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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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 Outdated and condemmed to oblivion, this world views are the basis for issuing an image of the I[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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 [...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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