La intervención social con colectivos inmigrantes

Cu ntame algo, aunque sea una mentira imprime una discusi n cr tica sobre los fundamentos te ricos de la antropolog a y de las pr cticas usuales en el campo etnogr fico. Esta reflexi n se completa con un provocador cap tulo en el que la autora, a trav s de su biograf a intelectual, cavila sobre su propia posici n de marginalidad como inmigrante cubana al ingresar al establishment universitario estadunidense. de tal suerte, las p ginas de este libro se convierten en una doble revelaci n: en la medida en que la autora descubre la voz de Esperanza, encuentra tambi n la suya.

En esta documentada historia de la medicina, el doctor Ruy Pérez Tamayo se remonta a los pueblos más antiguos, en los que predominaba el pensamiento mágico y las enfermedades eran curadas por sacerdotes, brujos o chamanes. A estos oscuros y poco documentados orígenes les sigue la increíble complejidad de la medicina de nuestro tiempo.

A study of the evolution of settlement patterns in the Vera Basin and Almanzora river valley in Almeriá, south-east Spain. The surveys carried out in the late 1980s and early 1990s provided the material on which this study is based and helps to reconstruct the development of settlement from the early Phoenician colonisation of the area in the 8th century BC to Late Antiquity and the early 8th century AD. Appendices contain the archaeological data. Spanish text; summaries in English and French.

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...