Atacama

As a young man, Ramon Perez aka Tianguis interrupted his studies and elisted in a burgeoning guerrilla movement to reclaim his people to ancestral communal lands in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico. From the grassroots organizing conducted by the peasants to the power of regional and national politicians to enforce their social order with pistoleros -- through Tianguis' unwavering account we experience the struggle and its consequences. The pursuit of Guiero Medrano -- and of Tianguis and his friends -- is unremitting; there is no escape as they flee through the forests, small towns, and...

Mientras que el desarrollo sociopolítico de los pueblos del centro de México alcanzó su clímax en la última parte del período postclásico (900-1500), la civilización maya tuvo su máximo esplendor en la etapa clásica (200-900 d.C.). A lo largo de estos siglos las ciudades-estado desarrollaron una inusitada actividad crea-dora que se plasmó en múltiples órdenes: arquitectura, relieve y escultura, pintura mural y cerámica, matemática y calendario, mitología y ritual. JOSÉ ALCINA FRANCH recoge en MITOS Y LITERATURA MAYA una selección de las más importantes muestras de las...

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Traces the history of the Jews in Spain until the expulsion in 1492 in regard to relations between the Crown, the Church, and the populace regarding the Jews and Conversos. Discusses, also, the fate of the Conversos during the 16th century. Focuses on Castile, with special attention to the city of Ávila. Asserts that anti-Jewish hostility in Spain, already from the time of the Visigoths, was not based on racism, but rather on negative religious stereotypes rooted in the minds of the populace and of the lower clergy, as well as on socioeconomic factors, such as the rise of Jews to dominant...