Individuo, familia y comunidad.
Un estudio de caso en Transilvania
Míriam Torrens Arnal - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
This article is intended to summarize some relevant aspects about the methodological and theoretical debate in the field on peasant communities. The concept
of community and the nature of both Peasant Society and Culture arise from the ethnographical fieldwork performed in a székely community in Transilvania. We
are interested in understand the commitments through which morality in kinship and neighbourhood affects economy. These commitments are manifold (social, individual,
moral and economic) and they define an original way of life..
En los escenarios del tiempo. Organización sociocultural de la procreación e identidad en Oslo
Irina Casado i Aijón - GETP / GRAFO - UAB
Expressions like “planning time” or “how to use time” are part of the daily Norwegian speech. For Norwegians, “time” is a basic cultural notion which is a starting
point from which they explain and define the level of importance of certain relationships: with themselves, with relatives or any other social relationships. This paper seeks
to analyze how time is used by Oslo inhabitants in their search for balance between, individual, family or social circles. The amount of time that Norwegians invest in
themselves, also takes part in how they represent motherhood and fatherhood, how they conceptualize the familie and slekt or arrange the childcare. However, Time needs
some scenarios to develop. Thus, this paper aims at the analysis of the relationship established between the conceptualization of family and relatives, individualism and the
stages where these relationships emerge in order to reinforce its cohesion. Place selection and activities to undertake are strongly ritualized in Norwegian society as a part
of their collective national identity. The strong relationship between kinship and identity is also analyzed since kinship is as much crucial item in Norwegian identity as it
serves as the vehicle through which identity transmission, especially to children, operates.
Desarrollo rural en Malaysia: estudio de caso de un «kampung» pesquero.
Hugo Valenzuela García - UAB
Economic development of peasant societies implies fundamental challenges for contemporary anthropology. This issue is especially significant in the case of Malaysia, an eclectic
country that combines ethnic diversity, profound urban-rural contrasts, democracy and authoritarianism, rice cultivation and high-tech manufacture, Islamic national religion and
a remarkable rate of economic growth. This paper schematically introduces an ethnographic research carried out in a small Malay community located in the north-west of peninsular
Malaysia – Langkawi archipelago. The research assesses social, economic, political and religious factors that might explain the problem of Malay economic underdevelopment.
El velo, el Rolex y la Antropología
Teresa San Román - UAB - Departament d´Antropologia social i cultura
This small essay points out that the former argument about wearing the veil in the schools is, in fact, a contest among competing identities. Veil it is not only a religious o cultural
marker (as many others, very common in any society) nor a symbol of Islamic identity in front of its prohibition. New students in Anthropology have to be ready to understand our
culture and others culture through a good training and good ethnography.
Observaciones y primeras conclusiones de una etnografía en el ámbito
del poder en un pueblo del Malí
Bruno Beny Le Noir - UAB
The recent decentralization process in the political organization of Mali fostered the emergence of new political actors that cannot be controlled by the traditional
authority of villages. Those new leaders control the new local organizations and are brokers between the state and the locality through the new rhetoric of “decentralization”
and “development” and pursue their own profit despite the community needs.
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