Saberes sociales para la justicia social

Many of the 13 essays in this collection originate from the archaeology symposia of the Society for Latin American Studies held at Bradford University in 1989; others have been commissioned from people engaged in research in Central and South America. Subjects include the Aztec Cihuateteo, political stratification in Classic Maya society, shamanism and sculpture in Ancient West Mexico, underwater archaeolocical research in Bolivia, Inca ceremonial platforms in central Chile, early Inca architecture in Peru, fabrics of the Atacamba.

Edificar el cielo en la tierra, hacer habitable y sostenible el planeta, es la misión que Dios le ha encomendado al ser humano según el islam. La sharía o ley islámica es la vía o camino para cumplir con el mandato divino. Catorce siglos después de la revelación, y cuando hoy cerca de 1.800 millones de personas se declaran musulmanas, la sharía no ha perdido ni vigencia ni protagonismo en el ideario islámico, y su definición, aplicación y finalidad no han dejado de discutirse entre los pensadores y activistas del islam. Surgido durante el colonialismo, el islamismo empieza y acaba...

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 book is exclusively devoted to the mint of Ilduro, its main goal being to study not only the issues produced by the workshop in detail, but also the role that this coinage had in the monetarization of a changing society, that of the Laietani, which had never previously needed to use coinage.