Territorios, seguridad y soberanía alimentaria

Ethnohistoric accounts have been a constant source of inspiration for archaeologists in their efforts to interpret the archaeological record of Central America. However, limited knowledge of the actual archaeological record of this region has been a missing link in the reasoning used to connect the rich ethnohistoric detail known for these societies with the material remains left by prehistoric chiefdoms. The author makes major contributions to forging that missing link by documenting the settlement patterns of the region around the site of El Hatillo. The study allows us to trace the...

South American Archaeology Series No 23 Reliable sex and age estimate on human bone remains is a fundamental aspect in bioarchaeological investigation since such estimates represent the basis on which supplementary studies aiming at contributing to the knowledge of biological and cultural aspects of prehistoric populations are structured. However, since many features, both metrical and morphological ones are specific for each population, and knowing that growth and development patterns as well as sexual dimorphism vary among groups, this work aims at understanding sex and age biological...

Por primera vez, un sociólogo pone sobre la mesa todas sus cartas. El autor de este libro destripa, a la vista de todos, las jugadas que le han convertido en sociólogo y los juegos que puede jugar como sociólogo. Construye, además, un paradigma complejo de la investigación social, que integra: verticalmente, los niveles tecnológico (cómo se hace), metodológico (por qué se hace así) y epistemológico (para qué y para quién se hace); horizontalmente, las perspectivas distributiva (cuyo modelo es la encuesta estadística), estructural (cuyo modelo es el grupo de discusión) y...

PREVENTION OF VIOLENCE AND RESOLUTION OF CONFLICTS - The school climate as a quality factor - The author, who focuses the problem of school conflict as something interactive and systemic and not just a personal matter of the students, offers an intervention model, highly pedagogic, and she pleads for an awareness of the need to include the development of socio-personal abilities as an educational objective that favours living together in the school centre and as a preparation of students for social life.