Pornografía. El placer del poder

Tiene como objetivo proporcionar una aproximación comprensiva a la materia, abarcando los cuatro subcampos de la antropología : Antropología, arqueología prehistórica, antropología física, antroplogía social, lingûística antropológica.

Este libro aborda las instituciones informales que los atomizados políticos peruanos han creado y que, a su vez, impiden que surja una política partidaria. Si ya aprendí a sobrevivir siendo tránsfuga, ¿por qué emprendería la costosa tarea de invertir en un partido? No cierran las cuentas. El colapso partidario, entonces, reproduce más colapso partidario. Ante la ausencia de incentivos para generar partidos, nuestros ambulantes de la política deben conseguir sustitutos partidarios. Algunos aterrizan en universidades-partidos, otros usufructúan un medio de comunicación, y hay...

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...

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.