La invención del reino vegetal

This book on Social Intervention and Gender deals with the little explored area of Social Pedagogy and Gender Studies. Starting from an exposure on the so-called ‘Gender Studies' it deals with topics like socialization and gender stereotypes, clearly emphasizing the indispensable task of education; aspects of the gender inequalities in the world of work and in the phenomenon of migration; the situation of women victims of social exclusion and of the gender violence, to which are included several experiences from socio-cultural animation and value education for equality. A specially...

A detailed analysis of data relating to the subsistence of early humans in the Iberian peninsular from the Lower Palaeolithic through to the Magdalenian. This study looks at the representation of species during different periods through which the author traces a shift from reliance on a diverse range of species and the improtance of larger species of animals, to greater specialisation and exploitation of smaller species from the Middle Palaeolithic onwards. Spanish text, short English abstract.

Archaeological excavations of the baptistery of the Late Antique site of Son Peretó (Manacor), located on the island of Mallorca in the Balearic Islands (Spain), provide interesting new findings related to the material culture of the 5th to 8th centuries AD and, above all, in relation to the tombs, pools and baptismal buildings on the site.

Este libro recorre, a través de una mirada antropológica, el «camino» mitológico, por medio del cual muchos migrantes católicos, que salieron de Ecuador para dirigirse a Europa o a Estados Unidos, construyen culturalmente su trayectoria transnacional. Gracias a la manipulación periódica del mito —en cuanto nexo simbólico capaz de enlazar y sintetizar la vida contingente y un marco de sentido que la transciende— estos migrantes van redefiniendo continuamente su mundo cambiante y su lugar en él.