Contenido: La denominación tanatosemiosis nace de los recorridos críticos que hemos realizado por producciones que abordan la comunicación con los difuntos (principalmente Finol y Fernández, 1996, Finol y Finol, 2009 y Bernal Botero, 2010). Este modo de aproximación será derivado a la problemática de los niños difuntos (angelitos) en dos especificidades cronotópicas: los cementerios públicos en la Provincia de Corrientes, Argentina y la (re)memoración de los niños difuntos en la Comunidad de Villa Olivari (Corrientes). La problemática abordada se centra en considerar que las prácticas funerarias vinculadas a los niños guardan especial distinción en comparación a las de los adultos. La (re)memoración, las tumbas, los epitafios y los exvotos configuran no solamente esquemas interpretativos, simbólicos y subjetivos específicos, sino además lógicas comunicativas fuertemente arraigadas en lo que Finoly Fernández(1996) han denominado la “semiótica de lo femenino”. Estos entramados comunicacionales, como configuraciones sígnicas, se (re)presentan en los rituales, colores, tumbas, epitafios y exvotos; disponiéndose sistemas tanatosemióticos específicos de creencias-hábitos. La metodología utilizada se nutre de aportes transdisciplinares devenidos de la Antropología, la Comunicación y la Semiótica. El corpus analizado fue construido sobre la base de recolecciones de primera mano entre los años 2005 y 2010.

Contenido: El “off Corrientes" es un teatro organizado y solventado por los propios actores, quienes trabajan en grupos de producción cooperativa y representan sus obras en pequeñas salas situadas fuera del centro del show business teatral de la ciudad de Buenos Aires. Estos grupos postulan sus formas productivas, sus productos y su distribución, como una creación artística innovadora y alternativa con respecto a las prácticas y pautas de comercialización que rigen el mercado. En este trabajo nos concentramos en algunas modalidades que asume la creación artística of dentro del campo teatral y en las distinciones que esta conforma al interior del teatro off y en relación a otras formas de la actuación. Para ello partimos de una perspectiva socio antropológica basada en las prácticas y discursos de los agentes sociales del caso. Asimismo, a En de especificar sus condiciones de producción también recuperamos algunas contribuciones de la crítica y la investigación teatral.

Contenido: The datation of Tell el-Ghaba, North Sinai, Egypt, is based upon the study of the Egyptian and imported pottery within its stratigraphic context, together with other cultural material present at the site. Comparison is made with pottery coming from other sites in Egypt (Eastern Delta, Sinai and Upper Egypt) dated to the same period, and from the Levant and the Eastem Mediterranean. Historical records are considered too. The setting up of a ceramic corpus, now in progress, will let to establish definitively the datation of the site.

Contenido: This article presents existing approaches in Anthropology that have paved the way for the research of a contemporary significant object of study: the field of financial markets. The paper explores some of the most salient socio-cultural research leading to the conception of Social Studies of Finance, and presents some key contributions of these anthropological and sociological studies that challenge and present an alternative to the neoclassical approach. With their attention to detail, diversity and local specificities, this paper argues that anthropological knowledge can provide a unique understanding of the complex contemporary financial world, by which drawing attention to the diversity of forms taken by institutions, actors and practices that constitute the financial markets, particularly analyzing the specificity of local conditions in which these are developed.

Contenido: This article analyzes the social and institutional frames in which the «practices of coercive circulation of children» and the meanings that currently surround them were established. From the reconstruction of a case, that happened in 1976 in a spot of the Argentine Patagonia but only known in 2015, we are interested in problematizing the mechanisms that made possible the practices of forced transfer of children and their concealment over time. At the same time, we analyze the construction of a particular grid of intelligibility based on the right to identity as well as on the new meanings assigned to children. This grid, which allowed a suspicion to become first a public denunciation and later a judicial cause, was built using a categorical, institutional and activist repertoire related to human rights in Argentina that conferred specific local senses on the rights of children and girls

