Helena María Viramontes en sus proprias palabras

La inquietud que guía este trabajo es conocer cómo los procesos cognitivos son constituidos y qué nos pueden decir acerca de las relaciones en que surgen: qué significa ser niño de una cultura, cómo se construye el conocimiento de los niños en un medio y contexto específico. Partiendo del supuesto de que la construcción del conocimiento que tienen las niñas y niños del Mezquital está íntimamente vinculada con el medio ecológico, social y cultural que les rodea, y de que niños y niñas construyen su conocimiento y sus múltiples referentes culturales a través de las actividades ...

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Contains close readings of Gustavo Perez Firmat, Piri Thomas, Luis J. Rodriguez, Nicholasa Mohr, Gloria Anzaldua, Norma Elia Cantu, and Judith Ortiz Cofer, in addition to a number of autobiographical essays.

Here the physician and anthropologist Melvin Konner examines the arc of evolution to explain the relationships between women and men. Drawing on examples from Nature, Konner sheds light on our biologically different identities and the poignant exceptions that challenge the traditional man / woman division. We will meet the hunter-gatherers of Botswana, whose culture gave women a prominent place, creating the figure of the working mother and respecting the voices of women around the fire. Orientation of societies towards war and the conquest fostered extreme male dominance. But our species has ...