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Notas informativas de: Una nueva fecha de carbono-14 de Colombia. Doctor Emilio Robledo (1875-1961).texto impreso
Notas informativas de: El V congreso indigenista interamericano El VII congreso internacional de ciencias antropológicas y etnológicas en Moscútexto impreso
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Márquez Yáñez, Francisco ; Morales Gómez, Jorge ; Ortiz, Sergio Elías | Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia - ICANH | 1969-01-01Contiene las siguientes necrológicas: Resolución número 0008 de 1967 (agosto 3) por la cual se honra la memoria del R. P. Enrique Rochereau. Franz Termer (1894-1968) Stanley V. Long (1937-1967) James A. Ford (1911-1968) Cestmir Loukotka (1895-1968)texto impreso
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This article examines the importance of studying the sociological concept of social representation given the epistemological shift in several social sciences from an economic towards a cultural emphasis. Drawing on its presence in classical soci[...]texto impreso
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El presente artículo contiene una serie de observaciones que el autor pudo hacer durante un rápido viaje a Noanamá, donde se habían congregado gran número de indígenas Waunana para la fiesta de Nuestra Señora de la Merced, así como unas informac[...]texto impreso
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This paper is about the meanings of the postrevolutionary ejido in contemporary Mexico and the processes of privatization and commodification that have transformed this form of land-tenure over the past four decades. The ejido was designed to fu[...]texto impreso
Rosique Gracia, Javier ; García, Andrés Felipe ; Villada Gómez, Bresnhev A. | Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia - ICANH | 2012-06-30To analyse the potential food and nutritional transition in Donmatias, and to compare it with other Colombian studies at the micro-geographic level, we have determined the nutritional status of 197 school children (2-to-11 years) by anthropometr[...]texto impreso
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En este estudio se trató de establecer el modo de utilización de tierras de cultivo por los indígenas, por medio de observaciones directas (medidas de las chagras, número de chagras en utilización, edad aproximada de las áreas de cultivo, tipo[...]texto impreso
This paper analyzes the role of lithic technology in Las Pailas site, located in the province of Catamarca (Argentina) for the Regional Development period thirteenth century A. D. Having as theoretical premise the indivisibility between raw mate[...]texto impreso
This article presents the cases of two Caribbean African-descent artisanal fisheries communities in Old Providence and Barú (Colombian Caribbean), in relation to the expropriation of their customary ocean and coastal territories. It exposes the [...]texto impreso
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This essay analyzes a certain populist inclination which can be observed in anthropology and post-colonial studies, an inclination which consists in the appropriation of a people’s image (the ethnic or the subaltern), idealizing it, portraying i[...]texto impreso
Until recently, most studies on public space had been focused on the analysis of places, pedestrians and citizenship; in many cases those studies had neglected and even demonized flows of people, objects and information and the use of automobile[...]texto impreso
This work is part of a larger research focused on analyzing the ritual dimension of power in colonial Tucumán government (XVII and XVIII centuries). Ritual is understood as a constitutive element of power representation, construction and dispute[...]texto impreso
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Stable Isotopes Ratio Analysis (SIRA) is a method for determining the relative proportions of foods ingested by humans or animals in the past. It is based on the fixatíon of Carbon 13 in bone collagen (gelatin) and bon e apatite, as well as Nítr[...]texto impreso
This article explores the embodied experience of parkour in Bogotá, which means the way its practitioners produce nomadic subjectivities and create heterotopies in contemporary cities through the transformation of their bodies. By understanding [...]texto impreso
In this article participant observation (PO) is presented as the technique that allows anthropologists to gain insight about the practices of social agents and thus reconstruct the sociocultural processes that are at the center of ethnographic r[...]texto impreso
Over the past 20 years the archaeological area of Nariño (Southern Colombia) has been characterized by three main ceramic complexes known as Capulí, Piartal and Tuza. These have been assigned to specific ethnic groups, some of which were still l[...]texto impreso
This article is based on an ethnographic fieldwork developed in a middle-ranged city of the southeast Buenos Aires Province, in Argentina. It discusses the ways in which structural components of the urban system —the city understood as a system [...]texto impreso
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This article is based on the legal action that the slave Paulina Montaño filed against her master Juan de Caysedo, in the colonial Chocó, between 1738 and 1739. I examine how much input and influence the slaves could have had in the making of th[...]texto impreso
This paper explores peasant life from a qualitative standpoint in order to contribute to the understanding of the different forms of their subalternization in the last decades. The research is centered in the case of black peasants in two towns [...]texto impreso
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Beltrán, William Mauricio ; Cuervo, Ivón Natalia | Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia - ICANH | 2016-06-27As in the rest of Colombia, the Pentecostal movement is rapidly growing in rural spaces and in places affected by armed conflict. Through a case study, this article explores the economic and political impacts of this process; specifically, the a[...]texto impreso
Di Fabio Rocca, Francisco ; Smietniansky, Silvina ; Spina, Sofía ; Coirini, Elianna ; Gago, Julia ; Juárez, Lautaro ; Boixados, Roxana ; Avena, Sergio | Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia - ICANH | 2020-07-01This article proposes an ethnographic approach to the study of the perspectives, motivations, and interests of the individuals participating in the “Genetic Ancestry and Identity” project. Based on a corpus of interviews and using a theoretical [...]texto impreso
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During the 1930s and 1940s the liberal project of the state gave way to important innovations in education as a means of national integration, which also enabled feminine access to the professional world. Four women, who studied and worked in th[...]texto impreso
Research into the relative significance applied to areas of a city tells us about urban identities; the study of social connections tells us about the cultures responsible for attachment to urban places and also about the reproduction or reinven[...]texto impreso
El presente estudio forma parte del Capítulo IV, plantas feculentas, del libro en preparación "Plantas usuales y animales domésticos no americanos introducidos a la Gran Colombia", segundo volumen de una obra más vasta, para cuya elaboración se [...]texto impreso
