Toros sin complejos

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...

Libro en el que se analizan los principales aspectos de la posesión demoníaca en Galicia –víctimas, síntomas, ubicación geográfica...– tomando como eje de estudio el santuario pontevedrés de El Corpiño. «La España mental: el problema del Mal» trata, a modo de glosa, de esta compleja configuración constituida por la posesión diabólica: Satán y el Mal en su múltiple, heterogénea y cambiante expresión objetiva, y en cuanto modelo exemplar o principio generador del mito, arte, pensamiento, valor y acción. Un estudio de la posesión y, correlativamente, del «endemoniado»...

El libro nos invita a desplazar la mirada, una mirada oblicua y descentrada que nos permita comprender que de algún modo todos somos migrantes, somos extranjeros en nuestros territorios; las fronteras están en nuestros propios cuerpos y miradas.