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Introduction: Three decades after the discovery of mirror neurons (MN), interest in understanding their function as a system persists, and their impact on neuroscience, biology, medicine, and psychology continues to consolidate. Advances in mirror mechanism research have allowed for new ways of thinking about how one's own actions are generated and how those of others are interpreted. Objectives: To review the historical background of the MN system from its discovery to the present. Methods: A review of scientific literature published in databases was conducted, spanning from the discovery of MN in 1992 to 2023. Results: Findings on MN functions have led to understanding both positive aspects of human and non-human relationships, as well as certain mental health disorders. Conclusions: Research in this field could be promising for the development of prosocial behaviors that promote healthy coexistence in various settings. The initial enthusiasm manifested with the discovery of MN has been progressively nuanced, giving rise to a functional, neuroscientific perspective that requires more evidence on its therapeutic utility and applicability in areas of knowledge beyond health sciences.

Despite frequent nods to the importance of economics in the history of development, the extent of contributions from historians of economics to that literature has remained surprisingly limited. This article offers one form of explanation through a discussion of archival practices: while standard sources for the history of development economics include the papers of individual researchers and the records of international organisations, I argue that more intensive use of archives coming from (post-)colonial European national bureaucracies would lead to a better understanding of the meaning of expertise in times of decolonisation, as well as of the emergence of development economics as a specific form of knowledge in these countries. As an illustration, I discuss the Mission d’assistance économique set up by the Ministry of Overseas France in 1955, whose 1958 spinoff – the private consultancy firm SEDES – remained one of the main French organisations sending economists to the Global South until the 1980s.

Historiography on late colonial public health governance in India has detailed the imprints of transnational funders, namely the Rockfeller Foundation and later, the Ford foundation on funding, research, and knowledge production around national programmes and personnel in India. The National Archives in India, is significantly thin on subjects like demography, reproductive policies and birth control technologies. Scholars have to necessarily rely on transnational repositories. This paper will analyze some of the ethical dilemmas of using these transnational sources. I suggest we seek municipal counterparts and decenter the nation. Juxtaposing the transnational with the local archival trail opens up new conversations about networks that emerged within overlapping funding priorities.

Only recently have philosophical historiography and Benjaminian studies turned their attention to the relationship between Benjamin and Spinoza’s philosophy, with its possible links of affinity (and distance), regarding the conception of time and history. Here we would like to follow some reading paths recently proposed by various interpreters, of particular interest around Benjamin’s reflections on For the Critique of Violence (1920) and the Theological-Political Fragment (1921-22). From such an analysis emerges the figure of a different conception of historical temporality in the two philosophers, which circumvents, in different ways, both the unilinear, “Oedipal” and Platonic-Christian conception of time and the cyclical and recursive conception of the Stoic matrix, both of which are at the basis of the central western vision of historicity.

This article aims to present some aspects regarding the critical reception of the novel Bietul Ioanide, whose subject is set in the post-war period. After circulating in typescript for a while, the publication of the novel (Editura de Stat pentru Literatură și Artă, 674 pages, 1953) sparked a wave of critical reactions among the adherents of socialist realism, followed by a veritable campaign of denigration. After the appearance of the second edition of the novel in 1965, a necessary revision of the reception of Bietul Ioanide took place, with various interpretative keys of a literary and ideological nature contributing decisively to illustrating the subtle game instituted by the novelist in a letter addressed in 1950 to Al. Piru, in which the writer asserts that in the mentioned novel, eros, not politics, is dominant. Bietul Ioanide is a problematising novel, in which G. Călinescu – starting from a historical event, namely the evolution of the Legionary Movement in Romania, in the years 1938-1941 – questions the credibility of official ideologies. Their representatives gain unlimited power by resorting to crimes and atrocities committed against humanity. At the same time, G. Călinescu abandons the prejudice regarding the intimate journal, considered by the writer to be an effeminate and egocentric creation.

