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This paper is an invitation to reflect on the importance eroticism may have in the different stages of anthropological work (gathering information, analysis, writing, presenting to an audience…), starting from a definition of eroticism as potential and creative force, which includes but not be limited to the sexual sense of the term; an approach that may serve to capture the dynamic, sensorial intensity of both pleasant and unpleasant human experiences. In order to do so, I turn to classic texts by Audre Lorde, Gilles Deleuze/Félix Guattari and Georges Bataille as well as current authors such as Maria Livia Alga, Alba Barbé, Adriana Guzmán and Elisa Lipkau. But, above all, I take inspiration from Susan Sontag’s essay “Against Interpretation”, published originally in 1966 and applied to art criticism. Following a brief revision of anthropological research in the field of sexuality, I address different questions relating to importance of commitment and erotic affectation in ethnography, developed above all in certain fields such as visual anthropology and feminist anthropology. One question guides my entire reflection: What would an erotics of anthropological research be and in what sense could that be of use? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the ways in which the dominated collaborate with their own domination, and it does it based on the ethnographic work of an investigation about the discursivity and the practice of the correctional pedagogy in an educational centre of Spanish juvenile justice. Establishing a dialogue between the concepts of symbolic violence by Bourdieu and that of moral career by Goffman, the article presents a double analytical approach that, first, elucidates the behaviours and staging of the inmates from a situated point of view and, secondly, inquires about how they somaticize the dynamics of subjugation of the prison regime. In this way, the paper explores the ways in which young people interpenetrate, or pretend to do so, with the perspective of themselves that confers the institution, in this case, one that expects to attend dangerous and violent individuals. That one labelling as a «young delinquent? seems to adopt the identity attributed to him and (re)presenting himself from that stigma. But other forms of obedience or participation are also discussed. Those forms that remain within the margins of control and the will of the inmates, and which respond to the coercive system of the total institutions. And others that insinuate a kind of subjection that attends to more subtle, continuous and inadvertent coercion: those unconscious dispositions that compel the dominated to unconsciously participate with their subjugation as an incorporated effect of the dynamics of domination itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Masculinity is culture's effect, a social construction and a performance, more than a universal and immutable essence. The hegemonic masculine model based on rigid gender difference and built on the stereotype of "macho" and male breadwinner, is doubted in the actual society. Contemporary art, as a social agent and as a powerful way of communication, contributes to questioning this model, by proposing new plural forms of masculinities. In this paper we develop a study about man images created in Spanish actual art, through an analysis of the work of local artists' selection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to discuss the place of the body as a support of cognition among youths visuallly impaired. In the history of psychology the body was studied as a support of cognition and it was related to 19th century experimental method as well as to experimental fisiology. In our field research we observe a theatre troupe made up of youths visually impaired and we are asking for new theoretical references to debate the place of the body as a support of cognition. Concepts such as hybrid, networks, actants wich are nowadays proposed by actor-network theory are very important for us as far as we are interested on the relations between body and cognition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The relevance of affectivity in the human sciences implies not only the emergence of a new analytic field about an important aspect of social activity, but a reflection on the modalities of knowledge in these disciplines. In fact, to propose the affective dimension as an analytic object has consequences on how to approach knowledge, because the very existence of an affective dimension obliges to rethink the cognitive dimension inherent in the act of knowledge. In this paper I propose some methodological elements for reflection derived from these ideas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]