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This paper analyses relations among FEDEDAM, Eureka Comitee and AFADEM during the 80s as a training space for memories of enforced disappearances. We examine from primary sources, some written some oral, the organisations’ trajectories and spots of memories’ production and circulation. We assert that within the common work concerning denunciation and search for justice, narrarives were made up as well as transnational memorial practices shared by parents’ organizations in Mexico and through the Latin American network issued by the federation.

This paper aims to study the historical experience of evil in Venezuela. From the history of the present time and the regimes of historicity, we inquire about the pernicious nature of the political and ideological mechanisms that, instituted by Chavismo, seek the subordination of the other, especially of those who oppose and resist it. Memory, testimonies and documentation thus allow us to show the institutionalization of violence and the use of evil as a political instrument.

This paper examines the history of Mexico’s native memory concept. To achieve this, three memorial phases are rebuilt : first, the emergence of the colonial past’s review as a historical trauma ; next, how the native Latin-American and Mexican movements have taken ownership of this past’s meaning in order to define their identity as “ancestral victims” ; and finally, the phase of such recognition within the new cultural plurality’s rhetoric.

This paper analyzes the origin, development and decline of Mixteca Alta’s agroecological and food system from the end of pre-Hispanic period till capitalism’s introduction, in the context of the Great acceleration which appeared indirectly in this region during the middle of the 20th century, when new roads were opened allowing local populations’emigration towards towns and industrial centers, that lead to the almost complete disapperance of sustainable “solares” (vegetable gardens) and the rapid expansion of food practices different from local diets.

This paper deals with memory’s sense and memorial politics that have arisen in Mexico during the Andrés Manuel López Obrador's administration since 2018. Based on the concept of memorial regime, we shall see that one of the actual politics’s singularities is the foundation of a public culture of repentance and the establishing of memory institutions which concern Colonial Era’s memory as well as Mexican national history.

This paper deals with semantic variations and monumental representations of San Martín among Argentinian state’s liturgies between the 19th century and today in order to analyze the relationship between changing institutional contexts and political as well as intellectual operations revolving around a fixed radication in national imagination and public uses of his image established by state elites and social groups which strengthened the political and cultural fight in contemporary Argentina.

In 2021 the activities and speeches which celebrated the bicentenaries of Latin American independences were complemented in certain countries by a strong radicalisation. This paper explains why this process took place in 2021 and proposes what should be done to prevent historiographical accounts from promoting exclusion nationalism favouring instead the creation of plural and inclusive societies.

This paper considers the physical, verbal, and visual aspects of how LGBTQ protest and rebellion are and have been staged in the United States. It examines whether “staging” should be taken literally or figuratively, and explores the interactions between performers and audiences, whether the performance is explicit or subtle, possibly involuntary. A heuristic angle is that of audiences and stages: just as staging should be addressed differently depending on whether the audience is internal or external to the LGBTQ community, audiences are not inherently internal or external, but the boundary may fluctuate. Likewise, the stages on which LGBTQ protest is performed are not given or fixed, but contingent on larger social, political, cultural, and economic factors. The article examines examples that are illustrative and telling of the ways in which LGBTQ protest and rebellion may take on a theatrical form, or the staging itself may endow some practices with a degree of politicity.

Abstract This paper addresses one of the open issues in the reconstruction of Proto-Tupi-Guarani (PTG) segmental phonology: The status of the *k -*kʲ opposition. We argue that the contrast is artifactual and that the presumed evidence in favor of PTG *kʲ can be considered as secondary developments of PTG *k in Kayabí, Guarayu, Kagwahiva, Tenetehára, Kamayurá, and Ka’apor. We establish additional facts regarding the structure of PTG and the historical phonology of TG languages, also showing that this finding eliminates the need for an unmotivated split in Pre-PTG history, a problematic feature of current reconstructions of the Proto-Tupian consonant system.

The search for the place from which the poem in mother tongue can be pronounced, blends with the search for the country not yet found. Poems by several authors between 2013 and 2019 protest against this absence. This paper raises questions about this place and the language traits observed during its poetical enunciation. Through their writings, poets propose a historical experience of revolt. I shall examine Vinagre: uma antología de poetas neobarrocos (2013), poems by Lu Menezes (2016) and Tatiana Pequeno (2019), texts that have managed to give an answer through their own poetical language to the street’s social protest shoutings.

