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Our population practices both traditional and organized religions, like various forms of syncretism in everyday life. Nonetheless, religious organizations and its practices in some occasions have been addressed in a critical way, taking into consideration its negative effects on our social lives. It is to say that it seems there is a social consensus that understands these implications and consequences are exclusively positive. The religious person provides direction for everyday living, in explicit and implicit ways. Although the less institutionalized versions of the practices, at the...

A report on excavations at the Roman villa of Tolegassos located in Ampurias, northeast Cataluña. The authors outline the background to the villa and the area surrounding it before focusing on the villa itself which was occupied from the 2nd century BC to the Augustan period.

Desde 1991, la nación colombiana se definió como pluriétnica y multicultural, rompiendo con una tradición homogeneizante en la que las diferencias no tenían lugar. Casi de la noche a la mañana, las viejas categorías heredadas de la época colonial debían desaparecer para ser reemplazadas por las del multiculturalismo, basadas en una concepción territorial y culturalista de la identidad: así fue como el 'negro' se convirtió en afrocolombiano o afrodescendiente, la raza en etnicidad, el color de la piel en cultura. Aunque promovidos por una elite étnica, hoy estos cambios no parecen ...

This is the Spanish edition of "Growing Better Cities". The United Nations predicts that over the next 25 years nearly all population growth will be in the cities of the developing world. At current rates, 60% of the world's total population will live in cities by 2030. As the cities grow, so does the number of urban poor. Unemployment, hunger, and malnutrition are commonplace. In the big city, most of any cash income the poor might bring home goes to feeding themselves and staying alive; any food that does not have to be bought is a bonus. As a result, more and more people are attempting to...