Tiris

¿Por qué tenemos la costumbre de llamar solo 'orales' a las tradiciones de los pueblos que no conocen la escritura? Un gran número de etnografías muestra que, con frecuencia, estas tradiciones son al menos tan iconográficas como orales, fundadas tanto sobre el uso de la imagen como sobre el de la palabra. De las investigaciones expuestas en esta obra surgen dos conclusiones de carácter general: la primera, la oposición entre tradición oral y tradición escrita que prevalece en la antropología actual y en muchas disciplinas de carácter histórico y lingüístico no es falsa sino...

PLAYING IN PEACE - Proposals to play in peace and without violence - The authors put an accent on playing, considering it the primordial activity of childhood. So that childhood games contribute to their development as people of peace, means that they can play and that they can do so with happiness, meeting with their equals, that they can have materials and peaceful references and that they can regulate conflicts that arise in the games in a non violent man.

The main objectives of this study are: to establish an architectural sequence for the Ah Canual group of sites; to analyse the typological schemes used, the techniques of construction and the material evidence - lithics, shell, epigraphy, iconography, funerary remains - and to put this into context with other nearby sites, tracing trends and developments over time. Spanish text.

The latest entry in the 'Limina/Limites: Archaeologies, histories, islands and borders in the Mediterranean' series presents the study of the rural landscape of the eastern part of the island of Mallorca (Balearic Islands) during Late Antiquity, providing new data that improves our understanding of one of the least well-known periods of the island.