Throughout the second half of the twentieth century, Central American poetry was characterised by accompanying and promoting social movements that sought to transform repressive and exclusion political systems. At the end of the armed conflicts in the region (Peace Accords in El Salvador, 1994 and Guatemala, 1996) and the beginning of what critics call the “post-war” period, poetry seems to have lost its breath of social protest. In this paper, we intend to study the current poetic discourses (1990-2020) in Guatemala and El Salvador which, through different options from those expressed in the 1960s-1990s, are inscribed in the ideological struggles to prevent the expression of local and global political and economic power.

In this paper we present a detailed reading of the poetic exercice submitted by the Mexican writer Fernando del Paso in his novel Noticias del Imperio (1987). This exercice is set in chapter XVI.1 called “Adiós Mamá Carlota” and based upon the account of the gardener Sedano, a peripheral character. We shall only study the functions and scopes of the gardener’s discourse whose allegation, according to us, implicitly reveals two sorts of readings which we have categorized as: performative and historical.

Abstract In the Jê languages standard negators tend to take a post-verbal position. This paper asks why this should be the case and therefore discusses earlier accounts relating Jê standard negators to either negative verbs or privative postpositions. We argue that these accounts do not have to exclude each other. In particular, we propose that an existential negator can be reanalyzed as a privative one. We also argue that if the origin of the standard negator is a verb with the meaning ‘finish’, we may be dealing with a scenario that is similar to the ‘Negative Existential Cycle’. In both, the existential negator denies the existence of a state of affairs and then turns into a standard negator. But whereas in the Negative Existential Cycle the non-existence of a state of affairs is modelled on the non-existence of an object, in the ‘new’ scenario the non-existence of a state of affairs derives from the fact that a process or event has come to an end.

Abstract The paper approaches the subject of using a multimedia documentation corpus on indigenous language and culture in a broader perspective: its promotion via an exhibition – and by means of this making research stored in a digital archive available to a general public and encouraging a debate between representatives of the majority society and of the speech community itself. The exhibition “Os Caxinauás – autonomia e contato” (Belém, 2018) described here is the result of a collaborative project between linguists, an artist and members of the Cashinahua (Huni Kuin) community.

Abstract This paper describes the behavior of the anaphoric element ta- in Karitiana (Arikém branch, Tupian family) showing that it is a third person anaphor which must be bound (c-commanded and coindexed) by an antecedent in the same sentence. ta- may occur as a possessor clitic attached to a nominal, or as a subject or object clitic attached to a verb. We show with elicited and spontaneous data that the Karitiana anaphor is subject oriented when occurring in embedded environments, being able to refer to the subject of the matrix clause or to the subject of an embedded clause in cases of multiple embedding. We analyze this lexical item as a medium-distance anaphor, following the definition of Reuland and Koster (1991). Logophoric uses of the ta- anaphor are also exemplified and briefly discussed.

Abstract References to landscape and places are central in traditional narratives by speakers of Dâw (Naduhup, Brazilian Amazon). This emphasis on spatial reference is primarily established through locative adverbial clauses that are often repeated throughout the discourse. Their function is to relate an event to a place, establish reference to locative information mentioned earlier in discourse, and provide cohesion when pre-posed to the main clause. In this syntactic position, they act as bridges connecting sentences and paragraphs by referring to antecedent context. Locative adverbial clauses in clause-initial position are interesting in Dâw because they can occur as exact replicas of a locative adverbial clause that was postposed to the main clause of the antecedent sentence. This strategy has been described in the literature as tail-head linkage. Its central function is to maintain coherence among participants and events along subsequent sentences in discourse and to ensure that the interlocutor is able to track the numerous locations mentioned in the narrative. This paper explores the functional and formal properties of tail-head linkage by focusing on locative adverbial clauses in Dâw, and contributes to the understanding of how processes of subordination can be responsible for tracking spatial information in the discourse of Dâw speakers.