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Esta conferencia aborda parte de la historia pasada del interés antropológico contemporáneo sobre las relaciones. Pone atención en algunos aspectos de la Escuela Británica de la antropología social, y uno de sus problemas omnipresentes. Para hacer esta presentación al menos parcialmente digerible, la autora construye su argumentación a la manera de una novela de detectives. De esta forma investigará El Caso de la Perspectiva cambiante y, como una trama dentro de ésta, El Caso del Punto Ciego. This lecture digs into some of the back story to current anthropological interest in relations. It focuses on aspects of the British school of social anthropology, and on one of its enduring conundrums. In order to make its presentation at least partly digestible, the author constructs a light scaffolding for it after the manner of a detective novel. So it will investigate The Case of the Changing Perspective and, as a plot within the plot, The Case of the Blind Spot.

This study offers a novel view of Conference Interpreting by looking at EU interpreters as a professional community of practice. In particular, Duflou's work focuses on the nature of the competence conference interpreters working for the European Parliament and the European Commission need to acquire in order to cope with their professional tasks. Making use of observation as a member of the community, in-depth interviews and institutional documents, she explores the link between the specificity of the EU setting and the knowledge and skills required. Her analysis of the learning experiences of newcomers in the professional community shows that EU interpreters' competence is to a large extent context-dependent and acquired through situated learning. In addition, it highlights the various factors which have an impact on this learning process.Using the way Dutch booth EU interpreters share the workload in the booth as a case, Duflou demonstrates the importance of mastering collaborative and embodied skills for EU interpreters. She thereby challenges the idea of interpreting competence from an individual, cognitive accomplishment and redefines it as the ability to apply the practical and setting-determined know-how required to function as a full member of the professional community.

Daniel E. Lieberman. The story of the human body: evolution health, and disease. New York: Vintage. 2014. 460 páginas.

The Kallawaya are a Bolivian ethnic group well known for ritualism and naturopathy. This paper explores the ‘making’ of the Kallawaya as a polity emerging, modifying, and adapting over time according to its political and economic needs, at the intersection of local conditions and of global developments. The case of the Kallawaya shows how processes of ethnicization unfold through the interplay of primordialist and of instrumentalist logics. An important vehicle for ethnicization is resilience as expressed by the cultural memory. Los Kallawaya son un grupo étnico que se hizo famoso por su ritualismo y su naturopatía. Este artículo explora el desarrollo de los Kallawaya como una entidad política que, a lo largo del tiempo, se formaba, se modificaba y se adaptaba conforme a sus necesidades políticas y económicas y en la intersección de condiciones locales y de desarrollos globales. El caso de los Kallawaya muestra como los procesos de etnicización se despliegan mediante la interacción de lógicas primordialistas e instrumentalistas. Un importante vehículo para la etnicización es la resiliencia manifestándose en la memoria cultural.

In response to the „refugee crisis” of 2015 – resulting in the arrival in Europe of many thousands of people fleeing the armed conflict in Syria – the Polish Law and Justice party and the Polish government adopted negative attitudes towards refugees. The Polish mass media promoted anti-refugee narratives focused on terrorism and „threats of Islamisation” of Europe. However, these anti-refugee narratives have been countered by local antihate campaigns, including activities undertaken by local ethnologists and anthropologists. This article offers an analysis of educational activities undertaken in 2017 by the Centre for Migration Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. These activities took a form of two initiatives: „Adopt a vest” and „Let’s talk about refugees”. Both projects aimed at shaping attitudes of openness towards refugees and increasing awareness of refugees among the residents of Poznan, including school children. Additionally, these activities aimed to increase and support the people willing to disseminate knowledge about refugees and impart openness and respect for forced migrants. Such activism is guided by the idea that it is essential not only to get to know the world better, but also to imagine it differently and create an alternative vision of the world where solidarity with refugees and migrants prevails (cf. Fischman, McLaren 2005).