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Este artículo tiene como objetivo discutir el papel de los ancestros mayas dentro de las redes de sociabilidad en el pasado y el presente. La presencia constante de estos personajes indica la ...formación de mallas de relaciones entre seres de diferentes clases ontológicas en diferentes temporalidades. Será presentada la formación de tales mallas para contestar a la siguiente pregunta: ¿cómo se forman estas relaciones y qué tipo de relaciones sociales se crean? Para ello, discutiré el papel de los ancestros dentro de algunas de las sociedades mayas del período prehispánico, comparándolos con su presencia en comunidades contemporáneas, a partir de la presentación de un trabajo etnográfico realizado en Pomuch, México. Con la identificación de similitudes y cambios en la presencia de los antepasados en estas sociedades, pretendo reflexionar sobre la existencia de una sociabilidad ampliada con la interacción mutua entre actores humanos y no humanos que comparten un mismo enmarañado de relaciones.
Alignment in social interactions Gallotti, M.; Fairhurst, M.T.; Frith, C.D.
Consciousness and cognition,
February 2017, 2017-02-00, 20170201, Volume:
48
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
•A new approach to social cognition in terms of mental alignment is proposed.•The dynamic and graded exchange of information between agents creates alignment.•Not all forms of joint action in which ...the agents align will turn out to be social interactions.•Shared goals are not needed for mutual alignment to occur.•Two important theoretical developments follow from focusing on processes of mental alignment.
According to the prevailing paradigm in social-cognitive neuroscience, the mental states of individuals become shared when they adapt to each other in the pursuit of a shared goal. We challenge this view by proposing an alternative approach to the cognitive foundations of social interactions. The central claim of this paper is that social cognition concerns the graded and dynamic process of alignment of individual minds, even in the absence of a shared goal. When individuals reciprocally exchange information about each other's minds processes of alignment unfold over time and across space, creating a social interaction. Not all cases of joint action involve such reciprocal exchange of information. To understand the nature of social interactions, then, we propose that attention should be focused on the manner in which people align words and thoughts, bodily postures and movements, in order to take one another into account and to make full use of socially relevant information.
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