La teoría sociológica de Talcott Parsons

¿Cómo es habitar Buenos Aires en lo que va del siglo XXI, en especial para sectores populares que no siempre tienen asegurado el acceso a una vivienda en condiciones ambientales sanas? ¿Quiénes pueden usar, embellecer o permanecer en la ciudad? ¿Cómo se piensan los espacios públicos y hasta qué punto están abiertos para todos? ¿Qué apropiaciones se consideran legítimas y cuáles aparecen como indeseables y generan, cada vez más, respuestas represivas? Este libro aborda conflictos sociourbanos y experiencias del habitar que llaman a preguntarse quiénes reciben atención del...

Eleven papers from the 45th International Congress of Americanists held at Bogotá, Colombia in 1985. All texts in Spanish.

Results of a regional settlement study which argue that the emergence of highly nucleated early Wankarani villages can be attributed to concentration of highly productive land for a mixed farming-herding economy, defense, and labor pooling. There is little evidence of exotic imported goods, but some indication of small-scale village specialization and economic interdependence. The full regional settlement dataset is available online to complement the volume. Complete text in English and Spanish.

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...