Políticas de evaluación y acreditación en las universidades argentinas

El choque entre Occidente y Oriente Medio es un problema de elevada complejidad que no sólo afecta al “espíritu de la época” en la manifestación de conflictos bélicos, inestabilidad macroeconómica, flujos migratorios, crisis y transiciones energéticas, reorganización política mundial, resurgimiento de posiciones ideológicas extremistas y fundamentalismos religiosos. También pone de relieve la necesidad de revisar el concepto humano de “conciencia”. Hashim Cabrera, intelectual de referencia en el debate del estado contemporáneo del Islam, desarrolla en este ensayo una...

En este análisis sobre los procesos que han constituido la ficción teórica del Alto Cauca, una región que incluye municipios de los departamentos del Cauca (Santander de Quilichao, Buenos Aires y Suárez) y el Valle del Cauca (Jamundí)

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 ...

The Cordillera Escalera mountain range on the Loreto-San Martín border in Amazonian Peru was hardly known to scientists until the September 2013 expedition described in this report. The book includes an in-depth description of the history, daily life, and natural resource use of local Shawi communities, richly illustrated with >100 color photographs, as well as the results of rapid inventories of geology, plants, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals in the Cordillera Escalera. Also discussed are threats to and opportunities for the landscape and its people, and recommendations...