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This paper seeks to analyze the effects of some Cape Verde Diaspora practices on local forms of sociability in order to demonstrate that certain people, capital and goods flows, more than agents of local transformation, contribute to the mainten[...]texto impreso
This paper examines the participation of the public health care system in a broader societal construction of Mexican immigrants as undeserving of public health benefits. I show that financial shortfalls due to the implementation of Medicaid mana[...]texto impreso
The purpose of this article is to examine the discourse of practitioners of afrocuban religions in La Havana about the médium unidad, a particular way of perception attributed to the influence of spirits, which plays a key role as a particular w[...]texto impreso
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During the last decade government policies to preserve amazonian rain forest have been strongly influenced by native american philosophical systems. Outdated and condemmed to oblivion, this world views are the basis for issuing an image of the I[...]texto impreso
This article is an exercise in the anthropology of power within a group of colombian economists who held top positions in government in the last 20 years. It is divided into two sections: The first section focuses on the theoretical premises tha[...]texto impreso
In the forests of the Bajo Atrato region, battles between guerrilla and paramilitary armies left a multitude of unburied corpses whose spirits have transformed the way in which local communities inhabit and heal their collective lands. It is arg[...]texto impreso
This paper explores the relationship between politics and the history of archaeology in Colombia. Traditional views hold that archaeology mirrors élite interests that search for a legitimation of their rule. This legitimation usually identifies [...]texto impreso
In this paper we introduce an overview of the history of the Comunidad India Quilmes —located in the province of Tucumán (northwest of Argentina)— from the angle of its member’s relations with different levels of the state power (local, provinci[...]texto impreso
The essay presents a theoretical and methodological assessment of anthropology and of its place in contemporary thought in the Humanities. To do so, the author develops the metaphor of the metamorphoses of the ethnographic eye and detects some c[...]texto impreso
Herrera Angel, Leonor ; Cardale de Schrimpff, Marianne ; Bray, Warwick | Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia - ICANH | 1994-01-01Intensive looting has uncovered a rich and varied assembly of objects in gold, pottery and other materials from the hacienda Malagana, near Palmira (Department of Valle del Cauca) in the flat valley bottom of the river Cauca. These decontextuali[...]texto impreso
A new comer to the anthropology of African peoples and to the study of female genital cutting, the author reacts to the speeches and writings of American and Sierra Leonean scholar Fuambai Ahmadu on these matters. Inspired by her work, the autho[...]texto impreso
Place names, oral stories, and written documentation about the candelaria desert, located in the highland plateau of Boyacá, Colombia, serves the author to reconstruct the Virgin’s worship imaginaries of this locality. “The fights between the de[...]texto impreso
In this paper the main results of the first archaeological dig in Colombia of a pre-Hispanic goldsmith workshop are presented succinctly; this workshop worked over 800 years in the lower basin of the Saldaña river (Magdalena Valley). Human group[...]texto impreso
This article analyzes the particular modes of governance of adolescent sexuality that emerge from the educational activities carried out by sexual and reproductive health programs for young Colombians. It also analyzes its effects on the product[...]texto impreso
This article states that heritage is a kind of cultural production which, in its efforts to protect other cultural productions, has continuously used logics and models of isolation, opposition and valuation (taken) from the economic exchanges fi[...]texto impreso
This work aims to synthesize the historical trajectory of the cultural landscapes of Andalhuala, a village located in Catamarca, Northwest Argentina. Cultural landscapes are understood as social constructs that are the product of the interaction[...]texto impreso
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The 1991 constitution gives indigenous communities the right to a have a legal system based upon their own “uses and customs”. i explore the role of indigenous intellectuals in the reconstruction of customary law, inquiring how indigenous activi[...]texto impreso
Review by Ana María Ochoa Gautier Reseña escrita por Ana María Ochoa Gautiertexto impreso
Hall, Stuart ; Giraldo, Santiago | Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia - ICANH | 2006-06-15This essay was written to be read at the colloquium on Theoretical Perspectives on the Analysis of Racism and Ethnicity, organized in 1985 by UNESCO's Division of Human Rights and Peace, Paris. Este ensayo fue escrito para ser leído en el coloqu[...]texto impreso
This paper inquires into the tactical dispositions that the religious discourse of the prisoners experiencing jail leaving situation assumes, based on an empirical work developed in the 3rd Penitentiary Unit of Rosario, Argentina. In that regard[...]texto impreso
In this article I explore how, in El Cajón (Catamarca, Argentina), the juego de los carozos turns into a ritual that organizes the relationships between the living and the dead, and supports the genealogical local memory. The game’s aim is to id[...]texto impreso
The paper presents the “last apparitions of the virgin in Latin America” as an example of a larger process of “recompositions of the believing in modernity”, from the ethnographic reconstruction of an event observed in four contexts: Pereira __C[...]texto impreso
