Editorial

Abstract

At the end of the year 2019 we find the number 3 the Revista del Museo de Antropología corresponding to volume 12, with which we are fulfilling the objective of being able to publish a number every 4 months. Although this has implied a challenge both for the editors and for the authors and evaluators without a doubt this effort, carried out in an adverse context for the scientific and technological community of Argentina, will result in an improvement in the time that happens between the Author submits the work and is effectively published. In this sense it is important to keep in mind that an update of the journal management system (Open Journal System) has also been carried out, which will also allow a better follow-up of all the parts of the workflow that correspond to the editorial management. In particular, we present four original works for the Archaeology Section. The Museology Section includes a work, the Biological Anthropology Section also contributes a work and finally two works for the Social Anthropology Section are published. We also add a dossier dedicated to the figure of the Norwegian social anthropologist Marit Melhuus, coordinated by Rosana Guber and which contains six notes related to this anthropologist. Finally, we present two bibliographic reviews by Pablo Sendón and Guillermina Espósito.

Within the Archaeology Section the first work is by María Cecilia Castellanos, Mirta Fátima Quiroga and Alexis Nieves. This work presents information on a sample of ceramics from the Calchaquí Valley related to occupations dated between 1200 and 1600 after Christ. With this work we try to contribute to the interpretation of the interaction circuits between the towns of the Valley and high sectors such as the puna. The second work of this section corresponds to the authors Gastón Lamas Rivero, Jimena Blasco Álvarez and Eugenia Villamarzo Andreatta. The authors present a reflection on the potential of archaeological collections and museum collections for research in this discipline. The interest of this work is to provide ideas for the definition of issues related to the management of collections conservation measures and the development of musealization strategies of these collections focused on the analysis of a case of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay. The third work corresponds to the authors Juana Fuertes and Karen Liotta. They present the result of the analysis of the charred plant remains of beans from an archaeological village of the Hualfín Valley. Finally, and closing the section María Paz Martinoli presents an analysis on the exploitation of pinnipeds on the Isla de los Estados.

Inside the Museology section we find the work of Eva Lamborghini. In this case, the research focuses on the analysis of museums and their relationship with the representation of Afro-descendants in Argentina.

In the Biological Anthropology Section we present the work of Ana Gabriela Millán, Nadia Mohamed and Silvia Dahinten. The work is about the analysis of a collection of human remains from an area of ​​the province of Chubut made up of a local fan. Due to this, the remains that compose it do not have associated chronological or context data. However, the analysis carried out by the authors provides data for an area that has limited data of this type.

In the Social Anthropology Section, Luisa Domínguez's work presents us with an analysis of the discourses referred to the indigenous peoples that during the first part of the 20th century was thought as part of the past of Argentine history. In order to analyse this premise, the author focuses on the study of indigenous languages ​​in the period between 1930 and 1950. Closing this section Luis Eduardo Maferra analyzes an agricultural book written in the year 1617 in Spain from which try to discuss the concepts used by the anthropological sciences to understand the links between people and plants focusing mainly on trees. Then this issue of the Journal of the Museum of Anthropology presents a Dossier coordinated by Rosana Guber who introduces us, through a short writing format, to the interaction that the Norwegian social anthropologist Marit Melhuus has had with Argentine and Norwegian colleagues. This Dossier contains writings in the form of a letter which colleagues like Marianne Elisabeth Lien, Kristi-Anne Stolen, Jorun Solheim, Signe Lise Howell, Celina Salas and Rosana Guber herself write in a personal way, thus building a recognition of the research trajectory that Marit performed since the 1970s in the province of Corrientes. This Dossier tries in this way to present Marit's work to the new generations of anthropologists.

Finally, two bibliographic reviews made by Pablo Sendón who comment on the book "Food, cohabitation and Andean worlds" by Guillermo Salas Carreño and Guillermina Espósito who make an analysis of the book "Extermination and guardianship. Processes of formation of alterities in Brazil” by João Pacheco de Oliveira. With this we close this editorial inviting, as usual, to enjoy the critical reading of this material that we make available to those interested.

Córdoba, December 21st, 2019