This research paper provides an exploration of the complex and reciprocal relation between identity, history, and destiny in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children and Angela Carter's Wise Children. We regard these two works as exemplary in their use of magical realism, not merely as a stylistic device, but also as a powerful narrative tool that helps define the complexities of human existence. Through a comparative analysis, this paper examines how Rushdie and Carter blend the real with the fantastical to challenge conventional narratives, exploring the intricate nature of identity and the dynamic reciprocity between personal and collective histories. In Midnight's Children, Rushdie blends the life of his protagonist, Saleem Sinai, with the historical reality of postcolonial India, using magical realism to blur the boundaries between the personal and the national, the real and the imagined. The novel’s non-linear structure and fragmented narration reflect the tumultuous and often contradictory nature of postcolonial identity, illustrating how personal and national histories are intertwined and constantly evolving. The midnight's children, born at the exact moment of India’s independence, symbolize the nation’s future potential but also its inherent complexities, their supernatural abilities serving as metaphors for the highly diverse and complex nature of Indian identity. On the other hand, Angela Carter’s Wise Children explores identity using performance and theatricality, focusing on the lives of Dora and Nora Chance, the illegitimate daughters of a famous Shakespearean actor. Carter’s narrative style, characterized by its playfulness and subversive humor, uses magical realism to blur the lines between reality and performance, suggesting that identity is as much a construction and performance as any role played on stage. The Chance sisters’ improbable survival and their lives filled with theatrical performances and fantastical elements highlight the fluidity of identity and the artificiality of social constructs such as legitimacy and lineage. Children play an extremely important role in both novels, their symbolism lying at the core of both narratives. Opposing the reality of the adult world to the fantastic freedom of childhood, with its lack of imaginative boundaries, the novels question the nature of reality and our accepted worldview. This study draws on the primary literature, analyzing the two mentioned works, but also on a wide range of secondary literature, including postcolonial theory, feminist criticism, and narrative theory, to situate the analysis within broader cultural and literary contexts. Homi K. Bhabha's concept of hybridity is particularly relevant in understanding the fragmented identities in Midnight's Children, while Judith Butler's theory of performativity offers insights into the fluid identities portrayed in Wise Children. By examining the symbolic roles of children in both novels, the research highlights how Rushdie and Carter use magical realism to explore and critique the constructed nature of identity, history, and destiny. Ultimately, this study argues that magical realism in these novels is not simply a narrative style but a powerful tool for exploring the complexities of identity and history in postcolonial and feminist contexts. Midnight's Children and Wise Children both challenge the linear, teleological narratives of history and identity, offering instead a vision of reality that is many-sided, fluid, and constantly being rewritten. Through their use of magical realism, Rushdie and Carter create narratives that invite readers to question conventional understandings of the self, society, the present and the past, offering new possibilities for the ways in which we understand identity, history, and destiny.

This article explores the key themes of current research on anger and to identify challenges to address in future studies. More research on anger across diverse cultural contexts is needed, particularly in non-Western societies, and for comparative studies that consider both historical and cross-cultural perspectives. Some widely held beliefs about anger must be challenged, including the idea that it is the primary driver of social action against injustice, without acknowledging the potential role of positive emotions in motivating such action. There is also a need for contemporary studies that examine the intersections between anger and gender, as well as the social and political implications of anger. Finally, an important area of study involves the links between anger and illness from the standpoint of modern medicine. Addressing these challenges requires the development of multidisciplinary approaches that can capture the complexity and nuance of anger from various perspectives—historical, literary, philosophical, anthropological, gender studies, sociology, politics, psychology, and medicine, among others—using both qualitative and quantitative methodologies.

In the Caquetá, Colombia, in 1995, I asked an Englishman who was doing fieldwork for his Ph.D. at Oxford for advice about graduate studies in the UK. “Maybe consider going to Joanna Overing,” he recommended. He thought that she and her students were doing the most exciting research in Amazonianist anthropology at the time. Meeting him was the first in a chain of fortunate events that led to my doing a Ph.D. under Joanna’s supervision and witnessing a golden but embattled era in her career. This is my personal account of her loves and peeves, her generous supervisory style, her theories, and her place in the history of our discipline and regional specialization, as I now see these. Regarding the latter, I focus especially on her brilliant writing on how contingent associations of Western anthropologists’ analytical terms hinder proper understanding of others’ political philosophies and ways of life; I attend as well to her attention to the centrality of moral understandings in social life, and to her participation in debates about Amazonian engagements with alterity, consanguinity, and conviviality.

El presente artículo tiene como objetivo analizar la reivindicación de las memorias disidentes y contrahegemónicas de la historia oficial de Simón Bolívar presentes en la novela La carroza de Bolívar (2012) de Evelio Rosero. A partir de una crítica de los discursos acerca del archivo oficial como documento que autoriza y defiende una exégesis legítima de la figura del Libertador, se ahonda en las grietas de la historia para deshilvanar el entramado de las memorias subalternas que evidencian las acciones nefandas del proyecto patriota durante el siglo XIX en Pasto. A su vez, se plantea cómo la carnavalización funciona como el dispositivo que activa esas acciones de resistencia dentro de la trama y que permite una transformación grotesca de la figura de Simón Bolívar. Así, el propósito último es demostrar la trascendencia simbólica que tienen las memorias antibolivarianas dentro de la sociedad pastusa hasta el día de hoy.