The Ette of northern Colombia call their most respected leaders kraanti. One of the last holders of this honorary title, Samuel Sánchez Macías, recently passed away, leaving a great void in their community. The project of resistance and revitali[...]texto impreso
Bordes, Mariana ; Algranti, Joaquín | Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia - ICANH | 2014-12-09The aim of this article is to compare the motives of adherence that the users of alternative therapies and the evangelical believers display. In the first part we will attempt to analyze the problem from the points of view of the sociology of he[...]texto impreso
Mahecha Rubio, Dany ; Franky Calvo, Carlos Eduardo ; Cabrera Becerra, Gabriel | Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia - ICANH | 1997-01-01The connotations are examined of the name "maku", as used as ageneric term for those peoples of the northwest Amazon with a nomadic tradition. A study of the historical, linguistic and ethnographic literature leads to the conclusion that "maku" [...]texto impreso
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This article shows the fundamental role played by mambe amongst the yukuna, a role similar to that of modern currency in mercantile societies, for it has a privileged position over any other traditional “good” in indigenous exchange practices. F[...]texto impreso
The pre-Hispanic metallurgy of South America is well known thanks to archaeological research and to the existence of museum collections. This is not the case with Colonial metallurgy in spite of the fact that it represents the transition between[...]texto impreso
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In their analyses on miscegenation or mestizaje in Latin America and the Caribbean, North American researchers have traditionally identified a “racial” continuum, a harmony of interethnic relations contrasting with the bi-polarization and confli[...]texto impreso
Much of the city of Bogotá has been built in an informal manner, the demand for housing having exceeded the provisions made by the planning sector and the State. The huge numbers of people requiring concrete solutions to their problems are not c[...]texto impreso
To provide an image of the aboriginal societies and cultures of America, ethohistory has traditionally made use of the written information in the chronicles of the Indies, resorting more recently to the documents of the civil and criminal archi[...]texto impreso
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This paper addresses the transnationalization of vallenato and cumbia music between Mexico and Colombia, highlighting how it has served as tool for the construction of identity. It was first used as such by a small number of peasants living on C[...]texto impreso
This essay offers a panoramic view of the forms of brazilian religions which are marginal as regards the dominant christian creeds, catholic and protestant. some of these forms are Kardecist spiritualism and various types of Afro-Brazilian relig[...]texto impreso
Political violence in Colombia has a gender-differentiated impact on social life. during the last two decades, one of the most dramatic social consequences of the armed conflict among guerrilla, paramilitary groups and the army has been the forc[...]texto impreso
This article defines the concept of "social representation"; it also describes its current use in the social sciences and, in particular, those dealing with the topics of health and illness. In this sense, the article first analyzes the way in w[...]texto impreso
Arias P., William H. ; Rojas, Winston ; Moreno, Sonia ; Lopera, Francisco ; Ruiz-Linares, Andrés ; Bedoya, Gabriel | Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia - ICANH | 2012-06-30In a large family from Peque population (Antioquia), there have been found some individuals affected with juvenile Parkinson’s disease, due to the G736A mutation located in exon 6 of the PARK2 gene. As a result of the tri-ethnic composition of o[...]texto impreso
This article considers ethnographers-ethnologists (anthropologists) and archaeologists perspectives of the past. It is an attempt to understand how the models produced by anthropologists impact archaeologists´ work and how the latter influence a[...]texto impreso
This text elaborates the relationship between practices of sensory perception, bodily habits, representation and cultural difference in Bogotá’s urban spaces. Of theoretical significance here are the notions of “mimesis and alterity” as they are[...]texto impreso
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This article presents the results of archaeological research undertaken in Jardín (southwestern Antioquia) and Riosucio (northeastern Caldas).The project included a survey of various areas and sites and partial excavations of a number of feature[...]texto impreso
The concept of dispossession has taken on new force in Colombia, across social, bureaucratic, and academic spaces. In this article, I follow Gillian Hart’s (2006) call for an engagement with dispossession that considers its disparate meanings an[...]texto impreso
Ramírez de Jara, Maria Clemencia | Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia - ICANH | 1992-01-01The fact that prehispanic Indian groups of the Sibundoy Valley in northeast Nariño and Almaguer District spoke quichua as well as quillacinga, has been interpreted by various authors as proof of Inca incursions in colombian territory. In this pa[...]texto impreso
Critical review of concepts used in anthropology is an important aspect in the production of knowledge. This essay examines the case of peasant as a concept whose usefulness has recently been questioned by a number of scholars, especially from w[...]texto impreso
