Marisqueros y agricultores

Papers from the First Iberoamerican Conference on Spatial Archaeology held in 2013 at the University of Cantabria, Spain.

With this book, C. Wright Mills marked the difference with the elites that decide the future of their country, even when they are a minority in their country. And at the same time, he inspects closely the relation between the powerful groups in the US with the mass society and the equilibrium theory. This new edition contains an epilogue made by Alan Wolfe, in which Wolfe explain the most significant changes that have occur in the structure of the country since the first publication of the book in 1956.

The book presents the dynamics associated with the transformations and revitalization of the shamanic universe and strategies used to negotiate with the invisible beings. Making a rich contribution to the ethnology of Latin American lowlands, it demonstrates that ethnography is a social relationship. The text makes evident that the author, upon entering and leaving the territory, also enters and leaves the canons of anthropology. In the unfolding of the narrative, shaped as an academic autobiography, the details of the fieldwork experience flourish and result in timely reflections.

Semiótica –estudios contemporáneos– es una pluralidad de textos cuyo eje de articulación es la semiótica. Esta condición plural de la obra se expresa, no solo en el tipo de acontecimientos, temas y problemas que abordan los autores, sino también en las perspectivas y líneas desde las cuales lo hacen. Es por ello que el presente libro puede resultar de mucha utilidad, tanto para quienes inician el estudio de la semiótica, como para los investigadores de las ciencias sociales y humanas (comunicadores, sociólogos, artistas, educadores, psicólogos, estudiosos de la literatura, entre ...