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The aim of this paper is to present the results of the bioarchaeological analysis whose goal was to generate knowledge dealt with the organization of daily activities among the hunter-gatherers buried in the Lower Unit of the Chenque I Site (Lihué Calel National Park, La Pampa province, Argentina). In order to reach this goal, the sample (n: 16) was broken down by sex and age and analyzed. The major appendicular joints and the spine were examined to identify the distribution, frequency and severity of osteoarthritis and Schmörl nodes, respectively. Data suggested that among the hunter-gatherers buried in this Late Holocene cemetery, different body uses would have existed according to sex and age, although women and men might have shared some of them. Other factors, such as the social role of individuals, could have influenced the organization of activities.

  This paper discusses some contributions from Social Studies of Science and Technology (STS) in understanding the socio-technical configurations that sustainability standards bring on coffee production. STS addresses the importance of invisible social and material infrastructures institutional and practical orders. This explores the analytical and empirical landscape of sustainability standards on coffee production.

En julio del 2018 la Universidad del Magdalena (Santa Marta, Colombia) puso en funcionamiento el Comité de Ética en Investigación.  Ese Comité queda encargado de “evaluar, conceptuar y dar seguimiento, desde el punto de vista ético, a los proyectos de investigación que presente y desarrolle la Universidad, cuando en su objeto o método se intervenga con la salud o la vida (humana o no humana), o con el medio ambiente o la biodiversidad.” Entre sus funciones, está la de garantizar que los proyectos de investigación respeten a las personas y comunidades participantes de los proyectos. El semestre pasado el Comité de Ética analizó un proyecto de investigación elaborado por mí, en calidad de docente investigadora de la Unimagdalena.  El proyecto pretende identificar de qué manera la Corte Constitucional de Colombia reconoce (o no) derechos territoriales de los pueblos indígenas sobre porciones del mar.  Como método de trabajo, fueron previstas dos entrevistas grupo-focal en dos comunidades pesqueras wayúu en la provincia de la Guajira. Las autoridades comunales de ambas comunidades tienen conocimiento de esa propuesta de investigación, que fue elaborada en diálogo con sus líderes.  El proyecto presentado incluyó los formatos de consentimiento previo e informado a ser firmado por cada participante del grupo focal, con el previo consentimiento de sus autoridades tradicionales.  

The present work studies the cooperation that sustains artisanal fisheries of San Andrés in cooperatives and associations. This cooperation was understood as a value that denotes collective action around common objectives. The proposed methodology was based, firstly, on a bibliographic review that gave an account of some historical factors that have shaped the conditions of artisanal fishing, such as the trajectories of specialization and institutionalization of fishing and the current sociocultural continuities in social relations between fishermen. And, secondly, in a case study in the cooperative of artisanal fishermen "Coopesbi", identifying norms, roles and values ​​that emerge from the practice of fishing. It was found that cooperation is crossed by logics that combine patterns of behavior coming from both cooperativism and the historical and normative frameworks of artisanal fishing. In this sense, an analysis is presented on the way in which cooperativism has been appropriated and hybridated by the artisanal fishermen of San Andrés.

The purpose of the present reflection article is to present the strategies of integral development for the actors of the coffee production chain in the municipality of Buesaco-Nariño. These strategies arise as a result of the research in the region, titled "Study of the socioeconomic situation of the actors that make up the different links of the coffee production chain in the municipality of Buesaco-Nariño"; developed in agreement with Mariana University and Fundación Social (2016). The last research counted on the active participation of its protagonists, who identified as the central objective of the proposal to achieve the balance of the social and economic components that contribute to the increase of income and consequent improvement of the quality of life of the participants. Because, although it is true, the coffee production is a dynamic activity in the region that allows the articulation of the different links, there are critical factors that were able to identified through the study, where the marketers are in a more favorable socioeconomic situation than small producers who present difficult conditions that weaken their living conditions and leave little room to think about the Diversification of production through transformation. Taking into account that coffee is a basic product for the economy of the region, a comprehensive initiative was consolidated from 16 socioeconomic variables approached with the coffee and that they become a suitable guide for the intervention by governmental actors. The proposal was developed through the methodology of the logical framework and presents a matrix of strategic planning that can be an input for the determination of clear policies for the coffee sector of the region in the medium and long term that can be replicated in other regions.

