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Informality Revisited offers an overview of recent debates about
Latin American government programmes for the formalisation of
informal settlements and housing provision in a neo-liberal
context. Contributions from Latin American researchers analyse the
contradictions in government actions and evaluate the consequences
for urban poverty. * Brings together ten leading Latin American
researchers in the field of land and housing policy to address the
question of informal urban development, particularly in Brazil,
Colombia, Mexico and Peru * Highlights the interrelationships
between the production of formal and informal urban development and
demonstrates how economic and legal reforms intended to make the
market more effective and profitable have affected the production
of urban space * Explores how Latin American governments are
applying neo-liberal principles to land and housing policies *
Investigates the implications of government actions for the
production and commodification of urban land as well as the
formalisation of property rights and provision of housing for the
urban poor * Contributors draw on a wide range of quantitative and
qualitative data, including census results and previously
unpublished official statistics
The study of the Neolithic transition constitutes a major theme in
prehistoric research. The process of economic change, from foraging
to farming, involved one of the main transformations in human
behavior patterns. This volume focuses on investigating the
neolithization process at the periphery of one of the main routes
in the expansion of the Neolithic in Europe: the Western
Mediterranean region. Recent advances in radiocarbon dating,
mathematical and computational models, archaeometric analysis and
biomolecular techniques, together with new archaeological
discoveries, provide novel insights into this topic. This volume is
organized into five sections: * new discoveries and new ideas about
the Mediterranean Neolithic * reconstructing times and modeling
processes * landscape interaction: farming and herding * dietary
subsistence of early farming communities * human dispersal
mechanisms and cultural transmission This volume will also provide
new empirical data to help readers assess different theoretical
frameworks and narratives which underlie the models proposed to
explain the expansion of farming from the Middle East into Europe.
This volume provides case studies about successful strategies
employed in diverse world areas for the protection of
archaeological heritage resources. Some chapters focus on a search
for solutions arrived at by diverse groups of people working in
specific areas rather than simply describing loss of cultural
heritage. Other chapters provide a long-term view of intensified
efforts at protection of archaeological resources. The authors
describe challenges and solutions derived by concerned people in
eastern Asia (China, Japan, Thailand), West Africa, Easter Island,
Jordan, Honduras and more than one area of Peru. All of the authors
draw upon deep, personal involvement with the protection of
cultural heritage in each area. This volume is a timely addition to
a growing number of conferences and publications about the
management of cultural heritage-both archaeological and historical.
A new perspective on early Andean civilization focused on emergent
social complexity during the first and second millennia B.C. This
Yale University Publications in Anthropology volume presents
investigations of Peruvian archaeological sites, focusing on early
developments in coastal, highland, and cloud forest environments.
The contributors provide new perspectives on early Andean
civilization by exploring patterns of interaction, authority, and
socioeconomic organization during the first and second millennia
B.C. in the Central Andes of Peru. Large-scale subjects such as
architecture, organization, technology, and ideology are examined,
in addition to fine-grained topics including animal bones, pottery
style and technology, site orientation, and religious iconography.
Distributed for the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
The poems in this book follow the author's observations while
infatuated with the force inside that makes us search for a soulful
match, one in which the feelings emerge in many dimensions. The
search sometimes takes us through several amorous ventures but then
we mature and learn the vicissitudes of the force as it manifests
itself in real life, not in our imagination. The language of love
can be simple as nature intended but also as complex as the human
psyche can make it. The sounds of love from spoken or written lines
can be funny or sad, personal or abstract, broad and metaphysical
or specific and petty. Love generates images that transcend
language and so attempts to articulate what is happening can result
in lines that are blurry or disconnected, even violating the rules
of any human dialect. What is certain in the expression of love is
that an irrepressible urge is there, that the connection is best
when it is mutual, that time and duty are constantly getting in the
way, and finally that hope for true fulfillment is forever ardent
until death. To dwell on the physical aspects of love-the magnetic
qualities of attraction, the corporal aspects of looks, scent and
touch, the sexual union-simply ignores its deeper and longer
lasting traits like friendship, trust, respect and benevolence.
