Los Fogones de la Historia

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....

Estados Unidos es el país de las máscaras y de la doble personalidad del superhéroe de la cultura popular: la obsesión de la ‘unión’ enmascara sus profundas divisiones, así como el discurso sobre la expansión de la ‘libertad’ acompañó la permanente expansión del sistema esclavista en cada una de sus conquistas territoriales. Aunque los confederados, los esclavistas del sur, perdieron la guerra civil en 1865 y luego perdieron la guerra cultural durante el siglo XX, inadvertidamente ganaron la guerra política y, sobre todo, la guerra ideológica que hizo de Estados Unidos un...

Desde cuatro líneas conductoras arranca esta historia de Quintana Roo: la diversidad cultural y étnica, la particularidad del estado, la viabilidad y el peligro de desaparición y mutilación, el periodo de la presidencia de Adolfo López Mateos y la gubernatura de Javier Rojo Gómez, hasta la explosión social y económica que caracteriza hoy a Quintana Roo.

The first full-length examination of Sahaja Yoga, a new religious movement led by Sri Mataji Nirmala Devi, which claims up to one hundred thousand members from around the world.This is the first full-length examination of Sahaja Yoga, a new religious movement led by Sri Mataji Nirmala Devi, which claims up to one hundred thousand members from around the world. The author examines how newcomers adopt new practices and allegiances on becoming full-time members, and how most develop a radically new awareness of 'spiritual vibrations' as a result of the regular meditation suggested by Sri Mataji. ...