Contenido: In 2014 Argentina signed an agreement with China to build new nuclear reactors in the country. Relate to that agreement, it was planned the construction, in charge of a local firm, of a CANDU reactor. This choice generated consensus among nuclear experts due to local experience in handling this technology and its fuel. However, after the economic and financial crisis of 2018, that technological option was displaced by the decision to buy a reactor of different technology. Nuclear experts questioned that decision arguing against the discontinuity of the technological pattern in Argentina. This text analyzes, first, what arguments about nuclear development in Argentina articulate the current discussion and how they connect past and present and, second, what is enact by using the past in this specific discussion about reactors.

Contenido: The article analyzes the sociopolitical dynamics of the xinguano multiethnic system, located in central-west Brazil, drawing from the logics revealed by sorcery practices. Based on fieldwork with the Aweti, a Tupi xinguano group, the analysis of this logic enables a description of the xinguano sociocultural unity and of the groups that constitute it not only as historical products —something that has already been shown by the region’s ethnology— but also as continuously historical products, always to be recreated. The article’s key argument is that sorcery is the dark side, the unwanted effect of the process of becoming kin, a process central to the constitution of xinguano identity. Thus, sorcery would be what makes the xinguano people never seem perfectly xinguanos/humans to themselves.

Contenido: The article analyzes, from an ethnographic perspective, the relations between memory and territory through the reconstruction of stories of Mapuche Tehuelche families who were violently expelled from Boquete Nahuelpan (Chubut) in 1937. This writing is based on first results of the fieldwork that I have being doing during the last two years, by tours to the expropriated lands as well as interviews to some of the families involved in the eviction. I intend to inquire the meaning that certain places such as the “taperas” and old paths acquire in the memory of the interviewees, preventing forgetfulness and challenging the limits established by fences.

Contenido: Este artículo pretende resumir algunas consideraciones epistemológicas y metodológicas que hemos precisado tras investigar fenómenos asociados a la violencia estructural y armada en contextos de exclusión social y precariedad. Específicamente, en estas investigaciones nos hemos aproximado a dichos fenómenos desde un paradigma constructivista y utilizando diversas metodologías que se ubican dentro del enfoque metodológico cualitativo; por tanto, nuestras apreciaciones se encuentran cimentadas en dichos posicionamientos y orientadas, específicamente, al desarrollo de la construcción de conocimientos en torno a la violencia policial en Caracas, Venezuela. De esta manera, contextualizamos el uso de conceptos cualitativistas como la reflexividad, la transparencia y el “dar voz al otro”, en las prácticas investigativas en torno a dichos fenómenos.

Contenido: This article analyzes the links between religion, politics and colonial society, and explores the nature of these relations in the concrete practices of the members of the Santísimo Sacramento brotherhood of colonial Jujuy. We focus on the process of construction and legitimation of power, from a perspective that takes into account the interconnections between the sociopolitical and religious dimensions.

Contenido: In this article I propose to analyze the narrations and conversations collected by Ana Fernández Garay (2002) as performances of bilingual narrators from the province of La Pampa (Argentina). The texts show a certain decline of the Ranquel, a variety of the Mapuche language. The few linguistic means and continuous code-switching do not seem to leave much room for make-belief techniques in the stories told. Nor do they seem to be necessary between sisters or spouses, for instance. Three myths, eight animal stories, sixteen monologues and another eight conversations about events in the past will allow a comparative analysis of the narrative strategies of make-belief in these texts. By comparing fictional stories (epew) with historical narratives (ngütram) I identify certain widespread strategies of make-belief (especially repetition). I relate these results to theories of belief as possible knowledge, as elaborated by María Inés Palleiro and her group of investigations (2008).

