Jangwa Pana

09-12

Authors: William Andrés Martínez Dueñas

In this occasion I have taken the presumption of suggesting to our potential authors and readers a topic that I consider to be relevant in what we can call studies of the popular culture. As it promises to be in the title, the topic turns concerning the notion of fitness. I say notion because one does not refer to the concept very well developed in the natural sciences, but to the polysemic appropriation of this one concerning the practices and contemporary representations on the body, associated with tecno-scientific ideas of health and physical conditioning.

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Authors: Wilmer Hernández-Velandia

This article presents the results of an ethnographic research where twelve discourses of cultural, political party and social leaders of the municipality of San Gil were collected, in the run-up to the Legislative Elections of 2010 in Colombia. Thus, it distinguishes two proposals: it identifies two organizational trends, the partisan and the social autonomy, each having different interpretations of local problems, proposed solutions, identified social roles and key concepts. On the other hand, it deducts two types of power, representative and diversifying, explaining how they strengthen or weaken in either organizational trend.

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Authors: Edwin Giovanni Quesada-Cárdenas, Clara Inés Villamil-Guzmán

This research article describes the preparation of traditional culinary dishes of the Sotaquirá town(Boyacá), these are part of the ancestral knowledge that had kept throughout generations in the inhabitants of the municipality, and characterizing the sotaquireña community. In addition, it is exposed some facts related to the management of the municipal administration (2012-2015), which promoted the permanence and recognition of those traditional knowledge as cultural heritage. This is results of a research process called “Peasant Identity according to its traditional occupations in the municipality of Sotaquirá (2013-2015)”; which are necessary to keep on the identity of the peasants in the town of Sotaquirá. The methodological focus was qualitative, by using socio- critical. It was used the interview and participant observation for recognizing the importance of the dishes that are essential to configure the aspects of the Identity of sotaquireños community. This investigation was important because it created reflection spaces in the participants taking into account culinary traditional occupations in the municipality, thus, the participants recognized the value of their traditional dishes as a cultural heritage, and the peculiarities of their preparation according to home contexts.

88-104

Authors: Diego Mauricio Cortes

Taking as a case study the media representation on the 2008 Minga de Resistencia Social y Comunitaria (MRSC), this paper shows how the largest newspapers of national circulation, El Tiempo and El Espectador, and the TV News Caracol and RCN, represent the grievances of traditionally Colombian excluded sectors. Based on a content analysis of 238 newspaper articles and the news reports during this uprising, these document shows the visual and linguistic techniques employed by these media outlets to criminalize and make invisible, depending on the case and context, the politicalactions of these communities. As a conclusion, it is discussed how this type of representation is a result of three factors that affect mass media journalism in Colombia: the monopoly over mass media by small elite, the problems endured by journalists, and the ideological affinity between journalism and power in Colombia.

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Authors: Wilhelm Londoño

This paper addresses two topics related to the current situation of archaeology in Latin America and Colombia. The first section of the paper deals with the impact of contract archaeology in Colombia. The fact that programs of contract or preventive archaeology have rocketed in recent years is well known. Less known, however, are the broad tendencies and dimensions of this phenomenon. The second issue discussed here is the relationship between global tourism politics and processes of local recovery and enhancement of heritage assets, which will be explored through the analysis of two archaeological sites. The recovery and touristification of an archaeological site is used as starting point to reflect about the differences between a new tendency in archaeological contract opposed to the dominant tendency in the field.