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¿Cómo las mujeres se implican, interpretan y gestionan la emergencia política y cultural indígena de las últimas décadas del siglo xx y los primeros años del siglo xxi? ¿Cuáles son sus proyectos de sociedad? ¿Qué experiencias orientan estos proyectos? ¿Cómo ven su futuro, en tanto que mujeres, indígenas y ciudadanas en el contexto de la globalización? Esta publicación es el resultado de un seminario de investigación, «Modernidad indígena, indigeneidad e innovación social desde la perspectiva de género», en el que se pusieron encima de la mesa todas estas preguntas y muchas más, en un debate tan actual como necesario. El libro es un material ineludible para conocer el constatado doble rol de las mujeres indígenas: garantes de la tradición por un lado, y gestoras de los cambios sociales y políticos de sus comunidades y grupos por otro.

Is original sin, which plays the basso continuo in the history of Christianity, an object of study for the historian? This is doubtful, given the bibliography, which is dominated by works by theologians and philosophers. However, it is a key dogma of Christianity that is of interest to the historian: in addition to the fact that a large part of sacramental practice is based on it, it brings into play a conception of humanity from which stems a conception of society and the social order, of evil, of suffering, of freedom, of men and women. It was between the eighteenth and late nineteenth centuries that the dogma came under the most radical criticism and that the debate on original sin changed its status: it was no longer simply the subject of doctrinal polemics between Catholics and Protestants. The dogma increasingly aroused repugnance and incomprehension: in scholarly opinion, drawing on new knowledge about man and nature, original sin went from being "not possible" to "no longer possible". Catholic apologetics had its work cut out defending the dogma. The coincidence between the slow exhaustion of its socially recognised meaning and the advent of a society of "opinions" cannot be reduced to the caricatural process of erasing a "legend". In addition to the historicity of the story of the Fall, the criticism also touches on the anthropological dimension of the dogma (the nature of evil) and its consequences in civilisational terms (the notion of progress). These two aspects are intimately linked and ultimately affect behaviour and the way humanity and society are represented.The loss of credit for original sin or its reinterpretations have favoured the thesis that the kingdom of God is possible on earth, and have legitimised a right to happiness and equality. We are talking about a genuine anthropological revolution that should precede a reconfiguration of the city of man. Didn't Baudelaire write: "Theory of true civilisation. It does not lie in gas, steam or turntables; it lies in reducing the traces of original sin"?

El tema que recorre, desde distintos puntos de vista, el presente libro es la canción lírica a partir de su unidad fundamental que es la copla. El punto de partida de todas estas reflexiones es el Cancionero folklórico de México, obra de extraordinaria envergadura por la cantidad del material recopilado así como por su sistematización. En realidad estos estudios no hubieran sido posibles sin que existiera este trabajo que, si bien no agota las posibilidades de un corpus lírico, ni cubre todas las necesidades del investigador, el material que ofrece es de una riqueza extraordinaria y claramente representativo de lo que es la lírica tradicional en México y es la fuente básica para cualquier estudio.

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1965. Vingt-cinq ans après la fin de la guerre civile, la génération qui ne l’a pas connue arrive en âge de prendre des responsabilités, ce qui ne signifie pas nécessairement marcher dans les traces des vainqueurs ou construire la société qu’avaient désirée les vaincus. Après l’échec du rêve d’ouverture politique du début des années soixante, la révolte étudiante survenue à Madrid en février 1965 souligne le malaise profond qui s’installe dans la société espagnole tout autant que les ressourc...

Advances in Nanofiber Research – Properties and Uses is an essential resource for scientists, engineers, and industry professionals looking to explore cutting-edge developments in the world of nanofibers. This book delves into the unique properties of nanofibers, their advanced fabrication techniques, and their diverse applications across fields such as biomedical engineering, energy storage, environmental solutions, and more. Featuring contributions from leading researchers, this book provides in-depth insights into the synthesis, characterization, and potential uses of nanofibers, highlighting emerging trends and future directions in the field. This book offers the knowledge to discover how the unique qualities of nanofibers are shaping the future of materials science.

From ancient rites to modern confession, Christianity involved – for Foucault – a constant questioning prompted by our present reality: what influence has this religion had in our lives, in how we conduct ourselves, in how we come to know our desire, in seeking our salvation? Published in 2011, Michel Foucault and Christianity is to this day the only critical synthesis of all of Foucault’s readings of Christianity, from his early work History of Madness (1961) to his last 1984 interviews. This brand-new edition integrates into its analyses the previously unpublished Confessions of the Flesh (2021), and through first-hand consultation of Foucault’s archives, Philippe Chevallier retraces the long, complex, and hitherto unknown editorial odyssey of Confessions of the Flesh (1976-1984). Rejecting hasty conclusions, this journey seizes the logic of a research Foucault intended to be as much historical as philosophical. Far from caricaturing Christianity as ascetic and intransigent, Foucault sees emerge in Christian texts and practices a vital recognition of our precarious relationship with truth. “Philippe Chevallier’s major survey offers us the most informed and complete picture of the new terrain available to us. Everyone interested in Foucault should have access to it.” (Colin Gordon, Foucault News)

