Juan Mauricio Renold (born 1953) is an Argentine social anthropologist. He is a research scientist in the ''Scientific Council of Research'' of the

National University of Rosario The National University of Rosario ( es, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, UNR) is a research public university located in the city of Rosario, province of Santa Fe, Argentina. Overview Rosario National University (UNR) was created in 1968 by ...

, professor (''Titular'') in the ''School of Anthropology of the Faculty of Humanities and Arts'' of the

, in the city of

Rosario Rosario () is the largest city in the central provinces of Argentina, Argentine province of Santa Fe Province, Santa Fe. The city is located northwest of Buenos Aires, on the west bank of the Paraná River. Rosario is the third-most populous ci ...

( Argentina).

Career

He has specialized in an original application of the anthropological

structural analysis Structural analysis is a branch of Solid Mechanics which uses simplified models for solids like bars, beams and shells for engineering decision making. Its main objective is to determine the effect of loads on the physical structures and thei ...

(referred the proposals of Claude Lévi-Strauss) in institutional organizations, analyzing them like systems of representations, in

complex societies A complex society is a concept that is shared by a range of disciplines including anthropology, archaeology, history and sociology to describe a stage of social formation. The concept was formulated by scholars attempting to understand how modern ...

. In the academic context of the Argentine

social anthropology Social anthropology is the study of patterns of behaviour in human societies and cultures. It is the dominant constituent of anthropology throughout the United Kingdom and much of Europe, where it is distinguished from cultural anthropology. In t ...

, he is a pioneer in the application of the

in farming cooperative organizations, in religious organizations, as well as in the wide field of the systems of religious representations and beliefs in general. It has also implemented the structural analysis in rites of healing, performed by catholic priests and pentecostal religious expression.

Writings by Juan Mauricio Renold

*"Organización y estructura en un grupo religioso" (“Organization and structure in a religious group”), en: ''Ensayos de Antropología argentina''. A.A.V.V. (in: ''Essays of Argentine anthropology''). (Several authors). Buenos Aires: Editorial de Belgrano, 1984. *''Estructura y organización cooperativa en el campo argentino. Un análisis antropológico-institucional'' (''Structure and cooperative organization in the Argentine field. An anthropological-institutional analysis''). Rosario: Editorial Magister, 1995. *''El cooperativismo agrario ante la globalización'' (''Agrarian cooperatism against the globalisation'') (en colaboración con Mario Lattuada) (in collaboration with Mario Lattuada). Buenos Aires: SigloXXI, 2004. *''Antropología social. Relecturas y ensayos'' (''Social anthropology. Res-reading and essays''). Buenos Aires: Biblos, 2008. *''Miradas antropológicas sobre la vida religiosa. El Padre Ignacio, sanación y eficacia simbólica y otros ensayos'' (''Anthropological glances on the religious life. Father Ignacio, health and symbolic effectiveness and other essays''). Compilador (Compiler): Juan Mauricio Renold. Buenos Aires: Ciccus, 2008.

External links

Mundo Agrario, National University of La PlataSigloXXI EditionsscientificcommonsEditions CiccusBiblos Editorial
(biography of J.M.Renold). {{DEFAULTSORT:Renold, Juan 1953 births Living people Argentine anthropologists Social anthropologists People from Rosario, Santa Fe