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The indigenous societies have undergone many changes, and more intensely so since the 19th century. Their relations with the outside, of which the white world is the main part, have led them to adopt strategies in order to survive. In this work,[...]texto impreso
Montagut Mejía, Claudia María | Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia - ICANH | 2003-01-01Review by Claudia Maria Montagut Mejia Reseña escrita por Claudia María Montagut Mejíatexto impreso
During the last 15 years or so several cities in Colombia such as Bogotá, Medellín, Cali, and Pasto have witnessed the appearance and dissemination of ritual practices associated with the consumption of yajé, a psychotropic, traditionally used b[...]texto impreso
The intersectionality of gender, ethnicity/race, class, place of origin, sexual orientation and practices intervenes in the modern social production of the sex market and in the construction of sex workers' occupation. Based on the case of Afro-[...]texto impreso
This paper explores the ways in which the State tried to incorporate to the nation’s political body both Indians and settlers in Northwest Amazonia. Based on official documents found in the archive of Inírida, Guainía, this article analyzes how [...]texto impreso
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Through detailed analysis of some (narco)corridos, along with the practice of taking them up and relating them to daily life, this essay explores how this musical and narrative genre interpellates its public as “el pueblo” (the people). Relying [...]texto impreso
This article tries to assess the social impact of medicine on women´s bodies. it attempts to construct a picture of health care as close as possible to the social reality in which we live. We will see how women are differently affected by medica[...]texto impreso
Review by Luis Guillermo Vasco Uribe Reseña escrita por Luis Guillermo Vasco Uribetexto impreso
This report summarizes the results of a study of animal bones found during rescue excavations carried out in 1990 during the construction of the Nueva Fabrica urban development in the Tunjuelito valley in the south of Bogotá. The predominance of[...]texto impreso
Urrea Giraldo, Fernando ; Zapata Ortega, Diego | Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia - ICANH | 1992-01-01This article phocuses on the analysis of nervous syndromes as some of the most common maladies treated by non traditional medicine. The study, carried out in a slum area of the city of Cali, analyses how people think about their health. A fact w[...]texto impreso
This article explores the processes of ticuna ethnic identity formation as they intersect with the different national identities related to the Brasilian, Colombian and Peruvian nation-states, whose political borders meet in the Solimões/Upper A[...]texto impreso
This article examines the differences between the virgin of popular brazilian devotion represented in this analysis by an apparition that has been occurring since 1987 in the interior of the state of Minas Gerais, and the Virgin used by the memb[...]texto impreso
La crisis de los grandes modelos teóricos (marxismo, estructural-funcionalismo), el renovado interés por la labor de la escuela de Chicago, la importación de la etnometodología y el redescubrimiento del “sentido vivido de los actores” les devolv[...]texto impreso
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This paper addresses the last seven years of the life of barefoot carmelite missionary, Jose Joaquin Arteaga, Director of the Apostolic Prefecture of Uraba, a zone between Antioquia and Choco, in Northwestern Colombia, from 1919 to 1926. It exam[...]texto impreso
The text reviews the author’s extensive and productive career in the difficult craft of political ethnography. Through a reflective account of his own ethnographic experience, he highlights the importance and complexity of the craft; and therefo[...]texto impreso
This article offers several interpretations on the thought of manuel quintín Lame structured around three main thematic axes: 1) humanity; 2) history; and 3) writing and mimesis. Lame is analyzed as an “un-appropriated and un-appropriatable Othe[...]texto impreso
In addition to the expansion of intellectual property rights legislation and to the criminalization of uncertified seeds, the monopolization of seed markets is accompanied by narrative strategies. Through the analysis of three conflicts around g[...]texto impreso
This article presents the results of an ethnographic study on tipping practices in Bogotá supermarkets. I show how the goods and services exchanges between customers and packagers, among which the tip circulates, are permeated by gift and capita[...]texto impreso
In this article we propose to give an account of the affective, emotional and corporal dimensions that take place in situations of financial indebtedness. For this, we analyze the queries raised by private debtors to a legal advice blog and we e[...]texto impreso
This article presents original ethnographic and pedagogical material that contributes —and questions— the official view of pedagogy for peace, an important dimension of the Peace Agreements in Colombia. Through a series of pedagogical workshops [...]texto impreso
From the intersection of two visions about the nature of the music production in Colombia, this article proposes a way to understand the logic of the national music field. This relational analytic construction enables the description of the soci[...]texto impreso
This article discusses the link between pollution and dispossession related to commercial rice cultivation in the Mojana, Colombian Caribbean. Due to its environmental richness and agricultural productivity, this region has been posited as a foo[...]texto impreso
For some years the mining and mineral trade in Colombia have undergone a slow process of formalization by the State. In the case of emeralds, this process has been accompanied by the consolidation of Grupo Muzo, the US company responsible for ex[...]texto impreso
