a investigación toponímica es un instrumento para conocer el patrimonio étnico-lingüís-tico de un pueblo y confirmar la diversidad cultural. El estudio de los nombres geográficos(origen, significado y cambios), nos permite ...

The professional exercise of anthropological investigation has made to experiment different forms of relationship and capture of realities that have been taken like study objects. Each case, makes important exercises of ...

This paper analyzes in depth the subject of the “otherness” in the heart of western society. Initially it explores, from a theoretical point of view, the vision that the occidental society is unique and homogeneous, as ...

The process of indigenous identity building and self-affirmation, named etnogénesis, that has been observed during three years at Quitirrisí are presented. We would like to offer to the reader a reflection about the most ...

The following article gets up an explanation of the main programmatic axis themes contained in the cultural rights matter, it analyzes as well the conceptual, contextual and administrative limitations that have restrained ...

Based in the author’s fieldwork experience, carried out in the Ngäbe indigenous territories in Costa Rica, the article proposes an epistemological reflection about anthropological activity and its political consequences, ...