Las rutas de la seda en la historia de España y Portugal

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Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad. Last year 1,607 people were killed, a number that is on pace to increase in 2009. In Murder City, Charles Bowden, one of the few journalists who has spent extended periods of time in Juarez, has written an extraordinary account of what happens when a city disintegrates. Interweaving stories of its inhabitants, a raped beauty queen, a repentant hitman, a journalist fleeing...

Esta obra indaga en los orígenes familiares del dramaturgo del Siglo de Oro Felipe Godínez. En ella se trata de la persecución inquisitorial padecida en tierras portuguesas y en Venecia, del traslado a Andalucía y de la inserción socio-económica de unos refugiados religiosos. Otros aspectos centrales son la dispersión y ramificación de la familia en una amplísima geografía por razones comerciales y su ascenso por la escala social hasta el umbral mismo de la hidalguía. Al fondo, siempre presente, la mancha del origen: la sangre cristiana nueva del clan.

Se presenta en este volumen una selección de trabajos que quiere iluminar el panorama actual de una de las ciencias humanas más significativas en México: la antropología sociocultural, que en los últimos 40 años se ha constituido en un dominio independiente de otras disciplinas. Los autores, lejos de proponer un nuevo paradigma dominante, desean celebrar la tolerancia y el diálogo de las diversidades.