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Pidżin zrodzony z żartu? Przypadek języka kraju San Escobar
No full textThe article analyzes onomastic material from the map of San Escobar, which was created on the Internet, with the intention of mockery, after a slip of the diplomat Witold Waszczykowski, who in January 2017 listed the non-existent state of San Escobar among the Caribbean countries, which was publicized by the media and released huge activity of Internet users. The author argues that the material reveals the framework of the satirically created fictional Escobar language, which fills the element of the conceptual structure of San Escobar, blended from the concepts of Poland, Latin America and fictional countries. The language revealed can be perceived as a pidgin based on Polish and Spanish
Territories of difference: place, movements, life by Arturo Escobar
No full textTerritories of difference: place, movements, life, redes (Escobar 2008) is the latest major work from Arturo Escobar, author of the broadly debated Encountering development (Escobar 1995), a central work of the so-called post-development school. Those familiar with Escobar's earlier work will find that, although Territories of difference retains a common critical impetus, this latest publication bears evidence of a noteworthy theoretical and methodological update since the heyday of post-developmental theory. While maintaining firmly in sight the perennial targets of Escobar's early critical trajectory – development, modernity and westernisation –Territories of difference seeks to make an ontological breach by opening a whole new framework of thinking the political and realising the social. This theoretical opening, informed by activist practice, biological processes and post-structuralist thinking, has as its enduring resource nothing other than life itself
Decolonizing Design, Imagining Alternative Futures and Designs for the Pluriverse | Arturo Escobar
No full textDeclonizing Design, Imagining Alternative Futures lecture, Apil 18, 2019. 6:15 pm, Metcalf Auditorium, RISD Museum/Chace Center. Exploring Nature-Culture-Sustainability and design with author, anthropologist, and philosopher Arturo Escobar in conversation with RISD faculty, Namita Dharia, Jess Brown, Ramon Tejada, and Ijlal Muzaffar. This conversation is planned in conjunction with the Museum’s exhibition, Repair and Design Futures.Co-sponsored by RISD’s Nature-Culture-Sustainability Studies and Global Arts + Culture graduate programs and the RISD Museum’s exhibition, Repair & Design Futures.
Designs for the Pluriverse book discussion, April 19, 2019 at 12:30pm, RISD Museum Repair and Design Futures Exhibition. Join members of the RISD community and author, anthropologist, and philosopher Arturo Escobar to examine the concepts outlined in his book Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and Making of Worlds. Escobar deeply considers how refiguring current design practices could lead to the creation of more just and sustainable social orders.Co-sponsored by RISD’s Nature-Culture-Sustainability Studies and Global Arts + Culture graduate programs and the RISD Museum’s exhibition, Repair & Design Futures.
Arturo Escobar is the Kenan Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and a Research Associate with the Culture, Memory, and Nation group at Universidad del Valle, Cali. His main interests are political ecology, ontological design, and the anthropology of development, social movements, and technoscience. Over the past twenty-five years, he has worked closely with several Afro-Colombian social movements, particular the Process of Black Communities (PCN). He is author of the well-known book Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World (1995, 2011), and more recently, Territories of Difference: Place, Movements, Life, Redes (2008); Sentipensar con la Tierra. Nuevas lecturas sobre desarrollo, territorio y diferencia (2014); Otro possible es possible: Caminando hacia las transiciones desde Anya Yala/Afro/Latino-America (2017); and Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds (forthcoming, 2018).https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/liberalarts_ncss_eventposters/1010/thumbnail.jp
Decolonizing Design, Imagining Alternative Futures | A talk by Arturo Escobar
No full textDecolonizing Design, Imagining Alternative Futures lecture, April 18, 2019. 6:15 pm, Metcalf Auditorium, RISD Museum/Chace Center. Exploring Nature-Culture-Sustainability and design with author, anthropologist, and philosopher Arturo Escobar in conversation with RISD faculty, Namita Dharia, Jess Brown, Ramon Tejada, and Ijlal Muzaffar. This conversation is planned in conjunction with the Museum’s exhibition, Repair and Design Futures.Co-sponsored by RISD’s Nature-Culture-Sustainability Studies and Global Arts + Culture graduate programs and the RISD Museum’s exhibition, Repair & Design Futures.
