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En el paisaje sentimental de los zaragozanos, la Virgen del Pilar ocupa un lugar especial. Lejos de la ilusión de inmovilidad que caracteriza los relatos de la tradición, su significado ha cambiado a lo largo del tiempo, adaptándose a las diversas coyunturas históricas. Desde la guerra de la Independencia hasta el franquismo, su imagen ha sido utilizada para legitimar discursos políticos, suscitar emociones, señalar al enemigo, movilizar a la población o construir una visión de la comunidad nacional. Entre los usos de la Virgen del Pilar sobresale el realizado por el...

Augusto Pinochet was the most important Third World dictator of the Cold War, and perhaps the most ruthless. In The Dictator's Shadow, United Nations Ambassador Heraldo Munoz takes advantage of his unmatched set of perspectives -- as a former revolutionary who fought the Pinochet regime, as a respected scholar, and as a diplomat -- to tell what this extraordinary figure meant to Chile, the United States, and the world. Pinochet's American backers saw his regime as a bulwark against Communism; his nation was a testing ground for U.S.-inspired economic theories. Countries desiring World Bank...

Se presentan análisis empiricos desde disciplinas como la antropología, la lingüística, la historia, la arqueología, que narran las acciones de los pueblos como factores indispnsables del todo social, con la finalidad de saber la realidad sociocultural de las poblaciones originarias de América

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