Espacios de la memoria

This volume contains several oral accounts that were preserved from the Yoruba tradition that allows us to explore our roots. Their exchanges are steeped in cultural rituals, references, and principles that distinguishes them. In this book, the author looks at the meyi, one part of the te two categories comprised of the Ifa.

11 contributions consider legacy and archive data (1896–1995) and results derived from recent archaeological investigations (2012–2017) to present a review and analysis of the chrono-stratigraphy, material culture, urbanism, and economic and ritual practices at El Palacio, northern Michoacán, Mexico, between A.D. 850 and 1521.

n the last decades—and especially since the 1990s—there has been a noticeable reemergence of the nineteenth century in Southern Cone culture. Popular nineteenth-century figures (indios, gauchos, letrados, and cautivas) have reentered the national literary scene in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. Nineteenth-century heroes such as San Martín and Artigas are again the main protagonists of Southern Cone theater, film, and literature. Canonical nineteenth-century texts (La cautiva, Martín Fierro, Facundo) are being rewritten one more time in different artistic fields. Foundational...

La obra constituye una fenomenología del destino de la cultura occidental, frente al fin de siglo, intentando extraer una lógica de nuestra situación a partir del estudio cuidadoso de un movimiento: el Romanticismo. Auscultando los anhelos, nostalgias y esfuerzos de un puñado de individuos que anduvieron errantes por el mapa convulsionado de una Europa entre dos guerras, la revolucionaria-napoleónica y la Primera Guerra Mundial, se trata de entresacar una tipología de la “falta”, o sea: de los residuos que la máquina tecnocientífica del estado-nación nunca pudo asimilar ni...