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One of the great technological achievements of the ancient Maya, Maya Blue is one the world’s most unusual ancient pigments. In Maya Blue, Dean E. Arnold offers a comprehensive history of its study for almost a century, filled with personal anecdotes drawn from his decades of work uncovering the Maya knowledge of its constituents, its ancient sources, and how it was made—including previously unknown methods. The book presents a fresh holistic perspective that documents these discoveries and the scientific process that led to them and provides testable hypotheses about how the pigment and the technology used to make it moved throughout Mesoamerica. Combining the organic dye indigo and the...
Este proyecto educativo pretende responder, desde la educación, a la dinámica de la globalización y la sociedad del conocimiento, que entraña transformar tanto los procesos de aprendizaje, como el interior de las instituciones educativas a la luz de las nuevas formas de aprender. Este trabajo supone la primera reflexión teórico-práctica del proyecto, aportando además las experiencias del desarrollo del proyecto en España, con el fin de que sirva de base para otras ciudades que quieran participar de esta iniciativa. El libro es fruto del trabajo del grupo de Investigación MULTIEDU de la Facultad de Educación, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, y de todos y cada uno de los participantes en el proyecto «¡Nosotros proponemos!» en Ciudad Real.
La Escuela debe estar al servicio de la comunidad, compartir sus deseos, ayudar a encontrar soluciones a los problemas de la ciudadanía. No es una opción de la escuela, es una obligación ética e incluso moral. La Escuela no puede reunir a profesionales cualificados que forman y capacitan a nuestros jóvenes y permanecer cómodamente cerrando a sus puertas a los problemas de su comunidad. Esta responsabilidad hacia la sociedad es particularmente compartida por las Ciencias Sociales y, más concretamente, a la disciplina de Geografía, ámbito donde surgió el Proyecto ¡Nosotros Proponemos!
El 1884, aprofitant les noves possibilitats de la fotografia, l’austríac Teoberto Maler fou el primer a obtenir un registre complet dels vestigis arquitectònics que s’erigien en una gran part de ciutats maies parcialment sepultades per l’espesssa catifa natural de la península del Yucatán, unes fotografies que representen el primer intent de documentació visual dels assentaments maies.
An introduction to the complex stories of Mesoamerican divinity through the carvings, ceramics, and metalwork of the Maya Classic period Lives of the Gods reveals how ancient Maya artists evoked a pantheon as rich and complex as the more familiar Greco-Roman, Hindu-Buddhist, and Egyptian deities. Focusing on the period between A.D. 250 and 900, the authors show how this powerful cosmology informed some of the greatest creative achievements of Maya civilization.
In this book, coastal dune specialists from tropical and temperate latitudes cover a wide set of topics, including: geomorphology, community dynamics, ecophysiology, biotic interactions and environmental problems and conservation. The book offers recommendations for future research, identifying relevant topics where detailed knowledge is still lacking. It also identifies management tools that will promote and maintain the rich diversity of the dune environments in the context of continuing coastal development.
Mesoamerican communities past and present are characterized by their strong inclination toward color and their expert use of the natural environment to create dyes and paints. In pre-Hispanic times, skin was among the preferred surfaces on which to apply coloring materials. Archaeological research and historical and iconographic evidence show that, in Mesoamerica, the human body—alive or dead—received various treatments and procedures for coloring it. Painting the Skin brings together exciting research on painted skins in Mesoamerica. Chapters explore the materiality, uses, and cultural meanings of the colors applied to a multitude of skins, including bodies, codices made of hide and veg...
In Critical Marxism in Mexico, Stefan Gandler, coming from the tradition of the Frankfurt School, reveals the contributions that Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez and Bolívar Echeverría have made to universal thought. While in recent times Latin America has taken its distance from global power centers, and reorganised its political and economic relations, in philosophy the same tendency is barely visible. Critical Marxism in Mexico is a contribution to the reorganisation of international philosophical discussion, with Critical Theory as the point of departure. Despite having studied in Europe, where philosophical Eurocentrism remains virulent, Gandler opens his eyes to another tradition of modernity and offers an account of the life and philosophy of Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez and Bolívar Echeverría, former senior faculty members at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).
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