Love over time allows these more admirable human traits to blossom
in the relationship with the targeted companion, perhaps even
spilling over into more general terms for those around us. What
starts out as a hormonal volcano in youth transitions to various
strands of a human relationship and feelings that develop from
various forms of success and disappointment, sometimes caused by us
and sometimes not. There is no substitute for love; as human beings
we are blessed because we can write about it and make sounds about
it, albeit imperfectly. ANDRES C. SALAZAR is author of "Release
from Cibola," the first Sunstone Press novel of a trilogy on the
life of Reyes Cordova who grows up during the 1950s in Northern New
Mexico within a disenfranchised and impoverished Spanish-speaking
culture. He earned a doctorate at Michigan State University and
then spent decades on the east coast before returning to New Mexico
as chaired professor at the University of New Mexico. Dr. Salazar
currently resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Reyes Cordova is a young boy tired of being poor and feeling
hopeless. He is a descendant of religious and starry-eyed settlers
from Spain that came to Cibola seeking a fortune but found nothing
but an inhospitable climate and an unstable relationship with
Pueblo Indians. A stubborn lot, the settlers worked hard to make a
living out of farming and ranching in a Rio del Norte valley in
what is now Northern New Mexico. Now three hundred and fifty years
later, and nearly a century after becoming part of the United
States, Reyes' Spanish-speaking, impoverished culture has made
little inroads to assimilating into America. Reyes learns from
teachers that mastering English can help him become more American
and that will give him an opportunity for a good job. He becomes
obsessed with learning the language, a task made difficult by his
handicaps-illegitimate, a mother who speaks only Spanish,
subsisting on public welfare-in addition to being part of a culture
that promotes conformity, immediate gratification, close family
relationships and xenophobic rejection of Anglophone society.
Reyes' story is told in a poignant and picaresque series of
journal-like portraits that trace his emergence from the mystical
realm of Cibola that is a blend of an ancient Pueblo culture, an
archaic Spanish heritage, and an encroaching American dominion in
the age of Eisenhower and its cataclysmic events-the hydrogen bomb,
the Communist Menace, Sputnik, accelerated farm-to-urban migration,
and momentous protests for minority and women's rights. "Release
from Cibola" is the first novel in a trilogy on the life of Reyes
Cordova. ANDRES C. SALAZAR is author of numerous journal articles
and an editor of a trade press book. He is a bilingual native of
Northern New Mexico who received a doctorate at Michigan State
University and then spent decades on the east coast working in
industry. He returned to New Mexico as chaired professor at the
University of New Mexico (UNM) and went on to teach at two other
universities in the state over a ten year period while remaining a
UNM research professor. He is also the author of "Seasons, Some
Amorous Observations," a book of poetry. Dr. Salazar resides in
Santa Fe, New Mexico.
The study of the Neolithic transition constitutes a major theme in
prehistoric research. The process of economic change, from foraging
to farming, involved one of the main transformations in human
behavior patterns. This volume focuses on investigating the
neolithization process at the periphery of one of the main routes
in the expansion of the Neolithic in Europe: the Western
Mediterranean region. Recent advances in radiocarbon dating,
mathematical and computational models, archaeometric analysis and
biomolecular techniques, together with new archaeological
discoveries, provide novel insights into this topic. This volume is
organized into five sections: * new discoveries and new ideas about
the Mediterranean Neolithic * reconstructing times and modeling
processes * landscape interaction: farming and herding * dietary
subsistence of early farming communities * human dispersal
mechanisms and cultural transmission This volume will also provide
new empirical data to help readers assess different theoretical
frameworks and narratives which underlie the models proposed to
explain the expansion of farming from the Middle East into Europe.
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