Coy Carrera, Laura ; Rojas-Sepúlveda, Claudia | Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia - ICANH | 2019-12-27Children have always been present in the history of humanity and make up a significant percentage of the population, however, they have received little attention in Colombian archaeology. This review article aims to recognize the research potent[...]texto impreso
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This article presents an experience of community management of Afrocuban cultural heritage in the Central Azucarero México, located in the province of Matanzas (Cuba). I analyze the articulations between collective memory and cultural and racial[...]texto impreso
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This article is an analysis of ritual discourses and practices concerning the phenomenon of popular sanctification of some the dead in urban grave-yards of Colombia. Field-work on this topic has been initiated in 1996, in various Colombian grave[...]texto impreso
This article is an account of a colaborative research in the Sumapaz region. On the one hand, it explores the difficulties entailed in trying to connect social processes with the environment and examines the potentials and limitations of oral so[...]texto impreso
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Poststructuralism is a theoretical approach to knowledge and society that embraces the ultimate undecidability of meaning, the constitutive power of discourse, and the political effectivity of theory and research. In this paper the authors explo[...]texto impreso
This essay is about the future of traditional afro-colombian foods of the pacific coast, in the context of the country’s “ethnoboom”. It defines this phenomenon in terms of the hyper-exaltation and over-simplification of symbolic patrimonies bel[...]texto impreso
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Stemper, David M. ; Salgado López, Héctor | Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia - ICANH | 1993-01-01This article on metal-working in the region of the San Juan and Calima rivers and, possibly, the Bay of Buenaventura has three aims: 1) to describe the contexts in which five metal artifacts were recovered together with the charcoal used to date[...]texto impreso
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The debate about reproduction, in particular issues related to the new reproductive technologies and international adoption has touched many countries. People with enough resources have various options, poor women become providers of children, e[...]texto impreso
This article seeks to reconceptualise the private/public space dichotomy through a rethinking of gender production in nationalist discourses and practices and in particular through the socialisation processes largely occurring in the space of sc[...]texto impreso
Cano Castellanos, Ingreet Juliet | Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia - ICANH | 2006-06-15The present article reconstructs landscape transformation in the village of Quebrada Honda, Cogua-Cundinamarca, throughout the 20th Century. It analyses the cultural influences that underlay productive practices in the region and gives sense to [...]texto impreso
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Escamilla, Guadalupe ; Salmerón, Fernando I. ; Valladares, Laura R. | Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia - ICANH | 2007-12-01Anthropology in Mexico has a longstanding trajectory of professional involvement, both in academia and public settings. In this essay we stress the work of those professionals of the discipline who work outside academic settings. We undertake th[...]texto impreso
The paper reviews the way in which anthropology/archaeology has been conducted in tierradentro, Cauca, during the past sixty years. It focuses on the relation between researchers as public intellectuals and the local intelligentsia. Keeping in m[...]texto impreso
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Pazos Cardenas, Mateo ; Giraldo Aguirre, Sebastián | Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia - ICANH | 2020-12-28This paper proposes to analyze some aspects associated with the multiple folds of homoerotic desire among men in a “pornographic video room” in the city of Pereira (Colombia). The methodology used consisted of an ethnographic fieldwork carried o[...]texto impreso
This paper analyzes cocaine’s relations of production in southern putumayo through the lens of patron-client relations. I argue that the exchange of intangible for tangible signs of goodwill between primary producers and middlemen masks vertical[...]texto impreso
Oyuela-Caycedo, Augusto ; Vieco Albarracín, Juan José | Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia - ICANH | 1999-01-01This paper argues that ticuna identity is based on terms of belongin to a clan (which they call nacao= nation). These clans are clustered in two moieties: the earth and air clans. The Ticunas have a hierarchical society that can be interpreted u[...]texto impreso
This essay examines three topics that intersected one another during eth nographic research: cultural identity, customs –a concept allowing discussions about this type of identity– and the cultural elaboration of time. Implicit in the text, but [...]texto impreso
This text has the purpose of giving a voice to a sort of alternating reality, to a kind of resonant sensibility I have found by way of anthropological research of the ecology of language, of music and acoustics. My hope is that when granting spa[...]texto impreso
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This article examines the actions of Colombian migrants in Paris in their attempts to obtain social rights. The actions are classified under two axis: the first one, common in sociology, discriminates these actions as individual or collective. T[...]texto impreso
During the XIX century, the nation-building project in Colombia conceived by the literate elites, considered issues such as the country´s political and geographical organization, the establishment of a stable economy, and the formation of a repu[...]texto impreso
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Reichel-Dolmatoff, Gerardo ; Reichel-Dolmatoff, Alicia | Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia - ICANH | 1957-01-01El presente trabajo ofrece los resultados de un reconocimiento arqueológico preliminar de la hoya del río Sinú, en el Departamento de Córdoba, y reúne la descripción de una serie de localidades investigadas en el curso de este programa. En una r[...]texto impreso
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Loaiza Díaz, Nicolás ; Aceituno Bocanegra, Francisco Javier | Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia - ICANH | 2015-12-21In the 1960s Reichel Dolmatoff applied the evolutionary model of the American archeology to order the prehispanic record in Colombia. Nonetheless, the Archaic period was loosely defined because of the lack of data existing at the time. Fifty yea[...]texto impreso
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Langebaek, Carl Henrik ; Dever, Alejandro | Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia - ICANH | 2009-12-15esearch carried out for more than 5 years into settlement patterns in the Tierradentro region, Cauca Department, has provided information of the sequence of social change from early ceramists up to after the Spanish Conquest. This paper makes av[...]texto impreso
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