Nuevas coordenadas del territorio huasteco desde la historia, la arqueología, el arte y los rituales.epub

Tras la mengua económica sufrida en México durante los años sesenta, las comunidades indígenas se encontraban en niveles angustiosos de miseria y explotación. Por haber contribuido dos décadas antes a sentar las bases de la política nacional hacia el indígena, es significativo que Aguirre Beltrán, gran antropólogo, abordase la discusión del tópico no en términos apologistas sino con un cariz de revisión.

Our population practices both traditional and organized religions, like various forms of syncretism in everyday life. Nonetheless, religious organizations and its practices in some occasions have been addressed in a critical way, taking into consideration its negative effects on our social lives. It is to say that it seems there is a social consensus that understands these implications and consequences are exclusively positive. The religious person provides direction for everyday living, in explicit and implicit ways. Although the less institutionalized versions of the practices, at the...

Desde diversas disciplinas, los autores de este libro se ocupan de lo que la ciencia política normalmente descarta: las condiciones de posibilidad de la política institucional y sus variadas relaciones con diferentes segmentos de su entorno. Asimismo, discuten diversas dimensiones de poder (corporativo-clientelar, burocrático, liberal, "masculinista" y heteronormativo) y examinan cómo éstas se vinculan estrechamente con normas, procedimientos, privilegios y desigualdades predominantes y comúnmente aceptadas en determinadas sociedades.

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 ...