La élite del poder

La Mina: A Royal Moche Tomb focuses on La Mina, an extraordinarily rich tomb that was looted on the north coast of Peru in 1987. The ceramic and metal objects it contained were among the most extraordinary ever produced in the Andean area, and it had the most colorfully decorated pre-Columbian burial chamber ever found in the Americas. The artifacts are now scattered throughout the world, nearly all of them held in private collections. In this work Donnan reveals how he was able to locate and document many of the tomb’s contents and determine how the tomb was constructed and embellished....

A study of the political and religious situation in the province of Valencia in eastern Spain, focusing primarily on the 6th century AD. With five major authorities holding political control in the south-east of the peninsula, Marti discusses archaeological evidence from sites and cemeteries, as well as textual and artistic evidence to discover the extent of authority held by each of these parties (Hispanic-Roman, Bishops, Visigoths, Byzantines and Francs).

WOMEN NOVELISTS. Young narrators of the nineties - A critical study on Spanish writers born after 1960 who have published their works in the decade of the nineties. In the analysis the literary production of writers in Castilian, Catalan and Galician are contemplated, and the complementary bibliographies of writers in Basque and Latin American novelists are introduced.

Contains close readings of Gustavo Perez Firmat, Piri Thomas, Luis J. Rodriguez, Nicholasa Mohr, Gloria Anzaldua, Norma Elia Cantu, and Judith Ortiz Cofer, in addition to a number of autobiographical essays.