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facilities (including those of religious tourism). This is all certainly important for characterizing the forms and technologies of communication that populate certain environments and experiences. But their presence and configuration depends on the existence

that can lead very scripted rituals to be evaluated, fine-tuned, and sometimes even quite radically modified in order to adapt the ritual to the social environment and to achieve a major aim of a periodic collective ritual—that is, continuity. In the

alienation from religious identity and experience. This I might call ‘religious marginality’, and, as I have shown in this essay, it is certainly my home. Thoroughly untrained in the fields of gender, oral history, environment, and urban studies, I

their encompassing environments of action emerged. The concept of ‘practice’ displaced ideas of structure, system, meaning, and life-world in the anthropological toolkit, with practices conceived as “embodied, materially mediated arrays of human activity

conditions (in policy blueprints) were subordinate to war-prone imaginations. Furthermore, it is apparent that theories in application materialize into social realities, shaping the living conditions and spatial environment of millions of people. Of course

studies of violence ( Farmer 2009 ). Recognizing vulnerability to harm as “the conceptual nexus that links the relationship that people have with their environment to social forces and institutions and the cultural values that sustain or contest them

environment. It is a constant preoccupation that may reflect the importance of the issues not only on Cuban soil, but in North America as well (and possibly even more so). The book links these politics to the general statement of ‘being

-scale logging and forest clearing as we experienced it in 2011 is no longer comparable. There might be still people who do it as a way of income. But I do not see it as a major damage to the environment or to our ecology. If there is, it keeps happening

displacement. Following the conceptual discussion in the introduction to this theme section, emplacement signifies a continuous process of “engagement and entanglement with the lived environment,” the structural and existential implications of which must be

political environment, though this is predicated on the ability to resist overwhelming technical superiority, and to modify it marginally, or only to mimic it” (2011: 116). Here we come to the second connected role that resistance plays in hybridity, as an