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The pursuit of happiness is the most general explanation of human behavior. Over the years, attempts have been made to establish measurement approaches to facilitate its analysis. A first step is the need to understand people's well-being through the idea of "feeling better", which has led to the measurement of subjective and not only biological health. This paper aims to better understand the origins of the concept of consumer happiness, its approaches and the measurement scales. To this end, a methodology based on a review of the most recent literature has been applied, identifying the most relevant analyses of the concept. This research shows the growing use of the concept of consumer happiness, and the creation of various scales for measuring happiness. Based on these ideas, we propose the use of a model that approximates the three constituent approaches of the holistic concept of happiness: an enjoyable, meaningful and committed life, which can facilitate its applicability in management environments.

In this article I propose to address the effects of the disciplinary tradition in contact with the emerging discourses on time in contemporary indigenous Colombia. I start with a reflection on the concepts of history and nature in the German hermeneutic-phenomenological tradition in order to understand the limits and possibilities inscribed in a given expression of modern historical thought. Then, I seek to speculate to what extent these conceptions are affected by the practical and political experiences of the Misak living in the Colombian Andes and their internal modalities of temporality, which move away from totalizing theoretical assumptions. I conclude that a possible way to produce distension in the disciplinary language is from a critical pluralism, which is capable of visualizing and relating productively in the midst of epistemic and conceptual conflicts.

This article proposes an anthropological historical analysis referring to the representational production of the ethnic alterity “Huarpe” in the Volume I of Historia de San Juan, a very important book written by the historian Horacio Videla in 1962. The article arises from unpublished research developed in the author’s degree thesis dedicated to the study of indigenous ethnic alterities and territories produced by historiographic narratives, ethnological and archaeological of the province of San Juan, the Argentina Republic during the 20th century. This article adopts the theoretical and methodological perspectives of Foucaultian discursive archaeology, the theory of articulations proposed by Stuart Hall (2010), and the contributions of criticism and post-colonial feminism.  

Within the context of the consequences of the economic crisis of the 1930s, there were multiple measures designed and executed in Mendoza to promote production. For this, it was necessary to improve the water network and expand it to other territories. One of them was the south, which would become a privileged space to carry out large water works. In this contribution, the policies and projects aimed at promoting the expansion of the cultivable area in the edge territory are analyzed. Before the south, Lavalle (northeast) was the scene of projects and interventions in order to increase arable land and achieve a fair distribution of water. The case also implies explaining fundamental aspects of the agency related to water (Departamento General de Irrigación), as well as considering its internal structure and its extensive links with the productive sector.

It is a review of a recently published book

Information of the Anuario n° 22

Introduction

In the Language Sciences, some sociolinguistic representations are interweave when thinking about the relationships between the material conditions of production and the metalinguistic discourses that take part in the socio-political space of language, and –simultaneously– configure a history of the study of indigenous languages. These ideologies, applied in/from Linguistics, manifest representations around the Warpe languages (Allentiac and Millcayac) and their groups of speakers. Next, we outline a brief journey through the linguistics that, between the 17th, 19th and 20th centuries, identify three postcards that conclude with their institutionalization in Argentina. Thus, the works that constitute the corpus –Luis de Valdivia, Bartolomé Mitre and Fernando Marquéz Miranda– naturalize and rationalize three linguistic-racial ideologies that support an epistemological whitening and a conception of westernized history as doxas of disciplinary common sense within the theory. There, a coloniality of the knowing and the saying converge.

The article analizes the process of acquisition of the Wagner Chaco-Santiago del Estero archaeological collection, excavated by the brothers Duncan and Emilio Wagner in Santiago del Estero, Argentina, in the 30s, for the foundation of the Historical Museum of the Province of Santa Fe, Dr. Julio Marc (Rosario, Argentina), in 1939. The hypothesis is that the collection was acquired in order to materialize the Museum´s institutional script, based on what I call an “official narrative of mestizaje (miscegenation)”. I am interested in exploring the tensions produced in the objects´ displacements in/from collections and museums in Latin American postcolonial contexts, and in contributing to the still incipient research on the Marc Museum, from a postcolonial perspective that presents a subalternist inflection, by interpellating and questioning patrimonial accumulation as practices carried out by archaeologists, anthropologists, and elite members developing programmes in cultural institutions.

In the last three decades, the political processes carried out by the Indigenous Peoples have had a strong impact on the Social Sciences and especially in those areas that had non-Western societies as their field of study. However, for History with capital letters, the discipline that orders and classifies discourses about the past, indigenous history remains a marginal issue. In this article, I propose a dialogue between two critical analyzes of historical discourses, focused on the notions of temporality, translation and difference, based on the theoretical contributions of the postcolonial historian Dipesh Chakrabarty and the Aymara-mestiza intellectual Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui. Assuming the effects of coloniality in the epistemic field of History and an interest in addressing the problem of temporality in the context of indigenous pasts, the article proposes an analysis of indigenous discursivities, not in terms of discourses "of origin" and “essence” of their positions, cultures or pasts. Neither in a search for its exoticism, or a supposed uncontaminated exteriority, but rather, in a critical confrontation, between these discursivities and the colonial knowledge that has been built on them in history.