Conquista y Conversión

This book deals with the evangelization of Spanish-speaking America between the European conquest and independence. The study investigates the concepts and strategies of catechesis, the general conditions of Church law and national politics as well as the prerequisites and conditions on the part of the Indians. New and specific forms of mutual understanding, of mediation and resistance developed through the transfer of European knowledge to a second geographical area and through the contact of cultures and religions. These new forms evolved beyond the sphere of religion and determine cultural ...

Eugenio Barba is recognized as one of the most important theatre practitioners working today. Along with the company he founded over fifty years ago, the world-acclaimed Odin Teatret, he continues to produce extraordinary theatre performances that tour the world, and his International School of Theatre Anthropology has greatly developed research into the craft of the actor. Now revised and updated, this volume reveals the background to and work of a major influence on twentieth- and twenty-first century performance. Eugenio Barba is the first book to combine: an overview of Barba’s work and ...

El idioma no es una forma estática y específica a un solo lugar y a un solo grupo de gente. Las palabras viajan cruzando fronteras y culturas. Son adoptadas y cambiadas por diferentes pueblos que las hacen suyas. En este libro profundizamos sobre el curioso viaje de palabras que en origen son celtas, galas, helenas, germánicas, latinas, etc., pero que han pasado por el francés, antes de llegar al español. Explica cómo fue que una palabra que era usada por los celtas para referirse a un dedo, pasó a designar a objetos de adorno. Cómo fue que una palabra, que en Roma designaba una...

Más de 100 recetas y cócteles elaborados con ginebra. En este libro, abordaremos la ginebra desde distintos puntos de vista y aprenderemos a cocinar deliciosos platos o crear sorprendentes cócteles de forma fácil, de la mano de reputados cocineros de nuestro país.

Mateo the polar bear finds a bottle in the sea and finds a cell phone inside. Over and over it rings until he tires of it and throws it back into the sea and settles back down to sleep.