La Malinche and the Noble Lie

Author(s):  
John Burns
Keyword(s):  
Parasitology ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 146 (5) ◽  
pp. 670-677
Author(s):  
Fernando Aguilar Montiel ◽  
Arturo Estrada-Torres ◽  
Roxana Acosta ◽  
Miguel Rubio-Godoy ◽  
Jorge Vázquez

AbstractStudies of abundance and distribution of organisms are fundamental to ecology. The identity of host species is known to be one of the major factors influencing ectoparasitic flea abundance, but explanations are still needed regarding how host taxa influence abundance parameters of different flea species. This study was carried out at La Malinche National Park (LMNP), Tlaxcala, Mexico, where previously 11 flea species had been recorded on 8 host species. Our aims were to list micromammal flea species, to determine flea infection parameters [flea prevalence (FP) and flea mean abundance (FMA)] and to analyse the influence of host species on these parameters. A total of 16 species of fleas were identified from 1178 fleas collected from 14 species of 1274 micromammals captured with Sherman®traps from March 2014 to December 2015 in 18 sites at LMNP. Some host species influence FP and FMA, in particular,Microtus mexicanusandPeromyscus melanotisshowed particularly higher infection values than other host species.Plusaetis aztecusandPlusaetis sibynuswere identified as the most abundant flea species.


Author(s):  
Patrick J. Deneen
Keyword(s):  

This book concludes with a discussion of the failures of liberalism and how the “Noble Lie” of liberalism continues to be believed and defended by those who benefit from it. It envisions two scenarios: the perpetuation of liberalism that, becoming fully itself, operates in forms opposite to its purported claims about liberty, equality, justice, and opportunity; and the end of liberalism, to be replaced by another regime. It also outlines three steps to avoid the grimmer scenarios of a life after liberalism. First, the achievements of liberalism must be acknowledged, and the desire to “return” to a preliberal age must be abandoned. Second, we must outgrow the age of ideology. Third, out of such experience and practice, a better theory of politics and society might ultimately emerge. The book also emphasizes the theory of consent as one of liberalism's most damaging fictions and explains how we can build a counter-anticulture.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (03) ◽  
pp. 368-373
Author(s):  
Robert Ferrell
Keyword(s):  

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 75-94
Author(s):  
María Espinosa-Spínola

A partir del trabajo de campo realizado con la infancia en situación de calle en México Distrito Federal, mi intención al escribir este artículo es reflexionar sobre las representaciones que tanto niños, como niñas tienen acerca de sus madres y cómo estas, están íntimamente relacionadas con la construcción de la sexualidad femenina en la cultura mexicana, donde existen dos arquetipos representativos de las mujeres, hablamos de la “Malinche” y la “Virgen de Guadalupe”. Símbolos con connotaciones morales diversas que han configurado los mandatos de género en la sociedad mexicana. Un análisis desde la mirada feminista que pretende mostrar la relación existente entre la simbología de la sexualidad de las mujeres mexicanas, la figura maternal y las causas que intervienen en la decisión de niños y niñas a la hora de abandonar sus hogares. Una articulación necesaria a desentrañar  si entendemos que la intervención en Trabajo Social conlleva comprender la realidad y la  mirada de nuestros interlocutores.


2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (19) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Leila Shaí Del Pozo González ◽  
Gilmei Francisco Fleck
Keyword(s):  

O artigo analisa a primeira configuração literária de Malinche no primeiro romance histórico latino-americano, Xicoténcatl (1826). Esta configuração serviu como base para a construção negativa do mito de La Malinche no imaginário coletivo mexicano (HERREN, 1993). Objetivamos comparar essas imagens de Malinche na obra com os estudos históricos sobre a personagem e apontar distanciamentos e aproximações entre o exposto em Xicoténcatl e o que se registra na história sobre Malinche.


2020 ◽  
Vol 140 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-30
Author(s):  
Cameron Harwick

If there exist no incentive or selective mechanisms that make cooperation in large groups incentive-compatible under realistic circumstances, functional social institutions will require subjective preferences to diverge from objective payoffs – a “noble lie.” This implies the existence of irreducible and irreconcilable “inside” and “outside” perspectives on social institutions; that is, between foundationalist and functionalist approaches, both of which have a long pedigree in political economy. The conflict between the two, and the inability in practice to dispense with either, has a number of surprising implications for human organizations, including the impossibility of algorithmic governance, the necessity of discretionary rule enforcement in the breach, and the difficulty of an ethical economics of institutions. Leeson and Suarez argue that “some superstitions, and perhaps many, support self-governing arrangements. The relationship between such scientifically false beliefs and private institutions is symbiotic and socially productive” (2015, 48). This paper stakes out a stronger claim: that something like superstition is essential for any governance arrangement, self- or otherwise. Specifically, we argue that human social structure both requires and maintains a systematic divergence between subjective preferences and objective payoffs, in a way that usually (though in principle does not necessarily) entails “scientifically false beliefs” for at least a subset of agents. We will refer to the basis of such preferences from the perspective of those holding them as an “inside perspective,” as opposed to a functionalist-evolutionary explanation of their existence, which we will call an “outside perspective.” Drawing on the theory of cooperation, we then show that the two perspectives are in principle irreconcilable, discussing some implications of that fact for political economy and the prospects of social organization.


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