Revista EstudiosPub Date : 2016-12-13DOI: 10.15517/RE.V0I33.27399
J. L. Chong
{"title":"Viajeros chinos en el encuentro de dos mundos","authors":"J. L. Chong","doi":"10.15517/RE.V0I33.27399","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15517/RE.V0I33.27399","url":null,"abstract":"The official story states that Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) accidentally discovered what we now call the American Continent on 12 October 1492 while attempting to reach China. However, perhaps because contact had already been established between China and America before that date, in their conquest of Peru the Spanish were able to confirm the widespread and longstanding use of the ''quipu', a system for memorising numerical information using knotted cords, the same as one used in China for identical purposes since the third century BC. Another detail that could suggest pre-Hispanic contact between China and America is that on the arrival of the Spanish and Portuguese in Southeast Asia in the sixteenth century, local communities were seen harvesting corn using 'metates' to grind the grain – a crop unknown in Europe at the time –, the evolution of the corn from the primitive 'teocintle' had been documented exclusively in America 11,000 years ago.","PeriodicalId":31478,"journal":{"name":"Revista Estudios","volume":"1 1","pages":"602-614"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67307300","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Revista EstudiosPub Date : 2016-12-13DOI: 10.15517/RE.V1I1.26997
Osvaldo Cazanga Moncada
{"title":"Iglesia y Cultura en la Edad Media","authors":"Osvaldo Cazanga Moncada","doi":"10.15517/RE.V1I1.26997","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15517/RE.V1I1.26997","url":null,"abstract":"En la evolucion historica de la Iglesia cristianade Occidente, se observan dos grandes periodos separados por la Reforma de Cluny y Gregorio VII. El primero se extiende hasta el siglo X y el segundo hasta el siglo XV.","PeriodicalId":31478,"journal":{"name":"Revista Estudios","volume":"1 1","pages":"83-92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67312219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Revista EstudiosPub Date : 2016-12-13DOI: 10.15517/RE.V1I1.26992
Enríquez Martínez Arias
{"title":"La América Hispana en el embate reformista español del siglo ilustrado","authors":"Enríquez Martínez Arias","doi":"10.15517/RE.V1I1.26992","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15517/RE.V1I1.26992","url":null,"abstract":"La or anizacion de America hasta el.comienz del siglo XVIII, era la misma que existia a fines del siglo XVII y durante el XVII. Existian dos grandes virreinatos y una serie de reinos o Capitanias Generales,Gobernaciones, Audiencias y Alcaldias Mayores.","PeriodicalId":31478,"journal":{"name":"Revista Estudios","volume":"1 1","pages":"24-34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67312090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Revista EstudiosPub Date : 2016-12-13DOI: 10.15517/RE.V0I14-15.26725
M. Hernández
{"title":"La formación general y humanística en la Universidad de Costa Rica. Algunas consideraciones","authors":"M. Hernández","doi":"10.15517/RE.V0I14-15.26725","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15517/RE.V0I14-15.26725","url":null,"abstract":"En marzo de 1997 se cumplio el Cuarenta Aniversario de la creacion de los Estudios Generales en la Universidad de Costa Rica. Consideramos esta una ocasion idonea para contribuir, dentro de nuestras modestas posibilidades, en la discusion sobre el pasado, el presente y el futuro de la Formacion General en nuestra casa de ensenanza superior.","PeriodicalId":31478,"journal":{"name":"Revista Estudios","volume":"1 1","pages":"110-120"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67292842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Revista EstudiosPub Date : 2016-12-13DOI: 10.15517/RE.V0I16.26673
R. M. Guzmán
{"title":"Religión y globalización. La defensa de los valores culturales propios: El caso del fundamentalismo islámico","authors":"R. M. Guzmán","doi":"10.15517/RE.V0I16.26673","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15517/RE.V0I16.26673","url":null,"abstract":"Las religiones monoteistas de origen semita han tenido un fuerte renacer en los ultimos anos. Son muchas las causas que se senalan para estos movimientos que buscan en la religion la respuesta a los problemas contemporaneos. Los fundamentalistas -aquellos que vuelven sobre los fundamentos de la religion; es decir, los textos sagrados - opinan que los sistemas politicos han fracasado en sus planes y no han sabido responder a los retos del siglo XX.","PeriodicalId":31478,"journal":{"name":"Revista Estudios","volume":"1 1","pages":"38-54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67293115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Revista EstudiosPub Date : 2016-12-13DOI: 10.15517/RE.V0I16.26707
Luis Enrique Gamboa Umaña
