La cultura. Argentina (1808-1830)

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A punto de que Colombia fuera un Estado fallido, ¿cómo llegaron a ser los colombianos normativamente pluriculturales? Vistas en un marco global, ¿qué características sellaron sus experiencias básicas a lo largo de dos siglos de existencia independentista? La solución de esos interrogantes sirve de excusa al autor de este libro para el escrutinio detallado de los íconos culturales unidos al mito originario de los colombianos, cuya ley de circulación circular coartó el surgimiento de lo nuevo, y del mito cultural de la Atenas suramericana, con que se intentó compensar el fracaso en...

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...

Michael D. Coe, uno de los mas importantes mayologos de la actualidad, relata en este libro la historia de lo que el considera "una de las aventuras intelectuales mas interesantes de nuestro tiempo": una historia polemica, de enfrentamientos intelectuales entre los distintos expertos que, si bien con ideas distintas, a veces directamente opuestas, participaron en la ardua labor del desciframiento de los glifos mayas. Knorosov, Thompson y Proskouriakoff, protagonistas de esta aventura, aparecen retratados finamente por Coe en este libro.