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The relationship between cultural values and well-being has been widely studied, mainly from traditional Western approaches to well-being, being scarce the research that addresses this relationship considering well-being from the perspective of native peoples. The objective of this study is to explore the relationship between values and well-being from the approach of the good living of the indigenous people of South America, conceived as the ability to live in harmony with all forms of life and with Mother Earth. 395 adults of the Lickan-Antay ethnic group participated in this research, 57 % women, with an average age of 41 years, residing in both rural and urban localities in northern Chile. The Lickan-Antay BLA32 and Portrait Values Questionnaire 21 were used. Descriptive, mean comparison, correlation and regression analyses were performed, the latter using the stepwise procedure. The results show that the Lickan-Antay living in communities from indigenous development areas (IDA) obtained higher mean scores in the different dimensions of well-being, with the exception of harmony in society, than those living in the city. In relation to cultural values, it was found that the value of tradition and universalism obtained higher mean scores among the Lickan-Antay living in IDA and the value of universalism among those living in cities. Meanwhile, the value of power was the one that registered the lowest score in both populations. When evaluating the bipolar dimensions, it was found that both populations emphasize the objectives of self-transcendence and openness to change. Likewise, the Lickan-Antay residents of IDA emphasize collectivism, while the residents of cities emphasize interests in mixed values. It is also found that the mean scores for tradition values and collectivist interests are significantly higher for Lickan-Antay living in ADI communities than for those living in cities. In general terms, it is observed that the values correlate significantly with the different dimensions of well-being. With regard to the regression analyses, the explained variances of the models fluctuated between 8 % and 26.8 %. No common pattern was observed in the different models, according to dimension of well-being or area of residence of the participants. Stimulation was the only value that was present in any model of the two populations under study, while in both populations there were values that responded to the bipolarity self-promotion vs. self-transcendence, and the bipolarity openness to change vs. conservatism. In the regression analyses for the dependent variable internal harmony, the model for IDA community incorporates the values of stimulation, achievement and universalism. For city residents incorporates the values of benevolence and stimulation. In the dimension of harmony in community life, the model for IDA Lickan-Antay incorporates the values of achievement and stimulation. Meanwhile, the model for participants living in cities incorporates the values of tradition and power. In the case of social harmony, the model for IDA participants incorporates only the value of achievement. For participants from cities incorporates two opposite values in Schwartz's circle of values, the values of conformism and stimulation. In the dimension of harmony in ethno-cultural development, the model for IDA population incorporates the values of universalism and conformism. For the urban resident population, the model incorporates the values of tradition and stimulation. Finally, in the dimension of harmony in nature, the model for IDA community residents incorporates the value of universalism, and for city residents, incorporates opposite values (tradition vs. stimulation and hedonism). The findings shown support the need to install real and effective spaces for interaction, exchange and intercultural openness, which promote the recognition of the values, ways of life and symbolic representations of the different cultures. This also implies the "interculturalization" of science and knowledge, and the challenge of constructing open epistemological assumptions that do not place limits on knowledge and reason. It is suggested that future studies include moderating variables such as ethnic identity and cultural involvement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper aims to take into account what has been understood as "indigenous philosophy" in Latin American philosophical discussion in recent decades. To this end, a meta-analysis is carried out based on a systematic review of academic articles that mention conceptual categories closely related to the noetic aspects of the indigenous, considering a database composed of Latin American journals indexed in the SCOPUS catalogue in the field of philosophy. Considering the material contained in 42 academic journals between 1984 and 2023, it was observed that 142 articles mention at least once concepts such as indigenous knowledge, indigenous cosmovision, indigenous thought, indigenous philosophy/wisdom, indigenous values, or other similar terms. On the basis of this systematisation, the paper proposes an order of the categories associated with the indigenous and points out the main conceptual challenges in characterising a Latin American indigenous philosophy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In the Andean world, community life is one of the most important cultural manifestations, where gratitude -within their cosmovision- is an ancestral practice called "ayni", this expresses several connotations, one of them is the "good living" or "allin kawsay" that were instilled from within the family, such is the case of the students of the National University of Altiplano Puno, who still practice these traditions. The aim of the study is to analyze gratitude towards the family as an expression of the good life of university students in the Peruvian Andes. The research is based on a qualitative approach, phenomenological and ethnographic methods, with a non-experimental crosssectional design. 