Imaginar futuros. La temporalidad del ganarse la vida en el Valle del Mezquital
Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Centro de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias en Ciencias y Humanidades (Serie: Colección Alternativas), 2022. First Edition. Paperback. 403p., maps, photos, tables, bibl., wrps. New. Item #82937
ISBN: 9786073004633
In Mexico, anthropological analyses of sociocultural changes linked to migration, first rural-urban and then international, have largely defined our understanding of indigenous realities in the country. However, little has been said about the temporal substrates involved in these changes — the ways in which indigenous communities articulate past and present events, or construct their contemporaneities. “Imaginar futuros” aims to study just that, analyzing the multiple ways in which people in an indigenous community in the Mezquital Valley make a living and, at the same time, imagine and build their future. The work both asks and answers many thought-provoking questions, such as, how do we as people form an idea of future events or what we could aspire to? How can we imagine the “better future” and identify practices in the present moment that would bring us closer to a better life? And what do we gain or lose by weaving our pasts with possible futures in an uncertain present?
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