El objetivo de este trabajo es exponer algunas inflexiones teórico- metodológicas que han favorecido en los últimos años la producción del conocimiento científico referida a sitios con enterratorios humanos. Para ello se utiliza como estudio de caso, a modo de…

The aim of this paper is to describe and discuss some results from an ethnographic research on Argentinian Mbya communities focused on representations and practices related to childrearing and development during the first stages of life course.
Firstly, I describe…

Background: Fieldwork has thoroughly established that most eggs are intensely predated. Among the few exceptions are the aerial egg clutches from the aquatic snail Pomacea canaliculata which have virtually no predators. Its defenses are advertised by the pigmented ovorubin perivitellin…