Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

This essay reflects on the student movement and its dynamics in Nicaraguan society. Showing clearly your participation in the social agenda from its foundation to the present. The current trend shown by the movement is towards social and environmental actions. It shows a student movement participate in the country’s political agenda, with increasingly concrete activities in the social and environmental spheres. The essay combines participant observation, such as theoretical reflections, betting on a reflexive critical narrative.

In this article I will analyze the peasant and indigenous movements of the municipalities of Wiwili and Bocay in the last 40 years, the sources were obtained through five years of intense archaeological, historical, linguistic, anthropological and sociological study in the department of Jinotega. We worked with historical documentation of the municipalities in question, the ethnographic and ethnological methods and techniques were implemented for the registration of testimonies of community leaders who were part of the counterrevolution and the Sandinista Popular Army (1981-1990). The emphasis is placed on the historical and strategic changes that peasants and indigenous people have been suffering since the 1980s, their transformation in the struggle for access to land in the 1990s, until the creation of special regions called Wangki Wihta Bukawas located in the core area of the Bosawas Biosphere Reserve and composed of three Miskitus territories such as: Miskitu Kipla Sait Tasbaika, Miskitu Indian Tasbaika Kum and Miskitu Lilamni Tasbaika Kum and a Mayangna Sauni Bu territory, all known as Government Indigenous Territorial (GTI) restored by the current Sandinista government in 2008. In the department we find a multicultural dynamic little studied by Nicaraguan anthropologists, particularly in the municipalities of Wiwili and Bocay regions severely affected and devastated by the intense fighting that developed in that territory, from the libertarian deed of Augusto C. Sandino hast to the war of 1980 and during the postwar period.

In this work I critically reflect, on how the protagonists reconcile the practices of ancestral medicine and western medicine in the dynamics of public service, in the ambit of the Health Center of the Municipality of Nagarote in León - Nicaragua. To reflect, I use to the categories of analysis supported by the work on community dynamics of the teacher and researcher Luis Felipe Ulloa, in particular the categories: PRACTICE, DYNAMICS, AMBIT AND PROTAGONISTS. In relation to the theoretical and methodological, I am located from constructivism and phenomenology as a theoretical route in this anthropological work, based on the perspective on case studies by Gilberto Giménez and Catherine Heau Lambert. I would like to point out that the first dives in the context gave me quick conclusions about a promising conciliation between the practices of medicine, both ancestral and western, within the dynamics of public service intervention, dymanics healthy living and dymanics political legal life; However, the subsequent incursions, dialogues, gatherings, showed me values, beliefs and conflicting ancestral practices, with the potential for the appearance of conflicts that are now it under of de table, and that are cultural, while opening the reflection on the present and emerging leadership as a resistance force or transformer of a more beautiful reality.

This article systematizes the practice of traditional Nicaraguan games carried out through an experience of socio-cultural animation with children, adolescents and adults in the Otoniel Arauz neighborhood of the municipality of Matagalpa. The study arose in the face of the obvious crisis faced by traditional games with the emergence of the new technological devices that modernity has brought with them, which have captured current generations preventing them from knowing and practicing these games. In this sense, the team of researchers considered promoting traditional Nicaraguan games and at the same time developing a culture of peace and reconciliation through such games, so, with a participatory action research approach, a diagnosis was made on the practice of the games. Then, an action plan was developed and executed and finally, the impact of the sociocultural intervention was evaluated. This research process provides a set of significant results that suggest that traditional Nicaraguan games represent an enormous cultural value, and that these are conducive to developing a set of cultural, social and collective values in societies.

Purpose: The care crisis affecting European countries such as Spain has triggered, in the last 10 years, an increase in female migratory flows from Guatemala and Nicaragua, among others. These women migrate to take care of dependent people while leaving their families in their home countries giving rise to so-called transnational families. The objective of this article is to reflect on the strategies that migrants use to maintain the emotional bond with their loved ones, and then continue with their care efforts. Methodology: Based on a qualitative methodology, during the years 2009 to 2016 we conducted in-depth interviews with Guatemalans and Nicaraguans who have migrated to Spain with the aim of working and who are still in communication with their families in their cities of origin. Results: The analysis of the empirical material reflects firstly that Central American women are migrating to Spain to dedicate themselves to home employment and care, secondly that the physical separation of their families is not an impediment to continue their tasks of careful, thirdly, what importance of the new information and communication technologies for the establishment of a relational proximity across borders. Implications: This article aims to contribute new information to the dynamics of Central American women in Spain, which are characterized by being a relatively new migrant collective and therefore, little studied so far.

The Garífuna people are an ancestral culture that has its origin in the union of three cultures; The African, Arawak and Caribbean. This new ethnic group has its own language, belief system, food and ancestral practices of agriculture, dances and songs that join their spirituality. They currently live in 48 Honduran communities, from Masca, department of Cortés, to Plaplaya, department of Gracias a Dios. They are also located in six urban centers in Belize, in two communities in Nicaragua and in one in Guatemala. It is estimated that there are about 250,000 Garifuna in Honduras and more than 100,000 who emigrated to the United States. The Garífuna culture is ancestral matrifocal, the old women are heirs of the ancestral spiritual knowledge that allow them to communicate with the ancestors and ancestors to those who offer offerings and ask for help in their struggles to conserve their territories that for them represent life, culture, the very existence of the Garifuna native people. Their struggle is as old as their origin, although they are great warriors who have known how to fight all the invaders, from the French and English who expelled them from San Vicente Island, to the State of Honduras that along the history has sought a way to expropriate the territories that were legitimately granted to them for more than two hundred years. In 2001 UNESCO declared the Garifuna culture Intangible Heritage of Humanity.

The development of Physical Anthropology in Nicaragua is approximately 30 years old, its origins are in the investigations of the Department of Anthropology of the National Museum of Nicaragua, when Mrs. Leonor Martínez de Rocha, then director of the Museum, hired a professional in Biology to to take charge of the analysis of ethnozoological and ethnobotanical remains found in archaeological deposits. Doña Leonor had worked from a young age with Don Diocleciano Chavez, Founder of the National Museum Collection and he had made a journalistic report on January 23, 1920 where the information of the finding of mummified human remains found in Punta La Cimarrona, Chiltepe Peninsula - Managua This is one of the first findings linked to Paleoanthropology in Nicaragua. From the 90’s it was possible to apply the techniques of Physical Anthropology for the study and characterization

Globalization has been understood as a form of global homogenization, based on this principle, social networks are playing a leading role in that trend. Every day, social networks become more relevant as matrices of opinions are built around a reality that, in view of each person on their respective social platforms, can vary in interpretation or meaning. The interference with internal matters has also been homogenized more directly, since, from social networks, anyone can give an opinion on realities of which they are not participating, beyond what they see on virtual platforms. This reflection is reflexive, an essay that pays for this discussion based on bibliographic records and argumentation.