Asiento Viejo and the Development of the Río Parita Chiefdom, Panama

A Polish-born sociologist considered by many to be the most brilliant and original social thinkers of our time, explores the consquences of contemporary "liquid life"--a fluid, rapidly changing life during which the most overpowering worries are the fears of being caught napping, failing to catch up with fast moving events, overlooking the "use by" dates, being saddled with worthless possessions, missing the moment calling for a change of tack, and being left behind.

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México está sumido en una ola de violencia armada sin precedentes en su historia reciente. Existe un amplio consenso de que es resultado de la “guerra contra las drogas” y la militarización extrema de la seguridad pública en el país, que arrancó en 2006, en el sexenio del presidente Felipe Calderón. El masivo número de asesinatos, desapariciones, actos de tortura y desplazamiento forzado, producto de este fenómeno, ha llevado a distintos analistas a preguntarse si la situación que se vive en el territorio nacional es propiamente hablando un “conflicto armado interno”. En...

This translation of a major work in Mexican anthropology argues that Mesoamerican civilization is an ongoing and undeniable force in contemporary Mexican life. For Guillermo Bonfil Batalla, the remaining Indian communities, the "de-Indianized" rural mestizo communities, and vast sectors of the poor urban population constitute the México profundo. Their lives and ways of understanding the world continue to be rooted in Mesoamerican civilization. An ancient agricultural complex provides their food supply, and work is understood as a way of maintaining a harmonious relationship with the natural ...