Luis Angosto-Ferrandez
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 910461 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Luis Angosto-Ferrandez |
| NOMBRES | Luis |
| APELLIDO | Angosto-Ferrandez |
| FIRMA | ANGOSTO-FERRANDEZ L |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4459-208X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2012 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Common Ways to See Differently
This article explores understandings of race, mestizaje, and criollismo among blind people in Chile and Venezuela. It demonstrates that visually perceived markers are not self-evidently constitutive of race as a social category. Participants show sound knowledge of racialized categories but also reveal significant differences in the identification of racial markers and in the way that race informs their understandings of mestizaje and criollismo …
Banderas nacionales, inestabilidad social y poder político
Este artículo examina un fenómeno social recurrente y bien documentado en diferentes contextos culturales: el uso de las banderas nacionales se intensifica en períodos de inestabilidad y en contextos afectados por polarización política marcada. Con una revisión crítica de esfuerzos teóricos que han abierto caminos para explicar este fenómeno, muestra cuáles son las principales barreras que han impedido la elaboración de explicaciones convincentes…
Las banderas, sus funciones y sus usos
Los estudios focalizados en los usos y funciones de las banderas nacionales continúan siendo escasos, y muy particularmente en la esfera iberoamericana. Este monográfico establece fundaciones empíricas y teóricas para dar impulso a estos estudios y para avanzar en la comprensión de las razones por las cuales se producen fluctuaciones, en ocasiones tan abruptas, en la presencia de las banderas en la esfera pública. Más allá de la relación que pued…
The child everyone has inside
This paper revisits the debate on the relevance of the labor theory of value for the anthropological task. It argues that the labor theory of value can creatively inform and reformulate in critical ways a variety of social issues addressed through anthropological lenses. The argument is sustained by two main exercises: first, a critical overview of the foundations of the labor theory of value outlines the reasons why it opened new grounds for ant…
Cultural labor and the defetishization of environments
A modern accumulation? The intricacies of enclosure, dispossession and cultural production in Venezuela's Gran Sabana
In Gran Sabana (southern Venezuela), an ongoing process of enclosure is transforming property rights over lands previously treated as common pool resource by the indigenous Pemon. Members of the Pemon communities in which land is being enclosed participate actively in this process through the development of tourist projects. This process reflects a different configuration of forces than those Marx associated with 'primitive accumulation'. It show…
Venezuelan Crisis
Neoextractivism and Class Formation
The Arco Minero del Orinoco (Orinoco Mining Arc-AMO) project, launched in 2016, demonstrates that Bolivarian governments have been unsuccessful in overcoming extractivism and rentier capitalism as structuring foundations of the Venezuelan state and its politics, but it simultaneously confirms that these governments remain supported by a bloc made up of heterogeneous class fractions primarily amalgamated around a demand for socioeconomic developme…
Mausoleums, National Flags and Regime Crises
In this paper I undertake a comparative analysis of the symbolic function played by national flags and two specific mausoleums in the configuration of contemporary politics in Spain and Venezuela. In both countries there are signs of political instability, and national flags and the two mausoleums I examine (Francisco Franco’s in Spain and Hugo Chávez’s in Venezuela) have become pivotal to the political manoeuvring of different social factions. T…
Introduction
Symbols are central features of organized human life, helping to define perception, shaping the way we view the world and understand what goes on within it. But, despite this key role in shaping understanding, there is never a single interpretation of a symbol that everyone within the community will accept, and the way in which symbols can mobilize antagonistic political factions demonstrates that they are as much a central element for power stru…
Hugo Chávez as political symbol
Indigenous Peoples, Social Movements, and the Legacy of Hugo Chávez's Governments
The unprecedented enfranchisement of Venezuela's indigenous population is partly a result of the formation of a state-sponsored indigenous movement. This movement prioritizes access to social services, economic development, and political participation in state structures over certain goals of free determination. Other forms of collective action with different priorities are evidence of the existence of diverging interests and goals among indigeno…
Why Current Affairs Needs Social Theory
An Enlightenment philosopher living in the twenty-first century would be writing books like Why Current Affairs Needs Social Theory. This is a work in which Rob Stones echoes the distinctive tone a
