Reseña del libro "La Comunidad Soñada: Antropología Social de la Contracultura"
This book pieces together a profound on counterculture in general, articulated in a trilogy of utopia: the revolutionary ideal that expresses itself in terms of struggle and discussion and myths of changing the System; "the communal ideal" that expresses itself in terms of social solidarity, mutual support, and fraternity; and "the evolutionary ideal" which expresses itself in a process called personal development or internal growth. The text is a thoroughly illustrated analysis of the transition between worlds and between states of being; it is the history of transformation. The author outlines three attempts at comprehension and interpretation of the times and the contemporary western culture, with all of its ambiguous complexity, seeing from different angles and inhabiting those comparative views. For that, they have used the weapons of anthropology: reflexivity and introspection as a prism of interpretation of the Other, the strangeness, and "shock" culture as portals to reconstruction and abstraction, observation and constant appeal, movements struggling between immersion and distance, the approximation of the essay, and the error of its interpretive models. The work is preceded by a prologue: one for the Spanish edition (Dr. José Antonio González Alcantud, profesor titular de Antropología, Universidad de Granada) and another for the Mexican edition (Dr. Roberto Castelán Rueda, Rector del Centro Universitario de los Lagos, Guadalajara, México).
