Conchas de fuego y de sangre

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Las dos partes que componen este libro, "la alquimia asiatica" y "El mito de la alquimia," intentan demostrar que la disciplina en cuestion es realmente algo mas que una prequimica. El lector podra asistir a una investigacion historica y mitica realmente apasionante, en la que aprendera a contemplar la alquimia desde un punto de vista antropologico y cultural. Una obra, pues indispensable para los interesados en el tema.

As a young man, Ramon Perez aka Tianguis interrupted his studies and elisted in a burgeoning guerrilla movement to reclaim his people to ancestral communal lands in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico. From the grassroots organizing conducted by the peasants to the power of regional and national politicians to enforce their social order with pistoleros -- through Tianguis' unwavering account we experience the struggle and its consequences. The pursuit of Guiero Medrano -- and of Tianguis and his friends -- is unremitting; there is no escape as they flee through the forests, small towns, and...

Quetzalcóatl, Alejandro Magno, Emiliano Zapata, Inkarrí, Beltrán de Born, Nezahualcóyotl, Cong Hoy y Miguel Hidalgo se cuentan entre las complejas figuras heroicas analizadas en este volumen. La idea de reflexionar sobre el tema «El héroe entre el mito y la historia», en un coloquio organizado por Federico Navarrete y Guilhem Olivier del cual proceden los textos reunidos en este volumen, surgió del interés que, desde hace algunos años, vuelven a despertar las figuras heroicas. La participación de 16 especialistas de disciplinas diferentes -historia, historia del arte,...