Dossier: Meeting Marit Melhuus by Guber, Rosana

“…The purpose of this dossier is to present to the readers of this magazine, an old friend of the Argentine social anthropology: Marit Melhuus. This Latin American-Norwegian joined Argentina in the middle of the 1970s, when it decided to do fieldwork in the province of Corrientes, in the Argentine north-east, for a master's degree in Social Anthropology in the University of Oslo. …”
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On the problem of identifying homologies in lithic artifacts by Barrientos, Gustavo

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The argentinean pension system: prior and after Reform by Bucerius, Angelika

“…The reform of the Argentine pension system is approached with the change, to a double system, attributing it to short-term problems, and assesses the effects achieved around evasion, the deficit and the limits of government management. …”
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Military service performed abroad: Does the change of nationality matter? Does it matter change of nationality? by Mazzi, Ruggero

“…It is not, properly speaking, a complete monograph that I intend to present, much less to set forth principles capable of distorting the conclusions reached by the majority of Argentine internationalists; I only intend to present some considerations that have come to my mind after reading the judgment to which I refer in the course of this writing and I will add, if necessary, that in criticizing the judgment and expressing my ideas on the matter, I have no intention of offending either the judge who handed it down or the Argentine Nation in which I live, enjoying the hospitality it generously offers me. …”
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Water regions of the Republic of Argentina by Rodríguez, A. R., de la Casa, A. C.

“…The definition, delimitation, and characterization of different hydric regions of Argentine from the hydrologic budget and rainfall characteristics, are very important in order to know the cattle, forestry and agricultural potential of a zone. …”
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Students versus the Higher Education Act in 1995. The case of the University of Buenos Aires by Cristal, Yann

“…This article rebuilds a significant and little-researched process in the history of Argentine student movement, such as the student conflict in 1995, in which takeovers of universities and massive concentrations took place against the approval of the Law of Higher Education by Carlos Menem's government. …”
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The commitment to sociology. A reconstruction of the trajectories of Ricardo Levene y Raúl Orgaz in comparative perspective by Vila, Esteban Ezequiel

“…For this reason, the article will focus on reconstructing the intellectual bets made by the two professors of “Sociology” of the main Argentine universities of that time: Ricardo Levene and Raúl Orgaz. …”
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The path towards a centralized democracy: the long porteñización of the peronist argentina by Casullo, María Esperanza

“…At least at the level of the political elites, Argentine politics seems almost  inexorably «metropolicized ».…”
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