Juguetes e infancias

This translation of a major work in Mexican anthropology argues that Mesoamerican civilization is an ongoing and undeniable force in contemporary Mexican life. For Guillermo Bonfil Batalla, the remaining Indian communities, the "de-Indianized" rural mestizo communities, and vast sectors of the poor urban population constitute the México profundo. Their lives and ways of understanding the world continue to be rooted in Mesoamerican civilization. An ancient agricultural complex provides their food supply, and work is understood as a way of maintaining a harmonious relationship with the natural ...

El intercambio de críticas entre Butlery autores como Seyla Benhabib, Nancy Fraser o Pierre Bourdieu contribuye a entender parte de esos efectos, y también a profundizar en algunas de las prioridades políticas de nuestra autora: la resistencia a los efectos excluyentes de la normatividad genérica y, en particular, del sistema «dos sexos, dos géneros." -- Cubierta.

The Cordillera Escalera mountain range on the Loreto-San Martín border in Amazonian Peru was hardly known to scientists until the September 2013 expedition described in this report. The book includes an in-depth description of the history, daily life, and natural resource use of local Shawi communities, richly illustrated with >100 color photographs, as well as the results of rapid inventories of geology, plants, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals in the Cordillera Escalera. Also discussed are threats to and opportunities for the landscape and its people, and recommendations...

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...