The afterlives of Hugo Chávez as political symbol
In January 2016, the first publicized decision made by the president of the newly installed Venezuelan parliament, Henry Ramos Allup, was the removal of pictures from the legislative premises. In what transpired as a calculated performance, this member of the old political guard was captured on video dismissively instructing removal workers to send pictures of Chávez away to Sabaneta (Chávez's birthplace), or into the rubbish bin. He also command…
Epistemología, poder y cultura en las antropologías del sur
Si la antropología no está en crisis, debería estarlo. Y en crisis permanente, además. Como cualquier otra ciencia, la antropología ha de estar bajo el continuo escrutinio de quienes la practican, con el fin de mejorarla. Lo que está en juego no es meramente la posibilidad de producir representaciones pulcras y certeras del mundo social, sino la posibilidad de transformarlo para mejor. Esta es una de las apasionadamente serenas reflexiones que Es…
Epistemología, poder y cultura en las antropologías del sur
Si la antropología no está en crisis, debería estarlo. Y en crisis permanente, además. Como cualquier otra ciencia, la antropología ha de estar bajo el continuo escrutinio de quienes la practican, con el fin de mejorarla. Lo que está en juego no es meramente la posibilidad de producir representaciones pulcras y certeras del mundo social, sino la posibilidad de transformarlo para mejor. Esta es una de las apasionadamente serenas reflexiones que Es…
Venezuela Reframed
The role of the indigenous population in the formation of the Bolivarian constitution is one of Latin America’s most important untold stories. Considered a beacon of twenty-first century socialism by many, Venezuela is witnessing the paradoxical emergence of ‘indigenous capitalisms’ as the government and various indigenous actors are driven by notions of development and enfranchisement grounded in the ideology of multiculturalism. Venezuela Refra…
We Created Chávez
This book makes a significant contribution to the debates on contemporary Venezuelan politics. It feeds into the expanding historiography that critically revisits the politics of the so-called Four
From 'café con leche' to 'o café, o leche
The last census round in Venezuela (2011) introduced new social identity categories based on notions of racial purity that relegated recognition of mestizo conceptions of personhood and nationality—heretofore pillars of statecraft. This article identifies domestic and international influences on the design of this census, showing the way in which the state has been ‘socialised’ in defining its statistical goals. Census results situated moreno/a a…
The Politics of Identity in Latin American Censuses
This special issue is generically dedicated to social identities and censuses, yet race and ethnicity are, more concretely, the pivotal concepts around which contributors work in their respective p
Mundo perdido, paraíso encontrado
The bases of a type of production enmeshed in the capitalist system emerged in Gran Sabana during the twentieth century, but still nowadays a part of its ancestral Pemon inhabitants maintain a notably autonomous economy of subsistence. In order to explain this situation, in this article I identify how exoticising narratives of place and identity constructed around the Gran Sabana and its ancestral inhabitants have contributed to consolidate a red…
Ways of living
Life is a university. Tim Ingold reminds us of something that we have often heard in bohemian circles. Life is fieldwork and fieldwork is life. Those who are familiar with Ingold’s oeuvre will not be surprised by this statement; for those who are not, here is an extraordinary opportunity to step into it. In this conversation, Ingold makes an overview of some of his central ideas about what makes us human, but he is also invited to critically refl…
Anthropology, humanism and civic responsibilities
Thomas Hylland Eriksen is amongst the most prolific anthropologists of our days. His work, however, does not only address specialised audiences; he is also a leading example of public engagement in Norway and beyond and an author who finds social value in the popularisation of science. Juggling conventional academic work and active participation in the public arena is a challenging task, but Eriksen’s career demonstrates that these activi- ties c…
Maneras de vivir
La vida es una universidad. Tim Ingold nos recuerda algo que hemos escuchado muchas veces en ámbitos de bohemia. Quienes estén familizarizados con la obra de Ingold no se sorprenderán por este tipo de afirmación; quienes no la conozcan, tienen aquí una oportunidad extraordinaria para comenzar a introducirse en ella. En esta conversación Ingold repasa algunas de sus más conocidas ideas acerca de lo que nos hace humanos, pero también es invitado a …
Antropología, humanismo y responsabilidades cívicas
Thomas Hylland Eriksen es uno de los antropólogos más prolíficos de nuestros días. Su trabajo, sin embargo, no solamente se encauza hacia las audiencias especializadas: Erikson valoriza la popularización de la ciencia y su labor ilustra la figura del intelectual público. Equilibrar el trabajo académico con la participación activa en el ámbito público es una tarea desafiante, pero la trayectoria de Eriksen demuestra que estas actividades pueden se…
