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Plusieurs formes anciennes fondent le théâtre autochtone des trois Amériques. Certaines ont survécu au génocide entrepris par les puissances coloniales au cours des derniers siècles. Elles partagent les liens sacrés qui nous unissent à nos ancêtres et aux Esprits de la Terre. Le Xajoj Tun Rabinal Achi, inscrit depuis 2008 sur la liste du patrimoine culturel immatériel de l'humanité par l'UNESCO, est exceptionnel. Il est le seul vestige...
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Sharon Stephens is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and School of Social Work at the University of Michigan and is Senior Research Associate at the Norwegian Centre for Child Research in Trondheim, Norway.
The bodies and minds of children--and the very space of children--are under assault. This is the message we receive from daily news headlines about violence, sexual abuse, exploitation, and neglect of children, and from a...
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En este libro se recopila una serie de textos sobre diversos aspectos de las
sociedades prehispánicas colombianas. Algunos presentan información general
sobre el poblamiento del territorio, o las grandes tendencias de cambio en estrategias
de subsistencia a lo largo de la historia. Otros evalúan aspectos como la
alimentación y su relación con el cambio social, la producción alfarera, orfebre o
textil, o los aspectos relacionados con la diferenciación...
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In this collection leading anthropologists provide a comprehensive yet highly nuanced view of what it means to be a Greek man or woman, married or unmarried, functioning within a complex society based on kinship ties. Exploring the ways in which sexual identity is constructed, these authors discuss, for example, how going out for coffee embodies dominant ideas about female sexuality, moral virtue, and autonomy; why men in a Lesbos village maintain...
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Nicholas B. Dirks is Professor of Anthropology and History, Geoff Eley is Professor of History, and Sherry B. Ortner is Professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies, all at the University of Michigan.
The intellectual radicalism of the 1960s spawned a new set of questions about the role and nature of "the political" in social life, questions that have since revolutionized nearly every field of thought, from literary criticism through anthropology...
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El cuidado comunitario es una buena defensa que tienen las mujeres mayores para resistir los embates de lo que ha significado una vida dedicada al cuidado de los demás: de sus hijos e hijas, de su marido, de sus nietos y nietas, de sus familiares. Esta atención hacia otras personas estructura la vida de las mujeres, condiciona sus tiempos, sus actividades, su participación en la sociedad. Los clubes proporcionan un espacio y un tiempo que las mujeres...
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From a Christian perspective, it could well be said that humanity, a good gift of God, is being undermined by the technology and thought-patterns and practices of contemporary Western culture. In response to what is seen as an attack, many books have been written on the harm of these technologically driven practices. These articles and books focus on what is wrong: with euthanasia, with surrogate motherhood, with the denial of the male-female difference,...
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La confianza, los personajes del horror andino, la informalidad, la marginalidad, el miedo urbano, el género, el conflicto armado interno peruano y la identidad juvenil se encuentran plano contra plano en nueve ensayos en los que sus autores examinan —con un lenguaje sencillo y con el apoyo de historias y personajes de películas peruanas, de diversos géneros y con variado éxito de taquilla— diferentes maneras de hacer, sentir y pensar con...
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This book comprises a number of cultural-historical and ethnographic studies of the history of sport in the Nordic countries. The studies examine the contribution made by sport to the development of Scandinavian nationalism in the nineteenth century, and analyze the ways in which sport became interwoven with the social life of citizens in the various Scandinavian countries in the twentieth century. The main focus of this volume, therefore, is not...
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La alianza del pacífico: plataforma de integración regional con proyección al Asia Pacífico analiza uno de los procesos más ambiciosos de integración en América Latina. El cuál busca una construcción gradual de un área de integración profunda, caracterizada por la libre circulación de bienes, servicios, capitales y personas entre sus países miembros (Chile, Colombia, México y Perú), para promover la cooperación regional. Luego de la...
