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"Debemos agradecer a la señorita Mead que haya intentado establecer una identificación tan completa con la juventud samoana, dándonos un cuadro lúcido y claro de las alegrías y dificultades con que tropiezan los jóvenes en una cultura tan distinta de la nuestra. Los resultados de su laboriosa investigación confirman la sospecha largamente alimentada por los antropólogos, acerca de que mucho de lo que atribuimos a la naturaleza humana no es más que una reacción frente a las restricciones que impone nuestra civilización". Estas palabras de Franz Boas deberían bastar para dejar bien...

Nationalism is one of the major social and political issues of modern times, and a subject of intense intellectual debate. The most important and influential theory of nationalism is that of Ernest Gellner (1925-1995). This volume assesses every aspect of that theory, bringing together an exceptional set of scholars to explain, criticise and move beyond Gellner's work. In doing so the book establishes the state-of-play within the theory of nationalism, and complements Gellner's account by bringing political variables back into play. The book is unique in offering sustained attention to a...

Archaeological excavations of the baptistery of the Late Antique site of Son Peretó (Manacor), located on the island of Mallorca in the Balearic Islands (Spain), provide interesting new findings related to the material culture of the 5th to 8th centuries AD and, above all, in relation to the tombs, pools and baptismal buildings on the site.

The death of Princess Diana unleashed an international outpouring of grief, love, and press attention virtually unprecedented in history. Yet the exhaustive effort to link an upper class white British woman with "the people" raises questions. What narrative of white femininity transformed Diana into a simultaneous signifier of a national and global popular? What ideologies did the narrative tap into to transform her into an idealized woman of the millennium? Why would a similar idealization not have appeared around a non-white, non-Western, or immigrant woman? Raka Shome investigates the...