DEPORTE Y GRAN DISCAPACIDAD "Aportaciones y experiencias"

Henri Charriere, called "Papillon," for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in 1931 of a murder he did not commit. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he became obsessed with one goal: "escape." After planning and executing a series of treacherous yet failed attempts over many years, he was eventually sent to the notorious prison, Devil's Island, a place from which no one had ever escaped . . . until Papillon. His flight to freedom remains one of the most incredible feats of human cunning, will, and endurance ever undertaken. Charriere's...

Hay un momento mágico de la historia de la humanidad en el que se crean las bases de nuestra democracia, de nuestra civilización, de nuestra cultura; ese momento es de las culturas griega y romana, hace miles de años. Nuestra manera de ver el mundo y afrontar la vida vienen de ahí. La poesía, la filosofía, el teatro, la oratoria, la novela, la historia, la sátira, la fábula, el cuento..., todas estas formas de comunicación las inventan y las escriben por vez primera unos autores geniales, divertidos, inspiradores y estimulantes, llenos de vida, magia y energía: los autores...

Vivim en un moment de profundes transformacions en l’àmbit de la imatge i la cultura visual. Com pot ajudar-nos l’antropologia a pensar el paper de les imatges en la nostra vida quotidiana? I, al revés: com podem repensar alguns dels temes clàssics de l’antropologia (el ritual, el parentiu, l’experiència de l’Alteritat) a partir de les noves formes de visualitat contemporània? Amb un llenguatge alhora clar i rigorós, Roger Canals redefineix en aquest assaig el camp de l’antropologia visual des d’un vessant alhora teòric i pràctic. A partir de nombrosos exemples del...

The Roman conquest of much of the west Mediterranean led to major transformations and this study discusses some aspects of the economic and political impact of such changes. Based largely on archaeological material Perez examines, for example, the Greek-Italian wine trade, major production centres in the Mediterranean, how goods from centres such as Etruria, Lazio and Campania ended up in cities recently conquered by Rome, in particular the markets and commercial routes along which products moved. Spanish text.