La ciencia de la amabilidad

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...

A study of the political and archaeological controversies surrounding the Castilian Necropoleis of the V-VI Centuries AD and the Visigoth Settlement in the Iberian Peninsula. The author attempts to deconstruct the various controversies and presents fresh analysis based on the archaeological data and literary evidence.

A study of the evolution of settlement patterns in the Vera Basin and Almanzora river valley in Almeriá, south-east Spain. The surveys carried out in the late 1980s and early 1990s provided the material on which this study is based and helps to reconstruct the development of settlement from the early Phoenician colonisation of the area in the 8th century BC to Late Antiquity and the early 8th century AD. Appendices contain the archaeological data. Spanish text; summaries in English and French.

Obra organizada en torno a seis ejes principales que estudian la importancia de comparar las fronteras y los tipos de gestión desde el punto de vista geopolítico, histórico y antropológico; las tramas de la organización del espacio actual; la influencia en la evolución de las sociedades debido a la violencia política y los conflictos armados; los movimientos migratorios internacionales; la integración política y económica y finalmente los lazos comunitarios y de las identidades relacionados con las vivencias fronterizas.