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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
Reseña escrita por Ingrid Díaz Morenotexto impreso
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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Review by Gabriela Torres-Mazuera Reseña escrita por Gabriela Torres-Mazueratexto 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[...]