They symbol as a mediation device between mind and culture

In this essay, we try a different path: first, we analyze the mind-culture problem in relation to two general views we have called universalism and cultural relativism-mental diversity; as a result of this inquiry, we have sketched an intelligibility frame we will denominate symbolic constructionism which intends to set the foundations for an articulation, specifically between symbolic anthropology, sociocultural psychology and other social views regarding the mind-culture predicament. We believe that one way to accomplish this interdisciplinary purpose rests on treating the symbol as an articulating element.

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Marie-Odile Marion, El poder de las hijas de Luna, (The power of the Moon’s daughters); Mexico, CONACULTA-INAH/Plaza y Valdés, 1999.

It can be said that the central topic of this work by Marie-Odile Marion is the Lacandón group, subject to which she devoted most of her professional life. The work is as vast as it is deep and it discusses in a simple way –but with an elegant prose- the history of this ethnic group from its pre-Hispanic dynamic to modern times […]

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