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Last Friday was presented at the Palacio Canton, Merida, Yucatan, the book Natives, Europeans, and Africans in Colonial Campeche coordinated by Vera Tiesler , Pilar Zabala and Andrea Cucina (University Press of Florida, 2010). This is a groundbreaking book because it is the result of a project from its inception, was proposed as interdisciplinary. Recently in my research workshop were reading The logic of social science , by Jürgen Habermas (Tecnos 1993), where Habermas explains the epistemological differences between the nomological sciences, including biology, and in hermeneutics, including them the story.

Vera Tiesler and his team have made a concerted effort to bring both disciplines nomological (if bioarchaeology, osteology and archeology) and hermeneutics (in this case history, architecture and social geography) to the study's first post-Conquest cemetery the city of Campeche. The result is a remarkable book, both its purpose clearly circumscribed (the cemetery and historical context) as a multidisciplinary approach.

One of the great attractions of this book is a vindication of African American history in the Yucatan Peninsula, as part of the remains found in the cemetery under, according to the osteological, people of African descent. Certainly, as a presenter said at the presentation of the book, as Habermas does not tire of repeating logic social sciences, each approach has its limits. Here is the starting point have been archaeological remains, rather than ethnic and caste categories established in the historiography of the conquest of Mexico. However, since there are many texts that could be read as supplementary material castes and social classes in New Spain and its surrounding territories, I think that this limitation operates here as a strength, since this type of bio-ethnographic approach geographical and social never have been undertaken without accurate identification of the biological characteristics of human remains found.

This book is no longer one of the many results of the joint projects of our colleagues Vera Tiesler, Pilar Zabala and Andrea Cucina, three excellent teachers and researchers with whom I have the pleasure to work and socialize daily at the Department of Anthropology at the Autonomous University of Yucatan. Since 2002, this trio has become an interdisciplinary team, which sometimes included, as in this case, researchers from neighboring disciplines. We expect great things from this joint effort, and the book that we now provide us confirmed that expectation.