Recientemente la bioantropología ha tenido un notable desarrollo en Latinoamérica y El Caribe. Comoactores fundamentales están diferentes instituciones públicas y privadas a través de un variado grupo deinvestigadores e investigadoras que incluyen docentes universitarios, estudiantes de grado, postgradoasí como académicos y académicas independientes en diferentes disciplinas entre ellas antropología,arqueología, biología, genética humana, ciencias forenses y del deporte, entre otras. Prueba de ello sonlos diferentes simposios, mesas, talleres, etc., que en el marco de los congresos de antropología yarqueología tanto a nivel regional como continental se vienen llevando acabo con bastante éxito desdehace algunos años. Igualmente el desarrollo de encuentros en el marco de sociedades de antropologíabiológica y forense así como en arqueología indica un importante crecimiento en la investigaciónbioantropológica y bioarqueológica. En este contexto consideramos pertinente presentar un conjunto deinvestigaciones inéditas que dieran cuenta del desarrollo y tendencias recientes a nivel teórico ymetodológico de la bioantropología en Latinoamérica y El Caribe en la revista Jangwa Pana Revistade Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades de la Facultad de Humanidades de la Universidad delMagdalena, Santa Marta, Colombia.

This paper considers the so called Central Zone, one of the political divisions of the Department of Magdalena, Colombia. This area is, no doubt, a sort of epicentre of clashes and disagreements reflecting the instability of the Nation-State. The sistematic supression of the Chimile native population, the breakup of social movements ensuing the Bananeras masacre in 1928, the drainiing and expropiation of Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta, the apparition of guerillas and of paramilitarism with its letal effects on the economic, social and cultural spheres all come together to shape a very complex territorial space. Such space is marked by the presence of great landowning families, the abscence of the State, the consistent suppresion of the public. It is a huge territory characterized by impunity and the lack of historical memory.

The aim of this study was to analyze the learning in coffee farmers through the knowledge change index (KCI) as a mechanism for evaluating an extension program for capacity development. The methodology used was based on experiential education and participatory methodologies that integrated the knowledge of farmers and professionals in each area, in the construction of new concepts. It was carried out with groups of approximately 50 participants in each municipality, supported by knowledge measurement methodologies by means the carousel of knowledge at the beginning and at the end of the trainings. There were increases in the rate of knowledge of 16%, 31%, 7%, 17% for the municipalities of Salgar, Ebejico, Yolombo and Abejorral respectively.

Una de las características de las sociedades modernas occidentales es lo que algunos autores han llamado la división intelectual del trabajo (Escobar, 2018; Martínez-Dueñas y Perafán, 2018), es decir separar los dominios del conocimiento y sus practicantes entre aquellos que les corresponde estudiar a los humanos y las diferentes expresiones de sus subjetividades individuales y compartidas (ciencias sociales); y por otro los estudios sobre los no-humanos que vivos o muertos, son entendidos como objetos y en algunas ocasiones como cuasi-sujetos (ciencias naturales). Esta división tiene su respuesta interna (intra-moderna) con las tendencias holísticas, sistémicas o complejas, que buscan reintegrar en modelos de la realidad dicha fragmentación (Escobar, 2005), que a la final es la expresión de la dicotomía naturaleza/cultura, propia de la imaginación moderna (Latour, 2007; Descola, 2012).

In this essay we review the context of emergency of the word Tairona, notion that was used to refer to certain population that was conquered in the very begin of XVI century. With this review, we don't want a chronological review of the history of the conquest, neither to analyse the facts again, but to apreciate how the academical discussions that took the notion as a starting point, made the basis, and conditions of possibility, to develop and archaeological and anthropological agenda of Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. In order to reach the objectives, some colonial, and historical sources are reviewed from critical anthropological theory.