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 ...

Resumido por Eduardo Madrigal.

This article describes the origin of the Wayuu, as well as their history through time. Wayuu culture is related to the environment in which they live. Their way of life, even in our times, is characterized by cultural way ...

Guadalupe island met at the beginning of the year 2009 a social movement which paralyzed it for approximately two months, and which expanded over the other French Overseas Departments. Why could such movement develop in ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...