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This article studies the issue of borders between natural patrimony and cultural patrimony by reading the Amazonian writings of Euclides da Cunha. During 1904 and 1905, when the world economy experienced a rubber boom, da Cunha was commissioned by Baron of Rio Branco—Brazilian Minister of Foreign Affairs—to make a report due to the territorial dispute between Brazil and Peru over the Amazonian region. Da Cunha's travel chronicles express a hybrid type of speech where, along a scientific interest, emerges a biopolitical agenda that includes considerations on the Amazonian population and an inventory of species observed as commodities. Da Cunha's texts let us recognize the traffic between neighboring conceptual territories: nature and culture, literature and governmentality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the performance of political community constructed in Jose Maria Arguedas' last novel, The Fox from Up Above and the Fox from Down Below. By establishing a dialogue between the ideas in die novel and die political theories of Aristotle, Achille Mbembe, Giorgio Agamben and Karl Marx, I argue that a conception of political interaction that focuses on expropriated life as the point of contact between people, animals and machines permits a revision of theories of biopolitics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cueca is a Chilean couples' dance that has its hybrid origin in the 19th century. It has evolved--sometimes within an environment of real tension--into multiple versions, three of which are examined in this article. The "porteña" version, known as "chora," exhibits the exiled voices of "rotos" and prostitutes in the theaters and radio of the 1950s. The "cueca sola" was a way for women to denounce the disappearance of their husbands and partners under the 1973-1990 military dictatorship. Finally, the more modern urban cueca brings us the voice of a Chile that dissents from those in power who view the popular classes as only a labor force, a military contingent, a residual group, or, from a theoretical point of view, an "other" that is ever-suffering. As a highly eroticized dance, with melodies that fuse with tango, Chilean urban cueca proposes an open national community to foreigners, and restores pleasure as a basic human right and a condition to life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]