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This paper presents an ethnographic study about the school discourse around the school concentration of immigrant students. It deconstruct the discourses about the factors and impact of this phenomenon. This work taken a microsociological level analysis, the ethnographic context is a district of the province of Granada. This analysis allows to discover covert practices that favor the concentration and the discourses that justify this reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper offers an approach to the study of skateboarding in the city of Madrid through a multi-sited ethnographic study which combines online and offline research. Based on this methodology, we show an analysis of some of the main characteristics of the skate culture in our society, particularly in the city of Madrid, putting the emphasis on the most intersubjective and cultural aspects of this reality. In recent years skateboarding has experienced a visible increase in Madrid and the analytic frame that we propose for studying its diffusion and escalation, answers to changes in the cultural order of western societies and the skate culture in itself, in dynamic interdependence with the economic sphere, as the order of production and distribution of cultural and sporting services and goods [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents an ethnographic study about the school discourse around the school concentration of immigrant students. It deconstruct the discourses about the factors and impact of this phenomenon. This work taken a microsociological level analysis, the ethnographic context is a district of the province of Granada. This analysis allows to discover covert practices that favor the concentration and the discourses that justify this reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During much time, anthropology has defined primitive societies as societies of mythopoetical thought. Just the opposite of those societies in which it governs the rational thought to the service of profitability and productivity. Myth constructs its discursive form with metaphors, analogies and other tools of the intellect. It represents and identifies the primitive society as a whole. Myth was the wild thought. This idea could also be applied to traditional societies. In these societies we found mythopoetical praxis and speeches, like in the example that is analyzed in this paper: the wild analogy of pasiegos in relationship with their cattle. We have to consider two questions on the analogical thought of pasiegos. First, the role of analogy in the origin of the culture and the dynamic of cultural change. Second, gender analogy: is the analogical universe of pasiegos masculine, feminine, or without gender? Additionally, under the consideration that «wild» is a pristine human thought, we ask ourselves how much of wild has the wild thought. First at all in its relation with rationalism: emerges analogy from rationalism? What relation analogy maintains with rationalism? Its origin is the result of a «natural» function? By the same token, we ask about the social nature of the savage. That is to say, how much of wild is the analogy. Whether or not the analogy is a historical and asocial function of human intellect. One final observation: The analogical complex of pasiegos is not entirely examined. We only analyze the homologous relations between the cows and the habitat. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]