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Traditional festivities, political domination and social reproduction: Case analysis of Valencia’s Fallas

2020

The traditional festivities have been usually analysed in social sciences as a mode of generating sociability and social cohesion, not only in traditional societies but also in modern ones. However...

Animated Corpses: Communicating with Post Mortals in an Anatomical Exhibition

2006

‘Plastinates’ (i.e. corpses conserved through plastics) are lab created artifacts which since the nineties have been the subject of a cultural field experiment via an anatomical exhibition. Similarly to brain-dead or digitalized bodies, they constitute an ambiguous form of post-mortem existence. The article inquires after the ways in which the ontological status of these entities is constituted through the practices of body donors, anatomists and visitors. Plastinates owe their ambiguity to an oscillation between two different frames of perception. Their meaning is determined by the extent to which an anatomy exhibition can impose a ‘medical gaze’ over a non-professional way of perception, …

Restoring the political: The places of memory in Argentina, Chile and Colombia

2019

Este artículo aborda los procesos de marcación social de lugares de memoria en Argentina, Chile y Colombia, y las acciones desarrolladas en estos espacios y desde ellos como parte de una función restitutiva del ámbito de lo político y lo comunitario. En los casos argentino y chileno, la recuperación de ex recintos de detención y tortura de las últimas dictaduras y su transformación en sitios de memoria ha posibilitado la ejecución de un trabajo de memoria que excede lo conmemorativo y reparatorio, mientras en Colombia la proliferación de lugares de memoria ha convocado la participación de actores locales que, desde ellos, rearticulan sentidos comunitarios destruidos o debilitados por la lar…

The black female slave takes literary revenge: Female gothic motifs against slavery in Hannah Crafts’s "The Bondwoman’s Narrative"

2015

The Bondwoman’s Narrative is a novel that functions as a story made up from Hannah Crafts’s experiences as a bondwoman and thus merges fact and fiction giving a thoroughly new account of slavery both committed to reality and fiction. Following and taking over the Gothic literary genre that spread in Europe as a reaction toward the Romantic spirit, Crafts uses it to denounce the degrading slavery system and, mainly, to scathingly attack the patriarchal roots that stigmatize black women as the ultimate victims. It is my contention that Hannah Crafts uses the female Gothic literary devices both to attack slavery and also to stand as a proper (African) American citizen capable of relating to th…

Artefacts of Cognition: the Use of Clay Tokens in a Neo-Assyrian Provincial Administration

2014

The study of clay tokens in the Ancient Near East has focused, for the most part, on their role as antecedents to the cuneiform script. Starting with Pierre Amiet and Maurice Lambert in the 1960s the theory was put forward that tokens, or calculi, represent an early cognitive attempt at recording. This theory was taken up by Denise Schmandt-Besserat who studied a large diachronic corpus of Near Eastern tokens. Since then little has been written except in response to Schmandt-Besserat's writings. Most discussions of tokens have generally focused on the time period between the eighth and fourth millennium bc with the assumption that token use drops off as writing gains ground in administrativ…

Review of Bybee (2010): Language, Usage and Cognition

2011

Review of Wilson & Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (2012): Dynamicity in Emotion Concepts

2013

Review of Foolen, Lüdtke, Racine & Jordan (2012): Moving Ourselves. Moving Others. Motion and Emotion in Intersubjectivity, Consciousness and Lan…

2013

The Foundations of Cognitive Linguistics

2015

Teachers’ initial training in cultural diversity in Spain: attitudes and pedagogical strategies

2005

This paper examines a number of issues relating to educational responsibility for increasing social cohesion and preventing the segregation of people from different cultures who have to pass through the Spanish educational system. Using a descriptive analysis, we review the present situation. Our review shows that the treatment of cultural diversity by Spanish universities is, in general, insufficient with respect to the training needs that students will demand from the educational system both now and in the future. Simply taking a single course on intercultural issues is not enough to prepare teachers to cope with cultural diversity in the school and classroom. Therefore, educational appro…