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Steven Pinker has said that one of the most important questions humans can ask of themselves is whether moral progress has occurred or is likely to occur. Buchanan and Powell here address that question, in order to provide the first naturalistic, empirically-informed and analytically sophisticated theory of moral progress--explaining the capacities in the human brain that allow for it, the role of the environment, and how contingent and fragile moral progress can be.

"In an era when human lives are increasingly measured and weighed in relation to the medical and scientific, notions of what is "normal" have changed drastically. While it is no longer useful to think of a person's particular race, gender, sexual orientation, or choice as "normal," the concept continues to haunt us in other ways. In The End of Normal, Lennard J. Davis explores changing perceptions of body and mind in social, cultural, and political life as the 21st century unfolds. The book's provocative essays mine the worlds of advertising, film, literature, and the visual arts as they consider issues of disability, depression, physician-assisted suicide, medical diagnosis, transgender, and other identities. Using contemporary discussions of biopower and biopolitics, Davis focuses on social and cultural production...particularly on issues around the different body and mind. The End of Normal seeks an analysis that works comfortably in the intersection between science, medicine, technology, and culture, and will appeal to those interested in cultural studies, bodily practices, disability, science and medical studies, feminist materialism, psychiatry, and psychology"

Andrea Wiley investigates the ecological, historical, and socio-cultural factors that contribute to the peculiar pattern of infant mortality in Ladakh, a high-altitude region in the western Himalayas of India. Ladakhi newborns are extremely small at birth, smaller than those in other high-altitude populations, smaller still than those in sea level regions. Factors such as hypoxia, dietary patterns, the burden of women's work, gender, infectious diseases, seasonality, and use of local health resources all affect a newborn's birth weight and raise the likelihood of infant mortality. An Ecology of High-Altitude Infancy is unique in that it makes use of the methods of human biology but strongly emphasizes the ethnographic context that gives human biological measures their meaning. It is an example of a new genre of anthropological work: 'ethnographic human biology'

Mayan children in Belize face a number of challenges to school success. Their families are the poorest of the poor, and the Mopan children in this study exhibit poor growth and poor school achievement. But a direct relationship between growth and school achievement was evident only for current nutritional status, not for nutritional history. A combination of quantitative and qualitative data revealed that school achievement for these Mopan children may relate more to family attributes and attitudes than to health and nutritional status. The strongest predictors of school achievement were father's literacy and grade level in school.

Steven Pinker has said that one of the most important questions humans can ask of themselves is whether moral progress has occurred or is likely to occur. Buchanan and Powell here address that question, in order to provide the first naturalistic, empirically-informed and analytically sophisticated theory of moral progress-explaining the capacities in the human brain that allow for it, the role of the environment, and how contingent and fragile moral progress can be.

This article offers a reflection about the management of cultural heritage from the integration of elements identified through this writing, starting with the definition of a fusion concept with the natural heritage as an inseparable alliance to enhance the efforts in the protection of both, and that, for this purpose it is required, as an action per se, the deep awareness of the community in relation with the preservation of their heritage, taking into account an analysis of social, political and environmental issues that shape the current panorama that they face, but associating it from a sustainability focus as a transversal axis to reach the goal of social welfare and economic development of the communities and, thereby, disseminate conservation projects that contributes to mitigate climate change and strengthen an effective articulation between society and institutions, enhancing the necessary measures to prevent our cultural legacy from vanishing. ; El presente artículo ofrece una reflexión sobre la concepción de la gestión del patrimonio cultural a partir de una integración de elementos que se identifican a través de este escrito, partiendo con la definición de un concepto de fusión con el patrimonio natural como alianza indisociable para potenciar los esfuerzos en la protección de ambos y que, para ello se requiere, como acción per se, la sensibilización profunda de la comunidad en relación con la preservación de su patrimonio, teniendo en cuenta un análisis de las problemáticas sociales, políticas y de ambiente que conforman el panorama actual al que se enfrentan, pero asociándolo desde un enfoque de sostenibilidad como eje transversal para llegar a la meta del bienestar social y desarrollo económico de las comunidades y, con ello, difundir proyectos de conservación que contribuyan a mitigar el cambio climático y fortalezcan una articulación efectiva entre sociedad e instituciones, potenciando las medidas necesarias para evitar que nuestro legado cultural se desvanezca.

"Este artículo analiza los derechos bioculturales dirigidos a la protección de la naturaleza y de las comunidades étnicamente diferentes que han desarrollado sus vínculos culturales, sociales, políticos y espirituales, a partir de sus interacciones con los recursos naturales. Para ello, se aborda en el estudio la doctrina internacional y las decisiones jurisprudenciales de los tribunales constitucionales de algunos países que integran la región latinoamericana, en lo atinente a la protección de la naturaleza. Finalmente, el trabajo presenta las razones por las cuales la acción de amparo o de tutela es el mecanismo judicial idóneo para propender por la protección de una nueva categoría de derechos, denominados ""bioculturales""." ; "This article analyzes the biocultural rights aimed at the protection of nature and the ethnically different communities that have developed their cultural, social, political and spiritual ties, based on their interactions with natural resources. For this, it is addressed in the study, international doctrine and jurisprudential decisions of the Constitutional Courts of some countries that make up the Latin American region, regarding the protection of nature. Finally, the work presents the reasons why the amparo or guardianship action is the ideal judicial mechanism to promote the protection of a new category of rights, called ""biocultural""." ; Magíster en Derecho Procesal Contemporáneo ; Maestría

Edith Yesenia Peña Sánchez y Lilia Hernández Albarrán (Coord.), Biodiversidad, patrimonio y cocina. Procesos bioculturales sobre alimentación-nutrición, México, Secretaría de Cultura, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 2018, 259 pp.

The fields of ecological engineering, resilience research, and Anishinaabe culture share strong epistemological relationships and common principles. These alignments can be found in worldview, ways of learning, traditional indigenous ecosystem engineering methods, and governance. This article explores how recognizing these alignments enables Anishinaabe cultural knowledge and ways of being to inform and provide the foundation for contemporary engineered design. It also proposes the use of a biocultural engineering design method that integrates the design principles of ecological engineering with indigenous knowledge, cultural relationships, values, and decision-making processes to support contemporary sustainable nation-building.