Nuevos habitantes del centro de Santiago

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.

A brave attempt at studying Phoenician colonization from an environmental standpoint. Excavations at the tell of Castillo de Dona Blanca included study of animal and fish bones, moluscs and shellfish. A final chapter puts the biological evidence in a wider context and concludes that this kind of evidence on its own is better applied to smaller, local questions.

The objective of this research is to advance the understanding of the Egyptian Eastern Desert region petroglyphs by means of three steps: 1) To order and analyse the available data; 2) To compare the Eastern Desert petroglyphs with those of neighbouring regions and 3) To determine what the Eastern Desert petroglyphs can tell us about the people responsible for them. The study then move towards an interpretation of the petroglyphs in terms of what they can tell us about the origins and development of Egyptian society.

Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Centroamérica, México, el suroeste de Asia y el norte de África acusan el aumento demográfico más intenso. En Puerto Rico los escasos medios de la clase pobre corren parejas con un elevado índice de crecimiento poblacional. Es aquí donde se están haciendo intensos estudios y experimentos respecto al control demográfico que son dignos de la mayor atención.