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,…

Se describen y analizan algunos enterramientos humanos procedentes del sitio arqueológico Lomas del Real, Altamira, Tamaulipas. La serie esquelética está constituida por 10 individuos fechados en la fase Tantuán II (350-100 aC), de acuerdo con la secuencia cultural para el…

Reseña de: BAOFU, PETER. (2008). The future of post-human knowledge: a preface to a new theory of methodology and onto-logy. England: Chandros & Oxford Publishing. 287 p.

The paper examines the transition process which are living at present sciences, Social and Physics, in the world. The prevailing model of science int the 21 st century, characterized by a positivist view of fragmentation and hiperspecialization in all fields…

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…

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…

Se analiza la situación actual de la docencia de la antropología física en la Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, destacando sus fortalezas y debilidades, a la luz de la necesidad de ajustarla a la situación que vive hoy nuestro país y las…

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 (1751) is an unpublished source of great importance for our knowledge of traditional Yucatec medicine, both because of its early date as well as the fact that it reflects a synthesis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…