Arturo Escobar is the Kenan Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and a Research Associate with the Culture, Memory, and Nation group at Universidad del Valle, Cali. His main interests are political ecology, ontological design, and the anthropology of development, social movements, and technoscience. Over the past twenty-five years, he has worked closely with several Afro-Colombian social movements, particular the Process of Black Communities (PCN). He is author of the well-known book Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World (1995, 2011), and more recently, Territories of Difference: Place, Movements, Life, Redes (2008); Sentipensar con la Tierra. Nuevas lecturas sobre desarrollo, territorio y diferencia (2014); Otro possible es possible: Caminando hacia las transiciones desde Anya Yala/Afro/Latino-America (2017); and Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds (forthcoming, 2018).https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/liberalarts_ncss_events/1009/thumbnail.jp
Subjective Versus Objective: An Exploratory Analysis of Latino Primary Care Patients With Self-Perceived Depression Who Do Not Fulfill Primary Care Evaluation of Mental Disorders Patient Health Questionnaire Criteria for Depression
No full textObjective: Identification and treatment of depression may be difficult for primary care providers when there is a mismatch between the patient’s subjective experiences of illness and objective criteria. Cultural differences in presentation of symptoms among Latino immigrants may hinder access to care for treatment of depression. This article seeks to describe the self-perceptions and symptoms of Latino primary care patients who identify themselves as depressed but do not meet screening criteria for depression.
Method: A convenience sample of Latino immigrants (N = 177) in Corona, Queens, New York, was obtained from a primary care practice from August 2008 to December 2008. The sample was divided into 3 groups according to whether participants met Patient Health Questionnaire diagnostic criteria for depression and whether or not participants had a self-perceived mental health problem and self-identified their problem as “depression” from a checklist of cultural idioms of distress. Psychosocial, demographic, and treatment variables were compared between the 3 groups.
Results: Participants’ descriptions of symptoms had a predominantly somatic component. The most common complaints were ánimo bajo (low energy) and decaimiento (weakness). Participants with “subjective” depression had mean scores of somatic symptoms and depression severity that were significantly lower than the participants with “objective” depression and significantly higher than the group with no depression (P < .0001).
Conclusions: Latino immigrants who perceive that they need help with depression, but do not meet screening criteria for depression, still have significant distress and impairment. To avoid having these patients “fall through the cracks,” it is important to take into account culturally accepted expressions of distress and the meaning of illness for the individual.Peer reviewe
Creación de la empresa desde la familia. Los Escobar Villegas y la ganadería en Antioquia (Colombia), 1919-1988
No full textEl texto analiza documentos notariales, contables y correspondencia de la familia Escobar Villegas y la Hacienda la Morela durante el periodo 1870-1988. La autora estudia del fondo documental la participación de sus miembros en las distintas sociedades empresariales que se configuraron en el negocio de la ganadería, así como ciertos factores que incidieron en el negocio desarrollado entre Medellín, Puerto Berrío y el Valle del Sinú durante gran parte del siglo XX.
Palabras clave: ganadería, relaciones laborales, familias, Puerto Berrío, Antioquia.
Company Formation from Escobar Villegas Family and the Livestock in Antioquia-Colombia, 1919-1988
Abstract
In this paper, notarial and countable documents of Hacienda la Morela, as well as correspondence of Escobar Villegas family from 1870 to 1988 are analyzed. Based on document collection, the author studies the participation of the members of this family in several entrepreneurial societies that formed in livestock business, as well as some factors that influenced the business developed among Medellin, Puerto Berrio, and Valle del Sinú, during most of the XXth century.
