Masonería, Iglesia, Revolución e Independencia

Success didn't come easily to award-winning Puerto Rican actor Benicio del Toro. He experienced constant rejections in auditions for roles when he first started to pursue an acting career. It wasn't until he moved to Los Angeles that he started getting parts, starting with small ones in films like Big Top Pee Wee and eventually leading to a breakout role in The Usual Suspects. When he won an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his role in the movie Traffic, he was only the third Puerto Rican American to win an acting Oscar. Read all about del Toro in this full-color...

Our population practices both traditional and organized religions, like various forms of syncretism in everyday life. Nonetheless, religious organizations and its practices in some occasions have been addressed in a critical way, taking into consideration its negative effects on our social lives. It is to say that it seems there is a social consensus that understands these implications and consequences are exclusively positive. The religious person provides direction for everyday living, in explicit and implicit ways. Although the less institutionalized versions of the practices, at the...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Ethnologie / Volkskunde, Note: 2-, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Veranstaltung: Indigene Organisationen in Lateinamerika, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Als die EZLN am 1.Januar 1994 mit ihrer Rebellion gegen die Unterdrückung und Ausbeutung der Indigenas begann, wusste kaum jemand in Mexiko wer sie waren und was ihre Motive waren. Doch in kurzer Zeit gelang es ihnen, ihre Probleme und Ziele an eine breite Öffentlichkeit zu tragen. Ihr Aufstand prägt bis heute die Innenpolitik Mexikos und fand auch auf internationaler Ebene ein großes...

Si usted es un investigador en ciencias sociales –sociólogo, antropólogo, economista–, estará habituado a redactar artículos académicos en los que debe cumplir cuidadosamente ciertas reglas: la delimitación clara del objeto, evidencias o pruebas que certifiquen la veracidad de lo que se afirma sobre ese objeto, la extrema cautela en los juicios de valor. Estos principios metodológicos garantizan la seriedad del trabajo, pero ¿permiten representar la complejidad de la vida social, que está llena de claroscuros? ¿No será que los científicos sociales se están coartando, al...