Grandes maricas de la historia

Se recogen varios ensayos sobre la existencia de valores universales y la inconmensurabilidad de cada cultura frente a las demás, en un momento en que los procesos de mundialización política, económica y mediática plantean estas cuestiones en la vida cotidiana de numerosos pueblos y colectividades.

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 ...

Following the 1996 treaty ending decades of civil war, how are Guatemalans reckoning with genocide, especially since almost everyone contributed in some way to the violence? Meaning “to count, figure up” and “to settle rewards and punishments,” reckoning promises accounting and accountability. Yet as Diane M. Nelson shows, the means by which the war was waged, especially as they related to race and gender, unsettled the very premises of knowing and being. Symptomatic are the stories of duplicity pervasive in postwar Guatemala, as the left, the Mayan people, and the state were each...

En este libro se recogen los resultados de la excavación realizada durante 1983 en la cueva de Urratxa III (Orozko, Bizkaia) y las investigaciones que sobre sus materiales han llevado a cabo especialistas de diferentes disciplinas científicas. A través del estudio de los restos recuperados se ha podido establecer que fue ocupada en tres momentos diferentes: Aziliense, Epipaleolítico avanzado y Edad del Bronce. Durante las dos primeras etapas, IX y V milenio a. C., la cueva se utilizó como refugio estacional de grupos cazadores-recolectores. En la Edad del Bronce, II milenio a. C., fue...