América Latina

Completo y riguroso panórama de los conceptos, métodos y prácticas sobre los que se sustenta la práctica arqueológica actual, de la excavación propiamente dicha a la interpretación de los datos, pasando por una visión histórica de la disciplina así como por las principales metodologías empleadas en nuestros días (Arqueología cognitiva, social y ambiental). Una herramienta indispensable para cualquier persona para la que la Arqueología constituya un instrumento básico de su trabajo e investigación.

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This book is a landmark in Mexican rural history. Activists and professional historians have long argued that the nineteenth-century privatization of indigenous communal lands was the original sin that laid the ground for the agrarian strife of the twentieth century. Many also claimed that this privatization drove the political mobilizations of indigenous peasants even before the Revolution. Nevertheless, very few historians have actually studied the process through which indigenous lands were privatized, and their findings have been published mostly as tantalizing but sketchy articles. In...