Antropología de la sexualidad y diversidad cultural

In a world where the walls and barriers affecting immigrants and their families are becoming higher and more dangerous to cross, The Migratory Intelligence offers a series of emotional, physical and social strategies to resist and overcome the difficulties, stress and grief involved in leaving one's origins. Based on scientific evidence, but with a friendly language, this book is a valuable support in situations of fear, loneliness and helplessness. An essential aid in the face of the suffering that some years ago the author called «Ulysses Syndrome», a name in memory of the Greek hero who, ...

Prostituidas por el Textolooks at the role of prostitution in female picaresque novels and also in Don Quijote. Also included are etiquette manuals that offer rules ranging from how to be the perfect wife and daughter, to advice on using make-up. Zafra also considers legal measures and moral treatises that define the boundaries of sin. Her analysis discusses the lesser evil that the presence of prostitutes represents for society, as well as, the concern for the public good that led to its legal eradication in 1623. Zafra's research demonstrates that the discourse on early modern prostitution...

This book presents a contextual study of the Famabalasto Negro Grabado pottery of the late period in the Calchaqui Valleys in northwest Argentina, especially in the Yocavil or Santa Maria Valley in the south of the area. This is an interesting black and polished ceramic that is different from contemporary decorated pottery and comes closer in design to certain special metallic goods made in cast bronze, such as round plates and Santamarians bells or tan-tanes.

¿Contra natura? ¿Según natura? Para los griegos primero y los romanos después las relaciones homosexuales eran una realidad, un componente no despreciable de las costumbres establecidas y la cultura. Partiendo del carácter fáctico de esas relaciones y no de la condición homosexual que es un fenómeno histórico mucho más reciente, Eva Cantarella reconstruye un complejo panorama en el que al análisis de los aspectos jurídicos de esas relaciones se suman los testimonios de la poesía y el mito, los documentos de la vida cotidiana y las reflexiones de historiadores, médicos y...