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Usted encontrará en este libro los lugares y temas más emblemáticos en la trayectoria de más de 50 años del profesor Ángel García Cook, pues se resaltan las aportaciones de un amplio espectro que logró como investigador, funcionario y maestro de grupo en los que dejó su huella.
Esta obra sintetiza los datos empíricos y teórico-metodológicos de los estudios presentados en el primero y segundo seminario «Manifestaciones rupestres en América Latina» organizado por el Instituto universitario de Estudios sobre América Latina (IEAL) y el Secretariado de Divulgación Científica y Cultural de la Universidad de Sevilla. Aporta conocimientos novedosos y originales sobre las manifestaciones rupestres, las sociedades y culturas que las realizaron, cuáles fueron sus posibles significados, cómo se elaboraron, el porqué de su creación y qué podemos hacer para conservarlas.
The mural paintings of Cacaxtla offer the starting point for a discussion of cultural interactions and the fabrication of prestige. After the disintegration of the Teotihuacán system, this book considers how city-states of the Central Highlands transformed their material culture to construct new political discourses to establish local authority.
Estudio de la lítica tallada y pulida en México en diferentes tipos de artefactos líticos
"The tests that make up this work are the result of recent research and present a broad overview on the issues, perspectives and interpretations that are currently applied to the study of the stone carving and polished in Mexico. Its content refers to different types of lithic artifacts from heterogeneous contexts that account for certain moments in history culture. Includes observations on different techniques of development and function of the studied pieces. The texts, among other issues, study the deposits of obsidian, the workshops of elaboration of the artifacts and those artifacts as offerings in specific rituals as well as artifacts, symbols, etc. In terms of raw material, some artic...
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Since 1980, the number of people in U.S. prisons has increased more than 450%. Despite a crime rate that has been falling steadily for decades, California has led the way in this explosion, with what a state analyst called "the biggest prison building project in the history of the world." Golden Gulag provides the first detailed explanation for that buildup by looking at how political and economic forces, ranging from global to local, conjoined to produce the prison boom. In an informed and impassioned account, Ruth Wilson Gilmore examines this issue through statewide, rural, and urban perspectives to explain how the expansion developed from surpluses of finance capital, labor, land, and sta...
A new YA fantasy graphic novel following the epic adventures of Adora, a brave young woman of color who lives in a fantastical world with underground pirates, ghosts, and a mysterious force called “The Distance.” The Distance threatens to destroy it all, and only Adora can stop it! From Marc Bernardin—the award-winning television writer/producer on Star Trek: Picard, Critical Role: The Legend of Vox Machina, Masters of the Universe: Revelations, Castle Rock, and Mata Hari’s Ariela Kristantina. Includes an introduction by Damon Lindelof (Lost, The Leftovers, HBO's The Watchmen)! "Marc Bernardin's gorgeous, powerful Adora and the Distance was his way of connecting with a child on the A...
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