Fiesta, literatura y magia en el Nayarit

An archaeometric study of first century BC Numantian pottery production. The material came from several excavations carried out this century in the town of Numanicia (Soria, Spain) and other areas in the region. Several scientific techniques were used to characterize the pottery and it introduces the use of Total-Reflection X-ray Fluorescence for the analysis of ceramics. Four different production sequences are identified suggesting specialised workshops. Spanish text.

Many archaeologists and ethnohistorians use historic documents to help interpret prehistoric archaeological sequences. A sixteenth-century Spanish document called Justicia 413 has been instrumental in helping researchers understand conflict among the prehistoric polities of coastal Peru. Volume 4 of the subseries Studies in Latin American Ethnohistory & Archaeology.

In six sections, the volume deals with different questions of political philosophy. The first section focuses on democratic theories, the second on conceptual debates, discussing topics such as collective rights, the terrorist phenomenon, Libertarianism and conceptions of freedom. In a third section on contemporary debates, perspectives on sovereignity and legitimacy as well as discourse theory versus political liberalism are discussed. The volume also features essays on democracy and law, and in a section entitled oJudicial construction of democracyo papers on constitutional reviews by...

WOMEN NOVELISTS. Young narrators of the nineties - A critical study on Spanish writers born after 1960 who have published their works in the decade of the nineties. In the analysis the literary production of writers in Castilian, Catalan and Galician are contemplated, and the complementary bibliographies of writers in Basque and Latin American novelists are introduced.