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Caminos cruzados

Caminos cruzados

Autor: Collectif

Número de Páginas: 393

El presente libro nos ofrece la oportunidad de conocer el avance de las ideas sobre los interrogantes más destacados de la investigación socio-antropológica y lingüística que se realiza actualmente en Venezuela y en sus espacios limítrofes, en Brasil y Colombia. El lector encontrará también ejemplos de sociedades africanas -de Benín y de Costa de Marfil- que dan materia de reflexión y de comparación. Esta obra es la expresión de la riqueza de las problemáticas cuando, ajustándose al seno del conocimiento, la antropología integra los diferentes puntos de vista al tomarse el tiempo de cruzar el camino de las disciplinas afines. A partir de programas de investigación-participación o experiencias más concentradas en la investigación fundamental sin olvidar, por lo tanto, los intereses indígenas, las diversas contribuciones dan cuenta de las principales preocupaciones contemporáneas de las ciencias sociales. Se observa particularmente una doble orientación en los estudios. Una intenta superar los modelos explicativos monofactoriales y formular análisis que consideran diversos acercamientos, la otra trata de establecer vínculos entre la teoría y la práctica...

The Anthropology of Marriage in Lowland South America

The Anthropology of Marriage in Lowland South America

Autor: Paul Valentine , Stephen Beckerman , Catherine Alès

Número de Páginas: 317

"Foremost scholars of indigenous Amazonia explore the vast and interesting gap between rules and practice, demonstrating how sociocultural systems endure and even prosper due to the flexibility, creativity, and resilience of the people within them."--Jeremy M. Campbell, author of Conjuring Property: Speculation and Environmental Futures in the Brazilian Amazon "A landmark volume and a major contribution to the study of kinship and marriage in Amazonian societies, an area of the world that has been pivotal to our understanding of the biocultural dimensions of cousin marriage and polygamy."--Nancy E. Levine, author of The Dynamics of Polyandry: Kinship, Domesticity, and Population on the Tibetan Border This volume reveals that individuals in Amazonian cultures often disregard or reinterpret the marriage rules of their societies—rules that anthropologists previously thought reflected practice. It is the first book to consider not just what the rules are but how people in these societies negotiate, manipulate, and break them in choosing whom to marry. Using ethnographic case studies that draw on previously unpublished material from well-known indigenous cultures, The Anthropology of ...

Criterios fundamentales para resolver problemas de resistencia de materiales

Criterios fundamentales para resolver problemas de resistencia de materiales

Autor: Róger J. Carrillo Castellanos

Número de Páginas: 366
Detrás de la Máscara

Detrás de la Máscara

Autor: Alvaro Pérez Betancourt

Número de Páginas: 129

En numerosos grupos indígenas del Amazonas se identifica a los portadores de las máscaras ceremoniales con los espíritus de animales que ellas representan. Detrás de la máscara. Chamanismo, arte, danza y cantos Piaroa, es producto de la investigación y trabajo de campo realizados por el antropólogo, escritor y documentalista venezolano Álvaro Pérez Betancourt. En el libro se analiza el significado y simbolismo de las máscaras en su contexto cultural, explora el ritual Warime de la etnia Piaroa en el estado Amazonas, Venezuela y lo ilustra con fotografías y dibujos originales. La fiesta de las máscaras es un evento de renovación para mantener la fertilidad y la riqueza ecológica del territorio Piaroa y es la clave para entender el sistema cosmológico amazónico.

Burst of Breath

Burst of Breath

Autor: Jonathan David Hill , Jean-pierre Chaumeil

Número de Páginas: 443

The first in-depth, comparative, and interdisciplinary study of indigenous Amazonian musical cultures, Burst of Breath showcases new research on the dynamic range of ritual power and social significance of various wind instrumentsãincluding flutes, trumpets, clarinets, and whistlesãplayed in sacred rituals and ceremonies in Lowland South America. The editors provide a detailed overview of the historical significance, scientific classification, shamanic and cosmological associations, and changing social meanings of ritual wind instruments within Amazonian cultures. These essays present a wide perspective that goes beyond better-documented areas such as the Upper Xingu and northwest Amazon. Some of the authors explore the ways ritual wind instruments are used to introduce natural sounds into social contexts and to cross boundaries between verbal and nonverbal communication. Others look at how ritual wind instruments and their music enter into local definitions and negotiations of relations between men, women, kin, insiders, and outsiders. Closely considering these instruments in their many roles and contextsãin curing and purification, negotiating relations, connecting mythic...

