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The article examines the deployment of social networks of pastoral aborigen in the Argentinean Chaco region between 1970 and 1985. It describes the structuring process of these networks and analyzes the relations that pastoral aborigen agents held with anthropologists and anthropological knowledge. The analysis is based on files -which the author has had access to- located in what functioned as a regional training center. The paper suggests that, being Development an hegemonic paradigm in the 1960s, it created conditions of possibility for the deployment of these networks. Furthermore, the article argues that ethnic markings on populations in which the pastoral agents were involved with were mediated by an incorporation of different anthropological knowledge. In this regard, people first assumed as "the poorest of the poor" gradually became named as "communities" and pueblos aborígenes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the academic and ideological profile of Manuel Gamio, considered the father of modern anthropology in Mexico, and one of the main ideologues that marked the twentieth century indigenous, both in Mexico and Latin America. Gamio's influence was exercised not only in the discussion of ideas, but permeated into public policy and logic of building indigenous institutions orientation. Its formation is exposed in the stream of cultural relativism (or historical particularism) under the tutelage of american anthropologist Franz Boas and his innovations in the field of archeology, ethnography and anthropology in Mexico, and his decisive influence to leave behind the nineteenth-century paradigm "the good Indian is a dead Indian", emphasizing the need to incorporate the indigenous to modern postrevolutionary state project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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]

This paper is repositioning anthropotechnology in the history of work sciences. It defines this disciplinary field, through the singularities of its theoretical and practical postures. Between anthropology and ergonomics, anthropotechnology was carved over its various field work experiences, a particular space in the scientific and pragmatic horizon. [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]