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Análisis del desarrollo histórico de las tarjetas postales hasta la mitad de los años veinte; a la vez que describe dicho proceso en

Luego de un breve bono democrático de principios de siglo, en noviembre de 2003 comenzó lo que el autor llama «el periodo del desencanto» que desembocó en las elecciones de julio del 2012 y en el retorno del PRI a la Presidencia de la República. Pero lo que sucedió en esos nueve años no fue un regreso al pasado sino una renuncia al futuro, «como si aquí no hubiera pasado nada». Con un nuevo régimen de partidos, México no ha logrado remontar los viejos problemas, ni mitigar la deuda social, agravada por la inseguridad y la impunidad, mientras los políticos se han culpado unos a...

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.

In 2007, during the archaeological excavations for the construction of a metro station in the Piazza Venetia of Rome, two auditoria were discovered that date to the first half of the second century AD. Some archaeologists identified them as part of Hadrian's Athenaeum, the first great Roman academic institution that is mentioned in classical sources. This book is the result of a thorough analysis covering topography, architecture, and philology, with the goal of revealing the function of the structures, which could have formed part of the Atheneum or, perhaps, of a judicial institution...