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Abstract: All my memories about Christmas involve snow and a Santa Clauss going down a chimney, in the middle of the equatorial tropic. How are these traditions stablished as such, specially when they are not related to our reality? How or why do we keep repeating and continuing these traditions? There […]

Abstract: Argélida Flores is 30 years old, has four children, two grandsons and no husband. Known as “la Gocha” by her neighbors of the invation neighborhood “Nelson Mandela”, she works from dawn to dusk in a family home located in one of the most fancy areas of Cartagena de Indias, […]

Abstract: Carlo Petrini, founder of Slow Food and fierce critic of the current agricultural production model, says that the world produces food for 12 billion people, twice the number of people on the planet. Yet there are about 1 billion people suffering from hunger. If you add the number of undernourished […]

  Abstract: A few days ago, in an academic meeting, I was surprised to hear from a renowned anthropologist woman that she had rejected a postdoctoral candidate. The reason? The candidate had two children. What prevents a woman with children participating from academia?, I asked myself. That the academic world is […]