Desarrollo y perspectivas de los sistemas de andenería de los Andes centrales del Perú

Existe un poder adultocéntrico. Una forma particular de ejercer poder a partir de la negación de la coetaneidad, la precarización, la estigmatización y el aniquilamiento de la vida de las personas jóvenes. Contra toda obviedad, una sociedad adultocéntrica no es aquella que pone a “los adultos” en el centro, sino que se define por su funcionamiento: un sistema de enunciados y de prácticas sociales sedimentadas que relegan a las personas jóvenes a la condición de “todavía-no-sujetos”. Mientras que la juventud avanza en una politización cada vez más amplia de los espacios de...

These collected papers are for those who have their gaze fixed on the fascinating mosaic of cultures that was the North-African world from the moment Rome appeared in the region. Most articles are dedicated to the world of images, but other subjects include Historiography, Archaeology of Architecture, and Libyan-Berber ethnicities.

This excellent history of Peru proposes and proves an entirely new thesis on its nineteenth century: the changes in its economy that might have led to a better future were undone by taxes and other demands at the national, provincial and local levels. The failure of Peru owes a good deal to wartime taxes and local tax farming of the countryside. Professor Christine Hunefeldt does for the mundane issue of taxation what she has already done for Peruvian slavery and women’s rights; she writes a new history based on the evolution of a tax structure that changed for the worse over time. This is...

Celebrates the lives and accomplishments of Cuban Americans, especially in Florida, describes how they have kept their culture in a new country, and discusses festivals, food, the arts, entertainment, and sports.