Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz
Biographic Data
| ID | 3606448 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steffan Igor |
| FAMILY NAME | Ayora-Diaz |
| SIGNATURE | AYORA-DIAZ S I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Autonomous University of Yucatán |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Doing Anthropology in Yucatan
Yucatecan Food and the Postcolonial Politics of Representation
Intersections translocales
La gastronomie yucatèque a fait son apparition durant la seconde moitié du XXe siècle en tant qu'aboutissement de longs processus historiques se jouant aux niveaux local, global et translocal. Une forte opposition culturelle à la cuisine nationale mexicaine renforce la spécificité culturelle de cette gastronomie, et les ingrédients, les recettes et les techniques culinaires employés au Yucatán la relient à d'autres formes culinaires du monde cara…
Imagining Authenticity in the Local Medicines of Chiapas, Mexico
This paper describes and discusses the existing gap between local medicines as practiced by healers in the Highlands of Chiapas and the way in which NGO personnel and other foreigners imagine them. It is argued that non-indigenous people in the region possess a tourist gaze that creates a distance (spatial and temporal) between cosmopolitan and local practices that lead them to view local medicines as exotic knowledge. The Museum of Maya Medicine…
Education and neoliberalism in Yucatan, Mexico
Under neoliberalism, at least in Mexico, education has been recast as a service that is to be sold for money, and not as a right of all Mexicans. The economy itself is now seen as a services economy, where everything is expected to make money. Here we reflect on some of the implications of current education reforms on our work at the Autonomous University of Yucatan
Imagining Authenticity in the Local Medicines of Chiapas, Mexico
This paper describes and discusses the existing gap between local medicines as practiced by healers in the Highlands of Chiapas and the way in which NGO personnel and other foreigners imagine them. It is argued that non-indigenous people in the region possess a tourist gaze that creates a distance (spatial and temporal) between cosmopolitan and local practices that lead them to view local medicines as exotic knowledge. The Museum of Maya Medicine…
Doing Anthropology in Yucatan
Intersections translocales
La gastronomie yucatèque a fait son apparition durant la seconde moitié du XXe siècle en tant qu'aboutissement de longs processus historiques se jouant aux niveaux local, global et translocal. Une forte opposition culturelle à la cuisine nationale mexicaine renforce la spécificité culturelle de cette gastronomie, et les ingrédients, les recettes et les techniques culinaires employés au Yucatán la relient à d'autres formes culinaires du monde cara…
Education and neoliberalism in Yucatan, Mexico
Under neoliberalism, at least in Mexico, education has been recast as a service that is to be sold for money, and not as a right of all Mexicans. The economy itself is now seen as a services economy, where everything is expected to make money. Here we reflect on some of the implications of current education reforms on our work at the Autonomous University of Yucatan
Imagining Authenticity in the Local Medicines of Chiapas, Mexico
This paper describes and discusses the existing gap between local medicines as practiced by healers in the Highlands of Chiapas and the way in which NGO personnel and other foreigners imagine them. It is argued that non-indigenous people in the region possess a tourist gaze that creates a distance (spatial and temporal) between cosmopolitan and local practices that lead them to view local medicines as exotic knowledge. The Museum of Maya Medicine…
Yucatecan Food and the Postcolonial Politics of Representation
Intersections translocales
La gastronomie yucatèque a fait son apparition durant la seconde moitié du XXe siècle en tant qu'aboutissement de longs processus historiques se jouant aux niveaux local, global et translocal. Une forte opposition culturelle à la cuisine nationale mexicaine renforce la spécificité culturelle de cette gastronomie, et les ingrédients, les recettes et les techniques culinaires employés au Yucatán la relient à d'autres formes culinaires du monde cara…
Doing Anthropology in Yucatan
Sociology (4 works) · Culinary Culture and Tourism (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Ethnology (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Philippine History and Culture (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work)