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The tremendous increase in migrations and diasporas of human groups in the last decades are not only bringing along challenging issues for society, especially related to the economic and political management of multiculturalism and culturally effective health care, but they are also creating dramatic changes in traditional knowledge, believes and practices (KBP) related to (medicinal) plant use. The contributors to this volume – all internationally recognized scholars in the field of ethnobiology, transcultural pharmacy, and medical anthropology – analyze these dynamics of traditional knowledge in especially 12 selected case studies. Ina Vandebroek, features in Nova's "Secret Life of Scientists", answering the question: just what is ethnobotany?
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An analysis of how respect of the rule of law varies across countries that share a common historical heritage and similar socio-economic challenges. >
El texto bàsico de economia agricola es un estudio que compila los pirncipales postulados de la economia aplicados al sector agropecuario y forestal. Describimos las principales herramientas para el estudio de la productividad y la eficiencia de los sistemas de producción.
Ernesto Cardenal and Sergio Ramírez are two of the most influential Latin American intellectuals of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Addressing Nicaragua's struggle for self-definition from divergent ethnic, religious, generational, political, and class backgrounds, they constructed distinct yet compatible visions of national history, anchored in a reappraisal of the early twentieth-century insurgent leader Augusto César Sandino. During the Sandinista Revolution of 1979-90, Cardenal, appointed Nicaragua's minister of culture, became one of the most provocative and internationally recognized figures of liberation theology, while Ramírez, a member of the revolutionary ju...
Un relato de Nicaragua en sus primeros 32 años de vida independiente, y un esbozo familiar de los hombres que forjaron y fueron partícipes en esos eventos.
En el marco del proyecto REDIAL, este libro presenta avances y resultados de investigación referentes a la educación en derecho internacional en América Latina. El objetivo es brindar herramientas para repensar cómo se enseña y entiende el derecho internacional en la región, para ello se reúnen algunos diagnósticos sobre la educación en derecho internacional en Brasil y Guatemala; se presentan los resultados de la aplicación de diferentes metodologías para el estudio y la enseñanza del derecho internacional; y se proponen nuevas lecturas y narrativas del derecho internacional, el derecho constitucional y el derecho comparado.
... 44 writers from 14 countries, a wide range of themes and styles. ... what is most striking is the spirit which animates each work--if spirit seems too vague a word, then let us say conviction or energy or even attitude. It races through the stories and poems ... uniting the literary entities so that they seem to complete each other. This spirit, however, is not ephemeral, for these writers, in digging out their roots have touched what is essential in themselves. ... --from the prefaceDonated by Wendy Larsen, 8/2011. Ring-bound photocopy.