El quinto país del mundo

Las paginas que se aproximan a continuación nos invitan a reflexionar sobre varios dilemas. No hay duda que el desarrollo teórico constituye un paso integro para sostener la prosperidad de la sociología y las ciencias sociales en general en medio de inclinaciones, en algunos casos bien justificadas, con tonos instrumentalistas y vocacionales que han permeado nuestros sistemas académicos universitarios y la vida publica nacional. En el caso de España en particular donde se cuestiona actualmente la esencia del bipartidismo político o en el continente americano donde el pluralismo...

EMERGING MODELS in the systems and gender relations. From the feminist Anthropology this book analyzes the changes that are taking place in relationships and in the gender systems, at work, in power and in the emotions. The applied methodology is based on observation and interviews carried out in diverse places and times where the age variables, social class and ideology play an important role.

17 papers take a holistic view of beekeeping archaeology (including honey, wax, associated products, hive construction, and trade) in one large interconnected geographic region, the Mediterranean, central Europe, and the Atlantic Façade. The book serves as a handbook for current and future researchers considering the archaeology of beekeeping.

With more than one hundred-fifty books and three hundred published articles on proverb studies that have attracted wide attention of folklorists around the world, it is little wonder that international scholars look upon Wolfgang Mieder as the modern-day Pied Piper of paremiology. For this festschrift, some of the world's leading proverb and folklore scholars have come together to commemorate Mieder's sixty-fifth birthday. Authors from Russia, Eastern and Western Europe, Israel, and the United States have contributed essays representative of the scope and breadth of Mieder's own impressive...