Browsing by Autor "Juan J. Villanueva"

Now showing 1 - 3 of 3

LOS DEPÓSITOS DE OFRENDAS TIWANAKOTAS DE LA ISLA PARITI, LAGO TITICACA, BOLIVIA
(University of Tarapacá, 2012) Antti Korpisaari; Jédu Sagárnaga; Juan J. Villanueva; Tania Patiño
Desde 1998, un equipo arqueolgico finlands-boliviano viene realizando excavaciones en el cantn Cascachi (Provincia Los Andes, Departamento de La Paz). En este artculo discutimos los resultados de nuestras investigaciones en la isla de Pariti, realizadas los aos 2004-2006. Nos concentramos en la descripcin y el anlisis del material cultural recuperado en dos bolsones llenos de cermica tiwanakota quebrada intencionalmente, datados en la segunda mitad del siglo X d.C. Estos bolsones -llamados rasgos 1 y 2-contenan tiestos pertenecientes a por lo menos 435 vasijas, la mayora de las cuales pudimos reconstruir en mayor o menor medida. La coleccin resultante incluye 56 kerus, 67 ch'alladores, 43 tazones, 82 escudillas, 26 botellones, 24 fuentes con pedestal, 7 wako retratos, 7 tinajas y 6 sahumadores, es decir, formas tpicas tiwanakotas. Sin embargo, hay tambin una cantidad alta de vasijas de formas inditas en la bibliografa arqueolgica y/o poco conocidas, como las 45 denominadas vasijas "arrionadas". La coleccin de Pariti forma parte de una de las muestras ms importantes de cermica tiwanakota tarda en los Andes Sur Centrales y ofrece muchos
Review of: "Environmental Representations in Rocky Records in National Parks in Southeastern Piauí – Brazil"
(2023) Juan J. Villanueva
Potential competing interests: No potential competing
Review of: "Social-Cultural Anthropology in the Oldest Department of Anthropology in India: Writing History or the Suppression of Records?"
(2023) Juan J. Villanueva
Potential competing interests: No potential competing interests to declare.I believe Dr. Guha's paper is, above all, entirely necessary, since it allows a wider audience to get in touch with a long and productive tradition of research in anthropology, such as the one in Calcutta.For me, and from a Latin-American perspective -so used, because of neo-colonialism, to assume European and North-American anthropology as the "only" one that deserves to be historicized-, this paper was both illustrative and refreshing.It is well written and systematically ordered, and it allows the reader to know -or to re-value-an important number of Indian anthropologists.I have only a few suggestions for the author: the first one is that it begins and ends with a strong critique towards a tweet by another author; while it is understandable that Chatterjee's assertions triggered and motivated Dr. Guha's writing, I believe it would be more intertesting to deepen into the reasons for this "suppresion of records" when it comes to wirting the history of Indian anthropology.Is this an individual mistake by Dr. Chatterjee, or is this part of a more generalized trend, within the politics of history in nowadays India?I believe this questions would make the introduction and conclusions of the paper much more powerful and engaging.My second suggestion has to do with historical context; I believe it is especially important, at the time of writing about a topic which is not all that well-known by a wider, global audience, to provide a little more general historical context on the history of XXth century Indian anthropology in relation to the strong political changes that the country endured; it doesn't need to be a long and detailed review, but rather an schematic pharagraph that allows the reader to familiarize with the topic, specially in chronological terms.My third suggestion, related to the second one, is to provide, maybe in the Conclusions, a few hints about the history of anthropology at Calcuta University in relation to those socio-political and historical changes.Although my knowledge of Indian history is extremely schematic, I dare to suggest that the struggles between colonialism and nationalism would be an interesting departure point to reflect on the transformations of discourses and representations inside the long and proud history of anthropology at Calcuta University and -maybe-in India in broader terms.I also believe that the inclusion of this debate would allow the author to dialogue with a broader trend that is growing stronger, in those regions of the world that suffered from european colonialism, to better understand the relations between anthropology and coloniality.