Desigualdades

Selected papers of the sesion Image and Ritual in the Aztec World from the 'Ritual Americas' conferences organized by the Societe des Americanistes de Belgique in collaboration with the Red Europea de Estudios Amerindios Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), April 2008. Contents: 1) Foreword - Image in Ancient Mesoamerican Ritual (Sylvie Peperstraete); 2) Lenguaje ceremonial en los codices mixtecos (Maarten E.R.G.N. Jansen and Gabina Aurora Perez Jimenez); 3) El lenguaje ritual de los mexicas: hacia un metodo de analisis (Daniele Dehouve); 4) Ritos y rituales en torno a Mictlantecuhtli (Nathalie...

As part of a series of research projects on the Archaeology of hunter-gatherers societies in the Southern Pampean Hills this presents, among other things, the study of various aspects of the organization of lithic technology and strategies for the use of lithic resources by prehistoric populations.

En las sociedades desarrolladas, las prácticas de consumo ocupan el centro de los procesos de producción y reproducción de las relaciones sociales, y, sin embargo, y de forma paradójica, el consumo ha tenido un lugar relativamente periférico en las líneas de investigación clásicas de la sociología al quedar limitado como variable dependiente de otras dinámicas sociales. Con esta publicación colectiva se trata de contribuir a reflexionar sobre las prácticas sociales de consumo en su complejidad y a dar visibilidad al fenómeno de la sociedad de consumo como hecho social total,...

This excellent history of Peru proposes and proves an entirely new thesis on its nineteenth century: the changes in its economy that might have led to a better future were undone by taxes and other demands at the national, provincial and local levels. The failure of Peru owes a good deal to wartime taxes and local tax farming of the countryside. Professor Christine Hunefeldt does for the mundane issue of taxation what she has already done for Peruvian slavery and women’s rights; she writes a new history based on the evolution of a tax structure that changed for the worse over time. This is...