Antropología visual y epistemes de la imagen

Mientras que la tradición filosófica buscó un fundamento último de la moral, la teoría de la sociedad elaborada por Niklas Luhmann pretende describir la sociedad tal como es: la tarea del sociólogo no es normativa, simplemente ha de mejorar la comprensión de la complejidad social. Según Luhmann, la sociedad actual, funcionalmente diferenciada, no puede ya integrarse gracias a la moral. Tampoco cabe aislar la moral en ninguno de los sistemas funcionales de la sociedad, que aparecen desacoplados del código moral. Sin embargo, operan en ellos equivalentes funcionales de la moral: medios ...

Antecedentes internos e internacionales; La guerra que iba a ser breve (julio-diciembre 1936); La guerra que se hizo muy larga (enero 1937-abril 1939).

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...

Thirteen papers from a conference held in Barcelona in 2005 on the subject of 'War and territory in the Roman world: historical and archaeological approaches'. The contributors consider the relationship between the army and society, between the emperor and his army, between warfare and the environment, as well as more specific subjects: the representation of military power; the relationship between local and central power, especially at the frontiers of the empire; imperial administration; changes in imagery on coinage; war and the management of human and material resources. Seven of the...