This work presents and discusses some characteristics of the deep indigenous history of Monte Castelo, a southwestern Amazonian shellmound site, in the light of recent research on that site and the archaeology of shellmounds throughout the region. The data obtained at Monte Castelo confirm that the oldest and most persistent ceramic assemblages in the Americas are located in shellmounds, in contexts where the construction of the landscapes has lasted for millennia, marking periods of intensification in the human occupation of the Amazon Basin. Material culture, stratigraphy and chronology are presented in order to characterize the fundamental traits relating to the origin and development of ceramic technology and landscape management in the lowlands of South America. Human intervention in the landscape has long propitiated the reoccupation of many of the earliest known archaeological sites. Parallel to this, several paleoenvironmental markers in the southern Amazon have evidenced variations in the climate that accompany human occupations since, at least, the Early Holocene. In the Guaporé river basin, the chronology of the sites seems to accompany trends of increased water availability and forest expansion, in a period marked by the emergence of more numerous communities and complex artifacts throughout the Middle Holocene. There, the feedback between human interventions and climate change has created a privileged place for settlements, whose striking relative continuity has given rise to some of the most important cultural and landscape changes that have spread widely throughout the Amazon and beyond for thousands of years. Seeking to bring the notion of meaningful places to the archaeology of the Amazonian shellmounds, this work proposes a way to understand them through an inclusive notion of ancestry that may be useful for contemporary indigenous peoples to recover their traditional territories.

The army medical officer, Felipe Ovilo Canales, was a prominent and representative figure in colonialist projects in Morocco during the Restoration. Unlike other European powers, Spain's colonial missions were mainly aimed at fostering and controlling the ongoing process of Moroccan administrative reform. In the context of this overall reform strategy, Ovilo developed a political discourse that affirmed the historic convergence of Spanish and Moroccan interests; he played a leading role in Moroccan public health through the Tangiers Health Authority and the Tangiers School of Military Medicine. Finally, he formulated a racial discourse on the "Moors" that was based on historical and moral rather than biological criteria.

El artículo parte del valor que tiene la educación en el proceso de socialización de los grupos humanos; plantea lo humano como el sine qua non del proceso educativo tendente al reconocimiento del hombre como el ser de mayor significatividad en el mundo. Se acompaña de una revisión bibliográfica reciente entorno a la responsabilidad social de la escuela y la ciudadanía en el proceso educativo de las nuevas generaciones, haciendo hincapié en que esta es una realidad problemática en la que se juega y se disputa el poder, hecho que es evidente en el nivel de intervención que sobre la educación ejerce el Estado, quien está más interesado por lo puntual e inmediato. La preocupación se centra en saber si la educación responde a las condiciones sociales y culturales de nuestros pueblos, necesitadas de procesos de humanización, o si por el contrario se funda en propuestas foráneas que inducen a un desconocimiento de nuestras posibilidades efectivas de desarrollo.

Resumen:El Trabajo Social ha sido y es una profesión de mayoría femenina, tanto en su ejercicio como en la recepción de servicios y recursos. La intervención social se convierte así en un escenario en el que desarrollar la perspectiva de género al redefinir la realidad y dar a conocer las desigualdades existentes en la sociedad. Si bien es cierto que la perspectiva de género en la teoría y práctica del Trabajo Social no son comunes, esta profesión, ejercida desde una óptica feminista, establece estrategias transversales que producen un giro epistemológico y un cambio en el paradigma de la acción social.