Títulos en Antropología

The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality. In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator...

La filosofía y el pensamiento espiritual andalusí florecieron en nuestra tierra durante más de siete siglos. Un periodo en el que en Al Ándalus convivieron tres culturas diferentes (musulmana, cristiana y judía), cada una de ellas con su propia visión del mundo y del espíritu.

Andy Blunden’s Hegel Marx & Vygotsky, Essays in Social Philosophy presents his novel approach to social theory in a series of essays. Blunden aims to use the cultural psychology of Lev Vygotsky and the Soviet Activity Theorists to renew Hegelian Marxism as an interdisciplinary science. This allows psychologists and social theorists to share their insights through concepts equally valid in either domain.

Human Geography For Dummies introduces you to the ideas and perspectives encompassed by the field of human geography and makes a great supplement to human geography courses in high school or college. So what is human geography? Human geography explores the relationship between humans and their natural environment, tracking the broad social patterns that shape human societies. You'll learn about immigration, urbanization, globalization, empire and political expansion, and economic systems, to name a few.

Jean Piaget, Lev S. Vigotski e Henri Wallon são os três maiores teóricos estudados no universo da educação e da psicologia. Nesta obra, consagrada por crítica e público, Yves de La Taille, Marta Kohl de Oliveira e Heloysa Dantas traduzem para o ouvinte o pensamento vivo desses autores.

Este é um audiolivro necessário, especialmente quando pululam nas redes sociais “sábios” com respostas prontas para todos os problemas do país e do mundo, com base em fé ideológica, religiosa ou de qualquer outra espécie. Hélio Schwartsman, filósofo e jornalista da Folha de S. Paulo, não tem, é claro, todas as respostas, mas formula perguntas com muita perspicácia.

The world-renowned historian and intellectual Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the 21st century and beyond—from overcoming death to creating artificial life. It asks the fundamental questions: how can we protect this fragile world from our own destructive power? And what does our future hold?

Imagine you were transported back in time to Ancient Greece and you had to start a new life there. What would you see? How would the people around you think and believe? How would you fit in? Where would you live? What would you eat? What work would be available, and what help could you get if you got sick?

Internationally revered cultural anthropologist and marketing expert Clotaire Rapaille reveals for the first time the techniques he has used to improve profitability and practices for dozens of Fortune 100 companies. His groundbreaking revelations shed light not just on business but on the way every human being acts and lives around the world.

Todo cambia y la forma en que hablamos cambia en todo momento. Este es un audiolibro para pensar en la manera en que la lengua cambia en el tiempo y el espacio; de sus características y lo que la hace única...

How to Be Animal writes a remarkable story of what it means to be human and argues that at the heart of our psychology is a profound struggle with being animal. As well as piecing together the mystery of how this psychology evolved, the book examines the wide-reaching ways in which it affects our lives, from our politics to the ways we distance ourselves from other species.

Afghanistan traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political authority in this volatile region of the world, from the Mughal Empire in the 16th century to the Taliban resurgence today. Thomas Barfield introduces listeners to the bewildering diversity of tribal and ethnic groups in Afghanistan, explaining what unites them as Afghans despite the regional, cultural, and political differences that divide them.

Why have societies all across the world feared witchcraft? This book delves deeply into its context, beliefs, and origins in Europe's history. The witch came to prominence - and often a painful death - in early modern Europe, yet her origins are much more geographically diverse and historically deep. In this landmark book, Ronald Hutton traces witchcraft from the ancient world to the early modern state.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Inside of a Dog and The Year of the Puppy, an eye-opening, informative, “entertaining, and enlightening” (BookPage) celebration of the human-canine relationship for the curious dog owner and science-lover alike. We keep dogs and are kept by...

Por "la calle de la amargura", estrecha y sobrepoblada, se pasean como si nada lo mismo AMLO que Peña Nieto, los ricachones fastuosos y los abundantes políticos, la tenaz clase media, la selecta realeza de los líderes sindicales y la republicana desvergüenza de gobernadores y legisladores.

La guerra eterna entre lo masculino y lo femenino que marcó el origen y el devenir de la civilización, desde la revolución agrícola hasta la industrial, desde las antiguas mitologías hasta las estrategias de comunicación masiva, desde los tiempos lejanos en que la divinidad era mujer hasta la guerra de los dioses en que los hombres tomaron el poder. Paz en la guerra de los sexos es un viaje a través de la historia y del universo, desde las profundidades más místicas hasta las más mundanas.

Stranded at Schiphol airport, Ben Coates called up a friendly Dutch girl he'd met some months earlier. He stayed for dinner. Actually, he stayed for good. In the first audiobook to consider the hidden heart and history of the Netherlands from a modern perspective, the author explores the length and breadth of his adopted homeland and discovers why one of the world's smallest countries is also so significant and so fascinating. 

Es mucha la leyenda que existe sobre la brujería y las brujas, y es mucho lo que se ignora de estas mujeres, bien por su hermetismo, bien porque sus prácticas fueron perseguidas y borradas de la historia por la religión hegemónica. Jesús Callejo hace gala en este audio libro de sus inmensos conocimientos sobre brujería y nos abre las puertas al mundo oculto de estas mujeres heréticas cuyo único pecado fue tener un concepto de la vida y sus misterios distinto al imperante en la época.

"Una delle disgrazie del nostro paese, negli ultimi sessant'anni, è stata proprio di non avere avuto veri nemici. Avere un nemico è importante non solo per definire la nostra identità ma anche per procurarci un ostacolo rispetto al quale misurare il nostro sistema di valori e mostrare, nell'affrontarlo, il valore nostro. Pertanto, quando il nemico non ci sia, occorre costruirlo."

Beginning in the 18th century with the building of St. Petersburg - a 'window on the West' - and culminating with the challenges posed to Russian identity by the Soviet regime, Figes examines how writers, artists, and musicians grappled with the idea of Russia itself - its character, spiritual essence and destiny. He skillfully interweaves the great works - by Dostoevsky, Stravinsky, and Chagall - with folk embroidery, peasant songs, religious icons and all the customs of daily life, from food and drink to bathing habits to beliefs about the spirit world.