Trato, diversión y rezo

La Cocina Piurana presenta un inventario de 315 recetas recogidas en el extremo norte del Perú. Precede esta compilación, un estudio de los procedimientos -gestos y útiles- que intervienen en la preparación culinaria campesina que es la que mejor ha preservado las técnicas tradicionales. Este ensayo, que se integra dentro de lo que hoy se llama Antropología de la Alimentación, presenta igualmente más de 80 fotografías inéditas. Las autoras, Anne Marie Hocquenghem y Susana Monzon, investigadoras del Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas (CNRS) de Paris, estudian, desde...

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.

This brief bilingual collection of Pueblo Indian myths is a happy union of New Mexico's diverse cultural traditions. Intended to introduce younger readers to some of the stories that have been passed on orally from generation to generation, the facing-page English-Spanish versions presented here also offer a rare opportunity to sample an older yet still vivid Spanish idiom.

With more than one hundred-fifty books and three hundred published articles on proverb studies that have attracted wide attention of folklorists around the world, it is little wonder that international scholars look upon Wolfgang Mieder as the modern-day Pied Piper of paremiology. For this festschrift, some of the world's leading proverb and folklore scholars have come together to commemorate Mieder's sixty-fifth birthday. Authors from Russia, Eastern and Western Europe, Israel, and the United States have contributed essays representative of the scope and breadth of Mieder's own impressive...