339 semi-structured interviews were conducted with students from the provinces of UNA-Puno. The qualitative data reduction model was applied (editing, categorization and coding, registration and tabulation), allowing to obtain different versions, testimonies and opinions of gratitude of university students towards their families. It is concluded that gratitude - as a philosophy of good living - is rooted in the importance of living as a family; not disappointing their parents is a motivation to move forward in recognition of the sacrifice and effort they receive for providing them with better life opportunities; that even in spite of their mistakes they receive unconditional support, which is why they express their admiration and gratitude, not only to their parents but to their entire family (brothers, grandparents, uncles and aunts, uncles and even godparents). Finally, the fact of finishing their higher education to become good professionals is an act of reciprocity towards their loved ones and community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The research presents a bibliometric analysis of scientific production concerning gender perspectives within the framework of Good Living. By querying the Redalyc Gender Studies Collection and employing descriptive statistics, a comprehensive examination was conducted to gauge the current state of this domain. The review facilitated the identification of key contributors, publications, journals, countries, and organizations involved in advancing this discourse. Results indicate a steady growth in production since 2013, yet it is distributed across multiple journals, authors, and institutions without established consolidated academic communication channels. Publications are concentrated in journals with medium to medium-low impact. Colombia, Mexico, and Chile emerge as frontrunners, while Central America and the Caribbean exhibit comparatively lower involvement. Female-authored works predominate. In conclusion, the field appears fragmented and nascent, underscoring the necessity for increased inter-institutional collaboration, formal channels of academic communication, and the consolidation of research groups to integrate perspectives solidly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The 21st century poses environmental, social, economic and political challenges, all of them projection of the individual crisis that affects the human being as a social being. The educational field is the expression of these needs and at the same time a space for their transformation. The present work was carried out at the University of Pinar del Río, Cuba, the objective of which was to develop a schedule of activities that stimulates spirituality in teachers of the Pedagogy-Psychology and Economics careers at the ¨Hermanos Saíz Montes de Oca ¨ university. In the investigation, theoretical and empirical methods were used that facilitated the verification of the problem situation and the solution from a schedule of activities. The research contributed important elements in the definition of key and novel concepts from the educational-spiritual aspect and the modeling of creative workshops as a proposed solution to the identified problem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Indigenous communities are characterized by particular ways of exercising and organizing internal life. The union of these forms builds a sociocultural identity, as well as a life expectancy and development objectives. The objective was to analyze how municipal development planning fits into the sociocultural context of the indigenous communities of the Southern Sierra under the theoretical dimensions of ethnodevelopment and good living. The latter are alternative models that arise as a critique of the hegemonic conception of Western development and demonstrate the construction of multiple ways of living in harmony with nature, community and individual itself. The study was conducted in the municipalities of San Francisco Logueche, San José Lachiguirí, San Cristobal Amatlán, San Miguel Suchixtepec and San Andrés Paxtlán, located in the Sierra Sur region. The methodology corresponded to a multi-type case study with a qualitative approach. The techniques of gathering information were the analysis of content and the semi-structured interview. The results show that indigenous communities face a rigid system of planning that is subject to development guidelines, national and international guidelines and agreements. They define technical solutions that try to respond to the problems of the population, from a reduced approach to human and sustainable development; a situation that violates the customs and good lives that are always local and specific to each context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article analyzes how the so-called milpa system, based on diversity and complementarity, in addition to consisting of a low entropy model as it operate with its own energy, and highly resilient, is more “efficient” than monoculture, since in small plots provides sufficient assets for the social reproduction of a family. It is argued that it has been persecuted and repressed from public policies aimed at promoting market insertion and, in return, the need to reassess it, understanding that it responds to a different model, the reproductive logic, whose objective is the satisfaction of needs, of the members of the Domestic Unit. In this sense, it is argued and intended to demonstrate, based on case studies in Tlaxcala-Mexico, how it constitutes a logic of thought, based on diversity and complementarity, that is opposed to rational-Cartesian thinking, which is based on the opposition and singularity. As a logic of thought, it does not apply exclusively to agricultural production, but to other fields of social life. Communitarianism and the domestic unit would be referents of the existence of collective subjects, rather than individual ones, while the meaning of production, understood as reproductive logic, would provide the good living of such collective subjects. It is argued and intended to show that it is a rationality founded on different premises, that is to say another epistemology, whose advantages lie in the density of social relations and with nature and its disadvantages, communal authoritarianism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Great Philosophical Systems reflect on the conditions necessary to dignify the human condition. Among them is Martha Nussbaum's approach to human capacities and the counter-hegemonic Latin American philosophy, which have contributed the most in this regard. Ancestral knowledge, such as Sumak Kawsay, has also contributed to this task. The objective of this article is to discuss the most prominent arguments of these three philosophical positions in relation to what "good living" means. Methodologically supported by triangulation and the hermeneutical circle to identify their affinities, differences, and silences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article synthesizes the dialogue between Professor PhD. Arturo Escobar and Dr. Manuel Chaparro around the axes of society, culture and the challenges of new divergent models for communication. It addresses key questions about the criticisms and transitions to new worlds and the alternative proposals and visions to overcome the dire consequences and crises due to the hegemony of developmentalism at the environmental and social level and respect for human and natural rights, taking as its axis the proposals for good living and postdevelopment, especially inscribed in post-development debates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article aims to present the following aspects: to approach the incidence of the characteristics of good living with respect to Colombian regulations regarding tourism planning and elements of transformation in the development of the tourist undertakings "Urapanes del Bosque" and "Finca la Florida" of the Municipality of Ibagué and Cajamarca of the Department of Tolima. The present study was developed around two types of research, exploratory and descriptive, chosen for the little information regarding the planning and regulations that govern the development of tourist activities in Cajamarca. The results show that Good living and rural tourism generate conditions of justice and equality, the importance of the Nature-Society relationship. Thus, as the emergence of alternatives to development from the local, through the production chain, maintaining its rural identity from the historical context and generating greater participation and democracy regarding the development of the Municipality of Cajamarca. