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After the end of the Cold War and the Soviet bloc, the 1990's promised the expansion of capitalism to the most remote corners of the planet. Globalization was the way economic liberalism assumed this purpose by ensuring that economies and cultures, states or regions abandoned particularisms of history to be global protagonists of the change that was announced. After the crises of the neoliberal model that inaugurated the 21st century, globalization and development became anachronic concepts and unable to fulfill future projects at different scales. In these deep crises intolerance and the far right also gain space on a global level. War and political violence are normalized and constitute greater threats to social life. Through ethnography in two differentiated contexts - one urban and in the north of Portugal, and the other in the Pyrenees mountains of Aragon - we observe forgotten territories of this process of globalization and people who have chosen to turn their lives into utopias made concrete in the reciprocity and solidarity of collective constructions. It is in these ethnographic examples that anthropology can be found in the diversity of social experience and in the possible paths that, after all, have never ceased to be traversed in the world that exists now. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the Mixtec language or Tu'un Savi the word future does not exist, however, among the people who assume themselves to be part of the People of the Rain or Ñuu Savi; population of indigenous origin in southern Mexico, there is the notion of what will happen after tomorrow / Nchaa ntu Inee or later / Tyi nuu ga. There are also different horizons about the time to come for their indigenous culture, which are configured from the diversity of this ethnic group and the mechanisms of action they devise to give continuity to their customs and traditions. This text reflects on the elements to be taken into account in order to carry out the ethnography of the future of an ethnic identity that is present in the 21st century. Based on two cases that arise in communities of the Mixtec region of the state of Oaxaca and with the support of the theoretical notions of the anthropology of the future, the elements that come into play to sustain the validity of the Ñuu Savi culture are presented. Warning that this is not a finished reflection, but rather, it intends to open ways to discuss, from anthropology, the approach of a temporality previously overlooked in the theoretical and methodological device of our discipline. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]