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The article analyzes the change of perspectives and narratives about national borders, the circulation of people and the political definitions of the limits of the National State in the social sciences since the fall of the Berlin Wall, in 1989, to the most recent outcomes of the international geopolitics. The place occupied by the transnational perspective of migration is questioned, inquiring its role in the formation of critical anthropological reflections that, in the last two decades, have allowed a re-oxygenation of the classical categories of analysis in the social sciences. The discussion also sediments the questioning about the possible outcomes of this anthropological reflection in a context of profound international political changes regarding human mobility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents an approach to understanding health that acquires an original and autonomous development across different Latin American countries, despite being the result of reading and analysing national and international theoretical contributions from social sciences. The proposal seeks to integrate the epidemiologic perspective with those from the social sciences, sociology, and medical anthropology in particular, raising the need to place health problems in their socio-historic, cultural, political and economic context. From this framework, such aspects must be treated not only as epidemiological variables but, above all, as sociocultural and bio-ecological processes. It suggests to conceptually work from a perspective that investigates health-disease as a social process, an area of life in which most of the meanings, representations and practices that allow the reproduction of daily life are articulated. For that, we place the contributions in the field of Collective Health, present the main criticisms and limitations that have been raised to modern epidemiology and, from there, we develop theoretic-methodological proposals of ethno-epidemiology and sociocultural epidemiology directing the analysis towards the development of a superseding episteme. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the perspectives of Latin American on postcolonialism. It states the permanent process of liberation and colonization towards counter-hegemonic transformations and personal and structural perspectives. It also mentions the attempt in finding solutions in the movements for independence of colonized countries.

Latin American sociology has gone through critical revisions since the mid-20th century. However, the latest view proposes one of the more radical changes ever thought of: to stop seeing the region as 'opposed to' the US empire, and begin working on the idea of the belonging to a greater region, known globally as the South. Redefinition of time and space, territory, history, knowledge and social subjects, as well of other important categories, play a crucial part in this shift. A new horizon has been opened for social sciences, and it seems that new sources for creativity have emerged. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]