Antropologia Cultural i Història d'Amèrica i Àfrica

¿De qué manera puede contribuir la antropología a comprender y alcanzar la paz en el mundo contemporáneo? E, inversamente, ¡qué pueden aportar los Peace Studies, los estudios sobre la paz, a la tradición antropológica? Fruto de un coloquio internacional celebrado en Barcelona en febrero de 2011, La paz desde abajo propone tomar en cuenta la dimensión cultural y el carácter relativo de la paz, poniendo el énfasis en la necesidad de contar con el punto de vista y la iniciativa locales para la resolución de situaciones de violencia.

Aquest article recull els resultats de les recerques etnogràfiques  realitzades en el marc del projecte “Etnicidad Material: Expresiones
Culturales tangibles y propiedad intelectual”, finançat pel Ministerio
de Economia y Competitividad (Ref. CSO2015-62723-ERC).

This article focuses on understanding rural life and how agrarian everyday life changes as a consequence of the radical socioeconomic transformations that, across the world, have accompanied rural communities in their transition from economies of subsistence, to industrial production, and, in some areas, from there, to providers of service to the tourism oriented leisure economy. In the last century in the Alt Urgell district (Spanish Pyrenees), many communities went from a production model based on subsistence farming and livestock breeding first to a specialization in milk production, and later to tourism. The industrialization of milk production, the radical transformation of the scale of their operations, and the monetization of life transformed the identity and structure of these communities. The subsequent transformation of many of these farms to accommodate the leisure industry changed the shape of these households again. This paper reflects on how science, governance, commodification, and technology played a role on the transformation of the rural mountain areas, their people, and their everyday life. 2

The article presents the first results of ongoing ethnological research on
Traditional Cultural Expressions (TCEs) and the intellectual property dilemmas that arise from their use and appropriation by external agents. The results from four case studies are presented: the conversion of the mola into collective property of the Guna people (Panama); Mayan peoples’ identification with the indigenous traje (Guatemala); the use of
the pagne manjack by fashion designers (Senegal) and the new types of caganer (Catalonia).

This article collects the results of
the ethnographic research carried
out as part of the project “Tangible
Ethnicity: Tangible Cultural Expressions
and Intellectual Property”
funded by the Ministry of Economy
and Competitiveness (Ref.
CSO2015-62723-ERC).