Investigación en la educación formal: metodologías innovadoras para docentes

Investigación en la educación formal: metodologías innovadoras para docentes

Autor: María Del Pilar Cáceres Reche , Magdalena Ramos Navas-parejo , Lucía Hinojo Cirre , Blanca Berral Ortiz

Número de Páginas: 224
Pueblos indígenas y educación No. 67

Pueblos indígenas y educación No. 67

Autor: Luis Enrique, López , Ruth, Moya

Número de Páginas: 306

Este número de la Revista Pueblos Indígenas y Educación aparece en medio de un suceso de repercusiones mundiales: la pandemia. La COVID-19 se ha ensañado con los sectores más pobres, desposeídos y excluidos del ejercicio de los más mínimos derechos. En este escenario, ocurren dos hechos esenciales: el quiebre del sistema de salud y el del sistema educativo. Las medidas tomadas, como la educación virtual, excluyen y marginan a los pueblos indígenas. A la par, han debido activar sus conocimientos de medicina ancestral para enfrentar a la enfermedad. Los autores que participan en este número describen experiencias y percepciones de los indígenas frente a la COVID-19, con textos sobre Ecuador, Venezuela y Brasil. Además, la revista incluye texto en lenguas originarias en su sección de tradición oral además de reseñas bibliográficas y testimonios.

Hacia la antropología del siglo XXI

Hacia la antropología del siglo XXI

Autor: Lino Meneses Pacheco , Jacqueline Clarac De Briceño

Número de Páginas: 446
Los derechos de los pueblos indígenas en la Constitución de Venezuela de 1999

Los derechos de los pueblos indígenas en la Constitución de Venezuela de 1999

Autor: Ricardo Colmenares Olívar

Número de Páginas: 270
Advances in Historical Ecology

Advances in Historical Ecology

Autor: William L. Balée

Número de Páginas: 456

Ecology is an attempt to understand the reciprocal relationship between living and nonliving elements of the earth. For years, however, the discipline either neglected the human element entirely or presumed its effect on natural ecosystems to be invariably negative. Among social scientists, notably in geography and anthropology, efforts to address this human-environment interaction have been criticized as deterministic and mechanistic. Bridging the divide between social and natural sciences, the contributors to this book use a more holistic perspective to explore the relationships between humans and their environment. Exploring short- and long-term local and global change, eighteen specialists in anthropology, geography, history, ethnobiology, and related disciplines present new perspectives on historical ecology. A broad theoretical background on the material factors central to the field is presented, such as anthropogenic fire, soils, and pathogens. A series of regional applications of this knowledge base investigates landscape transformations over time in South America, the Mississippi Delta, the Great Basin, Thailand, and India. The contributors focus on traditional societies...

Introducción a la etnografía de los pueblos indígenas de la Guayana Venezolana

Introducción a la etnografía de los pueblos indígenas de la Guayana Venezolana

Autor: Nalúa Rosa Silva Monterrey

Número de Páginas: 140
Writing and the Revolution

Writing and the Revolution

Autor: Katie Brown

Número de Páginas: 208

Through a close reading of eight Venezuelan novels published between 2004 and 2012, this book reveals the enduring importance of the national in contemporary Venezuelan fiction, arguing that the novels studied respond to both the nationalist and populist cultural policies of the Bolivarian Revolution and Venezuela’s literary isolation.

Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia

Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia

Autor: Alf Hornborg , Jonathan D. Hill

Número de Páginas: 401

A transdisciplinary collaboration among ethnologists, linguists, and archaeologists, Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia traces the emergence, expansion, and decline of cultural identities in indigenous Amazonia. Hornborg and Hill argue that the tendency to link language, culture, and biology--essentialist notions of ethnic identities--is a Eurocentric bias that has characterized largely inaccurate explanations of the distribution of ethnic groups and languages in Amazonia. The evidence, however, suggests a much more fluid relationship among geography, language use, ethnic identity, and genetics. In Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia, leading linguists, ethnographers, ethnohistorians, and archaeologists interpret their research from a unique nonessentialist perspective to form a more accurate picture of the ethnolinguistic diversity in this area. Revealing how ethnic identity construction is constantly in flux, contributors show how such processes can be traced through different ethnic markers such as pottery styles and languages. Scholars and students studying lowland South America will be especially interested, as will anthropologists intrigued by its cutting-edge, interdisciplinary...

Nurturing the Other

Nurturing the Other

Autor: Vanessa Grotti

Número de Páginas: 212

Combining archival research, oral history and long-term ethnography, this book studies relations between Amerindians and outsiders, such as American missionaries, through a series of contact expeditions that led to the 'pacification' of three native Amazonian groups in Suriname and French Guiana. The author examines and contrasts Amerindian and non-Amerindian views on this process of social transformation through the lens of the body, notions of peacefulness and kinship, as well as native warfare and shamanism. The book addresses questions of change and continuity, and the little explored links between first contacts, capture and native conversion to Christianity in contemporary indigenous Amazonia.

Handbook of Latin American Studies

Handbook of Latin American Studies

Autor: Dolores Moyano Martin , P. Sue Mundell

Número de Páginas: 956

Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Stuides, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and research underway in specialized areas. The Handbook of Latin American Studies is the oldest continuing reference work in the field. Dolores Moyano Martin, of the Library of Congress Hispanic Division, has been the editor since 1977, and P. Sue Mundell has been assistant editor since 1994. The subject categories for Volume 55 are as follows: Anthropology (including Archaeology and Ethnology) Economics Electronic Resources for the Social Sciences Geography Government and Politics International...

Indigenous Persistence in the Colonized Americas

Indigenous Persistence in the Colonized Americas

Autor: Heather Law Pezzarossi , Russell N. Sheptak

Número de Páginas: 259

This scholarly collection explores the method and theory of the archaeological study of indigenous persistence and long-term colonial entanglement. Each contributor offers an examination of the complex ways that indigenous communities in the Americas have navigated the circumstances of colonial and postcolonial life, which in turn provides a clearer understanding of anthropological concepts of ethnogenesis and hybridity, survivance, persistence, and refusal. Indigenous Persistence in the Colonized Americas highlights the unique ability of historical anthropology to bring together various kinds of materials—including excavated objects, documents in archives, and print and oral histories—to provide more textured histories illuminated by the archaeological record. The work also extends the study of historical archaeology by tracing indigenous societies long after their initial entanglement with European settlers and colonial regimes. The contributors engage a geographic scope that spans Spanish, English, French, Dutch, and other models of colonization.

Native Christians

Native Christians

Autor: Aparecida Vilaça

Número de Páginas: 267

Native Christians reflects on the modes and effects of Christianity among indigenous peoples of the Americas drawing on comparative analysis of ethnographic and historical cases. Christianity in this region has been part of the process of conquest and domination, through the association usually made between civilizing and converting. While Catholic missions have emphasized the 'civilizing' process, teaching the Indians the skills which they were expected to exercise within the context of a new societal model, the Protestants have centered their work on promoting a deep internal change, or 'conversion', based on the recognition of God's existence. Various ethnologists and scholars of indigenous societies have focused their interest on understanding the nature of the transformations produced by the adoption of Christianity. The contributors in this volume take native thought as the starting point, looking at the need to relativize these transformations. Each author examines different ethnographic cases throughout the Americas, both historical and contemporary, enabling the reader to understand the indigenous points of view in the processes of adoption and transformation of new...

Art Effects

Art Effects

Autor: Carlos Fausto

Número de Páginas: 420

In Art Effects Brazilian anthropologist Carlos Fausto explores the agency of indigenous artifacts and images in order to offer a new understanding of the pragmatics and ontology of ritual contexts.

El régimen de excepción y los derechos humanos indígenas

El régimen de excepción y los derechos humanos indígenas

Autor: Victor Rafael Sevilla

Número de Páginas: 196

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