Teoría y metodología del proyecto

Antropología de la religión. Una aproximación interdisciplinar a las religiones antiguas y contemporáneas es una obra colectiva, fruto del esfuerzo interdisciplinario de cada uno de los autores, cuyo objetivo es acercar al lector al fenómeno religioso desde dos disciplinas hermanas: la Antropología y la Historia. El estudio de la religión desde una perspectiva histórica y antropológica tiene como punto de partida la consideración del fenómeno religioso como hecho social, histórico y cultural, que adquiere su sentido en un contexto concreto, como resultado y proceso de la actividad ...

With more than one hundred-fifty books and three hundred published articles on proverb studies that have attracted wide attention of folklorists around the world, it is little wonder that international scholars look upon Wolfgang Mieder as the modern-day Pied Piper of paremiology. For this festschrift, some of the world's leading proverb and folklore scholars have come together to commemorate Mieder's sixty-fifth birthday. Authors from Russia, Eastern and Western Europe, Israel, and the United States have contributed essays representative of the scope and breadth of Mieder's own impressive...

Half-breed Genomic presents a series of investigations that study race and half-breed. The researches in the laboratories of Mexico, Brazil and Colombia, seek to know the genetic, political and social area that constitute the race. The authors emphasize that the study of this is not exhaustive in research on the genomic dimension, but to understand it better, we must consider a series of social, cultural and political aspects that revolve around it. That is why this book invites us to know how the concepts of nation and half-breed interweave to define the race in Latin America.

Costumbres en disputa explora las tensiones que se desataron entre las comunidades muiscas del valle de Ubaque con la puesta en marcha del proyecto imperial hispano y muestra cómo las sociedades nativas a la vez respondieron, redimensionaron y resignificaron la dominación colonial.