Zacatecas. Historia breve

A comprehensive study of a wide range of Andalusian ivory artefacts from the Middle Ages. As well as examining the Late Roman background to Hispano-Muslim ivory working, the book gives weight to the full chronological span of muslim rule in Spain, although it does not ignore the most famous pieces from the 10th and 11th centuries. The corpus which is presented allows new insights on production and its social and political contexts, on chronology, and on iconographic considerations

La tragedia acaecida en Venezuela desde los albores del siglo XXI ha sido tan inconmensurable que terminó por engullirlo todo y ha dejado poco menos que una tierra baldía, un espacio sin referentes lógicos, un país desdibujado. De entre los millones de hombres y mujeres que han padecido el desmoronamiento de su entorno y la conculcación de sus derechos hasta verse reducidos a la supervivencia diaria, surge la necesidad de dejar un testimonio, un aporte a la memoria colectiva para cuando haya de hacerse, tal vez, el gran inventario de esta debacle. " Días salvajes" no es un libro más de ...

La vida de una mujer, la de un hombre, o la de cientos y miles de ellos, la de una ciudad entera, valen muy poco frente a los intereses y los clanes multinacionales.

In this novel, Paula Lpez addresses central issues to understand the problem that indigeneity presents in Mexico City. The author focuses her analysis in Milpa Alta, a place where there is a high density of indigenous population in the city. The main issues to be addressed are alterity and indigeneity, in their relation to politics, economics and social relations, taking as context the consolidation of a modern nation-state, where the homogeneity that it seeks, tends to be confronted with a heterogeneous, multicultural society.