Informe de la nutrición mundial 2015

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...

A brave attempt at studying Phoenician colonization from an environmental standpoint. Excavations at the tell of Castillo de Dona Blanca included study of animal and fish bones, moluscs and shellfish. A final chapter puts the biological evidence in a wider context and concludes that this kind of evidence on its own is better applied to smaller, local questions.

Las fosas clandestinas son un síntoma de la violencia sistémica en las sociedades contemporáneas. Aquí convergen testimonios de familiares de personas desaparecidas con análisis sociológico, político, histórico, filosófico y teológico.

J. G. Frazer explica en esta selección de su obra fundamental, La rama dorada: magia y religión, que existen leyes generales del pensamiento primitivo que se han transmitido hasta nuestros días bajo la forma impalpable y el respeto irrestricto que profesamos hacia objetos y palabras tabú.