Venezuela Reframed
The role of the indigenous population in the formation of the Bolivarian constitution is one of Latin America’s most important untold stories. Considered a beacon of twenty-first century socialism by many, Venezuela is witnessing the paradoxical emergence of ‘indigenous capitalisms’ as the government and various indigenous actors are driven by notions of development and enfranchisement grounded in the ideology of multiculturalism. Venezuela Refra…
A modern accumulation? The intricacies of enclosure, dispossession and cultural production in Venezuela's Gran Sabana
In Gran Sabana (southern Venezuela), an ongoing process of enclosure is transforming property rights over lands previously treated as common pool resource by the indigenous Pemon. Members of the Pemon communities in which land is being enclosed participate actively in this process through the development of tourist projects. This process reflects a different configuration of forces than those Marx associated with 'primitive accumulation'. It show…
Neoextractivism and Class Formation
The Arco Minero del Orinoco (Orinoco Mining Arc-AMO) project, launched in 2016, demonstrates that Bolivarian governments have been unsuccessful in overcoming extractivism and rentier capitalism as structuring foundations of the Venezuelan state and its politics, but it simultaneously confirms that these governments remain supported by a bloc made up of heterogeneous class fractions primarily amalgamated around a demand for socioeconomic developme…
Introduction
Symbols are central features of organized human life, helping to define perception, shaping the way we view the world and understand what goes on within it. But, despite this key role in shaping understanding, there is never a single interpretation of a symbol that everyone within the community will accept, and the way in which symbols can mobilize antagonistic political factions demonstrates that they are as much a central element for power stru…
Indigenous Peoples, Social Movements, and the Legacy of Hugo Chávez's Governments
The unprecedented enfranchisement of Venezuela's indigenous population is partly a result of the formation of a state-sponsored indigenous movement. This movement prioritizes access to social services, economic development, and political participation in state structures over certain goals of free determination. Other forms of collective action with different priorities are evidence of the existence of diverging interests and goals among indigeno…
From 'café con leche' to 'o café, o leche
The last census round in Venezuela (2011) introduced new social identity categories based on notions of racial purity that relegated recognition of mestizo conceptions of personhood and nationality—heretofore pillars of statecraft. This article identifies domestic and international influences on the design of this census, showing the way in which the state has been ‘socialised’ in defining its statistical goals. Census results situated moreno/a a…
Mundo perdido, paraíso encontrado
The bases of a type of production enmeshed in the capitalist system emerged in Gran Sabana during the twentieth century, but still nowadays a part of its ancestral Pemon inhabitants maintain a notably autonomous economy of subsistence. In order to explain this situation, in this article I identify how exoticising narratives of place and identity constructed around the Gran Sabana and its ancestral inhabitants have contributed to consolidate a red…
Participación y representación indígena en los procesos electorales venezolanos
Este artículo examina los comicios regionales de 2008 en Venezuela como evento contextual para el análisis de estrategias y resultados electorales vinculados a la representación indígena. Se analizan tres factores interrelacionados en el momento electoral: 1. la existencia de representación mínima garantizada a la población indígena en los órganos legislativos; 2. la participación de candidatos y electores indígenas en los comicios; 3. las maniob…
Banderas nacionales, inestabilidad social y poder político
Este artículo examina un fenómeno social recurrente y bien documentado en diferentes contextos culturales: el uso de las banderas nacionales se intensifica en períodos de inestabilidad y en contextos afectados por polarización política marcada. Con una revisión crítica de esfuerzos teóricos que han abierto caminos para explicar este fenómeno, muestra cuáles son las principales barreras que han impedido la elaboración de explicaciones convincentes…
The afterlives of Hugo Chávez as political symbol
In January 2016, the first publicized decision made by the president of the newly installed Venezuelan parliament, Henry Ramos Allup, was the removal of pictures from the legislative premises. In what transpired as a calculated performance, this member of the old political guard was captured on video dismissively instructing removal workers to send pictures of Chávez away to Sabaneta (Chávez's birthplace), or into the rubbish bin. He also command…
The Politics of Identity in Latin American Censuses
