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Folios - Cultural differences in the global world: unresolved issues for indigenous people from Latin America Diferencias culturales en el mundo global: cuestiones irresueltas para los pueblos indígenas de América Latina Cultural differences in the global world: unresolved issues for indigenous people from Latin America *Docente de la Universidad Pedagógica Nacional. Programa Educación Infantil. Licenciada en Ciencias Sociales con Maestría en Educación con énfasis en enseñanza de la historia de la Universidad Pedagógica Nacional. Artículo recibido el 24 de julio de 2009 y aprobado el 16 de octubre de 2009. Resumen El mundo, y en particular América Latina, vive procesos de tensión y disputa cultural, producto del conflicto que se presenta ante la globalización, la cual plantea perspectivas y políticas universales, y las manifestaciones de comunidades indígenas que reclaman el reconocimiento de la diferencia y el derecho a la identidad. Palabras clave Pueblos indígenas, identidad, diferencia cultural, globalización, multiculturalidad. La identidad y la globalización Notas Bibliografía

National Affairs Issue 5: Fame Biology | Primatology On the Origin of Celebrity Why Julia Roberts rules our world. By Robert Sapolsky Culture | Urban Studies Famous For Being Indianapolis How cities are like Kim Kardashian. By Jonathon Keats Biology | Neurology Ingenious: Robert Burton What we can—and cannot—learn from brain science. By Kevin Berger Numbers | Networks Homo Narrativus and the Trouble with Fame We think that fame is deserved. By Peter Sheridan Dodds The Brain on Trial It’s not fair to ask jurors to vote on a death penalty. By Robert Burton Numbers | Scientific Prizes The Nobel Exchange Announcing the Nautilus Nobel Prize Futures Market By Peter DuCharme Ideas | Paleontology T. Behind every famous dinosaur are unsung heroes. By Brian Switek Ideas | Social science The Famous Anonymous The problem with Western test subjects. By John Bohannon Matter | Chemistry Seven Molecules’ Claim to Fame These infinitesimal celebrities shape us and our world. By Patchen Barss Culture | Sociology Fame is Fortune in Sino-science By Naomi Ching

New English Review Symposium Magazine | Where Academia Meets Public Life New Left Review - NLR 82, July-August 2013 Philosophy Now | a magazine of ideas The Progressive | Peace and social justice since 1909 Skeptical Inquirer Index Dissent Magazine Magazine - Table of Contents The Thirteenth Amendment forbade slavery and involuntary servitude, “except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.” Crops stretch to the horizon. Black bodies pepper the landscape, hunched over as they work the fields. Officers on horseback, armed, oversee the workers. To the untrained eye, the scenes in Angola for Life: Rehabilitation and Reform Inside the Louisiana State Penitentiary, an Atlantic documentary filmed on an old Southern slave-plantation-turned-prison, could have been shot 150 years ago. The film tells two overlapping stories: One is of accomplishment against incredible odds, of a man who stepped into the most violent maximum-security prison in the nation and gave the men there—discarded and damned—what society didn’t: hope, education, and a moral compass.

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