En el sur de Chile, el Hospital rural Makewe está llevando a cabo una experiencia de atención en salud complementaria, que integra los saberes y recursos tradicionales mapuche, con el conocimiento y terapéuticas científico-occidentales. A partir de entrevistas realizadas a…

In social studies on science andtechnology, abundant literature has emerged on the importance of space in the production and thecirculation of knowledge. The very idea ofthe circulation of knowledge has received more attention, particularly because of the need to analyze…

The state of psychology as a knowledge discipline is examined. Some reflections are made about the application of psychological knowledge, taking into account: a) the nature of knowledge being applied, b) the translation of analytic knowledge typical of basic science,…

This article examines the relation between Miguel Cabrera and the Society of Jesus through the analysis of the engraved portrait made of the Jesuit Juan Antonio de Oviedo and members of his social circle. It also examines the possibility that…

Piera Aulagnier plantea que la práctica no puede ser sino teórico-clínica, enfatizando la implicancia de la teoría en la escucha, hecho que supone la preservación de la alianza dada entre lo conocido del marco conceptual y lo imprevisto que se…

This article shows taphonomy as a branch of paleontological knowledge that studies the effects of the post-mortem process and how they affect information in the fossil record., La tafonomía es el estudio de de los procesos posmortem, es decir, el…

Santiago Yeche commercial agriculture is based on the cultivation of tomatoes and gladiolus which is also based on irrigation. The irrigation system is formed by channels and it was built during Colonial times. Santiago Yeche’s peasant families introduced gladiolus cultivation…

The research problem dealt with in the first part of this text concerns the existence of a Mayan theory of knowledge based on its own historical evolution through a mind perspective that involves an acceptance of intercultural difference. The text…

The Libro de medicinas, muy seguro.... (1751) is an unpublished source of great importance for our knowledge of traditional Yucatec medicine, both because of its early date as well as the fact that it reflects a synthesis between purely indigenous…

Scientific knowledge and sociology are directly related to the power of war, but instead of leading us to a positive cultural evolution we have obtained a negative cultural evolution. This is shown by many historical exarnples, but the reacent Gulf…