Contenido: In this work we propose to investigate about the senses that the families that produce vegetables from Gran La Plata build with regard to education. They are composed mostly of migrant adults of Bolivian origin and their Bolivian and Argentine children.  In this sense we will address the significance that they give to schooling both in cases of adults who decide to resume their primary and secondary education and of young people who are going through secondary school. Likewise, we analyze the strategies that they put into play to complete schooling according to these senses. The information was gathered from a qualitative methodology based on ethnographic work. We advance here the senses acquired by education for these families, both of adults and young people, as a strategy of extra-fifth sociability as well as a future possibility of improving their material conditions of life.

Contenido: We present an approach to the trajectory of Hugo Ratier, based on a personal encounter in which we highlight his experiences and share how they brought him closer to the Anthropology that he later practiced and transmitted. This brief journey begins with my meeting as a student and then a member of one of the research teams led by Hugo, whom I consider a master. He continues to evoke his proximity and experience —since he was a child— with difference, and there his uncle Carybé appears as a central figure. We end this presentation with a selection of excerpts taken from the field notebooks he wrote during the trip he undertook in 1956 —when he was not yet a qualified anthropologist— to San Salvador de Bahía (Brazil), based on his interest in Afro-Brazilian religions.

Contenido: The work proposes the category of the public as an axis to anthropologically analyze the way in which the denial of interest is emblematized in organizations that are defined as non-profit and whose tasks are oriented towards the public good. The native perspective of those who invoke the non-profit is recovered, understood as renouncing private profit in favor of the common good, to analyze how it operates on participation in public life from these organizations. From this analysis it is revealed that the native opposition between “tramoya” and “vocation” is key to understanding what model of the public is reflected behind the invocation of the non-profit. The empirical cut includes different non-profit organizations in the city of Olavarría, province of Buenos Aires, during the period 2013-2020. The analysis material is made up of ethnographic interviews, observation records and material recovered from different local media.

Contenido: Este artículo propone una reflexión sobre la búsqueda de parejas en sitios web y en Tinder. La investigación se centró en mujeres de entre 30 y 45 años que buscan parejas por estos medios. Todas tienen educación superior, viven en la ciudad de San Pablo, y la gran mayoría se declara como de clase media, “blancas” y heterosexuales. La pregunta orientadora de este trabajo es si, y cómo, la utilización de las nuevas tecnologías de comunicación ha cambiado la búsqueda de parejas, prestando particular atención a los filtros que hacen que un candidato sea elegible. Esos filtros articulan diferencias de género, raza, ubicación. A eso se agregan las "cosas" que componen la imagen –muebles, tamaño de la habitación, ropa, etc.–, de manera que los bienes y el consumo están entrelazados estratégicamente no solo para presentarse al otro, sino también como una forma de reconocimiento social.  

Contenido: En el presente artículo analizo la relación entre las transacciones redistributivas, que definen los mecanismos de asignación de recursos, y el problema de la producción y reproducción de relaciones clientelares, en un ámbito particular dentro de lo que Bourdieu (1997) delimitó como “campo burocrático”.Precisamente, me sitúo en la Cámara de Representantes de Misiones para explorar dos aspectos del problema: el primero, referido a la cuestión formal de la asignación de recursos y los mecanismos informales en los que participan los agentes. Para considerar luego la forma en que dichos mecanismos contribuyen al mantenimiento de relaciones clientelares.La descripción etnográfica y la caracterización de estas relaciones aportó elementos para incluir una dimensión escasamente explorada en los estudios sobre clientelismo político: la oferta de trabajo en las transacciones encuadradas en las estructuras burocráticas.

Contenido: This investigation aims at a psychiatric research in the context of an analysis of contemporary culture among the ethnical Maskoy group in Northern Chaco. This group is composed of four tribes of different culture: the Lengua-Maskoy, the Angaité, the Sanapaná and the Kashkihá.Among other discoveries, in this investigation we verify the importance of madness for the hermeneutics of culture.The apparent increase of mental diseases among the Maskoy, which has been pointed out by different authors, is also analyzed, as well as the importance —in order to explain this phenomenon— of the cultural changes which have taken place in the ethnic group of the Maskoy and which have brought about the abolition of ancient tribal practices.In order to place the Maskoy ethnically and historically among the cultures of the "Gran Chaco" an exegesis of diverse very valuable texts has been undertaken; some of them are little known or unpublished, as those of the Mennonite priest Dietrich Lepp.

