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The aim of this paper is to analyze the social representations of material culture associated with the harvest of cocoa, of afro-descendant women of the community Panaquire (Miranda State, Venezuela). It will deepen the local knowledge that they have of this productive activity, which involves a large part of their material culture, while making social choices and actions, as essential components of a particular technological system. We have used the theoretical perspective of social representation of technology (Lemonnier, 1992:4), since it facilitates understanding and systematizing the knowledge, skills and experience of the panaquireña women. With this we intend to demonstrate the importance of women in cocoa production, since they are the ones who give social cohesion to this production process. This research is based on fieldwork conducted in Panaquire, between 2010 and 2013, where we applied methodological tools such as participant observation and open and semi-structured interviews of older women of the community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Historical studies and reports on the human body are affected by history and culture, as viewed through what is deemed appropriate by the people of the time. When looking back, the historical memory of a culture also appears to affect the different perspectives that emerge from the common actions, speeches and ideas about social and cultural health processes of the time. In this paper we consider one specific representative issue of these processes: The social representations of health and illness as related to drug advertising of the late nineteenth century, from printed materials, focusing on the dynamics and key features of the advertising process. In this vein, we made efforts to identify the importance of analyzing of advertising documents and images to interpret historical press publications from Mexico in the nineteenth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with the social representations of teachers who teach history in middle school in the city of Rosario, centering on their teaching practice, their concepts about the discipline they teach, its methodological and cognitive aspects. This allows us to identify stereotypes, beliefs and values that steer the development of their practices. This makes possible its problematization and a critical reflection about the possibility of improving them. The same investigation instrument -the narrative interview- constitutes, at the same time, the first device of intervention: it makes possible an intersubjective encounter in which the subject's career as a teacher is reconstructed. This proposal inaugurates a space that is open to a reflexive thinking, allowing a contextualized understanding of the decisions made in the approach to the practice of teaching history, its limits and possibilities in the middle level of education. It's a preliminary presentation of the final report, following the codifying of the instruments; and it's a first analytical and interpretative approach to the results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To make an approach about the history of people, also means inquiring in its culture, taking into account that those signs which may seem irrelevant will became significant. Thus, many symbolic elements can be rescued from different sources and we can start a huge variety of contrast which legitimize the various identities. The scene of this interpretation will be Mar del Plata, a seaside place during the first years of the twentieth century. In such period, the rural aspect was changing into a typical seaside European village where they could show off and prove their roles. We'll search for unpublished material from the files of Stella Maris School and Church, written papers and visual images. So, as long as we accede to these pieces of visual and written evidence we'll have clear social representations and testimonies of how elite groups held their privileges as opposed to the permanent population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]