La prehistoria II

Con singular penetraci n, el autor realiza un an lisis minucioso y poco com n sobre los aspectos hist rico-culturales de las tendencias burguesas, y en alg n sentido modernas, de una de las pocas m s brillantes de la historia europea.

Sensory environmental relationships – understood as dynamic, embodied, and emplaced affective sensory perceptions in (and of) the environment – invite us to remember the past, infuse our experiences of the present, and entice us to imagine the future. Ethnographically specific, socially and culturally nuanced approaches to environmental relationships require considerable conceptual and practical flexibility and inventiveness. Reflecting this commitment, 'Sensory Environmental Relationships' aims to offer a new anthropological understanding of how, in our individual and collective lives,...

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...

Nada dejó más sorprendidos a los propios peruanos que aquellas elecciones de abril y junio de 1990. Se ha hablado de voto emocional, de rechazo histórico a las clases políticas, del fin del compromiso con la oligarquía blanca, y otras tantas reflexiones en torno a una elección que algunos aplauden y otros juzgan inquietante. Aparte de toda consideración política, lo intrigante resulta ser el propio nuevo presidente, Alberto Fujimori Fujimori. Su anterior ausencia de la arena política, su discreción y, sobre todo, su personalidad enigmática, calificada de “oriental”, hacen que...