Seit Thomas Morus’ «Utopia» sind in den vergangenen 500 Jahren zahlreiche literarische Werke erschienen, die eine bessere Welt entwerfen. Im Film scheint die positive Utopie dagegen inexis­tent. Die bisherige Forschung konzentrierte sich fast ausschließlich auf dystopische Spielfilme, da positive Szenarien den Anforderungen des Mediums angeblich zuwiderlaufen. «Bilder einer besseren Welt» wählt einen anderen Ansatz und nimmt, ausgehend von der Erkenntnis, dass auch literarische Utopien primär als Reaktionen auf eine missliche Gegenwart und nicht als unter­ haltende Erzählungen gedacht sind, mit dem Dokumentar- und Propagandafilm einen bisher kaum erforschten Bereich in den Fokus. Die Studie baut auf aktuellen Erkenntnissen der Utopie­ und Dokumentar­filmforschung auf und behandelt ein historisch und thematisch weit gefasstes Filmkorpus. Zu den unter­suchten Werken gehören zionistische Propaganda­filme, filmische Stadtutopien, sozialistische Zukunfts­filme sowie Web­-Videos der Terrororganisation Islamischer Staat.

Statistically, women appear to suffer more frequently from depressive and anxiety disorders, featuring more regularly in primary care figures for consultations, diagnoses and prescriptions for psychotropic medication. This has been consistently so throughout the post-war period with current figures suggesting that women are approximately twice more likely to suffer from affective disorders than men. However, this book suggests that the statistical landscape reveals only part of the story. Currently, 75 per cent of suicides are among men, and this trend can also be traced back historically to data that suggests this has been the case since the beginning of the twentieth-century. This book suggests that male psychological illness was in fact no less common, but that it emerged in complex ways and was understood differently in response to prevailing cultural and medical forces. The book explores a host of medical, cultural and social factors that raise important questions about historical and current perceptions of gender and mental illness.

El contenido de este libro se inscribe en un proyecto de investigación más amplio sobre los llamados «movimientos religiosos carismáticos y extáticos». En primer lugar se presenta el arraigo y desarrollo de la tradición protestante en América Latina y particularmente en México, examinando su diversidad y sus variantes internas en el contexto de los procesos de cambio religioso vividos por este país en las últimas décadas. Posteriormente, se presentan los principios teológicos y de experiencia espiritual del pentecostalismo. En su parte final, el libro propone una síntesis comparativa integrando estos tres ejes principales, con el objetivo de avanzar en la comprensión e interpretación de los rasgos estructurales y funcionales que parecen compartir los movimientos de perfil carismático y extático. La reflexión teórica reincide tanto en la dimensión personal y subjetiva de los fieles como en la comunitaria e institucional, ambas estrechamente vinculadas al profundizar en las dinámicas internas de estos movimientos religiosos.

The development of high-throughput sequencing has triggered a revolution in the study of ancient DNA. In the last decade, methodological advances have allowed researchers to overcome some of the limits linked to the degradation and preservation of nucleic acids, improving the capacity of recovery and analysis of the ancient molecules. This fact, along with a wider accessibility to the next-generation sequencing platforms, has contributed to increase the number of genomic studies on ancient remains. This Special Issue, titled “Ancient and Archaic Genomes”, collects original research articles that present different methods and aspects of the paleogenetic research applied to anthropological, archaeological, and historic questions. Interestingly, specific regional contexts and cultural aspects previously poorly studied from a genetic point of view are here investigated. This Special Issue, presenting different methodological approaches and applications, will be a useful resource for both students and young researchers who are interested in ancient DNA studies.

“Sámi Religion: Religious Identities, Practices, and Dynamics” explores expressions of ‘’Sámi religion’’ in contemporary cultures, the role it plays in identity politics and heritagization processes, and the ways the past and present are entangled. In recent years, attitudes towards ‘’Sámi religion’’ have changed both within religious, cultural, political, and educational contexts as a consequence of what can be called the ‘’Indigenous turn’’. Contemporary, indigenous religion is approached as a something that adds value by a range of diverse actors and for a variety of reasons. In this Special Issue, we take account of emic categories and connections, focusing on which notions of ‘’Sámi religion’’ are used today by religious entrepreneurs and others who share and promote these types of spiritual beliefs, and how Sámi religion is taking shape on a plenitude of arenas in contemporary society.

This XVII volume of the PSI series includes the edition of 62 texts, all preserved on papyri belonging to the Papyrological Institute “G. Calves”. Fragments of known authors offer passages from Homer, Herodotus, Xenophon, Demosthenes, Diodorus Siculus, as well as the Acts of the Apostles, Gregory of Nyssa and Basil of Caesarea; some fragments of erudite prose stand out among the masterless texts. The paraliterary texts include, in addition to two astronomical fragments, a lexicon and two Homeric glossaries. There is a wide range of documentary texts, both official and private: reports, requests, contracts, certificates, declarations, accounts, letters.

Wir sitzen alle in der Plattformfalle! Doomscrolling ist die neue Normalität des digitalisierten 24/7-Online-Lebens und scheinbar abhängig von großen Plattformen finden wir nicht mehr ins unbeschwerte Zeitalter dezentraler Netzwerke zurück: Zoom-Müdigkeit, Cancel Culture, Kryptokunst und psychische Regression bilden die zentralen Elemente einer allgemeinen Theorie der Plattformkultur. Geert Lovink zeigt auf, wie wir in dieser Kultur das Internet zu unseren Bedingungen zurückgewinnen können. Er zeichnet eine rückfallbeständige Geschichte vom Aufstieg von Plattformalternativen nach, die auf einem tiefen Verständnis des digitalen Abstiegs beruht.