La conmemoración del septuagésimo aniversario de la Sociedad Argentina de Antropología nos brinda la oportunidad de sintetizar las distintas corrientes que predominaron en la disciplina del Folklore. El itinerario propuesto muestra cómo se conformó este campo del conocimiento mediante los…

Processes of spatial mobility among the Mbya are of interest in anthropological and ethnobiological studies, as these processes are related to transformations in the landscape and the environment. Despite this, ethnographic literature usually focuses itself on the mobility of Guaraní…

This paper descries D-SCRIPT, a language for representing knowledge in artificial intelligence programs. D-SCRIPT contains a powerful formalism for descriptions, which permits the representation of statements that are problematical for other systems. Particular attention is paid to problems of opaque…

O presente artigo teve como objetivo analisar se o projeto-piloto do Curso “Consumo Sustentável / Consumo Responsável: desenvolvimento, cidadania e meio ambiente” atingiu os resultados esperados quando de sua proposição. O curso foi oferecido, em 2005, na modalidade a distância,…

Although our biological knowledge regarding cactus species is thorough in many areas, only in recent years have ecologists addressed their demographic behavior. Here we attempt a first review of the present knowledge on cactus demography, including an analysis of the…

El descubrimiento hace unos años del Bronce de Bembibre, la tessera Paemeiobrigensis, ha permitido conocer nuevos datos sobre los viajes de Augusto a la Península Ibérica; al mismo tiempo, otros descubrimientos epigráficos y el examen de algunos testimonios literarios mejoran…

This research will thoroughly document the experiences of a small number of 5th grade children in an elementary school computer laboratory, using LOGO, an advanced computer language designed for children. Four groups of four children will be taught a 10-week…

La présente recherche porte sur le dieu de la guerre des Grecs anciens, Arès. La communauté historienne s’entend pour affirmer qu’Arès était un dieu de second ordre et un dieu mal aimé par les Grecs de l’époque. Les investigations des…

OBJECTIVE: This comparison of population-based representative samples of adult smokers in Canada (n=1 751) and Mexico (n=1 081) aimed to determine whether cigarette packages with graphic warning labels in Canada had a stronger impact than the text-only warning labels in…

Martin Nesvig has made an important new contribution to our knowledge of the Catholic Church in New Spain with this high quality anthology. The emphasis of its ten substantial articles rests on people of various kinds and conditions and nature…