In recent decades significant changes on indigenous autonomy are the result of the struggles of indigenous movements in Brazil. The legal instruments prior to 1988 were characterized by the tutelage of indigenous people, ...

During the second half of the XX Century, Central America lived a period of socio-political conflicts which led to internal wars in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala. Unequal agrarian structures are one of the major ...

This article proposes a reflection on anthropological knowledge, its scientific pretension and the constitutive opposition between the theoretical and the ethnographical. It shows some theoretical contemporary tendencies ...