Migración y formación de los “nuevos braceros del ocio”

As much a storyteller as an ethnographer, Lydia Cabrera was captivated by a strange and magical new world revealed to her by her Afro-Cuban friends in early twentieth-century Havana. In Afro-Cuban Tales this world comes to teeming life, introducing English-speaking readers to a realm of tenuous boundaries between the natural and the supernatural, deities and mortals, the spiritual and the seemingly inanimate. Here readers will find a vibrant, imaginative record of African culture transplanted to Cuba and transformed over time, a passionate and subversive alternative to the dominant Western...

Fatema Mernissi, the world-renowned Islamic feminist, has shed unprecedented light on the lives of women in the Middle East, in works hailed as "enchanting" (The New York Times Book Review), "exuberant" (Elle), and "remarkable" (The Washington Post Book World). Now, in Scheherazade Goes West, Mernissi reveals her unique experiences as a liberated, independent Moroccan woman faced with the peculiarities and unexpected encroachments of Western culture. Her often surprising discoveries about the conditions of and attitudes toward women around the world -- and the exquisitely embroidered amalgam...

This book offers several examples of the interest that some researchers from Europe and the USA have in Latin America lands, as well as the more specific influence on a variety of fields, such as agriculture, construction, religion or traditions in countries like Mexico, Honduras, Bolivia and Chile.

En esta obra sólida pero a la vez refrescante, su autora invita a adentrarnos en la temática desde la práctica y la reflexión crítica acerca de la gestión del desarrollo en un contexto como el de América Latina, región caracterizada por distintas agencias de desarrollo y múltiples estudios e informes como la más desigual del mundo. El trabajo se centra en el análisis de los desafíos que enfrenta el enfoque y la práctica de la Gerencia Social en el contexto regional con el propósito de revalorar la pertinencia y relevancia que mantiene dicho paradigma. Los desafíos teóricos y...