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(ES) El cuerpo constituye un privilegiado ámbito de trabajo para indagar sobre cómo se conceptualiza y manifiesta la modernidad en cualquier sociedad. El objetivo de este artículo es contribuir a una mejor comprensión de los procesos de modernización en el contexto de las sociedades africanas a partir precisamente de la problemática de la presentación social del cuerpo. Tras una breve discusión sobre la tan controvertida dicotomía "tradición‐modernidad", en el artículo se elabora un marco teórico centrado en la relación que podemos establecer entre presentación social del cuerpo y discursos sobre la modernidad. Si esta problemática posee un indudable interés para el ámbito académico, resulta innegable que también posee relevancia social y constituye, además, un tema claramente político. La subalternización, ya se trate a nivel de clase, de género, de etnia o de edad se sirve de la presentación social del cuerpo para marcar, justificar o mantener relaciones jerárquicas de orden social. ; (EN) The study of the body is an excellent field from which to investigate how modernity is conceptualized and expressed in any society. The aim of this article is to contribute to a better understanding of modernization processes in the context of African societies through the issue of the social presentation of the body. After a brief discussion on the controversial "tradition‐modernity" dichotomy, the article develops a theoretical framework focusing on the relationship that we can establish between social presentation of the body and discourses about modernity. If this issue has an undoubtable interest in the academic milieu, it is undeniable that it also has social relevance and constitutes a clearly political topic as well. Subalternization ‐whether at the level of class, gender, ethnicity or agemakes use of the social presentation of the body to mark, justify or maintain hierarchical relationships of social order. ; Peer reviewed

[EN] THE TRIPARTlTlON OF OUR MUSICAL UNIYERSE in fine art, folk and popular music still has today a certain importance whitin the conceptualizations we establish in order to understand our musical reality. This classification clearly impinges on the research approaches of ethnomusilcology or anthropology of music and on the internal configuration of musicology as well. Several attempts at defining popular music start precisely from this tricotomic view of musical reality. But, in fact, they are very fragile and debatable categories; and aboye all, they are so close to situational moments of the social and political arena, that their operativity for research on the musical phenomenon becomes very questionable. ; [ES] LA TRIPARTICIÓN DE NUESTRO UNIVERSO musical en música culta, tradicional y popular moderna posee todavía una cierta importancia dentro de las conceptualizaciones que establecemos para entender nuestra realidad musical e incide poderosamente en la configuración interna de la musicología, así como en las estrategias de investigación de la etnomusicología o de la antropología de la música. Muchos intentos de definición de lo que es en la actualidad la "música popular" parten precisamente de esta visión tricotómica de la realidad musical. Pero, de hecho, se trata de una serie de categorías sumamente frágiles y dudosas, y sobre todo tan estrechamente ligadas a los momentos coyunturales del ámbito social y político, que hace realmente cuestionable su operatividad en el campo de la investigación sobre el fenómeno musical. ; Peer reviewed

To the current important question of intercultural relations and communication, the concept of culture undoubtedly belongs. It is not only because of its importance as a technical analytical tool but because today the idea of culture -in the anthropological sense- goes beyond the interest of the academic milieu. The concept of culture has powerfully erupted in the political arena; discourses about preservation of determined cultural traits or about the need for cultural integration of immigrants today belongs to daily life. In all discourses regarding ethnic minorities, nationalism, immigration, multiculturalism, intercultural relations, etc. culture clearly appears as a key concept. ; Peer reviewed

This text reports the proceedings of the UNIMED - SYMPOSIUM, which is one of the projects of EUROMED HERITAGE PROGRAMME. This project is financed by the MEDIA Programme of the European Union. ; Today we can't understand culture in the same manner as anthropologists did in the last century: something static, immutable, a supra-subjective entity. We should see it as something always variant, which is continuely adapting to new circumstances. That is, culture as a continuous negotiation, as something which isn't given by nature but built every day by persons. This fact has two implications ofinterest regarding ourwished culture of peace: 1. The need of abandoning an idea of culture bounded too much to the ethnicist ideologies and which has been a further cause for struggle and intransigent attitudes. 2. The need of recognizing the high versatility of culture. Evidently, it is not too easy to change culture. We can't change cultural traits in the way we can change our shirt or necktie; but we also need don't to carry the burden of cultural traits which are clearly negative for current society. Since culture was not given by nature, we can also try to modify very consciously the cultural e1ements which are causes of struggle. ; Peer reviewed