Hombres material sensible

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...

Este proyecto busca construir justicias feministas mediante la reivindicación de prácticas de pluralismo y justicia comunitaria, alejadas de la sanción y enfocadas en la restauración del tejido social.

The main objective of this investigation is to obtain basic data that will allow the generation of cultural, geoarchaeological, paleoenvironmental and paleoecological knowledge about the Pleistocene-Holocene transition. In turn, this will facilitate the discussion of different topics about the peopling of Uruguay within the context of the peopling of America. The study presents a detailed investigation carried out at the Pay Paso locality, which contains a total of nine sites of archaeological, paleontological and paleoecological interest on the plains of the Cuareim River in northwestern...

El libro encierra un potencial teórico que pone de manifiesto una clara superación del enfoque familista. A través del estudio de redes sociales, movilidad y reproducción social y patronazgo, se analiza el sistema de organización social en términos relacionales. Se alcanza así una perspectiva en la que el individuo, familia y sociedad se convierten en tres pilares que sostienen un entramado en el que la persona adquiere protagonismo a través del proceso de civilización, como bien se señala en este libro.