Análisis histórico del Ritual del Santo Arco Real

A brave attempt at studying Phoenician colonization from an environmental standpoint. Excavations at the tell of Castillo de Dona Blanca included study of animal and fish bones, moluscs and shellfish. A final chapter puts the biological evidence in a wider context and concludes that this kind of evidence on its own is better applied to smaller, local questions.

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...

Este libro pretende estudiar, desde una perspectiva de clase global e integrada y mediante la combinación de las metodologías cuantitativa y cualitativa, la transmisión de las posiciones sociales de padres a hijos en España desde 1940 a 1991, tanto en lo que se refiere al análisis de la cantidad y pautas de movilidad social habidas en este período, como a las formas sociales y mecanismos empleados en dicha transmisión y a las transformaciones observadas en ellos a lo largo de este siglo.