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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[...]![]()
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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" [...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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,[...]![]()
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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 Mejía