{"title":"Aproximación a la obra filosófica y literaria de Claudio Gutiérrez Carranza","authors":"Luis Enrique Gamboa Umaña","doi":"10.15517/RE.V0I16.26707","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15517/RE.V0I16.26707","url":null,"abstract":"Son pocos los protagonistas de la Reforma de 1957 que se mantienen activos y recuerdan los lineamientos generales sobre el proyecto humanistico que caracteriza a la Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR). En la figura de Claudio Gutierrez Carranza confluye el caudal de pensamiento que ha hecho grande a nuestra institucion y, a la vez, encontramos en el las polemicas y divergencias que caracterizan al proyecto que mejor identifica a nuestra Alma Mater.","PeriodicalId":31478,"journal":{"name":"Revista Estudios","volume":"1 1","pages":"151-174"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67293740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Revista EstudiosPub Date : 2016-12-13DOI: 10.15517/RE.V0I16.26703
Nacer Ouabbou
{"title":"Lectura Política de El Señor Presidente","authors":"Nacer Ouabbou","doi":"10.15517/RE.V0I16.26703","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15517/RE.V0I16.26703","url":null,"abstract":"En esta epoca de transicion democratica en varios paises latinoamericanos, es importante reflexionar sobre las lecciones de la historia. La dictadura latinoamericana ha causado demasiado sufrimiento humano.","PeriodicalId":31478,"journal":{"name":"Revista Estudios","volume":"1 1","pages":"115-123"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67293828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Revista EstudiosPub Date : 2016-12-13DOI: 10.15517/RE.V0I17.26544
M. Hernández
{"title":"Las universidades latinoamericanas y el humanismo","authors":"M. Hernández","doi":"10.15517/RE.V0I17.26544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15517/RE.V0I17.26544","url":null,"abstract":"Cualquiera que sea el camino elegido para emprender el estudio de las universidades latinoamericanas desembocara, mas tarde o mas temprano, en el tema del Humanismo. Esto, por cuanto el enfoque humanista de la educacion superior ha prevalecido en una buena parte de las instituciones universitarias de America Latina, especialmente a lo largo del siglo XX. Lo anterior se corrobora, particularmente, en aquellas universidades donde su mision y sus propositos han sido concebidos a partir de su compromiso con la construccion de sociedades mas modernas, donde los conceptos de libertad e igualdad se apoyen en asideros materiales y eticos reales, todo ello encaminado al logro del bien comun. Ese es el caso, justamente, de la Universidad de Costa Rica.","PeriodicalId":31478,"journal":{"name":"Revista Estudios","volume":"24 1","pages":"137-149"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67294050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Revista EstudiosPub Date : 2016-12-13DOI: 10.15517/RE.V0I17.26535
Vilma Leandro Zúñiga, E. García
{"title":"La nueva conquista de Medio Oriente: Una aproximación psicosocial al fenómeno de la guerra en Iraq","authors":"Vilma Leandro Zúñiga, E. García","doi":"10.15517/RE.V0I17.26535","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15517/RE.V0I17.26535","url":null,"abstract":"Dos de los ultimos conflictos belicos mas importantes para la humanidad han ocurrido en Medio Oriente en los anteriores 12 anos: la guerra del Golfo Persico en 1991 y la guerra contra Iraq el pasado marzo del ano 2003, aunque no podemos obviar el ataque a Afganistan en el 2002. La importancia especial de estos ataques esta relacionada sobre todo con los intereses economicos y geopoliticos que los subyacen.","PeriodicalId":31478,"journal":{"name":"Revista Estudios","volume":"1 1","pages":"27-39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67294162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Revista EstudiosPub Date : 2016-12-13DOI: 10.15517/RE.V0I33.27356
Jorge Marchena Sanabria
{"title":"Rastreando los orígenes del (neo) liberalismo costarricense. La influencia de la Asociación Nacional de Fomento Económico (ANFE) como centro intelectual, 1970-1990","authors":"Jorge Marchena Sanabria","doi":"10.15517/RE.V0I33.27356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15517/RE.V0I33.27356","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyzes the political influence of the Asociacion Nacional de Fomento Economico (ANFE), a self-defined defender of liberalism and seeks the promotion of the business and the contraction of Welfare State, in the decade of 1980. The main objective is to point out the consolidation of neoliberal thought in Costa Rica, highlight some of their ideas and describe its political role. The role played by his writings in the press and conferences sponsored by USAID offered in the 1980’s as well as a brief review of their ideologues is also resumed. To make this work we resorted to text analysis and historical reconstruction of stages of the Association. In the theoretical aspects are taken into consideration the principles of Gramsci and intellectuals. The main sources correspond to newspaper reports, brochures and other texts emanating from the same organization. Among the key findings, one can cite the success of ANFE was temporary and limited to a few years; and it was maximized by the interests of foreign financial entities. It is also clear that certain factions of the economic elite were the biggest supporters of this neoliberal discourse.","PeriodicalId":31478,"journal":{"name":"Revista Estudios","volume":"1 1","pages":"100-128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67307274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}