Ur, la ciudad de los caldeos

Is it possible to create an enjoyable and mysterious history of literature? Every author—novelist, philosopher, poet, or essayist—has any enigma to offer or reveal, either about their lives or about their works. For instance, do we know exactly where Cervantes was born? Are we sure that Conan Doyle was not a murderer? Why did Comte decide to create his own religion? Did Jose Cadalso exhume his girlfriend's corpse? Was Corneille Moiré's ghostwriter? Was Berbiguier harassed by imps? Maybe Jules Verne did belong to a secret society. Have any works been inspired by dreams—or by insanity?...

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Este trabajo forma parte de una investigacion mas amplia sobre las tradiciones de indole popular que marcan la cultura contemporanea. Los autores presentan los analisis de las fiestas y celebraciones religiosas que dia con dia tienen lugar en Xochimilco. La informacion y las observaciones requeridas para el estudio de las cuestiones apegadas a temas de orden cultural y religioso tuvieron lugar en tres etapas que se iniciaron en 1991 y terminaron en 1995. En esta investigacion se encontro que la religiosidad de los xochimilcas ha evolucionado, conservando practicas muy antiguas asimiladas con...

El chamanismo, el nahualismo y el viaje onírico, instrumentos para vincular dos o más realidades. Éstas son capacidades que pueden coincidir o no en un mismo individuo, pero que constituyen nociones culturales vinculadas dentro de una misma esfera conceptual. En las tradiciones indígenas de México el sueño coexiste con el trance, y los chamanes locales lo utilizan para acceder a un espacio-tiempo alterno, ya que el chamanismo se basa en una teoría de la comunicación entre dos mundos. Temas como estos estuvieron dentro del proyecto Etnografía de los Pueblos Indígenas de México en el ...