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Jangwa Pana, Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (ISSN 2389-7872 Online, ISSN 1657-4923 Printed) is a quarterly peer-reviewed journal devoted to the dissemination of original academic papers in the areas of social sciences and humanities, which includes disciplines such as: Anthropology, Sociology, History, Geography, Cinema and Audiovisual, Communication, Political Science, Philosophy, Law and Literature. Jangwa Pana is a publication focused on inter and transdisciplinary analysis with a critical approach from the different disciplines of Social Sciences and Humanities. The articles submitted for consideration must be original and unpublished. The acceptance of a manuscript to be submitted for evaluation by Jangwa Pana does not imply its approval, nor a commitment regarding the date of publication. The authors must keep copies of all the material sent.  

Cuántas páginas de las ciencias sociales se han escrito en compañía de una taza de café, cuánto café hemos tomado mientras las leemos y qué discusiones sobre lo humano se han avivado con sorbos de expreso y tinto. Pero estas no son las únicas influencias del café en los relatos sobre lo social, su protagonismo en los colectivos no solo se performa como líquido, sino que toma muchas otras apariencias influenciando la historia de maneras inesperadas.

This paper evinces the discursive treatment that Mexican government has given to cultural and linguistic diversity topic of its country through a communicative device proposed here as an intercultural communicative event: a pragmatic arrangement that particularly boomed in Mexico City during 2010 and 2012, within the framework of the Bicentennial of the Mexican independence and revolution, and characterized by maintaining as thematic axis the political vindication of the multiple national identities through argumentative formulations about a possible political conjuncture. The research is based on a methodological approach that links two theoretical proposals: the ethnography of speech, an almost forgotten anthropological perspective to outline the context of a communicative interaction, and the sociolinguistic reflexivity, a recent paradigm with philosophical and sociological basis, which allows us to conceive metalinguistic discourse as a regulative mechanism of permanence and cultural ascription. Thereby, obtained results link two analysis levels: 1) The pragmatic arrangement where emerge the intercultural nature, functions and discursive intentions of participants; and 2) The thematic contents emanating from these interactions. Both products, on the whole, show a phenomenon little noted by the interculturalism researchers. It is that, diachronically and synchronously, public discourse about differences has not maintained a unifying spirit towards Mexican citizenship. On the contrary, it has shown unfulfilled commitments, agreements without ratification and demands without adequate continuity by all hierarchical levels participants in these meetings. General conclusion of this is that the named intercultural communicative events function as a symbolic mechanism for containning possible social conflicts of cultural origin and with long-term political effects.

In recent decades, Colombian bioarchaeology has had a prominent development both in the application of new techniques and in the maturation of the theoretical conceptualizations in thematic lines on subsistence, diet and health and disease of the pre-Hispanic populations that inhabited the national territory. At different scales of analysis, Colombian researchers have solved questions from multidisciplinary perspectives such as ecological, evolutionary and biocultural using increasingly, radiological, histological and molecular techniques for the acquisition of information. This review seeks to take a look of the research generated around the bioarchaeological debates on adaptation to the environment, migration and colonization of new niches, diet, markers of activity and living conditions. Without being an exhaustive exploration of the great research production in Colombia, this review has made it possible to understand the new analytical scenarios that are being generated among the anthropologists of the different regions and in this way to reflect on the new synergies that are promoted in bioarchaeological science.

Jangwa Pana, Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades (ISSN  2389-7872 En línea, ISSN 1657-4923 Impreso) fue creada en el año 2001 como iniciativa de un grupo de profesores del Programa de Antropología de la Facultad de Humanidades de la Universidad del Magdalena. Es una revista arbitrada de difusión cuatrimestral dedicada a publicar trabajos académicos originales en las áreas de ciencias sociales y las humanidades, incluyendo disciplinas como: Antropología, Sociología, Historia, Geografía, Cine y Audiovisuales, Comunicación, Ciencias políticas, Filosofía, Derecho y Literatura. Los artículos sometidos a consideración deben ser originales e inéditos y deben respetar los principios éticos aplicables en Colombia y en los países donde se realicen las investigaciones y respetar el convenio 169 de la OIT. Para estudios de medicina social la revista retoma las normas de declaración de Helsinki de la AMM. Para investigaciones con no-humanos la revista acoge lo planteado en la ley 1774 del 6 de enero de 2016 de la República de Colombia sobre seres sintientes. Las ideas expuestas en los artículos publicados en Jangwa Pana son responsabilidad de sus autores.   Jangwa Pana está dirigida a investigadores, académicos e intelectuales en general interesados en consolidar una comunidad académica transdisciplinaria y crítica desde las Ciencias Sociales y las Humanidades.

The following article aims to publicize the mechanism of employment inclusion of people with disabilities through Law 361 of 1997, which represents legal and social phenomena in the hiring of people with physical, mental and sensory difficulties. The law 361 of 1997 emanates the Principle of Employment Stability, as a protective principle in the labor sphere of persons with disabilities, which allows the worker to remain in the workplace despite their disability status, taking into account the barrier that generates this same law at the time of the employment relationship of the mentioned population. In order to develop the object of the article, it is necessary to expose the content and legislative trajectory of Law 361 of 1997, the protection of the State towards the most vulnerable and the national and international antecedents of the labor contracting of persons with disabilities, to then demonstrate the legal and social consequences that it contracts.

There is great complexity around the conservation of skeletal remains of archaeological origin. Factors such as inadequate handling in the field, difficulties in transportation to the laboratory and lack of good practices for conditioning and final storage, are just some of the external agents that can deteriorate and destroy human remains, preventing more complete analysis of the archaeological site as well as the development of future research. Taking into account the increase of funerary contexts that have been reported in cultural resource management (CRM) projects in various regions of Colombia, and, the role played by museums and academic institutions that have undergraduate and postgraduate programs in anthropology and archeology, this work aims to discuss some principles that can guide the formulation of a management plan for collections of human bone remains of archaeological origin, based on the experiences of the Laboratory of Biological Anthropology at the University of Caldas. Finally, the importance of incorporating ethical discussion and practical activities in anthropology curricula is highlighted.

Artistic training has been relegated in recent years to processes of instruction in techniques. This has led, to some extent, to the undervaluation of it, and not to recognize art as an essential element in human formation. Before this question, this research presents a proposal to change the enunciated conception in front of the teaching of art, since art is recognized as an expression to think about social reality and to establish a critical attitude towards it. In this sense, the design of a didactic unit was proposed in which photography was used to raise awareness, discuss and argue creative solutions around the problem of drug addiction. A socially alive problem that affects the context in which the students with whom the intervention process took place in the classroom live. The photograph, artistic expression, was taken as a didactic strategy that allows capturing in an image part of a social problem and thereby contributing to the development of skills for citizenship. The methodology used was rapid ethnography, as it is the most appropriate to interpret the reality lived in the classroom and the context; the analisis was make with Foto-elucidation.

The mummies of Tlayacapan, Morelos, from the beginning of the 19th century, represent a sector of the elite of the town and perhaps the most vulnerable, since they are mostly infants. Through the imaging analysis carried out in them, the social status of the mothers of Tlayacapan could be concluded without guaranteeing survival at the older ages of mummified individuals; even for the noble and well-off people of the place it was difficult to counteract morbidity at certain ages of life, especially in a critical period in human ontogenyStill in the nineteenth century constant references were made to the infant death, due to deadly diseases that affect during the first years of postnatal life. This work contributes to the knowledge about the conditions and life style that prevailed towards the end of the New Spain period, in one of the towns around Mexico City.