América en diásporas

This book contains papers in English, papers in French and papers in Italian Proceedings of the XV World Congress UISPP (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006), Volume 18, Session C44

As much a storyteller as an ethnographer, Lydia Cabrera was captivated by a strange and magical new world revealed to her by her Afro-Cuban friends in early twentieth-century Havana. In Afro-Cuban Tales this world comes to teeming life, introducing English-speaking readers to a realm of tenuous boundaries between the natural and the supernatural, deities and mortals, the spiritual and the seemingly inanimate. Here readers will find a vibrant, imaginative record of African culture transplanted to Cuba and transformed over time, a passionate and subversive alternative to the dominant Western...

Mediacion y mediadores son terminos que se utilizan ya por todas partes y, a la vez, expresan una busqueda, una necesidad real de nuestro tiempo. Pero, esta convirtiendose todo esto en una simple moda? O se trata de una planta nueva y todavia fragil, adolescente, que trabaja ardiente y ferozmente para convertirse en un bello arbol? En este libro, Jean FranC'ois Six hace el balance de la mediacion en los diversos sectores en los que ya se ejerce la familia, la escuela, la empresa, la ciudad, la justicia, los servicios publicos... y precisa cual debe ser el estatus y la funcion del mediador: su ...

A Spanish journalist offers a minute-by-minute account of the 2007 murders at Virginia Tech, examines the killer's state of mind as revealed in his writings and photographs, and discusses gun control, violence, and American society.