Revista Contacto

10-36

Authors: Abner Alberda

Pre-Hispanic societies in Panamá Oeste, as well as others in the vicinity, distributed their daily activities around the rivers and their basins. This in order to supply themselves with water and to carry out agricultural tasks. The objective of this research was the macro-spatial study of the archaeological sites distributed in the current districts of Arraiján and La Chorrera in the province of Panamá Oeste in the Republic of Panama. In this article we share the preliminary results about the societies that settled there, between approximately 850 - 1000 AD. The methodology consisted of archaeological survey, material and geographic analysis, review of archaeological reports and a visit to the Municipal Museum of La Chorrera to learn first-hand about lithic and ceramic materials. Together, these findings allowed us to understand the spatial distribution of the pre-Hispanic societies of the proposed period and to infer the implications of the settlement patterns chosen by these indigenous societies. The selection of the habitat by these humans and the archaeological materials recovered, allow us to propose to sedentary groups of farmers, who like those of the Central Region or "Gran Cocle Tradition" of the last pre-Columbian period, were selecting medium and low basins, related to good lands for crops and a soft topography. These characteristics coincide with the findings made for this research from the methodology used. This leads us to propose that the same was happening in the districts of Arraiján and La Chorrera.

52-59

Authors: Rita Liss Ramos Pérez

Medical anthropology and its field of study, which is increasingly diversified and broad, allows us to address the issue of food and its variations, this time linked to the health crisis by covid-19. They will wonder why the issue of food in a medical context, in fact, a bad diet leads to diseases, hence the importance of seeing these changes from the anthropological perspective in the community of Jaqué, during the confinement from March to December 2020. This research project aims to address food variations in the wake of the pandemic. Identify if the result of this crisis the residents of the community of Jaqué have changed their eating habits or on the contrary if they have maintained. To approach the variations in the diet of the jaqueense due to the pandemic and as this has come to affect its health. To this end, we have set ourselves objectives that allow us to make this approach to the research process a better analysis, which is also comprehensive, with the question as its starting point: Are there any variations in the diet of ethnic groups in the Jaqué community as a result of the pandemic? all through a mixed methodology, using surveys and semi-structured interviews in data collection.

78-90

Authors: Kevin Sánchez Saavedra

The essay offers some reflections on "other" ways to know, be and be in the world, especially in matters of consumption and exchange. To this end, he presents some discussions about economic anthropology and nature. It also provides two concrete examples of exchange and reciprocity from two systems of the Ng-be people, the kr'n and the cobare. It points out how such exchange and reciprocity systems have varied over time.

102-130

Authors: Juan Gabriel Castillo Fasano

This paper attempts to develop some elements that support the site of Nombre de Dios and its history, for its structuring as a tourist destination of the first order. The aim is to shed light on an issue that has been forgotten for decades, and which, sadly, we nationals have seen with sordid indifference. The proposal offered in this work is to give the visitor a new option of entertainment and learning through thematic cultural tourism.

135-137

Authors: Ismael Javier González

El pasado cuatro de mayo del año 2020, el Presidente de la República, ejerciendo sus facultades constitucionales, sancionó uno de los cincos proyectos de Ley relacionados con moratorias; la cual conllevó a vetar el resto de los Proyectos de Leyes de moratoria por inexequibles. Sin dejar de resaltar el debate legal, académico y técnico de la necesidad de normas moratorias en servicios públicos, obligaciones bancarias y financieras, así como de compromisos civiles, deseo destacar el uso de la figura jurídica del “veto por inexequibilidad”, que se encontraba en desuso, en el rejuego de la correlación política.

140-141

Authors: Rommel Escarreola Palacios

Caudillo popular que dirigió desde octubre de 1900 las guerrillas contra el gobierno conservador después de la derrota de los liberales en el Puente de Calidonia, estableció su cuartel en la Negrita y, desde allí, incursiono en la toma de distintos pueblos del interior y participo en enfrentamientos contra el ejército conservador en la línea del Ferrocarril.