This special issue is generically dedicated to social identities and censuses, yet race and ethnicity are, more concretely, the pivotal concepts around which contributors work in their respective p
Ways of living
Life is a university. Tim Ingold reminds us of something that we have often heard in bohemian circles. Life is fieldwork and fieldwork is life. Those who are familiar with Ingold’s oeuvre will not be surprised by this statement; for those who are not, here is an extraordinary opportunity to step into it. In this conversation, Ingold makes an overview of some of his central ideas about what makes us human, but he is also invited to critically refl…
The Mayan in the Mall
Participación y representación indígena en los procesos electorales venezolanos
Este artículo examina los comicios regionales de 2008 en Venezuela como evento contextual para el análisis de estrategias y resultados electorales vinculados a la representación indígena. Se analizan tres factores interrelacionados en el momento electoral: 1. la existencia de representación mínima garantizada a la población indígena en los órganos legislativos; 2. la participación de candidatos y electores indígenas en los comicios; 3. las maniob…
La ciencia omnívora
Muy pocos científicos sociales alcanzan el estatus de clásicos contemporáneos, pero ciertamente incluiríamos a Jean y John Comaroff en dicha categoría. Sus investigaciones se encuentran hoy sin duda en la vanguardia de las ciencias sociales, pero su trabajo ya venía siendo seguido y debatido ampliamente en el campo de la antropología casi tres décadas atrás. Más allá de las fronteras de esta disciplina, su trabajo ha tenido ecos, y continúa reson…
Mundo perdido, paraíso encontrado
The bases of a type of production enmeshed in the capitalist system emerged in Gran Sabana during the twentieth century, but still nowadays a part of its ancestral Pemon inhabitants maintain a notably autonomous economy of subsistence. In order to explain this situation, in this article I identify how exoticising narratives of place and identity constructed around the Gran Sabana and its ancestral inhabitants have contributed to consolidate a red…
Ways of living
Life is a university. Tim Ingold reminds us of something that we have often heard in bohemian circles. Life is fieldwork and fieldwork is life. Those who are familiar with Ingold’s oeuvre will not be surprised by this statement; for those who are not, here is an extraordinary opportunity to step into it. In this conversation, Ingold makes an overview of some of his central ideas about what makes us human, but he is also invited to critically refl…
Anthropology, humanism and civic responsibilities
Thomas Hylland Eriksen is amongst the most prolific anthropologists of our days. His work, however, does not only address specialised audiences; he is also a leading example of public engagement in Norway and beyond and an author who finds social value in the popularisation of science. Juggling conventional academic work and active participation in the public arena is a challenging task, but Eriksen’s career demonstrates that these activi- ties c…
Maneras de vivir
La vida es una universidad. Tim Ingold nos recuerda algo que hemos escuchado muchas veces en ámbitos de bohemia. Quienes estén familizarizados con la obra de Ingold no se sorprenderán por este tipo de afirmación; quienes no la conozcan, tienen aquí una oportunidad extraordinaria para comenzar a introducirse en ella. En esta conversación Ingold repasa algunas de sus más conocidas ideas acerca de lo que nos hace humanos, pero también es invitado a …
Antropología, humanismo y responsabilidades cívicas
Thomas Hylland Eriksen es uno de los antropólogos más prolíficos de nuestros días. Su trabajo, sin embargo, no solamente se encauza hacia las audiencias especializadas: Erikson valoriza la popularización de la ciencia y su labor ilustra la figura del intelectual público. Equilibrar el trabajo académico con la participación activa en el ámbito público es una tarea desafiante, pero la trayectoria de Eriksen demuestra que estas actividades pueden se…
We Created Chávez
This book makes a significant contribution to the debates on contemporary Venezuelan politics. It feeds into the expanding historiography that critically revisits the politics of the so-called Four
From 'café con leche' to 'o café, o leche
The last census round in Venezuela (2011) introduced new social identity categories based on notions of racial purity that relegated recognition of mestizo conceptions of personhood and nationality—heretofore pillars of statecraft. This article identifies domestic and international influences on the design of this census, showing the way in which the state has been ‘socialised’ in defining its statistical goals. Census results situated moreno/a a…
The Politics of Identity in Latin American Censuses
This special issue is generically dedicated to social identities and censuses, yet race and ethnicity are, more concretely, the pivotal concepts around which contributors work in their respective p
Epistemología, poder y cultura en las antropologías del sur
