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The present paper develops a few hypotheses regarding the traffic of material culture in Latin America and its impact, both in the field con anthropologic knowledge and in the artistic vanguards of the first half of the twentieth century. The circulation networks that supported the exchange of images and objects between ethnographers and institutions that supported their research allow for the reconstruction of the itineraries followed by those objects, the footprints of those trajectories in the construction of knowledge, the demarcation of disciplinary fields and the transgression of epistemological frontiers, associated to the emergence of new aesthetic objects and sciences such as anthropology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There are inveterate attitudes that look with contempt upon spirituality, reduce it to the sphere of popular religiosity, consider it part of the field of metaphysics, or associate it with general events in every day life. At the same time, a deep unrest persists, a search for the infinite, a thirst for happiness that finds expression in manifold ways. Spirituality is life itself that flows and happens from God. This paper proposes a reflection on spirituality today, from an historical, anthropological, and biblical perspective, and proposes new ideas about the relationship between spirituality and theology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]