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Dos narizones no se pueden besar. Trayectorias, usos y prácticas de la tradición Orisha en Yucatán by Nahayelli Beatriz Juárez Huet (A Book Review)

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Vargas-Cetina G.

Review of International American Studies

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2020

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vol. 13

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issue 1

285-290

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Juárez Huet, Nahayelli Beatriz. Dos narizones no se pueden besar. Trayectorias, usos y prácticas de la tradición Orisha en Yucatán, Publicaciones ciesas, 2019. -- a book review by Gabriela Vargas-Cetina

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To Build a Wall: Imaginaries of Identity in Yucatan, Mexico

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Vargas-Cetina G., Ayora-Díaz S. I.

Review of International American Studies

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2018

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vol. 11

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issue 1

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Gabriela Vargas-Cetina and Steffan Igor Ayora-Díaz Autonomous University of YucatanMexico To Build a Wall: Imaginaries of Identity in Yucatan, Mexico Abstract: Here we consider ideas related to walls, roads, bridges, doors and tunnels and the materialities they name as a general frame of reference, to reflect on the manifold relations between imagined insides and outsides generally implied when discussing the wall already splitting Mexico and the US, but also regarding Yucatecan identity. We explain the ways in which Yucatecans have often seen themselves as different from “Mexicans” and why. Yucatecans have sometimes expressed the wish to build a wall around the Yucatan peninsula. We propose that such a wish is based on an erroneous perception of Yucatecans as intrinsically better people than non-Yucatecans, upholding ideals of “peacefulness” and “goodness,” and on the rhetorical inclusion of all inhabitants of the Yucatan peninsula within an imagined single “Yucatan.” Yet the wished-for Yucatecan unity is impeded by the current political and identity divisions within the Yucatan peninsula, which comprises three different states, each with its own economy, specific regional identities, and its own internal problems. We believe that to make Yucatan more inclusive, Yucatecans ought to start imagining more and better roads and bridges. Keywords: Yucatan-Mexico relations, history, space, Yucatan, the border

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Life Matters: The Human Condition in the Age of Pandemics (An Introduction)

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Vargas-Cetina G., Kang M. K.

Review of International American Studies

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2023

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vol. 16

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issue 2

17-28

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The world has recently experienced the ravages of the COVID-19 epidemic and new, terrible wars. The pandemic and the wars now being waged show us how fragile human life is on our planet. The facts that the COVID-19 virus came originally from one or more animals that are part of the human food chain, and that the viruses themselves are forms of life very different from plants and animals, have altered our perception of our place in the world. Wars fought in this changed biological context have also shown how precarious the balance of power is in what we have come to see as a global humanity. Scholars in the fields of Humanities and Cultural Studies have risen to the occasion by focusing on the cultural effects of biological and war-time violence-related catastrophes. In this issue of RIAS focusing on the Americas and their influence on the world, we look at the implications of pandemics and wars, and human reactions to similar threats in the past, such as the pandemic of the Spanish flu which decimated soldiers during World War I. And once again, literature comes to our rescue in the time of heightened angst, showing us paths of the mind already present in American literature that may nudge us in a better direction. Existential homelessness, Buddhism, and meditation, also appear here as “life matters,” and that in the double sense: they are both matters of life and signals that life, and especially human life, must matter.

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Dos narizones no se pueden besar. Trayectorias, usos y prácticas de la tradición Orisha en Yucatán by Nahayelli Beatriz Juárez Huet (A Book Review)

To Build a Wall: Imaginaries of Identity in Yucatan, Mexico

Life Matters: The Human Condition in the Age of Pandemics (An Introduction)