Repensando la prevención

En la vida política de México, ningún otro autor ha tenido un lugar semejante. Fiero liberal, nacionalista sagaz y prudente, constructor de instituciones, motor cultural y educativo, Daniel Cosío Villegas fue un crítico implacable hasta en los momentos más recalcitrantes de la in tolerancia; enemigo de los usos del poder como cotos privados, luchó siempre por mantener públicos los asuntos de la res publica y distinguir con claridad los ámbitos de lo público y lo privado; incluso a pesar de la impopularidad de su doctrina, jamás abjuró de su pura tradición liberal. El tiempo supo...

This book presents a broad panorama of the ideological positions, strategies, and political affiliations of queer and lesbian feminists. It is not designed to meet the minimum requirement of representation for the 'masculine' lesbian and queer feminism from the Spanish state (such a thing does not exist), but rather should be understood as a demonstration of the diversity and plurality of a feminism which is inclusive of its opponents. In this sense, the book is an act, a proof of the intense life of the queer and lesbian feminists here and now, without being compared to any other geographic...

Thirteen papers from a conference held in Barcelona in 2005 on the subject of 'War and territory in the Roman world: historical and archaeological approaches'. The contributors consider the relationship between the army and society, between the emperor and his army, between warfare and the environment, as well as more specific subjects: the representation of military power; the relationship between local and central power, especially at the frontiers of the empire; imperial administration; changes in imagery on coinage; war and the management of human and material resources. Seven of the...

Selected papers of the sesion Image and Ritual in the Aztec World from the 'Ritual Americas' conferences organized by the Societe des Americanistes de Belgique in collaboration with the Red Europea de Estudios Amerindios Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), April 2008. Contents: 1) Foreword - Image in Ancient Mesoamerican Ritual (Sylvie Peperstraete); 2) Lenguaje ceremonial en los codices mixtecos (Maarten E.R.G.N. Jansen and Gabina Aurora Perez Jimenez); 3) El lenguaje ritual de los mexicas: hacia un metodo de analisis (Daniele Dehouve); 4) Ritos y rituales en torno a Mictlantecuhtli (Nathalie...