Si la antropología no está en crisis, debería estarlo. Y en crisis permanente, además. Como cualquier otra ciencia, la antropología ha de estar bajo el continuo escrutinio de quienes la practican, con el fin de mejorarla. Lo que está en juego no es meramente la posibilidad de producir representaciones pulcras y certeras del mundo social, sino la posibilidad de transformarlo para mejor. Esta es una de las apasionadamente serenas reflexiones que Es…
Epistemología, poder y cultura en las antropologías del sur
Si la antropología no está en crisis, debería estarlo. Y en crisis permanente, además. Como cualquier otra ciencia, la antropología ha de estar bajo el continuo escrutinio de quienes la practican, con el fin de mejorarla. Lo que está en juego no es meramente la posibilidad de producir representaciones pulcras y certeras del mundo social, sino la posibilidad de transformarlo para mejor. Esta es una de las apasionadamente serenas reflexiones que Es…
Venezuela Reframed
The role of the indigenous population in the formation of the Bolivarian constitution is one of Latin America’s most important untold stories. Considered a beacon of twenty-first century socialism by many, Venezuela is witnessing the paradoxical emergence of ‘indigenous capitalisms’ as the government and various indigenous actors are driven by notions of development and enfranchisement grounded in the ideology of multiculturalism. Venezuela Refra…
Why Current Affairs Needs Social Theory
An Enlightenment philosopher living in the twenty-first century would be writing books like Why Current Affairs Needs Social Theory. This is a work in which Rob Stones echoes the distinctive tone a
The afterlives of Hugo Chávez as political symbol
In January 2016, the first publicized decision made by the president of the newly installed Venezuelan parliament, Henry Ramos Allup, was the removal of pictures from the legislative premises. In what transpired as a calculated performance, this member of the old political guard was captured on video dismissively instructing removal workers to send pictures of Chávez away to Sabaneta (Chávez's birthplace), or into the rubbish bin. He also command…
Indigenous Peoples, Social Movements, and the Legacy of Hugo Chávez's Governments
The unprecedented enfranchisement of Venezuela's indigenous population is partly a result of the formation of a state-sponsored indigenous movement. This movement prioritizes access to social services, economic development, and political participation in state structures over certain goals of free determination. Other forms of collective action with different priorities are evidence of the existence of diverging interests and goals among indigeno…
Mausoleums, National Flags and Regime Crises
In this paper I undertake a comparative analysis of the symbolic function played by national flags and two specific mausoleums in the configuration of contemporary politics in Spain and Venezuela. In both countries there are signs of political instability, and national flags and the two mausoleums I examine (Francisco Franco’s in Spain and Hugo Chávez’s in Venezuela) have become pivotal to the political manoeuvring of different social factions. T…
Introduction
Symbols are central features of organized human life, helping to define perception, shaping the way we view the world and understand what goes on within it. But, despite this key role in shaping understanding, there is never a single interpretation of a symbol that everyone within the community will accept, and the way in which symbols can mobilize antagonistic political factions demonstrates that they are as much a central element for power stru…
Hugo Chávez as political symbol
Neoextractivism and Class Formation
The Arco Minero del Orinoco (Orinoco Mining Arc-AMO) project, launched in 2016, demonstrates that Bolivarian governments have been unsuccessful in overcoming extractivism and rentier capitalism as structuring foundations of the Venezuelan state and its politics, but it simultaneously confirms that these governments remain supported by a bloc made up of heterogeneous class fractions primarily amalgamated around a demand for socioeconomic developme…
Venezuelan Crisis
The child everyone has inside
This paper revisits the debate on the relevance of the labor theory of value for the anthropological task. It argues that the labor theory of value can creatively inform and reformulate in critical ways a variety of social issues addressed through anthropological lenses. The argument is sustained by two main exercises: first, a critical overview of the foundations of the labor theory of value outlines the reasons why it opened new grounds for ant…
Cultural labor and the defetishization of environments
A modern accumulation? The intricacies of enclosure, dispossession and cultural production in Venezuela's Gran Sabana
In Gran Sabana (southern Venezuela), an ongoing process of enclosure is transforming property rights over lands previously treated as common pool resource by the indigenous Pemon. Members of the Pemon communities in which land is being enclosed participate actively in this process through the development of tourist projects. This process reflects a different configuration of forces than those Marx associated with 'primitive accumulation'. It show…
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