The Samurai Cartoon Armies

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

La iniciación o Rito de Paso, es un concepto que designa un conjunto específico de actividades que simbolizan y marcan la transición de un estado a otro en la vida de una persona y en su desarrollo social. El individuo debe llevar a cabo numerosas transiciones y tales transiciones son una parte esencial de la vida que se celebran de forma ritual y se llama iniciación.

El autor de este libro se pregunta hasta qué punto la idea del final de Roma como imperio en Occidente ha eclipsado al estudio de los cambios que se estaban produciendo en la base de la sociedad y en su propia cúspide. Y, para responder, propone una mirada a la arqueología y también una lectura de los textos escritos, tanto en Occidente como en Constantinopla, en la fase crítica en la que el imperio estaba desarticulándose, y también en la inmediatamente posterior. Indaga en el papel de las elites dirigentes, su implicación en el proceso de cambio y su actitud hacia el imperio y hacia ...