This article is built on the reflections that the authors have had during their latest research on political participation in several municipalities of Mexico. Thus, based on the ethnographies conducted between 2006 and 2016, mainly in the town of Xico (Veracruz state), we set up as analyzing unities specific political interactions (including patronizing) among Mexican citizens within the five types recognized by Social Sciences: voting, campaigning, contacting political officials, working on public affairs and talking about politics. On this basis, we explore the articulation of the aforementioned interactions and, more specifically, of the roles adopted by the interacting citizens as identity markers linking these people in a highlighted way with a series of socio‑economic and socio‑territorial features, dimensions that, ultimately, turn out inseparable from the existing power relations in the local societies. In conclusion, we are of the opinion that, together with indicators of income, education, professional category or living nearby territory, it can be affirmed that the political behavior in Mexico is shown as both socio‑economic indicator and socio‑territorial belonging not because parties represent interests of class, but because there are well defined spheres of political behavior depending on the socio‑economic stratum and the socio‑territorial belonging of the individual.
Se describen las relaciones académicas y las consideraciones personales que mantuvo Carmelo Lisón Tolosana, Catedrático de Antropología social de la Universidad Complutense y miembro de la Real Academia de Ciencias Morales y Políticas, con Salamanca y con Granada. No sólo se detallan muchas de sus actividades docentes o investigadoras que realizara en las universidades de las ciudades referidas, si no que también se indaga en su implicación emocional, e interpretativa, en relación con la cultura de las mismas. Ello a través de la memoria de los contactos, textos o comentarios tenidos con, o sobre, Lisón, guardados por parte de dos de sus colegas antropólogos: en un caso, para Granada, los expresados por José Antonio González Alcantud en alguno de sus artículos previos sobre la temática, y en otro, por el autor de este texto que, asimismo, durante muchos años colaboró significativamente en Salamanca con el insigne académico. Se concluye con una imagen de Carmelo Lisón, reflejada en dos espejos, Granada y Salamanca, que nos deja patente parte de las facetas intelectuales pero asimismo emotivas, entendemos que no tan conocidas, del afamado antropólogo español.
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