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Antropologías carcelarias
El libro aborda el encierro desde diversas perspectivas, con contribuciones de especialistas de varios países. Se destaca la situación de poblaciones intracarcelarias, que comparten características similares: color, clase, grupo étnico, edad, nivel educativo y tipo de delito. Se evidencia la violencia y condiciones deplorables en las cárceles, afectando la dignidad de los presos. Se sugiere el uso de métodos etnográficos para comprender profundamente estas problemáticas. Además, se señala la existencia de grupos especiales de reclusos y el impacto del encierro en sus familias, ofreciendo una visión panorámica desde la antropología.
La Fe mueve fronteras
El mundo evangélico (protestantismo y pentecostalismo) desde su llegada a la frontera chileno-boliviana, a fines del siglo XIX hasta hoy, ha pasado por varias etapas. La primera se trata de un protestantismo misionero, que evangeliza a los indígenas a través de la educación y salud, en donde, el crecimiento y la expansión es mínima y sin mayor relevancia. Sin embargo, todo comenzó a cambiar a partir de la década de 1950, inicialmente con la revolución boliviana de 1952, cuando en Arica nace el Puerto Libre en 1953 y la Junta de Adelanto de 1958, fenómenos políticos, sociales y económicos que afectarán, hasta hoy, la frontera y las relaciones transfronterizas chilenos-bolivianas. Este libro trata sobre la dimensión cultural de la movilidad fronteriza y transfronteriza.
Peasant and Nation
"A watershed analysis—the new political history of Latin America begins here."—John Tutino, Georgetown University "Florencia Mallon's analysis of peasant politics and state formation in Latin America compels us to rethink the relationship between the 'national' and the 'popular.' In particular, she questions the concept of 'community' in a way that scholars of subaltern histories elsewhere will find enormously helpful."—Dipesh Chakrabarty, Director of the Ashworth Centre for Social Theory, University of Melbourne, Australia
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Fire From Heaven
It was born a scant ninety-five years ago in a rundown warehouse on Azusa Street in Los Angeles. For days the religious-revival service there went on and on-and within a week the Los Angeles Times was reporting on a "weird babble" coming from the building. Believers were "speaking in tongues," the way they did at the first Pentecost recorded in the Bible?and a pentecostal movement was created that would, by the start of the twenty-first century, attract over 400 million followers worldwide. Harvey Cox has traveled the globe to visit and worship with pentecostal congregations on four continents, and he has written a dynamic, provocative history of this explosion of spirituality?a movement that represents no less than a tidal change in what religion is and what it means to people.
Borderscaping: Imaginations and Practices of Border Making
Using the borderscapes concept, this book offers an approach to border studies that expresses the multilevel complexity of borders, from the geopolitical to social practice and cultural production at and across the border. Accordingly, it encourages a productive understanding of the processual, de-territorialized and dispersed nature of borders and their ensuring regimes in the era of globalization and transnational flows as well as showcasing border research as an interdisciplinary field with its own academic standing. Contemporary bordering processes and practices are examined through the borderscapes lens to uncover important connections between borders as a ’challenge' to national (and...
Children, Young People and Borders
This edited volume increases knowledge about children and young people living in borderlands, passing through borders and (de)constructing borders, as well as highlights the potential of studying how children and young people imagine, act, cross, and inhabit symbolic and material borders. The study of borders and borderlands is growing extensively, but the experiences of children and young people in the turmoil of border changes and border crossings remain under-researched. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this edited volume has a twofold objective: to increase knowledge about children and young people living in borderlands, passing through borders and (de)constructing borders; and to highlight the potential of studying how children and young people imagine, act, cross, and inhabit symbolic and material borders, with the aim of advancing the theoretical and empirical debate within border studies. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Borderlands Studies.
Virtues and Their Vices
A comprehensive philosophical treatment of the virtues and their competing vices. The first four sections focus on historical classes of virtue: the cardinal virtues, the capital vices and the corrective virtues, intellectual virtues, and the theological virtues. A final section discusses the role of virtue theory in a number of disciplines.
Magic, Science and Religion and the Scope of Rationality
This accessible and illuminating book explores the classical opposition between magic, science and religion.
Overdiagnosed
An exposé on Big Pharma and the American healthcare system’s zeal for excessive medical testing, from a nationally recognized expert More screening doesn’t lead to better health—but can turn healthy people into patients. Going against the conventional wisdom reinforced by the medical establishment and Big Pharma that more screening is the best preventative medicine, Dr. Gilbert Welch builds a compelling counterargument that what we need are fewer, not more, diagnoses. Documenting the excesses of American medical practice that labels far too many of us as sick, Welch examines the social, ethical, and economic ramifications of a health-care system that unnecessarily diagnoses and treats...
