Gabriela Vargas-Cetina

Datos Biográficos

ID851706
NOMBREGabriela Vargas-Cetina
NOMBRESGabriela
APELLIDOVargas-Cetina
FIRMAVARGAS-CETINA G
AFILIACIONESAutonomous University of Yucatán
ORCID0000-0003-1174-0357
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS43
TOTAL DE CITAS53
TOTAL COMO AUTOR42
TOTAL COMO EDITOR1
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1970
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H3

  • Los sentidos de la Feria y la feria de los sentidos en Sevilla, España

    Open AccessGabriela Vargas-Cetina, Steffan Igor Ayora Diaz et al.ARTICLEEncartes2026

    This article explores Seville’s April Fair as a multisensory and syn- esthetic experience with its own distinctive sensory aesthetics, showing how it reaffirms Sevillian identity, sketches boundaries between local residents and visitors, and accentuates social differences among the locals. Drawing on the work of Paul Stoller and David Sutton, as well as ethnographic fieldwork in Seville conducted between 2017 and 2025, it describes the synestheti…

  • Forum 64

    Sergey Abashin, Andrey Adelfinskiy et al.ARTICLEAntropologicheskij forum2025

    This "Forum" considers attitudes towards theories and theoretical knowledge among ethnologists and anthropologists. Answering questions from the forum organisers, its participants discuss the need for a common "grand theory" that would unite the entire anthropological community, the tense relationship between theory and description, the causes, manifestations and effects of theory fatigue - and also the need for it, its shortage - and overproduct…

  • Life Matters

    Open AccessGabriela Vargas-Cetina, Manpreet Kaur KangARTICLEReview of International American…2023

    The world has recently experienced the ravages of the COVID-19 epidemic and new, terrible wars. The pandemic and the wars now being waged show us how fragile human life is on our planet. The facts that the COVID-19 virus came originally from one or more animals that are part of the human food chain, and that the viruses themselves are forms of life very different from plants and animals, have altered our perception of our place in the world. Wars…

  • Introduction. Thinking through Sociality

    Vered Amit, Sally Anderson et al.CHAPTER2022

  • Thinking Through Sociality

    Sally Anderson, Virginia Caputo et al.BOOKThinking through sociality2022

    As issues and circumstances investigated by anthropologists are becoming ever more diverse, the need to address social affiliation in contemporary situations of mobility, urbanity, transnational connections, individuation, media, and capital flows, has never been greater. Thinking Through Sociality combines a review of classical theories with recent theoretical innovations across a wide range of issues, locales, situations and domains. In this bo…

  • India and the Translocal Modern Dance Scene, 1890s–1950s

    Open AccessGabriela Vargas-CetinaARTICLEReview of International American…2020

    At the end of the nineteenth century and during the first half of the twentieth, lead dancers from different countries became famous and toured internationally. These dancers—and the companies they created—transformed various dance forms into performances fit for the larger world of art music, ballet, and opera circuits. They adapted ballet to the variety-show formats and its audiences. Drawing on shared philosophical ideas—such as those manifest…

  • Cosmopolitanism, Translocality, Astronoetics

    Open AccessGabriela Vargas-Cetina, Manpreet Kaur KangARTICLEReview of International American…2020

    The world in which we live is crisscrossed by multiple flows of people, information, non-human life, travel circuits and goods. At least since the Sixteenth Century, the Americas have received and generated new social, cultural and product trends. As we see through the case studies presented here, modern literature and dance, the industrialization of food and the race to space cannot be historicized without considering the role the Americas, and …

  • Do Locals Need Our Help? On Participatory Research in Anthropology

    Open AccessGabriela Vargas-Cetina, Gabriela Vargas‐cetinaARTICLEAnnals of Anthropological Practice2020Citada por: 2Referencias: 2

    Here I argue that anthropologists, whether we want it or not, affect the localities and the people at our fieldwork sites. These effects can be short, medium or long-term, depending on the place and the circumstances. Short term help may mean helping to pick up fruit or vegetables for dinner or lend a hand during the harvest. Mid-term engagement may mean to set up a school for local teachers wanting to learn anthropological methods or participate…

  • Cooperatives

    Open AccessGabriela Vargas-Cetina, Gabriela Vargas‐cetinaOTHERThe International Encyclopedia of…2018