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Castrillón Vallejo, Juan Carlos | Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia - ICANH | 2012-12-31This paper discusses how religion through music is inscribed in different ways on people’s practices and specific speeches. First, it suggests an argument that explores sound thinking and its strategies related to the production of subjectivitie[...]texto impreso
This article reflects on the theoretical juxtaposition of afrogenetic approaches and postmodern notions based on theories of miscegenation. It proposes a complementary analysis using both approaches, starting from historical and ethnographic inf[...]texto impreso
Through a remembrance exercise of two people who transgress the gender that was socially assigned to them (woman). A trans man and a non-binary trans person, I take back elements of their trajectories to, in dialogue with my experience, demostra[...]texto impreso
Within anthropological research, there has been a long process of interaction and transformation between the modern and dichotomized notion of nature and hybrid notions of quasi-objects and quasi-humans. This has transformed the conception of na[...]texto impreso
This article examines issues of migration and translocal livelihoods in Peru. Migration constitutes an ongoing process of adaptation between networks of family and community over space and time, and requires an in-depth understanding of the natu[...]texto impreso
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Jiménez, Juan Francisco ; Alioto, Sebastián | Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia - ICANH | 2016-06-27In America, traveler usually refers to a European or criollo who ventured through unknown and risky spaces, recording their experiences in writing. It is not conceived that there were traveling Indians, though there were a great number of native[...]texto impreso
Tabares, R. Elizabeth ; Rosique, Javier ; Delgado Burbano, Miguel Eduardo | Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia - ICANH | 2012-06-30Starting with the origins of physical (biological) anthropology, its trends and contents, the authors proposed the term bioanthropology to include a broader meaning which highlights its interdisciplinary profile and the use of mixed methods of r[...]texto impreso
In the process of appropriation of physical spaces that all human groups exercise, a series of strategies to signify them unfold from the particular codes of each culture. This article analyzes this process taking as a reference two sectors of t[...]texto impreso
Jackson, Jean E. Jackson ; Díaz, Maritza ; Correa, François ; Herrera, Leonor | Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia - ICANH | 1991-01-01This article deals with the rituals of the Vaupés region in the northwest Amazon, which involve symbolic physical violence against women. I am especially interested in three topics: the metaphorical gang rape, the ceremonial capture of the wife,[...]texto impreso
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Sahlins, Marshall ; Tocancipá-Falla, Jairo | Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia - ICANH | 2001-01-01This lecture is mainly about the enduring significance of culture as an anthropological concept and of its endurance among the people anthropologists study. It argues against the easy functionalist dismissal of the peoples´claims of cultural dis[...]texto impreso
The practice of multiculturalism in Colombia is exercised within complex disputes and claims arising among many social actors, beneficiaries or not of differential rights. This article addresses two paradoxes of the political arrangements of mul[...]texto impreso
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Vernon Long, Staley ; Osorio Gómez, Oscar | Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia - ICANH | 1971-01-01A continuación se describe una herramienta de excavación, y se da un ejemplo de su utilidad en el examen y reconocimiento de sitios de habitación.texto impreso
En cumplimiento de una comisión oficial ad honórem otorgada por el Instituto Colombiano de Antropología, viajé el pasado 23 de abril hacia las veredas de Santo Domingo y Cañaveral, jurisdicción del Municipio de Buenavista, en el W de Boyacá, en [...]texto impreso
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Navarro Valencia, Martha Cecilia | Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia - ICANH | 2009-07-15In this article I explore marital union, motherhood and sexual and reproductive health issues among poor Afrocolombian women in the city of Buenaventura. Based on a case study and oral testimonies, I describe and analyze the experience of extram[...]texto impreso
This article examines the relationship between patron-client configurations and social movements in a region of the Colombian Caribbean. It traces the historical transformations giving rise to rural migration towards urban centers and its strong[...]texto impreso
https://doi.org/10.22380/2539472X36 Hace seis meses el profesor Jon Elster nos visitó en Bogotá para presentarnos sus ideas en torno a lo que él consideraba como nuevos oscurantismos en las ciencias sociales2. Para Elster y para el grupo de cinc[...]texto impreso
Miyano, Juan Pablo ; Ratto, Norma | Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia - ICANH | 2020-07-01This paper examines the perception of the vicuñas by the habitants of western Tinogasta (Catamarca, Argentina) during the recent past (Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries). For this purpose, we analyzed traditional oral manifestations compiled in[...]texto impreso
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This essay offers a general theoretical discussion on the place of violence, obscenity and chaos in religious practices. Toe main ethnographic data are drawn from the symbolic world of Afro-Brazilian possession cults, especially those known as j[...]