LiminaR

<font color="#000080">LiminaR. Estudios sociales y humanísticos publishes not only the results of research of the Centro de Estudios Superiores de México y Centroamérica, but also of the social scientists from the southern border of Mexico and Central America. The journal addresses issues pertaining to the contemporary world from disciplinary approaches including Economics, History, Sociology, Anthropology, Political Science and the Humanities. Semi-annual publication.<br></font><br>

List of Papers (Total 1,225)

Documenting and eradicating corruption in Mexico

This is a critical review aboutthe book: Vargas Vélez, A. M., Sereno Marín, C. A., y Vázquez Bernal, E. (2022). El combate a la corrupción en México: avances y oportunidades. Tirant lo Blanch / Sistema Estatal Anticorrupciónde Michoacán.

Between Light and Shadow: Photography and Memory in Las mujeres de X’oyep. Fotografía y memoria, by Alberto del Castillo Troncoso

This text is a critical review of the book Las mujeres de X’oyep. Fotografía y memoria (2022), by Alberto del Castillo Troncoso.

The Testament of Don Francisco Pellicer Camacho, Great- grandfather of the Poet Carlos Pellicer Cámara

This work partially reconstructs the maternal and paternal genealogy of the Tabasco poet Carlos Pellicer Cámara (1897-1977) through the analysis of ecclesiastical, civil, and notarial documents. Among the sources examined, a detailed review is conducted of the will of Francisco Pellicer Camacho, dated April 3, 1833, a key document that allows for the identification of family ties...

Incidence of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Minors Referred with Language Problems

The American Psychiatric Association defines Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) as a neurodevelopmental disorder. In Mexico, there is no clear picture of its incidence, due in part, to the difficulties in diagnosis and the varying degrees of severity of ASD. For this reason, the objectives of this study were to evaluate the level of autism incidence in a population of minors with...

La vorágine: Photography and Spectrality

La Vorágine is a major and disruptive work in Latin American narrative. Its radical psychic challenge and its connection to the phantasmatic are unique among jungle novels. This essay explores its “spectral” dimension, associated with photography (though not solely with it), analyzing other studies, the theoretical framework exposed in Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes, the place...

Identities in Transit: The Central American Migrant Subject in Two 21st-Century Mexican Novels

This article analyzes how two 21st-century Mexican novels represent the identity conflict faced by Central American migrants as they travel through Mexico. The works examined are La fila india (2013) by Antonio Ortuño and Las tierras arrasadas (2015) by Emiliano Monge. The study focuses on the intensified rejection that some Mexicans display toward migrants and seeks to explain...

Presentación del número 23.2

PresentaciónPresentación del número 23.2Presentation of issue 23.2Ana Alejandra Robles Ruiz* http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6040-5806*Directora de la Revista LiminaR. Estudios sociales y humanísticos. Doctora en Humanidades (Énfasis en Literatura), Maestra en Humanidades (Énfasis en Literatura) y Licenciada en Literaturas Hispánicas por la Universidad de Sonora. Docente-Investigadora...

Review of Crisis and Migration. Experiences and Challenges in the Global South Vol. II

This paper presents a critical review of the book Crisis and Migration. Experiences and Challenges in the Global South Vol. II (2024), by González Zepeda, Carlos Alberto; Ordóñez Cuenca, Jessica A.; Cueto-Calderón, José Salvador; and García-Macías, Pascual G., published by Transnational Press London and carried out by the Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja.

Yásnaya Aguilar Gil and the Desnaturalization of the Indigenous Category

This article analyzes the denaturalization of the indigenous category in the texts of Yásnaya Aguilar Gil (1981-), a Mixe intellectual and activist. We first develop why the category of indigenous can be understood from the perspective of the "construction of meaning" of cultural sociology. Next, we present a synthesis of the indigenous category's constitution during the 20th...

Deleuze‘s Schizoanalysis as an Epistemological Alternative

The article analyzes how schizoanalysis, through a deconstructive and critical philosophical approach, dismantles the structures of power, repression, and language that shape desire in contemporary society. It presents schizoanalysis as an alternative to traditional psychoanalysis, aiming to liberate desires from social control. It examines language as both a tool of control and...

Time of Apostles. Forest Conservationism in the Federal Territory of Quintana Roo During the Maderista Period

In 1912, a commission of forestry experts led by Miguel Ángel de Quevedo visited the Federal Territory of Quintana Roo to assess the state of the forests. In our analysis, we aim to examine proposals for forest preservation that took into account both the colonization of the area and social justice during a period of transition between the porfiriato and the Madero revolution...

Theoretical Fundamentals: Culture of Peace and Inclusive School Culture in Students with Disabilities

For students with disabilities, a culture of peace and an inclusive culture in the educational context make a difference. They can represent learning opportunities or limitations that impede the student’s development. This article uses qualitative documentary design to analyze the various theoretical points and public policies that have contributed to the construction of both...

