Historia secreta de la conquista de América

Describes the relationship between twentieth-century Mexican artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, discussing the political, social, and cultural upheavals that impacted their relationship.

Pierre Grimal pretende en este libro superar el vacío existente en torno a la interpretación del mito, aunque sin renunciar a ofrecer una exposición abreviada de la materia mítica griega. El texto se plantea el estudio de la mitología griega como problema hermenéutico, aportando sugerentes puntos de vista, pero salvando, por encima de toda reducción racionalista o positivista, el valor de los mitos para el despliegue de la conciencia humana. "Gracias al mito -afirma el autor-, lo sagrado ha dejado de ser terrible, toda una región del alma se ha abierto a la reflexión; gracias a él,...

“Pasajeros en tránsito. Una historia real”, investiga y relata los tres intentos de seis exiliados chilenos, realizados en 1984, por volver al país de origen. Regresar al territorio prohibido contra la voluntad de la dictadura, un comportamiento subversivo y peligroso, es un hecho casi marginal en el contexto de las brutales violaciones a los derechos humanos sufridas por chilenos y latinoamericanos en las décadas de los setenta y ochenta. Sin embargo, la importancia del texto de Arrate consiste en excavar en lo anecdótico del hecho para dimensionarlo, más allá de sus implicaciones...

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In the sixteenth century, in the eyes of the ruling class, land, arable land, remained the basis of all prosperity. As the dignitary rose in rank, he acquired the rights to more and larger areas of real estate. Theoretically, nobody was the owner of the land. The land belonged to the collective owner, calpulli, to public institutions such as temples, or to the city itself. There was no private ownership of the land, there was collective ownership with individual right of use.