Syncretism on trial. The religious matrix of the indigenous groups in Mesoamerica

Syncretism has often been defined as the integration or secondary construction of selective aspects that come from different historic traditions. The concept has been particularly relevant for Mexican anthropology, confronted since its origins to religious contexts in which it is difficult to distinguish between the vernacular field and the external field, between what comes from ancient Pre-Colombian traditions and what is a product of the colonial undertaking.

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A New Application for Linguistics: Logogenia

Logogenia is a method whose purpose is to stimulate the acquisition of Spanish, or of any other historic-vocal language, in deaf children and adolescents, allowing them to acquire the ability to understand what they read and to write correctly, in the same way any other hearing contemporary would. I have developed this method on the theoretical basis of generative grammar and I have experimented with, applied and made it known, first in Mexico and later in Italy.

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Modality as an instrument for discourse analysis

I must anticipate that I will not present a discourse analysis, in the strictest sense, my intention is to show that the analysis framework of modality can be applied as an instrument for such analysis, and for this purpose I present fragments of texts.

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DEBATE. Nodes and nothings. The suspended history of “marxitivism” in Mexican archaeology

In the past two decades, the work of writing history has constantly been subject to revision, both to its procedures and to its aims, and in these revisions have had an outstanding place the proposals and warnings on the risk of falling in the easy means of justifying a certain approach given the impossibility on the part of the historian of eluding his/her own cultural context of origin, as well as on the part of the obvious and methodological impossibility of assuming empathic attitudes.

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Silvia Dutrénit Bielous and Guadalupe Rodríguez de Ita (coordinators.) Asilo diplomático mexicano en el cono sur. (Mexican diplomatic asylum in the South Cone) Mexico, Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. José María Luis Mora/Instituto Matías Romero-Acervo Histórico Diplomático de la Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores, 1999, 153 pp.

This is why the book Asilo diplomático mexicano en el Cono Sur (Mexican diplomatic asylum in the South Cone) has the merit of being one of the pioneer works about Latin American exile, because it is based on original and novel information contained in the aforementioned archive.

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Aurora Castillo Escalona, Persistencia histórico-cultural. San Miguel Tolimán, Querétaro, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, 2000.

The content of Persistencia histórico-cultural. San Miguel Tolimán is very useful both for students and for specialists of the Otomi culture and the regional history.

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