El Metodo Cuadro de Valores

Las redes de comunicación en tiempo real están configurando los nuevos modos de organización del planeta. Lo que se ha convenido en denominar mundialización/globalización --la primera palabra se declina en todas las lenguas latinas, la segunda es de origen anglosajón-- corre parejo con la fluidez de intercambios y flujos inmateriales y transnacionales. Este pequeño libro se propone inscribir esta nueva fase de la apertura al mundo en la historia de las formas sociales que ha asumido el proceso de internacionalización con el transcurso del tiempo. La generalización de la...

As much a storyteller as an ethnographer, Lydia Cabrera was captivated by a strange and magical new world revealed to her by her Afro-Cuban friends in early twentieth-century Havana. In Afro-Cuban Tales this world comes to teeming life, introducing English-speaking readers to a realm of tenuous boundaries between the natural and the supernatural, deities and mortals, the spiritual and the seemingly inanimate. Here readers will find a vibrant, imaginative record of African culture transplanted to Cuba and transformed over time, a passionate and subversive alternative to the dominant Western...

This brief bilingual collection of Pueblo Indian myths is a happy union of New Mexico's diverse cultural traditions. Intended to introduce younger readers to some of the stories that have been passed on orally from generation to generation, the facing-page English-Spanish versions presented here also offer a rare opportunity to sample an older yet still vivid Spanish idiom.

The main objective of this book has been to open a line of research into the religious population of the city of Jerez de la Frontera, in southern Spain, during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries – the ‘Modern Age’ - which until now has not been thoroughly investigated.