El mito de la vida privada

En 1969, Jacques Galinier emprendió el estudio etnográfico de los otomíes orientales, o sea del conjunto de comunidades que ocupan el territorio denominado a veces "Sur de la Huasteca". En las sierras y las zonas bajas que se extienden desde San Pablito al sur hasta Ixhuatlán de Madero al noreste y Texcatepec al noroeste, viven más de 60 mil otomíes quienes, junto con los de Santa Ana Huey tlalpan y de San Pedro Tlachichilco en el Altiplano de Tulancingo conforman el grupo más homogéneo del área otomí. Las investigaciones que concluyeron con la redacción del presente volumen...

This classic tale of Arabian hero and adventurer Sinbad, is a translation of the original Arabic tale. With a brief description of the history and meaning of the tale, from a member of the folklore society. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Here the physician and anthropologist Melvin Konner examines the arc of evolution to explain the relationships between women and men. Drawing on examples from Nature, Konner sheds light on our biologically different identities and the poignant exceptions that challenge the traditional man / woman division. We will meet the hunter-gatherers of Botswana, whose culture gave women a prominent place, creating the figure of the working mother and respecting the voices of women around the fire. Orientation of societies towards war and the conquest fostered extreme male dominance. But our species has ...