Antropología y teoría social

Una vía alternativa para el feminismo del siglo XXI. En el marco de los debates provocados por la eclosión del movimiento #MeToo, este libro presenta una postura original y contracorriente que sin embargo no abandona los postulados feministas y formula a la perfección una postura diferente y necesaria. Svenja Flasspohler aboga por una feminidad activa y rechaza la idea de la mujer como víctima, la antagonización hombres-mujeres y lo que la autora llama «feminismo de hashtag». Para algunos, los hombres están siendo sometidos a una caza de brujas. Otros afirman que el hashtag al fin...

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...

In this work the author focuses on early Hispanic churches built before the arrival of the Roman Liturgy and the Romanesque techniques by examining liturgical sculptural evidence. This material record provides a detailed understanding of both the functional and constructive features of the churches and leads to a definition of an archaeological methodology for surveying Late Antique and Early Medieval Hispanic churches, a methodology that enables a revision of the traditional historical model based on general stylistic elements that pay little or no attention to spatial context. To illustrate ...

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...