate the West Mountains plutonic complex is similar to the subduction-related intrusions of the Sierra Nevada and northwest Nevada regions. We present a model for the West Mountains plutonic complex as part of the ca. 130–85 Ma subduction-related Idaho arc. Using new data from the West Mountains plutonic complex, we characterize the tectonic history of the subduction-related Idaho arc as separate from the peraluminous parts of the Idaho batholith, which resulted from crustal melting. The existence of the Idaho arc supports models of a longitudinally continuous Early to mid-Cretaceous magmatic arc in the western United States. The Idaho arc, including parts of the West Mountains plutonic complex, experienced significant transpressional deformation and intrusive overprinting, resulting in a diminished spatial footprint relative to other Cretaceous magmatic centers. This deformation and associated exhumation resulted in the Idaho arc being a significant source of detrital zircons in the central North American Cordillera during mid-Cretaceous time
Confinement-induced resonances for the creation of quasi-one-dimensional ultracold gases of alkali–alkaline-earth dimers
No full textWe theoretically investigate the role of confinement-induced resonances (CIRs) in low-dimensional ultracold atomic mixtures in the formation of weakly bound dimers. To this end, we examine the scattering properties of a binary atomic mixture confined by a quasi-one-dimensional (quasi-1D) potential. In this regime, the interspecies two-body interaction is modeled as an effective 1D zero-range pseudopotential, with a coupling strength g1D derived as a function of the three-dimensional scattering length a. This framework enables the study of CIRs in harmonically confined systems, with particular attention paid to the case of mismatched transverse trapping frequencies of the two atomic species. Finally, we consider the Bose-Fermi mixture of 87Rb and 87Sr and identify values of the experimentally accessible parameters for which CIRs can be exploited to create weakly bound molecules