Chile

This course discusses the main applications of linguistics in the analysis of the language in legal documents, language used in legal contexts, and language produced by those familiar with the field in the forensic institutional context. It explores the theoretical-methodological problems in the linguistic analysis of forensic text as well as the unequal distribution of power in the forensic institutional context.

The course offers a study of some of the forms of violence that can be found in the post-dictatorship Chilean narrative. It discusses different expressions of social violence and its impact on the discourse of ideas in Chilean society. This course explores post-dictatorship Chilean novels which offer a vision of the world in which some form of violence is also included.

This course explores the field of anthropology from the perspective of health systems in diverse sociocultural contexts (global North and global South, indigenous and non-indigenous societies, etc.). The first part of the course focuses on mental health, concepts of normalcy and pathology from a transcultural perspective, representations of madness, and the social and medical institutions that objectify them. The second part of the course examines the notion of the person, how the body is conceived of culturally and physically, how it ages and how it dies. The course also considers other topics such as feminist anthropological critiques of sexuality and gender, the anthropology of transmissible diseases, profound trauma, and questions of morality and culture in biomedicine and medical technology.