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A review of the book "The Dene-Yeniseian Connection," volume 5 in the series "Anthropological Papers of the University of Alaska, N.S." by Ben A. Potter and James Kari is presented.

This paper studies the novel Amarás a Dios sobre todas las cosas (2013), by Mexicain writer Alejandro Hernández, and proposes to go beyond the press treatment of the issue by offering an analysis of the fiction which focuses on the migratory journey. The testimonial value of the story reflects the full drama of that journey, allowing it to act as a tool of denunciation. Moreover, the story is presented as a chronicle, which allows the work of fiction to insert itself in a context that reveals the violence that Central American migrants suffer during their hellish crossing of Mexico. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This book includes various papers on Paraguayan Spanish that present aspects of its phonetics, morphology, syntax, and vocabulary, as well as of mutual interference between Spanish and Guaraní the influences of Portuguese, Afro-Portuguese, and Italian; and the characteristics of bilingualism and sociolinguistic attitudes in Paraguay. De Granda`s analysis of this variety of Spanish circumscribes two central axes: the proposal of multiple causation (taken from Yakov Malkiel), and the exhaustive analysis of sociohistorical data. The author relies on and firmly defends qualitative methods but does not explain the type of qualitative methods he employed. Certain weaknesses in this regard are discussed in the second part of the review. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the most interesting passages in El Libro de Alexandre, a text that updates for the Middle Ages the life of Alexander the Great and adds certain fantastic aspects, is, with no doubt, the finding of Poro's Palace, located in India. In this episode, the Macedonian king finds a tree made of gold that is an automat, it means a kind of robot that moves itself by certain physical forces. In this paper, the author tries to get deeper in this passage and reveals its intra and extratextual functions, as well as its intertextual and extratextual relationship, concerning other literary works and historical aspects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this paper, I approach one of the first discursive constructions of the history of the New Spain, the poem Nuevo mundo y conquista, written by Francisco de Terrazas, a creole, in the late sixteenth century. For this, I outline the creation of a creole class, heir to the feeling of nobility of the first conquerors of America, and then I analyze the writting of Nuevo mundo y conquista in the context of these considerations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies the lexical-semantic changes suffered by apechugar [undertake], atarantado [astounded, lightheaded, thoughless], baraja [quarrel], blanca [money], desayunarse [to get astonishing news], pelar [to get someone's money], pluma [money] in several Spanish-speaking American countries (e.g. Colombia, Argentina, Uruguay and others) with emphasis on Venezuela. These words were used by Juan de Castellanos in his Elegías de Varones Ilustres de Indias (1589). The study verifies the evolution of these voices through lexicographical important books. The investigation concludes that, after 500 years, (i) the examined lexis stay in America, (ii) new entities have been produced from these vocabularies, (iii) the terms have changed their meaning, what giving them character own to the American Spanish. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Pizarnik is a writer whose work is highly interesting from the editorial point of view, for two particular situations. First, the published work is identified as "complete" when there is no complete edition of this author, because it bears the burden of censorship. Second, this gap causes the necessity of going to Princeton, where is the "original" work of Pizarnik in a more complete version. This paper tries to explore these points, starting from the experience of editing the unpublished work Otoño o los de arriba. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Resumen El ensayo analiza el libro Historia de la conquista de la China por el Tártaro escrito por el obispo de Puebla Juan de Palafox (1600-1659), sobre la caída de la dinastía Ming en 1644; un texto valioso en el contexto de las diversas crónicas de la época. Se describe la invasión manchú sobre China y la percepción de crisis histórica de repercusión mundial que fue abordada por ese libro, compilado y escrito en la Nueva España en la década de los cuarenta del siglo xvii . Finalmente, se aborda la intervención crítica de Palafox en el controvertido tema de la evangelización jesuítica en China en esos mismos años, como parte de su interés pastoral a favor de la Corona española, bajo los términos de Patronato Real. Los escritos de Palafox sobre el tema de China ofrecen una mirada al hombre de Estado preocupado de los acontecimientos globales de su convulsionada época. This paper examines the book History of the Conquest of China by the Tartars written by the bishop of Puebla Juan de Palafox (1600-1659). This essay seeks to demonstrate that this is an important testimony of the fall of the Ming Dynasty in 1644, in the context of other Western accounts of that event.It also shows the worldwide effect of the Manchu invasion over China and the perception of historical crisis, as he observedin his textwritten in New Spain during the Dynasty's transition. Lastly, the essay tries to analyze the participation of Archbishop Palafox on the controversy regarding Jesuit methods in the evangelization of China. The involvement of Palafox in the Rites Controversy was due to his pastoral role in Mexico and his duties in connection with Asia, accordingly with the Patronato Real . The work of Palafox shows also the viewpoint of a statesman's observer of the global trends occurring during this problematic time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Lope de Vega introduces into two sonnets of Rimas humanas y divinas del licenciado Tomé de Burguillos, references to elements of the classical world that have not been well explained in annotated editions of the poems. This paper discusses, on the one hand, a sonnet containing anecdotes about ancient Greek philosophers, notably, Diogenes, Democritus and Pythagoras; and on the other, a sonnet alluding to The Golden Ass of Apuleius, in which is observable Lope's interest in continuing the tradition of the fictitious author. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

