During the second half of the XX Century, Central America lived a period of socio-political conflicts which led to internal wars in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala. Unequal agrarian structures are one of the major ...

In recent decades significant changes on indigenous autonomy are the result of the struggles of indigenous movements in Brazil. The legal instruments prior to 1988 were characterized by the tutelage of indigenous people, ...

In the following research, the influence of the pre-Columbian mask production will be studied in three Central American dances: La Conquista in Chichicastenango, Guatemala; El Toro Guaco in Diriamba, Nicaragua and Los ...

Food traditions form part of humanity’s patrimony. They have contributed to the identities of people, to their food security and to an intimate relationship with the natural environment. The loss of these food traditions ...

Compilado por: Luis Gonzalo Jaramillo E.

This article proposes a reflection on anthropological knowledge, its scientific pretension and the constitutive opposition between the theoretical and the ethnographical. It shows some theoretical contemporary tendencies ...

In this collaboration it made a revision of the scientific literature about power relations in order to show the most influential paradigms in the Mexican Political Anthropology. This work has three objectives: 1) to offer ...

This text refers to the process of identity reconstruction in the Santa Cecilia neighborhood in Ciudad Colon, Canton de Mora. This exploration focused on the axiological dimension -specifically associated with the value ...

Resumido por Eduardo Madrigal.