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In a volume that brings together a wide range of disciplines-art history, sociology, architecture, cultural anthropology, and environmental psychology-Irene Cieraad presents a collection of articles that focuses on the practices and symbolism of domestic space in Western society. These essays go beyond the discussion of conventional issues such as aesthetics and social standing. At Home takes an in-depth anthropological look at how different cultures...
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El cabello rubio y su significado en la sociedad limeña, las nuevas musculaturas masculinas que cuestionan los modelos de cuerpos de fisicoculturista, el dolor y placer de los practicantes de lucha libre que terminan en las emergencias hospitalarias, los jóvenes varones locos por la moda que temen ser tildados de femeninos u homosexuales, y extraordinarias fotografías de mujeres marginales que buscan comunicar sus experiencias de vida a través...
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Thomas F. Torrance invites evangelicals to think more Christianly
Thomas F. Torrance and Evangelical Theology: A Critical Analysis brings Torrance into closer conversation with evangelical theology on a range of key theological topics.
• Thomas F. Torrance and the Evangelical Tradition (Thomas A. Noble)
• Torrance, The Tacit Dimension, and The Church Fathers (Jonathan Warren P. (Pagán))
• Torrance and the Doctrine of Scripture (Andrew T. B....
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La antropología se ha caracterizado por hacer preguntas. Preguntas sobre la vida cotidiana de la gente. Preguntas sobre cuestiones que nos afectan viviendo en sociedad. En el Museu Valencià d'Etnologia se desarrollaron dos ciclos de conferencias sobre antropología, con voluntad de entender las dinámicas que organizan el devenir y en un intento por reconocer las aportaciones de la disciplina y las virtudes de la mirada antropológica. Este libro...
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This fully illustrated, edited volume brings together fresh insights into the changing urban space of Barcelona from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. The volume will contribute to the excavation of the avantgarde in Barcelona, as well as its legacy in the post-war period, although its primary focus will be on the relationship between environment, identity and performance as explored by countercultural artists and communities...
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In The Child and the Caribbean Imagination, twelve emerging and established scholars in the fields of literature, linguistics and education examine and interrogate the representations, roles and realities of Caribbean children. This multidisciplinary volume explores the experiential, discursive and fictive worlds of the child portrayed and treated variously as subject and object in the region's oral and scribal literatures, formal classroom settings,...
17) Ancient Rome
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Amidst constant warfare and surges of cultural achievement, ancient Rome luxuriated in the splendors of its conquests and the glory of its Empire. Under the powerful direction of such leaders as Julius Caesar and Augustus, Rome secured its legacy as a foundation for much of the modern Western world. This provocative volume examines the many advances in governance, law, and engineering attributed to the Roman Empire as well as the individuals who shaped...
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Thomas Blom Hansen and Finn Stepputat previously coedited States of Imagination: Ethnographic Explorations of the Postcolonial State. Hansen is Professor of Anthropology at Yale University. His recent books include Wages of Violence: Naming and Identity in Postcolonial Bombay and The Saffron Wave: Democracy and Hindu Nationalism in Modern India (both Princeton). Stepputat is Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies.
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Es innegable que la escuela está permeada por los fenómenos culturales e históricos que dan vida a las sociedades. En Chile, muchas de las tensiones sociales actuales relacionadas con las políticas neoliberales, la desigualdad, el género, las migraciones, entre otras, se ven reflejadas y producidas en el espacio escolar. La escuela encierra en sí misma una complejidad y un entramado de significados y valores que parecen invisibles y difíciles...
20) Sociolugares
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¿Qué tipo de lugares existen en las ciudades donde la gente socializa? Qué caracteriza socialmente un sociolugar? ¿Cuáles son las reglas que rigen el comportamiento de los actores de dichos escenarios? ¿Qué tipos de roles adoptan los usuarios de dichos lugares? ¿Qué narraciones se elaboran sobre la experiencia de dichos escenarios? ¿Qué interpretación teórica se puede hacer de la tendencia a socializar en estos lugares y el abandono del...
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