El largo recorrido de decolonizar la mente en Latinoamérica

Este artículo se basa en una investigación realizada por el autor, bajo el título de Decolonizar la mente. Imaginar una civilización del Nuevo Mundo. La investigación presenta un marco teórico para decolonizar la mente que tiene en cuenta los aportes que han hecho diferentes civilizaciones a la producción de conocimiento. Este artículo analiza las diferentes respuestas al colonialismo en Latinoamérica. Estudia los conceptos decoloniales que ha producido la lucha social del pueblo en Latinoamérica

ANTHROPOMETRIC TRENDS IN SOUTHERN CHINA, 1830-1864

Anthropometric indicators can shed light on the 'Great Divergence' debate on the timing of the welfare development in China and Europe. We mobilise two new datasets of some 13,000 Southern Chinese contract migrants who were sent to Suriname and Indonesia, and thus supplement the limited existing evidence on early to mid-nineteenth century China. The Southern Chinese were about as tall as Southern Europeans during the early and mid-nineteenth century, but notably shorter than Northwestern Europeans. Height development was stagnant or slightly downward over the period studied, which fits into the pattern of real wage developments at that time. Copyright 2008 The Authors. Journal compilation Blackwell Publishing Asia Pty Ltd and the Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand 2008.