El Jardín de las Nobles Doncellas -the Garden of Noble Maidens-, is a book written by the Augustinian monk Martín de Córdoba for the future queen Isabel la Católica. It is a unique mirror of princesses that contains important elements of moral theology. This paper studies this book under four headings; general moral theology, political ethics, family ethics and the relation of this book's theology to the Augustinian tradition. El Jardín is a book that is especially relevant for the understanding of XV century's pro-women moral theology. It presents some reminiscences of the medieval world but it is clearly open to the horizon of Renaissance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Luis de Miranda, member of Pedro de Mendoza's fleet, wrote, probably around 1540, a composition in verse that is now known as Elegy Romance or simply Romance. Ricardo Rojas considered the poem to be the first literary composition of the Rio de la Plata in the early twentieth century. Since then, critics have read the Romance exclusively as a literary text. This paper proposes to read it taking into account its documentary context: the letter that Miranda himself sent to the King in 1545 and the Relación that Francisco Ortiz de Vergara sent to the Council of the Indies, at the end of which the Romance is copied. This reading, without excluding the literary dimension of the text, allows us to consider it integrating a discursive constellation whose purpose is eminently political. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the relationship between Octavio Paz and Surrealism. It focuses not only on the vital relationship of the poet with the French Literary Group but also on his particular aproach to the aesthethics and ethics of Surrealism. For Paz, Surrealism implied a moral philosophy and that is why he used objective chance as a tool for knowledge, logic and poetic abstraction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a critical account of Antoni Gomila's book Verbal Minds (2012). Verbal Minds offers a complete exploration of contemporary theories about the cognitive role of language and the empirical evidence that refutes or supports them. The book has a descriptive and an evaluative element. In the descriptive element, Gomila successfully covers an extensive amount of ground, and the book makes a valuable contribution to research on language and thought. In the more debatable, evaluative element, Gomila argues that language plays a fundamental role in our cognition, to the extent that even the very propositionality of thought would be a linguistic inheritance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the poetry of three authors whose works are among the most attractive of the last thirty years of Peruvian poetry. They have brought a rich complexity to their lyric tradition. That is the reason why their poetry has expanded the horizons of Hispanic poetry. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to investigate an area of contemporary poetry—the works of José Morales Saravia, José Antonio Mazzotti and Róger Santiváñez—that without a doubt will mark some of the future paths of poetry in Spanish. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to address the neobaroque poetry of Rio de la Plata. In this regard, I have selected the work of Susana Cella and Eduardo Espina. The cultures of the two banks of the great river produce semiotic representations and different deconstructions, where the river is vestige and joyful shine of the history of the South. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this paper I summarise the main arguments of my book The Apology Ritual. I draw attention to three main lines of argument, taking them in reverse order to that in which they appear in the book. First, I look at the book's communicative-expressive justification of state punishment. Secondly, I look at the argument for the claim that feeling properly sorry involves a requirement to undertake some sort of penance. And thirdly, I look at the argument for the "right to be punished": as I interpret it, that there is an important status associated with being treated as a responsible agent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In his film "It's a free world…", director Ken Loach deals with the problem of the exploitation of immigrants. He des-cribes that dark zone in Western prosperous societies, whose wealth is based in a great degree in the exploitation of immigrants. The movie exposes situations of increasing dehumanization in the work environment, which affect im-migrant workers, but also their exploiters. This paper analy-ses the content and mise en scène of the film, from the view-point of Christian anthropology and social ethics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Scientific models are sophisticated representations elaborated through idealization, approximation or abstraction. However, some authors consider them as fictions. The paper analyzes some of those "fictionalist" proposals. My conclusion is that, in order to improve our understanding of how models actually work in science, it is questionable that a real progress can be made by equating models with fictions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The purpose of this paper is to show the progress made in the research project "Textbook as a representation's builder: The image of the Patagonia (Río Negro and Neuquén, 1960-2000)". Inside the documental corpus in which we are working with, we have chosen to center the analysis in a didactic material with regional circulation: "The conquest of the dessert" by Marcelino Castro García, published in 1979 in the town of P. A. Stefenelli, Río Negro. This material turned out to be a very meaningful contribution for the construction of Patagonia's image. In the first place, it was published in 1979, date of the 100th anniversary of the Conquest of the dessert. Secondly, it was unique because of its regional circulation. Finally, because its internal structure represents an original methodology, which includes pictures and specific activities about the Conquest of the Dessert for primary students of the second and third level. In a sense, our purpose is to analyze how this book operated in the frame of the so-called Proceso de Reorganización Nacional (National Reorganization Process), building the representations about the image of the Patagonia from its particular design which combines information, pictures and didactic activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]