Boletín Antropológico

43-61

Authors: Funari, Pedro Paulo;Justamand, Michel;Oliveira de, Gabriel Frechiani

The present work has as purpose to approach the evidences of the African presence in the American continent during the period of the pre-colonial Brazil, having as justification the antiquity of the poblamiento of the American continent by the human beings in front of the evidences of the “hypothesis of Clóvis “which places between 13 to 11 thousand the first migratory cams originating from the passage of the Bering Strait. The main objective of this work is to point out the multiple migratory possibilities of the first human groups, be it by the north, south, east and west, trying to associate those possibilities with the archaeological evidences found

97-119

Authors: Izard Martínez, Gabriel

This article deals with the policy of recognition that people of African descent claim in their international decade, proclaimed by the United Nations between 2015 and 2024. Beyond institutional recognition as “blacks” or “Afrodescendants”, organizations seek to legitimize identity Afro-descendant, as a political agency with greater cultural visibility in public policies and in legal mechanisms for overcoming poverty and citizen equality. The text discusses the epistemic, sociological and political considerations for self-determination of the Afro-descendant people category, which would lead to the Declaration of the Rights of Afro-Descendant Peoples, within the scope of the Decade.

145-164

Authors: Mijares Palacios, Guiber Elena

The study of ethnomedical systems in Afro-Venezuelan people has been little explored. Commonly, the few approaches that address the issue, highlight the phenomenal therapeutic fact of traditional medicines, losing the comprehensive coherence that the medical knowledge systems possess. The present work develops the experience of the ethnomedical system of Mendoza, an Afro-Venezuelan community gestated in the settlement of cocoa plantations, located in the Municipality of Acevedo del Estado Miranda.

193-218

Authors: Altez, Yara

Below is a preview of the studies that are being conducted on the Caruao parish in the Vargas state of Venezuela. On this occasion we talk about the Hacienda de San Faustino, an old cacao production unit worked initially by enslaved Africans and then by their afro-descendants, located in the Caruao parish since the 18th century. It is known from the same by the documentary research carried out in historical archives of Caracas and La Guaira, by the archaeological record and the oral memory collected in the research project “Anthropology of the Caruao parroquia” (APC) in the nineties of the XXth century. With this article we want to honor the enslaved of San Faustino, of whom today there is no memory, even when their cries and laments are heard at night.