Miradas a la misión Jesuita en la Nueva España

Los rituales que se describen y analizan se verifican en Zinacantán, municipio de habla tzotzil de los altos de Chiapas, en el sureste de México, en donde los chamanes tzotziles manipulan un sutil sistema de símbolos durante esos rituales, que revela buena parte de sus tradiciones..

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Un recorrido por la historia a partir de doce mapas fundamentales. Desde la Antigüedad, los mapas han sido fundamentales a la hora de conformar nuestra visión del mundo y nuestro lugar en él. Pero lejos de ser objetos meramente científicos, los mapas del mundo son inevitablemente ideológicos y subjetivos, y están estrechamente relacionados con los sistemas de poder y autoridad de épocas y lugares concretos. En esta estimulante obra, Jerry Brotton examina la importancia de doce mapas, desde las representaciones místicas de la historia antigua hasta las imágenes vía satélite de la...