Sociedad y Estado Argentino

Esta obra está compuesta por 12 capítulos que, con diferentes marcos teóricos y metodológicos, exploran lo que acerca del cuerpo nos dicen los pueblos nawas, pumé, nahuas, yúhu, mayas, teenek, otomíes, chichimecas jonas y mixtecos. Su lectura nos permite afirmar que estos temas no están agotados para la antropología americanista.

The history of Puerto Ricans in the so-called "Babel of Steel" dates back more than a century. Through hundreds of images of the "pioneers"-those Puerto Rican migrants who established themselves in New York City between the 1890s and the end of World War II-we capture a glimpse of their daily lives and of their individual and collective stories. This rich collection of images from the Archives of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College helps to examine the history of the Puerto Rican community at a time when it was spreading its roots in New York City's social, political,...

Es inevitable -explica la autora- plantear la filiacin entre revolucin hispnica y Revolucin francesa -separadas en el tiempo tan slo por 20 aos- o el parentesco entre las dos, pues el movimiento francs no slo trastoc el equilibrio poltico de Europa sino que fue un fenmeno de alcances sociales, polticos y culturales que domin -ya como prototipo, ya como objeto de rechazo- todo el debate poltico del Viejo Mundo.

We Spaniards are the people that have done the most in the history of humanity, even shaping the world we inhabit. But also the people most ashamed of their triumphs, their achievements, their victories and their discoveries. The authors dismantle the most controversial elements of the Black Legend, both the traditional one - the Inquisition, the expulsion of the Jews, the conquest of America, the scientific and cultural backwardness, slavery - and the one renewed by the work of the nazionalisms.