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This paper analyzes the intercultural relations between afrodescendants and mixtecs of the municipality of Santiago Pinotepa Nacional, Oaxaca. For this purpose, the topic of identity is conceptually reviewed, taking up authors and proposals for its understanding. We start from the psychological to the anthropological, passing through Ricoeur’s hermeneutics to explain changes and permanence of the phenomenon. Subsequently, from an ethnographic methodology based on open and semistructured interviews, two mayordomías and a dance are described with the purpose of explaining how they contribute to identify and distinguish the groups. Finally, an interpretation of the practices and their meanings is presented. The main objective is to indicate the importance of otherness in the construction of identity for the study of social processes in intercultural contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper addresses trans from an athropological persepective. It focusses particularly on transsexuality as a specific variant, or gender mainstreaming, aiming to contribute elements for understanding in relation to the order of gender in line with the contemporary medico-legal system. It analyzes the difficult relationships of transsexualism with certain sectors of the feminist movement, along with the inherent paradoxes when aiming to construct a specific transsexual identity. Finally, we dedicate some space to anthropolgical trans research, as well as its limits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

«Place» is a word that have many applications and meanings in the daily talking. This has given way to different conceptual interpretations that may confuse to some geographers, especially those too close to social sciences. There are already some anthropological opinions in the sense that in opposition to places that reflect some identity to their users, there are the «non-places»; that is sites where people may transit without any feeling of their existence. Such are the cases of modern shopping centers, express highways, airports, etc. The argument in this paper is that those sites are in some way stable in time and their permanence makes them part of a local landscape. In this sense, these artifacts become part of the landscape and are adopted by local people as part of their goods that develop some identity feelings alike the ones for places. This is shown when comparing with other places that have some similar spatial arrangements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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