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Médor, Ducange. The Currency of Meta-narrations (or of Utopias). In Homage to Alfonso Ibáñez. In the frst part of this article, I briefy discuss some of Alfonso Ibáñez's ideas about the importance of utopias in the so- cio-political panorama of Latin America. Alfonso was highly engaged in the philosophical and political defense of the importance of meta-narrations for our bruised and sufering nations. And in the second part, I indulge in an exercise of the imagination in order to envisage how Ibáñez might have regarded two of today's most important utopias: universal basic income and workday reduction. Together, they seem to have the potential to show the way to overcoming situations that threaten both human life and the sustainability of the planet. This gives reason to maintain, as I do, that Ibáñez would have been enthusiastic about these utopias, while of course enriching them with the visions of Latin America's original peoples. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article tracks the historical record in the past half-century of alternative, community and popular (i.e. people's) communication in Latin America and the Caribbean in its quest to materialize the recurrent demand for the democratization of communication and assume it as a right. This process also includes an effort to promote issues such as citizen participation and regional integration that contribute to better democratic coexistence. The paper underlines the leading role and the interconnected participation of different experiences of alternative media, organizations and popular communication networks; social movements that have carried out different actions in the local, national, and international arena. Particular attention is given to the contribution of popular radio stations in strengthening democratic practices, the fight for the care of the environment and the promotion of the right to communicate in the last 30 years. The article concludes with the ratification of the commitment of popular communication to building the civilizing horizon of Good Living in a digitalized world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Objective: this review article suggests a state of the art approach to the philosophical, ethical, and phenomenological conception of the Sumak Kawsay concept in Kichwa Ecuadorian language in order to shed light on the dark areas in the contemporary discussion of the said concept. Method: a qualitative content analysis was carried out to group and systematize roughly 120 academic articles, book chapters, master's theses, and doctoral theses on the Sumak Kawsay concept from 2008 to 2018. Results: seven macro ways to interpret the Sumak Kawsay concept were identified, namely: a) as a way of life; b) as a post utopia; c) as an input of the Good-Living; d) as a neoextractivisim experiment; e) as an Andean Philosophy issue; f) as a political discursive construction; and g) as a decolonial device. Conclusions: the Sumak Kawsay concept has positioned itself in the national and international intelligentsia discourse as well as in the Ecuadorian Indigenous Movement discourse; particularly as a political, cultural, and decolonial project that can and must be achieved. The Sumak Kawsay interpretation as a way of life and is perhaps the most important one since it connects the Westernist interpretations with the ones of the culturalism style. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article analyzes the way food is used as an element of social cohesion and mobilization in rejection of the implementation of a shale gas extraction project in the municipality of Guasca, through the technique of fracking. In this case, a local organization called "Mountain Fortitude Community Association" uses the communitarian initiative (soup for all) not only as an element to mitigate hunger, but also as a means of visibility to the various conflicts that may arise from the development of an extractive practice. This way, positions in favor of the protection of food and territory and voices against it can be evidenced. This allows demonstrating that food is closely related to economic, cultural and political aspects of a given context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Medellin is one of the cities, which annually reports one of the highest indicators of concentration of wealth in the world. This means that poverty is a factor that has an impact on people's lives, which in large part it could explain the problems of exclusion and violence. A look from the anthropology of poverty allows to recognize the contributions of social movements, which from different perspectives have been developed and which have generated critical and emancipatory alternatives. This paper aims to make an anthropological look at poverty in Medellin by taking into account some contributions of the Franciscan thought and social experiences, which have influenced good living. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Domestic violence is an issue of primordial importance for indigenous women in Mexico. Organized indigenous women seek to promote gender equity in the broader framework of respect for their culture, despite traditions and customs that are pervaded with gender hierarchy. This article presents elements for reflecting on this issue based on the analysis of people's relation to maize in a Nahua community of the State of Guerrero, Mexico. Using three traditional narratives, it shows how maize -which is considered a feminine member of the House (in the Levi-Straussian sense)- embodies fundamental values of non-violence towards women. Since maize is at the very basis of economic and familial life, its highlypositive "differential value" (in the sense of Héritier) has a transformative potential that can be used creatively in the struggle against gendered violence. This potential is analyzed here through such indigenous concepts as gender complementarity and Good Living, with special attention given to women's voices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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