Contenido: This article examines the “trade and institutional missions abroad of the Central Region”. Journeys abroad were configured as a “regional” public policy within the mentioned subnational integration process, largely due to the agro-export profile of the associated provinces, along with the significant weight held by local entrepreneurs. Through focusing on the relevance attributed by "state officials" and "businessmen" to those missions, the article argues that the "success" of these journeys has little to do with their apparent (commercial) content, but more with the production of a (political) dynamic where "federalism" works as a fundamental value-in-action. In theoretical and methodological terms, the analysis is constructed from an ethnographic perspective based on the conceptual developments of political anthropology, and the anthropology of the State. In this regard it seeks to contribute to understand the ways in which various social actors participate in building up state dynamics.

Contenido: This article presents an analysis of the inclusion-exclusion dynamics present in the educational trajectories of indigenous youth that make up the Community of University Students of Native Peoples, at the National University of Salta. The interest is in explaining how previous experiences, in formal education, permeate and condition the retention and permanence strategies that are developed at the University. In the development of work, the experiences and traces that university students bring with them from their years of schooling are recognized, not only with regard to school content, but also with regard to the construction of expectations.

Contenido: Este artículo es parte del trabajo de tesis doctoral en Antropología Social, centrada en documentar la diversidad y complejidad en las trayectorias socioeducativas de un grupo de maestros/as indígenas de la provincia del Chaco, Argentina. En el este escrito presentaremos algunas de las reflexiones del análisis de dichas trayectorias. Desde una perspectiva etnográfica, abordaremos los relatos autobiográficos de dos maestros/as indígenas articulando las trayectorias de los sujetos con ciertos procesos de diversidad y desigualdad socioeducativa de la región. Se trata de un primer acercamiento al análisis que busca destacar la perspectiva de los/as maestros/as indígenas, reflexionar acerca de distintos aspectos que emparentan y/o diferencian sus relatos y a su vez, comprender ciertos sucesos socio históricos que consideramos fundamentales para avanzar en el análisis de los procesos socioeducativos en contextos interculturales actuales.

Contenido: Observación directa significa que el antropólogo está ahí, en el lugar donde se desarrolla la acción y está preparado para registrar lo que esta ocurriendo. La autora estudia técnicas antropológicas de observación directa de la conducta humana, utilizando ejemplos de su propia investigación sobre interacciones sociales infantiles en una comunidad Toba de Formosa (Argentina). E1 diseño de la investigación se inspiró en (a) estudios antropológicos sobre conducta infantil en sociedades cazadoras-recolectoras, y (b) técnicas de observación en etología humana. Se describe la técnica, se explica la clase de datos que se pueden obtener con ella, y se plantean problemas que surgen de la observación directa de hechos sociales. A partir de ejemplos tomados en situaciones de juego infantil se muestra e1 manejo cuantitativo y estadístico que permiten los datos. Como ejemplo se analizan conductas de liderazgo y agresión entre pares.

Contenido: The excavation, analysis, curation, and restitution of archaeological human remains are associated with ethical challenges that those working within archaeology and heritage management should be aware of. However, the way ethical issues are acknowledged in publications continues to be overlooked. This paper examines the ethical approval required for the publication of research on human remains in Argentina and Chile. Fourteen journals that accept bioarchaeological research papers were examined. Of the 119 bioarchaeology papers published between January 2016 and September 2021, only two (1.7%) acknowledged following ethical guidelines. None of the articles referred to ethical approval to conduct the research. While ethics committees may not be in place in some universities or curating institutions, journal publishers have an increasing responsibility to ensure research on archaeological human remains is conducted in an ethical manner. In light of these results, the present paper recommends ways in which authors may address this issue and how journal editors may strengthen their guidance relating to ethical requirements.