REPORTAJES / QUÉ ESCONDEN LAS GRANDES TUMBAS FARAÓNICAS LOS SECRETOS DE LAS PIRÁMIDES Desde el siglo xix, las teorías sobre el porqué de estos mausoleos egipcios y el cómo de [...]

SECCIONES / LA FIESTA DE LA CIENCIA MUY SCIENCE FEST MÁLAGA ¡EL GRAN ÉXITO DE LA DIVULGACIÓN! Muy Interesante estrenó el 19 de octubre la primera edición de su Science [...]

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Mancheta Muy Historia España REDACCIÓN Directora Carmen Sabalete ( (mailto:csabalete@zinetmedia.es) csabalete@zinetmedia.es ) Redactora jefe Cristina Enríquez ( (mailto:cenriquez@zinetmedia.es) cenriquez@zinetmedia.es ). Coordinador de diseño Óscar Álvarez ( (mailto:oalvarez@zinetmedia.es) oalvarez@zinetmedia.es ). Director [...]

En este número ‘Orígenes religiosos del Estado en Europa’ Resulta indudable que el cristianismo se ha entrelazado intrincadamente con la historia y la formación de la sociedad occidental. En su [...]

SECCIONES / EPISODIOS OCULTOS LOS JUICIOS A ANIMALES EN LA EDAD MEDIA En un mundo donde religión y derecho estaban entrelazados, los animales eran considerados responsables de sus actos y [...]

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En este número / BIBLIOTECA ‘Los Dalton. Los últimos forajidos’ POR CRISTINA ENRÍQUEZ El escritor y periodista estadounidense Tom Clavin lleva años escribiendo sobre el salvaje Oeste y en este [...]

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REPORTAJES LAS MISTERIOSAS LÁMPARAS DE DENDERA En la ciudad de Dendera, a orillas del Nilo, se alza un templo dedicado a la diosa Hathor, famoso por su excelente conservación y [...]

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REPORTAJES / DOS ROSTROS PARA LA ETER NIDAD Un busto y una máscara, hallados con diez años de diferencia, representan a las dos figuras más conocidas pero, a la vez, [...]

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REPORTAJES / DESCIFRANDO GRANDES JE ROGLÍFICOS El 14 de septiembre de 1822, Jean-François Champollion descifró la escritura jeroglífica egipcia, dando inicio a la egiptología. Su labor transformó por completo nuestra [...]

REPORTAJES / Jeroglíficos ESCRITURA PICTOGRÁFICA La escritura jeroglífica era eminentemente pictográfica, es decir, representaba a través de dibujos aquello que quería expresar, ya fuera un objeto concreto, lugar o incluso [...]

REPORTAJES / Grandes avances médicos POLVO DE MOMIA Entre los siglos xvi y xix se extendió el uso de polvo de momia como remedio medicinal. Considerado como una panacea que [...]

REPORTAJES / Grandes avances médicos BELLEZA Y SALUD EN EL ANTIGUO EGIPTO Los antiguos egipcios concedían una gran importancia a la higiene y los cuidados estéticos como parte de una [...]

REPORTAJES / LA SALIDA DE LOS HEBREOS DE EGIPTO ¿EXISTIÓ REALMENTE EL ÉXODO? La polémica sobre la veracidad de este episodio bíblico es antigua y sigue sin resolverse. Las fuentes [...]

REPORTAJES / LOS DIOSES DE LA SALUD EN EL ANTIGUO EGIPTO GRANDES AVANCES MÉDICOS A orillas del Nilo, la civilización egipcia adquirió unos niveles de desarrollo que no dejan de [...]

REPORTAJES / ¿Existió realmente el Éxodo? EL SÉDER DE PASCUA [I.Séder] (literalmente, orden) es el nombre que recibe la ceremonia que tiene lugar en la primera noche de Pascua, la [...]

REPORTAJES / ¿Existió realmente el Éxodo? LA FIGURA DE MOISÉS EN LA LITERATURA RABÍNICA En el judaísmo, la ley escrita, la Torá, se complementa con la ley oral, que la [...]

SECCIONES / ENTREVISTA LUIS E. ÍÑIGO Los ríos han servido al hombre como camino y como frontera, han saciado nuestra sed y han sido testigos de nuestras guerras. En su [...]

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En este número Y, además, disfruta de otros grandes temas en nuestra web Hallan un templo nabateo en el Mediterráneo. Bajo las aguas de la costa de Pozzuoli, un testimonio [...]

SECCIONES / HISTORIAS DE LA FILOSOFÍA HANS-GEORG GADAMER: LA VERDAD INTERPRETADA Hans-Georg Gadamer revolucionó la filosofía al proponer una verdad interpretativa y contextual, en contraste con la racionalidad científica absoluta [...]

