Movimientos de personas e ideas y multiculturalidad - Vol. II

Hay un momento mágico de la historia de la humanidad en el que se crean las bases de nuestra democracia, de nuestra civilización, de nuestra cultura; ese momento es de las culturas griega y romana, hace miles de años. Nuestra manera de ver el mundo y afrontar la vida vienen de ahí. La poesía, la filosofía, el teatro, la oratoria, la novela, la historia, la sátira, la fábula, el cuento..., todas estas formas de comunicación las inventan y las escriben por vez primera unos autores geniales, divertidos, inspiradores y estimulantes, llenos de vida, magia y energía: los autores...

Our population practices both traditional and organized religions, like various forms of syncretism in everyday life. Nonetheless, religious organizations and its practices in some occasions have been addressed in a critical way, taking into consideration its negative effects on our social lives. It is to say that it seems there is a social consensus that understands these implications and consequences are exclusively positive. The religious person provides direction for everyday living, in explicit and implicit ways. Although the less institutionalized versions of the practices, at the...

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...

Half-breed Genomic presents a series of investigations that study race and half-breed. The researches in the laboratories of Mexico, Brazil and Colombia, seek to know the genetic, political and social area that constitute the race. The authors emphasize that the study of this is not exhaustive in research on the genomic dimension, but to understand it better, we must consider a series of social, cultural and political aspects that revolve around it. That is why this book invites us to know how the concepts of nation and half-breed interweave to define the race in Latin America.