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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[...]![]()
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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-[...]![]()
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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 [...]![]()
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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 [...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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Review by Luis Guillermo Vasco Uribe Reseña escrita por Luis Guillermo Vasco Uribe![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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 [...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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,[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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.![]()
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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 [...]![]()
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Review by Gabriela Torres-Mazuera Reseña escrita por Gabriela Torres-Mazuera![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]