    Cooperatives are collaborative enterprises that tread a middle path between private businesses and collectively managed goods and resources. Anthropologists have approached them using a mix of classic anthropological concepts, such as the corporation, and concepts derived from other disciplines, including economics and political sciences. Marxism and especially political economy led anthropologists to focus on the global processes that caused coo…

  • Representation, Politics of

    Open AccessGabriela Vargas-Cetina, Gabriela Vargas‐cetinaOTHERThe International Encyclopedia of…2018

    Anthropologists have represented others mainly through written ethnography and oral presentations that include photographs, and today ethnography often includes sounds, videos, and film. In the process of representing what they do and the people and places at their fieldwork sites, anthropologists also build a representation of themselves. Starting in the 1970s, anthropologists began to see these representations as resulting from highly politiciz…

  • Doing Anthropology in Yucatan

    Open AccessGabriela Vargas-Cetina, Steffan Igor Ayora‐diaz et al.ARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist2014Citada por: 2Referencias: 3

  • Performing Music, Silence, Noise, and Anthropology in Yucatan, Mexico

    Gabriela Vargas-CetinaCHAPTERAnthropology and the Politics of…2013

  • Anthropology and the Politics of Representation

    David Stoll, June Nash et al.BOOKAnthropology and the Politics of…2013Citada por: 14

    Anthropology and the Politics of Representation examines the inherently problematic nature of representation and description of living people, specifically in ethnography and more generally in anthropological work as a whole. In Anthropology and the Politics of Representation volume editor Gabriela Vargas-Cetina brings together a group of international scholars who, through their fieldwork experiences, reflect on the epistemological, political, a…

  • Corporations, Cooperatives, and the State

    Gabriela Vargas-CetinaARTICLECurrent Anthropology2011Citada por: 10Referencias: 12

    Focusing on shepherds' cooperatives in Sardinia, Italy, I show how cooperatives have borrowed incessantly from other types of businesses, including private capital businesses, and have provided models for those businesses and other organizations. In order to highlight the place of these organizations within a common institutional environment, "corporations" here are corporate bodies-including firms, trade unions, and political parties-and the coo…

  • Tepoztlán and the Transformation of the Mexican State. The Politics of Loose Connections, by JoAnn Martin

    Open AccessGabriela Vargas-Cetina, Gabriela Vargas‐cetinaARTICLEAmerican Ethnologist2008

  • Society for Latin American Anthropology

    Open AccessBeth A Conklin, Beth Conklin et al.ARTICLEAnthropology News2006

  • Mexico

    Gabriela Vargas-CetinaARTICLEPracticing Anthropology2006

    In thinking of how to describe anthropology in Mexico, four important features come immediately to mind: its theoretical and thematic diversity; its close association with extended fieldwork, both in the popular imaginary and in the actual training and professional activity of anthropologists; its dual organization into research and teaching departments; and its ubiquity in terms of the influence it has had on the social fabric of Mexico almost e…

  • Mexico

    Open AccessGabriela Vargas-CetinaARTICLEAnthropology News2006

  • Society for Latin American Anthropology

    Open AccessGabriela Vargas-Cetina, Encarnacion AguilarARTICLEAnthropology News2005

  • Society for Latin American Anthropology

    Open AccessGabriela Vargas-Cetina, Iyo KunimotoARTICLEAnthropology News2005

  • Society for Latin American Anthropology

    Open AccessGabriela Vargas-Cetina, Beth ConklinARTICLEAnthropology News2005

  • Society for Latin American Anthropology

    Open AccessGabriela Vargas-CetinaARTICLEAnthropology News2005

  • Anthropology and Cooperatives

    Open AccessGabriela Vargas-CetinaARTICLECritique of Anthropology2005Citada por: 18Referencias: 14

    This article, inspired by June Nash's provocative vision of postmodern times in Chiapas, looks at how anthropologists have traced the changing nature of grassroots organizations to suggest that we need to see cooperatives and other local organizations in a new way, as ephemeral associations. Through the example of how the cooperative imaginary has informed different development programs in Mexico's recent history, from the early cooperative movem…

  • Society for Latin American Anthropology

    Open AccessGabriela Vargas-Cetina, Gabriela Vargas‐cetinaARTICLEAnthropology News2004

  • Society for Latin American Anthropology

    Open AccessGabriela Vargas-Cetina, Gabriela Vargas‐cetina et al.ARTICLEAnthropology News2004