Ethnological Museums as Citizens’ Educational Instruments for Sustainability by Laura Redondo Castillo, Amparo Vilches Pena, Daniel Gil-Pérez

“…For this purpose, the extent to which the contents of the ethnological museums incorporate socioenvironmental problems has been analysed. …”
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Aux archives de l’animisme by Frederico Delgado Rosa

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Alcide d’Orbigny en la visión de los bolivianos by René D. Arze Aguirre

“…This production not only refer to the d’Orbigny contribution about geographical, archeological, geological, botanical and ethnological knowledge of Bolivia. It also involve the economic and social development of the country but underline also his contribution for the general development of Sciences like geography and ethnology without forget the literatural and poetical importance of his work.…”
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Des maladies, des biens, des guerres… et l’éthique en question : note sur l’affaire Tierney by Mickaël Brohan

“…The validity of many of Tierney’s assumptions, as well as his questionable use of written sources, will be examined in the light of general Amazonian ethnology, especially regarding such questions as native warfare and the impact of informant retribution. …”
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Los prolegómenos del comunismo indo-afroamericano en Haití y Jacques Roumain: 1927-1933 by Vicente Romero

“…Then it essays to appraise the grade of singularity or synthesis attained by the Haitians from the Black-indigenous ideology and the Communism, it means, the degree reached to propose an Indo–Afro-American Communist politics ad-hoc for Haiti, underpinning since this years on the Ethnology and Linguistic sciences about the socio-cultural Creole and rural word of the Cultivateurs (ex-Bozals).…”
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ACERCA DE VOGT EN LOS ALTOS DE CHIAPAS Y OTRAS ETNOGRAFÍAS by Eloy Gómez-Pellón, Gunther Dietz

“…Cuando Julian Steward llegó al Bureau of American Ethnology, dependiente de la Smithsonian Institution, en los años cuarenta del siglo XX, se encontró con que existía un gran interés en el seno del mismo para que fueran llevados a cabo estudios en sociedades rurales, y especialmente en aquellas cuyo conocimiento resultaba útil a los Estados Unidos. …”
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Formación profesional en la ENAH: la experiencia de vivir una trayectoria escolar by Mtro. José Luis Ramos Ramírez, Lic. Carla Macías

“…The specific example we show, parts of the description of eight trajectories of students in Social Anthropology and Ethnology careers; that the ‘EscuelaNacional de Antropología e Historia’ (ENAH) brings. …”
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Etnohistoria y elaboración literaria en El Ayla, de José María Arguedas by Edmer Calero del Mar

“…The author proposes a study of the tale El ayla based on the place occupied by the ayla dance in Arguedian ethnological work. Arguedas was never able to demonostrate the ancient or prehispanic nature of this dance. …”
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El juego de chuncana entre los chimú. Un tablero de madera que prueba la hipótesis de Erland Nordenskiöld by Carmen Arellano Hoffmann

“…The author presents additional linguistic and ethnological arguments as well as a game description that supports Nordenkiöld hypothesis.…”
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Geografías ficcionales : El Uruguay de Copi by Ilse Logie

“…The so-called Uruguayan identity here takes the shape of a fictitious geography, so L’Uruguayen can be looked upon as a precursor of other, more recent pseudo-ethnological novels such as Los fantasmas (1990) by César Aira.…”
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Léxico ganadero de la Costa Rica colonial by Miguel Ángel Quesada Pacheco

“…Its purpose is to initiate historical lexicography in our country with help of colonial manuscripts and to organize it according to different aspects that could support -or withstand- historical, sociological or ethnological theories about life and customs in Costa Rica during that period. …”
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Reflexiones sobre la producción sicán y chimú de vasos tipo kero y discos en plata: su iconografía y su relación con las miniaturas chimu by Paloma Carcedo

“…Sumptuary gold and silver funerary objects from the Moche (100-800 A.D.), Sicán or Lambayeque (750-1375 A.D.), and Chimú (1200-1450 A.D.) cultures that developed on the northern coast of Peru, have been studied at different moments and from different perspectives: archaeological, technological, ethnological and iconographic. The excavations of Moche and Sicán archaeological elite tombs over the last decades along with interdisciplinary studies on Andean metallurgy have helped to understand the iconography and its context. …”
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Una nueva lista de palabras de la lengua mochica del siglo XIX by Matthias Urban

“…The list responds to a call from the American Ethnological Society, which, in its first circular that was issued in 1863, invited respondents to submit the equivalents of 180 English words in the indigenous languages of the Americas. …”
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