Recordando a Mameyes

En este acercamiento antropohistórico al fenómeno de las curaciones milagrosas, Theo Löbsack se pregunta seriamente qué secreto tienen los "charlatanes" que son capaces de curaciones súbitas, con la aparencia completa de un milagro por medios convencionales y excepcionales, en distintas épocas.

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High in the Inyo Mountains, between Owens Valley and Death Valley National Park, lies the ghost town of Cerro Gordo. Discovered in 1865, this silver town boomed to a population of 3,000 people in the hands of savvy entrepreneurs during the 1870s. As the silver played out and the town faded, a few hung on to the dream. By the early 1900s, Louis D. Gordon wandered up the Yellow Grade Road where freight wagons once traversed with silver and supplies and took a closer look at the zinc ore that had been tossed aside by early miners. The Fat Hill lived again, primarily as a small company town. By...

Único en su género, el nuevo libro de Carl Langebaek abre una ventana a nuestro pasado remoto, cuando los primeros humanos llegaron al territorio que hoy conocemos como Colombia. Ocurrió hace 14.000 años, o más. Los primeros en llegar fueron cazadores-recolectores que entraron en el trópico, un ecosistema cuyas implicaciones ambientales favorecieron entre ellos formas culturales de las que, hasta ahora, poco se sabía. Langebaek ofrece una visión crítica y amplia sobre la historia de las comunidades indígenas y sobre nuestra propia sociedad. En esta apasionante expedición a las...