El documental como crisol

Documents the photographs and exhibition of 11 Kawsqar and 14 Mapuche tribal members from the Tierra del Fuego region of Chile during the 188̓0s as part of a "human zoo". The group were exhibited in the Jardin de Acclimatation in Paris, 1881 where they were photographed by Pierre Petit.

En torno a Angel Palerm, como un calido homenaje, colegas, amigos y alumnos se reunen para dar forma a un tejido integrado por retazos de ciencia antropologica unidos por el hilo sutil de las ensenanzas, aportaciones y sugerencias de su intelecto y su persona. El resultado es una obra que, por la variedad de los temas y por la diversidad de personalidades y matices de los colaboradores, aporta un panorama de tendencias y campos de estudio de la antropologia actual.

An interdisciplinary and intercultural perspective through eleven studies on diverse aspects related to jade: geochemical and archaeometric analysis, works of experimental archaeology and anthropological research that, together, provide a broad overview of the socio-cultural significance and the deep symbolic and ideological connotations that jade and other green stones had in various regions of ancient Mexico, Central America, South America, the Caribbean, China and Korea.