The purpose of this work is to characterize the bioarchaeological record and the contexts (stratigraphy and chronology) of recently recorded Middle and initial Late Holocene archaeological sites located in the eastern Pampa-Patagonia transition.
The aims are to evaluate and discuss the variations in mortuary practices and in the use of space (coast-inland) by huntergatherers during ca. 6,000-1,000 years BP. Quantitative, taphonomic, sex and age-at-death as well as burial modalities data
are presented. The obtained chronology indicates systematic reoccupation during the Middle and initial Late Holocene of coastal and inland sectors. While in inland sites human bone remains are highly fragmented and affected by important postdepositional factors (e.g., weathering, abrasion), in the coastal sector anatomical integrity is greater and taphonomy indicates stability in the depositional history. During the Middle Holocene, while burial modality at coastal sites would have been primary, it could not be determined in inland sectors. For the initial Late Holocene, while on the Atlantic coast primary burials were recorded, secondary modalities were detected in inland sectors. Finally, the results are integrated with the chronological information obtained on human skeletal remains and burial modalities defined for Southeastern Pampa and Northpatagonia in order to discuss the contribution of the case study presented here to the bioarchaeology of these regions.

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Our research seeks to complement existing information on the mechanisms of production and commercialization of saltpeter in the period preceding the year 1830. Starting in the last quarter of the eighteenth century, this activity faced the increasing demand (as a consequence of the diversification of the use of nitrate) with a low level of technical development, a model that remained unchanged for decades. During the period under study, since there was no technological or scientific investment aimed at an efficient exploitation of nitrate, the industry replaced innovation with an expansion of labor supply, which had an impact on
the quality and final value of the product.

The precariousness of an initiative that favored manual labor over technological innovation should be understood in the context of its time, where the net profitability margin of the business was low, to which must be added an uncertain future, the early consolidation of oligopolies and the political instability of Peru in the years after its independence.

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This article reflects on the challenge of visualizing the diversity of voices and discourses about wellbeing in ethnographic research. Based on an ethnographic fieldwork experience in two indigenous locations among the Rarámuri people in Mexico, the article explores the plurality of voices in building wellbeing ideas. The article focuses on examining two speeches as articulations of different visions of community and ways of living, and how they reflect positions of domination and marginalization within the indigenous people. The article concludes by reflecting on the ways in which researchers insert themselves in the field and the methodological risks of privileging some voices over others in the pursuit of identifying collective notions of wellbeing.

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The article centers around ethnographic findings of nostalgia from the lived migration between Chilote transnational communities assembled in Punta Arenas (Chile) and Río Gallegos, Argentina. It describes the incorporation of cultural
elements linked to the formation of communities, goods circulation, and meanings extension between places of origin and destination. It emphasizes the representation of popular music in Chiloé as a category of analysis and interpretation to understand migratory experiences and multi-centered assemblages. This allows the reflection of methodologies in movement (multilocal ethnography) and localization of multigeographic interacted contexts.

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