Familia y vida cotidiana en América Latina, siglos XVIII-XX

Exclusive interviews with key political figures in Mexico—former presidents Zedillo and Salinas, and guerrilla leader Marcos—are the basis of this study that untangles the complex influences that have shaped Mexico over the past 20 years. From the Zapatistas to electoral fraud, this well-researched history accounts for many parts of Mexican politics and economy that have remained obscured by official silence. Beyond recurring catastrophes, however, this journalist finds the seed of a modern democracy in Vicente Fox's presidency, one which the author analyzes in a prologue added for this...

This book is a Spanish translation of the proceedings of a conference held in 1986. Archaeologists and conservators from around the world met in Mexico City to examine the unique problems associated with in situ archaeological conservation. The papers presented focus on a wide variety of materials (including adobe, wood, ceramics, textiles, painting, skin, and bone) and sites as diverse as Algeria and the Arctic. Of special note are case studies of three spectacular sites in Mexico: Teotihuacan, Tenochtitlan, and Cacaxtla.

Exposici n de los antecedentes coloniales, el pensamiento propiamente indigenista (con un cap tulo dedicado a las letras y las artes indigenistas) y las pol ticas puestas en pr ctica, terminando su estudio con un cap tulo titulado "Del indigenismo al indianismo", puesto que el indigenismo no se caracteriz por ser una manifestaci n del pensamiento ind gena sino una reflexi n criolla y mestiza sobre el indio.

¿Cómo era la ciudad donde se formó Carlos Gardel? ¿En qué consistió ese fascinante y misterioso mundo urbano de principios del siglo XX? ¿Cómo se construyó aquel universo cultural en el que llegaron a convivir el tango y la ópera, el sainete y la zarzuela, los Podestá e Isadora Duncan?