Keywords: livestock, labour relation, families, Puerto Berrio, Antioquia
Creación de la empresa desde la familia. Los Escobar Villegas y la ganadería en Antioquia (Colombia), 1919-1988
No full text El texto analiza documentos notariales, contables y correspondencia de la familia Escobar Villegas y la Hacienda la Morela durante el periodo 1870-1988. La autora estudia del fondo documental la participación de sus miembros en las distintas sociedades empresariales que se configuraron en el negocio de la ganadería, así como ciertos factores que incidieron en el negocio desarrollado entre Medellín, Puerto Berrío y el Valle del Sinú durante gran parte del siglo XX. Palabras clave: ganadería, relaciones laborales, familias, Puerto Berrío, Antioquia. Company Formation from Escobar Villegas Family and the Livestock in Antioquia-Colombia, 1919-1988AbstractIn this paper, notarial and countable documents of Hacienda la Morela, as well as correspondence of Escobar Villegas family from 1870 to 1988 are analyzed. Based on document collection, the author studies the participation of the members of this family in several entrepreneurial societies that formed in livestock business, as well as some factors that influenced the business developed among Medellin, Puerto Berrio, and Valle del Sinú, during most of the XXth century. Keywords: livestock, labour relation, families, Puerto Berrio, Antioquia
Parallel modernities. Notes on artistic modernity in the Southern Cone of Latin America: The case of Paraguay
No full textThe author of this article is one of the most important intellectuals in the Latin American artistic scene. Focusing on the particular case of Paraguay, which was governed by the dictatorship of Alfred Stroessner from 1954 until 1989, Escobar traces the modernist impulse in Paraguay and traces its complicated and disturbed relationship with European and North American models and antecedents: Neo-Impressionism, Cubism, Expressionism, Abstraction, and similar. While they reflect the particular political conditions under which the artists worked, the diverse and many-voiced Paraguayan responses also offer an exemplary set of responses that shed light on the development of twentieth-century modernist art and visual culture across the broader South American continent
Territories of Difference: Place, Movements, Life, Redes
No full texteng:In Territories of Difference, Arturo Escobar, author of the widely debated book Encountering Development, analyzes the politics of difference enacted by specific place-based ethnic and environmental movements in the context of neoliberal globalization. His analysis is based on his many years of engagement with a group of Afro-Colombian activists of Colombia’s Pacific rainforest region, the Proceso de Comunidades Negras (PCN). Escobar offers a detailed ethnographic account of PCN’s visions, strategies, and practices, and he chronicles and analyzes the movement’s struggles for autonomy, territory, justice, and cultural recognition. Yet he also does much more. Consistently emphasizing the value of local activist knowledge for both understanding and social action and drawing on multiple strands of critical scholarship, Escobar proposes new ways for scholars and activists to examine and apprehend the momentous, complex processes engulfing regions such as the Colombian Pacific today.
Escobar illuminates many interrelated dynamics, including the Colombian government’s policies of development and pluralism that created conditions for the emergence of black and indigenous social movements and those movements’ efforts to steer the region in particular directions. He examines attempts by capitalists to appropriate the rainforest and extract resources, by developers to set the region on the path of modernist progress, and by biologists and others to defend this incredibly rich biodiversity “hot-spot” from the most predatory activities of capitalists and developers. He also looks at the attempts of academics, activists, and intellectuals to understand all of these complicated processes. Territories of Difference is Escobar’s effort to think with Afro-Colombian intellectual-activists who aim to move beyond the limits of Eurocentric paradigms as they confront the ravages of neoliberal globalization and seek to defend their place-based cultures and territories.spa: Escobar explica muchas dinámicas interrelacionadas, como las políticas de desarrollo y pluralismo del gobierno colombiano que crearon las condiciones para el surgimiento de movimientos sociales negros e indígenas y los esfuerzos de esos movimientos por dirigir la región en determinadas direcciones. Examina los intentos de los capitalistas por apropiarse de la selva y extraer recursos, de los promotores por encaminar la región hacia el progreso modernista, y de los biólogos y otros por defender este "punto caliente" de biodiversidad increíblemente rico de las actividades más depredadoras de capitalistas y promotores. También examina los intentos de académicos, activistas e intelectuales por comprender todos estos complicados procesos. Territorios de la diferencia es el esfuerzo de Escobar por pensar con los intelectuales-activistas afrocolombianos que aspiran a superar los límites de los paradigmas eurocéntricos mientras se enfrentan a los estragos de la globalización neoliberal y tratan de defender sus culturas y territorios basados en el lugar.About the Series viiPreface ixAcknolwedgments xiiiIntroduction 11. Place 272. Capital 693. Nature 1114. Development 1565. Identity 2006. Networks 254Conclusion 299Notes 313References Cited 381Index 41
Number Culture: Old Babylonian Mathematics at Yale
No full textThe Yale Babylonian Collection houses virtually every genre, type, and period of ancient Mesopotamian writing, ranging from about 3000 B.C.E. to the early Christian Era. Among its treasures are tablets of the Epic of Gilgamesh and other narratives, the world’s oldest recipes, a large corpus of magic spells and mathematical texts, stunning miniature art carved on seals, and poetry by the first named author in world history, the princess Enheduanna.
This unique volume, the companion book to an exhibition at Yale’s Peabody Museum of Natural History, celebrates the Yale Babylonian Collection and its formal affiliation with the museum. Included are essays by world-renowned experts on the exhibition themes, photographs and illustrations, and a catalog of artifacts in the collection that present the ancient Near East in the light of present-day discussion of lived experiences, focusing on family life and love, education and scholarship, identity, crime and transgression, demons, and sickness
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