La Virgen del Pilar dice... Usos políticos y nacionales de un culto mariano en la España contemporánea

La momificación es un ritual que se manifiesta en diversas culturas pero que, en todos los casos, manifiesta un deseo de superar la muerte y alcanzar la otra vida. El enigma de las momias aúna medicina forense, historia y magia y un gran relato de aventuras, repasa la historia de las culturas que practicaron la momificación desde Egipto a Chile, desde las catacumbas italianas hasta las turberas del norte de Europa y, por supuesto, las momias guanches de las Islas Canarias o las momias de la cultura del chinchorro, en Chile, con más de 6.000 años de antigüedad. Conoceremos las claves y...

A riveting, comprehensive history of the Arab people and tribes that explores the role of language as a cultural touchstone. This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab people and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture over vast distances. Tracing this process to the origins of the Arabic language, rather than the advent of Islam, Tim Mackintosh-Smith begins his narrative more than a thousand years before Muhammad and focuses on how Arabic, both spoken and written, has functioned as a vital source...

This book is a landmark in Mexican rural history. Activists and professional historians have long argued that the nineteenth-century privatization of indigenous communal lands was the original sin that laid the ground for the agrarian strife of the twentieth century. Many also claimed that this privatization drove the political mobilizations of indigenous peasants even before the Revolution. Nevertheless, very few historians have actually studied the process through which indigenous lands were privatized, and their findings have been published mostly as tantalizing but sketchy articles. In...

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