El zoológico del Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Madrid

Desde los años 80 del pasado siglo hemos asistido a la revalorización de la familia como tema de estudio; un desarrollo que se corresponde con la importancia que desde entonces ha adquirido la familia en las representaciones culturales y la definición de políticas sociales. En sí mismo, este incremento de investigaciones y acciones públicas sobre la familia es significativo de que la institución, tal y como la hemos conocido hasta mediados de siglo XX, ha entrado en crisis, pero también de que dicha crisis no nos deja indiferentes. Muy al contrario: en los últimos años se han...

...y no se lo trago la tierra, in the original Spanish, is Tomas Rivera's classic novel about a Mexican-American family s life as migrant workers during the 1950s, as seen through the eyes of a young boy. Exploited by farmers, shopkeepers and even fellow Mexican Americans, the boy must forge his self identity in the face of exploitation, death and disease constant moving and conflicts with school officials. ...y no se lo trago la tierra is the epic tale of a proud and indomitable people who must face powerful socio-economic forces. ...y no se lo trago la tierra is now an award-winning, major...

This book investigates the socioeconomic structure of the Negev, the arid periphery located in the south of the modern state of Israel, in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages (ca. 1300–586 B.C.) During the first millennium B.C. the Negev passed through a series of socio-political and economic fluctuations inextricably related to changes occurring in the Iron Age world-system. A world-system perspective demonstrates that the local, essentially tribal society, evolved through a series of phases of chiefdom-formation and posterior dissolution. Interrelated political events and economic factors ...