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We have had the bomb on our minds since 1945. It was first our weaponry and then our diplomacy, and now it's our economy. How can we suppose that something so monstrously powerful would not, after forty years, compose our identity? -E. L. DoctorowThis book tells the story of how-like it or not, know it or not-we have become "the people of the bomb." Integrating fifteen years of field research at weapons laboratories across the United States with discussion of popular movies, political speeches, media coverage of war, and the arcane literature of defense intellectuals, Hugh Gusterson shows how the military-industrial complex has built consent for its programs and, in the process, taken the public "nuclear."People of the Bomb mixes empathic and vivid portraits of individual weapons scientists with hard-hitting scrutiny of defense intellectuals' inability to foresee the end of the cold war, government rhetoric on missile defense, official double standards about nuclear proliferation, and pork barrel politics in the nuclear weapons complex. Overall, the book assembles a disturbing picture of the ways in which the military-industrial complex has transformed our public culture and personal psychology in the half century since we entered the nuclear age.Hugh Gusterson is associate professor of anthropology and science studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and professor of public policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the author of Nuclear Rites: A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War (1996) and coeditor of Cultures of Insecurity: States, Communities, and the Production of Danger (Minnesota, 1999). Lynne Cheney's American Council of Trustees and Alumni named him one of the most dangerous intellectuals in the United States today.

Texto que reúne las cinco conferencias sobre "temas argentinos" pronunciadas por el autor en la Universidad de París VIII y en Sao Paulo. Temas que se vinculan a lecturas ostensibles de la tradición de este pais, pero tambien con autores que se suelen precintar como "positivistas". Temas que son ademas preguntas por la intelectualidad argentina en relacion con Europa: "El prologuista frances y la locura de los simbolos: el ''incidente'' Ramos Mejia", "Pieerre Leroux y Esteban Echeverria: epigonismo y autonomia en los documentos de ideas argentinos", "Metafisica, ironia y ''lectura loca'' en Macedonio Fernandez", "Existencia y simulacion: de Jose Ingenieros a Jean-Paul Sartre", "La idea de muerte en la Argentina". Mas un epilogo que avanza cuestiones para una teoria cultural argentina.

The Five (later Six) Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy were central to the story of the white colonization of the American Northeast. The European fur trade transformed their world, and the struggles between English and French colonists forced the tribes to take sides. Sir William Johnson's efforts in the Mohawk Valley ensured that the Iroquois Nations were allies of the British crown; and the loyalty of his kinsman Joseph Brant (Thayendanegea) during the American Revolution forced the Mohawks into Canadian exile. This richly illustrated book introduces Iroquois history, social organization, religion and material culture.

Ancient Puebloan Southwest traces the evolution of Puebloan society in the American Southwest from the emergence of the Chaco and Mimbres traditions in the AD 1000s through the early decades of contact with the Spanish in the sixteenth century. The book focuses on the social and political changes that shaped Puebloan people over the centuries, emphasizing how factors internal to society impacted on cultural evolution, even in the face of the challenging environment that characterizes the American Southwest. The underlying argument is that while the physical environment both provides opportunities and sets limitations to social and political change, even more important evolutionary forces are the tensions between co-operation and competition for status and leadership. Although relying primarily on archaeological data, the book also includes oral histories, historical accounts, and ethnographic records as it introduces readers to the deep history of the Puebloan Southwest.

Crónica de los reyes y reinas mayas es el primer libro que reúne y analiza las más grandes dinastías mayas en un solo volumen. Al descubrir muchos de sus propios descubrimientos, dos de los más experimentados especialistas del mundo en el desciframiento de jeroglificos mayas, conducen al lector por una historia que durante algun tiempo fue un enigma. Incluye numerosas ilustraciones,muchas a color.

En estas páginas los autores se proponen hacer un minucioso recorrido a través del tiempo por el mundo de nuestra frontera pampeana.

Este ambicioso tratado sobre el fenómeno religioso en América Latina es producto de una larga docencia universitaria y de investigaciones realizadas sobre el terreno en varios países. Aunque su enfoque es básicamente antropológico, incluye también una dimensión interdisciplinar y pretende ser útil a todos los estudiosos del hecho religioso. Consta de dos partes independientes. La primera es un análisis general del fenómeno religioso, en el que se exponen conceptos y teorías sobre el mismo: la religión y su especificidad, mito y rito, experiencia y éxtasis, ética y política, sincretismo, secularización, eclecticismo, agnosticismo e increencia. A la luz de dichos conceptos y teorías, en la segunda parte se analiza el complejo panorama religioso de América Latina a través de casos concretos. Se profundiza sobre todo en el catolicismo mayoritario, así como en el creciente evangelismo, sin olvidar las minorías religiosas viejas y nuevas, autóctonas e importadas.

La obra mítica de EDWARD S. CURTIS pone al alcance del lector, en sus veinte volúmenes, un tesoro artístico y etnológico. Un gran conjunto de imágenes -legendarias en la historia de la fotografía- y un texto a la vez ameno y riguroso proporcionan la mas vasta cantidad de informacion que se haya reunido nunca sobre una cultura apasionante: la del indio norteamericano. Un numeroso grupo de tribus que habitan en una amplia zona del oeste de los Estados Unido constituye el objeto de estudio de este volumen, decimotercero de la serie de El Indio Norteamericano. La disparidad del medio natural -costa del Pacifico, montañas boscosas y llanuras- condicionan los diferentes modo de vida de estas tribus (hupas, yuroks, wiyots, shastas, achonawis, etc.) y marca su gran diversidad cultural.

Historian Marc Simmons is already a favourite among scholars, students, Hispanophiles, and borderland enthusiasts for his careful, readable histories of the American Southwest. In the twelve essays collected in here, the author''s topical, in-depth approach to New Mexico''s colonial period is skilfully deployed. His original research and unique insights transform New Mexico''s colonial history into an engaging story of real people and the real events that shaped their lives - a true journey of discovery. Simmons finds in the commonplace moments of everyday life ways to place the reader fully within the realities of the past. Immersion in details permits us to understand the behaviour and character of a people and the true tenor of their times: how the average person lived and played, how he or she made economic choices, how worship and religious concerns were integrated into daily life. The book covers such topics as the Pueblo Revolt, New Mexico sheep and cattle ranching, Spanish irrigation practices, the settlement of Albuquerque, the smallpox epidemic of 1780-81, and the Feast of St. John.The society and economy of the upper Rio Grande were complex and richly textured, and the people who sustained themselves there became resilient and stoic, fashioning their own formulas for survival and forever impacting the directions taken by history''s currents.