Abstract

LISBONA GUILLEN, Miguel. Rethinking the Central American Past and Present from an Anthropological Perspective. Rev. pueblos front. digit. [online]. 2021, vol.16, e547.  Epub Apr 28, 2023. ISSN 1870-4115.  https://doi.org/10.22201/cimsur.18704115e.2021.v16.547.

As an outcome of the Eleventh Central American Congress of Anthropology, the editors compiled the keynote conferences in order to offer a publication that invites the reader to reflect about two issues: the past and its influence on the present, on the one hand, and the territory and inhabitants of what today constitutes the region of the Central American Isthmus. With researchers from different countries, the publication collects debates regarding topics ranging from the pre-Hispanic period to the present in order to expand earlier discussions and propose new ones. These discussions offer guidelines to think about this territory beyond the contemporary nation-States and understand it through the shared problems affecting its inhabitants.

Keywords : Central American Isthmus; Anthropology; History; borders; indigenous peoples..