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Located in the Papantla municipality of the Mexican state of Veracruz, El Tajín is a UNESCO World Heritage site but a lesser-known tourist destination and national symbol. The Indigenous Totonac residents of the region know well that the site's relative absence from discussions of global archaeology and heritage belies a century of wide-ranging labor, extractive industries, and commodity exchange. In the Shadow of El Tajín tells the story of how a landscape of ancient mounds and ruins became an archaeological site, brings to light the network of actors who made it happen, and reveals the Indigenous histories silenced in the process. By drawing on the insights of Indigenous Totonac peoples ...
Antología preparada en torno al axolote (o axólotl o ajolote), criatura casi mítica de Mesoamérica, presente en la obra plástica y escrita, desde los códices mesoamericanos hasta en las páginas de autores como Cortázar y Satoshi Tajiri. la antología reúne textos de Juan José Arreola (El ajolote) Primo Levi (Mariposa angelical), José Emilo pacheco (El reposo del fuego), Julio Cortázar (Axólotl), Octavio Paz (Salamandra) entre otros, y obra plástica, desde graffiti callejero hasta pintura de Diego Rivera o José María Velasco.
Ninth in a series of annual reports comparing business regulations in 183 economies, Doing Business 2012 measures regulations affecting 11 areas of everyday business activity: starting a business dealing with construction permits employing workers registering property getting credit protecting investors paying taxes trading across borders enforcing contracts closing a business getting electricity The report updates all indicators as of June 1, 2011, ranks countries on their overall "ease of doing business", and analyzes reforms to business regulation identifying which countries are strengthening their business environment the most. Doing Business 2012 includes a new set of indicators on the ...
Este libro conmemorativo de los 85 años de la fundación del INAH, reúne 22 autores, que integraron algunas "travesías" de la antropología en México desde fines del siglo xviii. Se muestran recorridos variopintos, y en cada uno de éstos, los vericuetos y las contradicciones, las historias que no necesariamente fueron exitosas y también algunos de los retos y problemas que acechan actualmente a nuestra institución.
This text aims to be a driving force for an economically sound and sustainable development of developing countries. It looks at the provision of geothermal energy within the framework of sustainable energy development for power generation, rural electrification and so forth.
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