Presentación del número 23.1

PresentaciónPresentación del número 23.1Presentation of number 23.1Ana Alejandra Robles Ruiz1 *Directora de la Revista LiminaR. Estudios sociales y humanísticos. Doctora en Humanidades (Énfasis en Literatura), Maestra en Humanidades (Énfasis en Literatura) y Licenciada en Literaturas Hispánicas por la Universidad de Sonora. Docente-Investigadora en la Línea de Discursos...

Human Rights Promotion Experience with Migrant Women

This article outlines a human rights promotion initiative targeting migrant women from agricultural laborer families in southern Mexico’s sugarcane region. It begins by detailing their challenging living and working conditions, framed by social marginalization and human rights violations. The study then draws on Human Rights Education and experiences with families in this sector...

Policies on Archaeological Heritage in Bolivia Today

In this paper is presented an approach to cultural policies on archaeological heritage in Bolivia, based on an analysis of regulatory instruments, state reports and publications. It is compared with the case of Mexico, to discuss the effects on the protection and valuation of Pre-Hispanic heritage. The essay begins with the presentation of the regulatory and institutional context...

Mácula: Welcome to the Town of Human Weaknesses

This review analyzes the novel Mácula by Amín Miceli, pointing out some similarities, correspondences, or differences with other novels from Chiapas.Keywords : Chiapas narrative.

Review of the Book Jóvenes y Redes Sociales. Aproximaciones desde Entornos Universitarios

In the following pages, you will find a review of the book Jóvenes y redes sociales. Aproximaciones desde entornos universitarios (2022), which was coordinated by Dolores Guadalupe Sosa Zúñiga.Keywords : virtual interaction; Internet; identity; political participation.

Migration of Young Choles and Tseltales to Crop Fields in Sonora

This document is a critical review of the book titled Rumbo al norte. Narrativas de jornaleros choles y tseltales en la migración de Chiapas a Sonora (2021), by Oscar Sánchez Carrillo, pubilshed by the Centro de investigaciones Multidisciplinarias sobre Chiapas y la Frontera Sur (CIMSUR-UNAM).

The Symbolic and Mythical Configuration of Belisario Domínguez Palencia in the Ideology of Mexican Society

This article reviews the symbolic and mythical configuration in the collective ideology of Mexico of one character: Belisario Domínguez Palencia. A doctor and liberal politician from the Mexican state of Chiapas who, as a senator in 1913, was assassinated for giving speeches against the administration of President Victoriano Huerta. From this fact, a symbolic space was built for...

Visual Testimonies of Childhood Among the Classic Maya

This paper explores the representations of children among the Mayans of the Classic period from the perspective of visual culture. Infants appear in two sets of mural paintings, in a group of reliefs, and in some codex-style ceramic vessels. Each of these representations is analyzed and it is established that the infants appear in ceremonial -political and religious- contexts or...

The Fear of Losing One’s Mind: Emotions and Madness Among the Maya-ch’ol of Frontera Corozal, Mexico

The objective of this study is to analyze the social function of the subjects called sojquem i jol in the ch’ol community of Frontera Corozal, Chiapas. Using a mixed methodology based on quantitative discourse analysis, semantic network theory and sentiment analysis, a significant influence of ecclesiastical institutions on narratives about abnormal behaviors and their social...

Pueblos indígenas ante la epidemia del VIH. Políticas, culturas y prácticas de la salud en Chiapas y Oaxaca

ReseñasPueblos indígenas ante la epidemia del VIH. Políticas, culturas y prácticas de la salud en Chiapas y OaxacaIndigenous Peoples in the Face of the HIV Epidemic. Health Policies, Cultures and Practices in Chiapas and OaxacaRenata Gabriela Cortez Gómez* http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1943-1842* Dra. en Antropología por el Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en...

Gertrude Duby’s Testimony About the Religion of A Tseltal Locality in Chiapas in 1948

A brief work by the prominent Swiss activist and photographer Gertrude Duby is made available to the interested public. Its publication is necessary because it contains important ethnographic descriptions, created in 1948, about the religion of a tseltal community not included in the specialized bibliography. The authors comment on this matter in the introduction made for this...

Subjectivity and Artistic Creation. Notes From Psychoanalysis

This paper delves into the relationship between the unconscious and the work of creation. The text follows three explanatory moments to achieve the goal: first of all, the creator´s life embedded in the work. Secondly, the unconscious and its mechanisms that are present in all creation. Thirdly, psychic work and the tribulations of the self that reveal the meanderings that...

Anthropologic Job and Literary Work in Chiapas, First Fifties of the 20th Century

As if it were a paste, in this article I explore three components in texts produced by anthropologists: who writes, what they write, and who approaches what has been written. These dimensions are constructed with spatio-temporal specifications, which, in accordance with my questions, I place in the state of Chiapas. I describe features of the way in which anthropologists working...