Negro y afro

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...

El libro de Jean Baudrillard, La sociedad de consumo, es una contribución magistral a la sociología contemporánea que, ciertamente, ya tiene su lugar en el linaje de obras tales como La división del trabajo de Durkheim, La teoría de la clase ociosa de Veblen o La muchedumbre solitaria de David Riesman. Baudrillard analiza las sociedades occidentales contemporáneas, incluida la de los Estados Unidos, y se concentra en el fenómeno del consumo de objetos, tema que ya abordó en El sistema de los objetos. En la conclusión de ese volumen, ya formulaba el plan de la presente obra: «Hay que ...

This book explores the real threats to freedom of expression, which don't come from minorities, feminists or offended, but from political and legislative power. Because disparagingly pointing to the offender does nothing but criminalize their right, our right as a society, to protest.

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 ...