Tecnología, cultura experta e identidad en la sociedad del conocimiento

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...

Content: I. Revolution and Law: H.P. Glenn: Law, Revolution and Rights u M.A. Simon: Must a Revolution Preserve Rights? u C. Wellman: Locke's Right to Revolution Reexamined u W.E. Murnion: Aquinas on Revolution u Shing-I Liu: Menschenrecht, Widerstandsrecht u. Revolution u II. Human Rights and Democracy: A. Mineau: L'origine des droits de l'homme u H. Kochler: Menschenrechtskonformitat demokrat. Systeme u M. Scheinin: Legal Protection of Human Rights and Different Conceptions of Democracy u J.F. Doyle: Fulfilling Revolutionary Promises u N. Lopez-Calera: Naturaleza dialectica de los derechos...

The Codice de Santa Maria Asuncion, one of the most comprehensive native census pictoral manuscripts that has survived from central Mexico, provides a wealth of information on native rural life, social structure, settlement patterns, land tenure, household composition, political and economic organization, and cultural ecology and is one of a handful of remaining examples of indigenous record keeping. A facsimile edition.

En 1911 y 1912 Rudolf Steiner pronunció en Neuchtel (Suiza) tres conferencias sobre Christian Roacruz. En ellas, Steiner expuso revelaciones sorrendentes sobre la obra y la misión de este granAdepto Rosacruz. Tanto fue así que los rosacrucinos,eguidores de la filosofía rosacruz, han vsto en estas conferencias uno de los textos prinipales de su escuela espiritual y filosófica.En esta pequeña obra el ocultista Rudolf Steinertrata temas como: - Los siete grados de la Inciación. La Escuela de los doce. La ley delos 100 años. Los tres procesos alquímicos. Las reencarnaciones de Christian...