En este número / EDITO LA SOMBRA DE LAS PIRÁMIDES Como el gran Heródoto cuando visitó el país del Nilo, seguimos maravillados con el Antiguo Egipto, una cultura que sigue [...]

The Cantabrians who emigrated to Cuba between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century became one of the main communities among the Spaniards on the island. In accordance with their power, they decided to create a magazine that would showcase their prominent social position and, at the same time, spread the news from their homeland. The result of this process was La Montaña, published in Havana between 1915 and 1954. The magazine allowed the montañeses to exert a great influence in the Province of Santander, and its Cuban character made it an exception. This paper analyses the development of La Montaña together with the main personalities who directed it or collaborated in it, as well as highlighting its propagandistic nature and the conservative ideology that accompanied its editorial line. The aim is to lay the foundations for future research that will allow us to delve deeper into the history of the publication and the study of its impact.

Madrid has witnessed, since the seventies, the socio-cultural transformation of Spanish society and the emergence of different urban cultures (Rock, Punk, Heavy, etc.). At the same time, the city has seen the emergence of a new independent press movement specialized in these new cultural movements, such as fanzines. However, this process of evolution within the written press was not limited to the period of the 1970s. This has continued to transform into styles and formats thanks to the technological advances produced at the end of the 20th century and the digital revolution of the 21st century. To observe this change, this article reviews the case of Madrid Graffiti as an example of a specialized independent press. This scene of muralism in Madrid, linked to Hip Hop culture as its branch of aesthetic expression, serves as a case study to observe the evolution of the Spanish specialized press: from the beginnings of the photocopied fanzine; going through the press of specialized stores; until the moment it hits the newsstands; and, finally, the impact of new digital formats.

The Río Negro Secondary School (ESRN) proposes, in its new curricular design from 2017, the development of teaching specific historical knowledge in an interdisciplinary manner, in dialogue with the particularities of other disciplines within the social field. In this work, we adopt an intercultural approach to investigate how knowledge is presented in the teaching of History at the ESRN, which is the focus of our research. The questions we pose during our analysis of the curricular document revolve around which historical content related to Patagonia is included and how it connects with intercultural approaches and perspectives. A critical reading of the statements from this perspective allows us to understand the potential scope of the history of Patagonia that can be constructed in dialogue with other disciplines through the examination of socially relevant issues.

In this article, we analyze the new study plan of the History Teachers of the province of Buenos Aires (effective as of 2022). On the one hand, we wonder about the articulation and dialogue that the new curricula maintains with the renewed theoretical and historiographic perspectives present in the secondary’s Curricular Designs and, on the other, what is the treatment and place that some themes or topics occupy in teacher training. Contents that appear traditionally linked to the “national past” and, for a long time, were central in the identity and citizen definition that the educational system pursued. In addition, in order to enrich the approach of the new curricular document, we draw some comparisons between it and the old Curricular Design (1999) for the training of teachers in History.

This essay deals with both the crisis of Comparative Literature and the aspects that should be considered in a renewed version of the discipline. In recent years, Comparative Literature has been struggling with newer disciplines, like Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Postcolonial Studies, World Literature, each of them with their new research interests and methodologies. But Comparative Literature has also been quite successful in the integration of these new topics, questions and insights, even if it sometimes did so by abandoning elements that should remain at the core of its business, like multilingualism, a strong historical perspective, and a persistent focus on textual objects and close reading. This article addresses the importance of these three elements, illustrating them with, first, a literary example (Eric Vuillard’s novel 14 juillet) and, second, a literary-historical example that might serve as a possible model of what Comparative Literature may stand for in the coming years (Nicholas Dames, The Chapter).

The present research carries out a process of inquiry in order to describe the events of the Armero tragedy, which occurred on November 13, 1985, in Colombia. The objective of this study is to generate technological content to encourage memory tourism in Armero. The categories addressed by this research are those of technological tourism and memory tourism based on the history before, during, and after the tragedy. This study analyzes how to generate technological content to encourage memory tourism in Armero. The approach of this research is qualitative, and the types of research used in this project are descriptive and auditive. Interviews were used to describe the history of Armero through a podcast. The results describe the history of Armero using a digital communication tool such as the podcast, and data collection was carried out before, during, and after the tragedy of Armero was taken into account. This research contributes to the community of Armero and to the digital communication community about the history before, during, and after the tragedy. In conclusion, keeping the memory of Armero alive is an act of respect and recognition for the people who lost their lives and their families who suffered an irreparable loss.