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This paper analyzes the emergence of the paper as a kind of writing in the area of the Humanities that, in recent times, and with institutional support, has been imposed as the nearly unique and acceptable kind of academic discourse. The aim of this paper is, first, to study the main characteristics of this kind of writing, based on information in the manuals and instructions for paper writing and, secondly, to signal its implications for the intellectual work in general and for the work in Latin America in particular. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we describe and classify the functions of se and sibi in Latin, according to a corpus made of Archaic and Classical Latin authors. We aim to demonstrate that the reflexive value is not the more widespread nor the original one. Instead, the reflexive value strengthens within time. We claim that the use of se and sibi unfolds from their function as long-distance anaphoric toward other functions. From essentially cognitive and functional frameworks, we explain the diachronic development of such functions from the Archaic toward the Classical period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The long-run economic performance of Latin America has been unsatisfactory especially in comparison with other emerging economies, which have been able to "catch up" with developed countries. The historically low innovation and dynamic entrepreneurship rates have been identified as two of the main reasons for this situation. In this paper, we present a synthetic but comprehensive review of the empirical literature related to these topics in the region, as well as the results of the main impact evaluations performed to assess innovation and entrepreneurship policies implemented in Latin America. This review, together with the identification of unexplored or underexplored areas of research, is functional to introducing the investigations that are part o f this special issue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we discuss the management of monetary policy of the Latin American central banks that have fully established inflation targeting. An optimal monetary rule is estimated for these economies using the Generalized Method of Moments. This analysis allows us to conclude that these central banks have taken into account the economic growth, in addition to price stability. However, only Chile has taken into account the evolution of the exchange rate. Furthermore, Chile, Brazil and Peru have followed an asymmetric behavior, while Colombia and Mexico have adopted a linear monetary policy rule. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper looks for empirical evidence to show if a very interventionist government stimulates or not private investment in Latin America. Using the same model as Caballew-Urdiales y López-Gallardo (2012), we extend their analysis from five Latin-American countries to all Latin America. The results from our estimated elasticities show evidence in support of three hypothesis: (1) that tax burden (taxes on income and consumption) has significant effects on privateinvestment; (2) that public investment has a crowding out effect with private investment; (3) and that in order to stimulate private investment, the government should have very little intervention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we review the relation between politics, language planning and metalinguistic reflections about the Mapudungun language in the first half of the 17th century in Chile. This was a decisive time as the strategies and planning of the spiritual conquest of the indigenous people were being discussed and planned out. Luis de Valdivia, a Jesuit from Granada, was the main proponent in explaining the defensive war. Valdivia's work can be considered missionary linguistics, and within it one can differentiate between metalinguistics and religious instruction. In this paper we focus on his metalinguistic writings and we describe his Arte y gramática (1606), a piece which we understand as a methodological, systematic way of implementing the defensive war, and as a result of the institutionalization of the predominating discourse of the Catholic Church and the Spanish throne in order to conquer Latin America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we study the presence of calendar anomalies in the main Latin-American stock markets, for the 1993 to 2007 period. The literature has shown that the detection of those effects may depend on error distribution assumptions (Baker et al., 2008), and that their existence could be due to a problem of data snooping (Sullivan et al., 2001). In response to these problems, Cho et al. (2007) introduced a robust non-parametric test, which was adopted in this paper. Results show that calendar anomalies: Monday and Weekend Effects are present in the main Latin-American stock markets, and they are statistically significant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aim to examine the different uses of the expression "filosofía latinoamericana". The porpousse of the study ist not to determinate if one of these uses ist right or wrong,but just to show that the expression "filosofía latinoamericana" has different uses and that these uses brings us to diferent philosophical problems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of my paper is to make a balance in the rural school historiography in Mexico, and through it, dialogue with those made in other Latin American countries. Instead of trying to have a joint vision of rural educational development in Latin America through a supposed progress, what really interests is to go beyond national barriers with the purpose of generating a debate about the heterogeneity of different local realities and theoretical-methodological perspectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper establishes the relationships between the current intra-regional migration process and the mechanisms of inclusion and integration inside local communities. This idea must be regarded as part of an ongoing construction of the Latin American identity discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper corresponds to a FONDECYT project, that examines the presence of Islamite movements in South America, in the period 1999-2006, considering four main historical moments. These emblematic moments correspond to terrorist attacks that were related with different islamist organizations. The targets of these attacks were the following: a) the Israel Embassy in Buenos Aires (March 17th , 1992); b) the building belonging to AMIA and DAIA, also in Buenos Aires July 18t, 1994); c) the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington DC (September 11th , 2001); d) the railroad network and the Atocha rail station in Madrid (March 11, 2004). At the same time, we formulate a periodization that considers two stages: the first is between the 1992' attack and September 2001; in this period the reports about the islamist presence in South America argue the participation of Shiite movements, particularly Hizbullah, supported by Iran. The second stage is between 2001 and the present times, and is characterized by some judicial developments about the AMIA-DAIA case. In this second stage, there are reports about the presence of other islamist movements, like Al-Qaeda and groups related with Jamaat Tablig. Furthermore, the triborder of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay acquires an attribute of "transnational place". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we consider different perspectives on Chilean and Argentinean Judaism, related to four main traits: a) the organization of Jewish and secular identities, with progressive and liberal components, although religion is not the central identity element; b) the consolidation of a religious orthodox space; c) the formation of new Jewish identities, that are not integrated into the structures of institutional Jewish communities; e) the emergence of some dissidence in Chilean and Argentinean Judaism, as part and parcel of a reaction to the official discourse about the Arab-Israeli Conflict. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]