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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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