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SpotlightRead MoreIris Rivero, the author of the novel, dedicates it, in a kind of chant, to the "priestesses, healers [...] witches"; she alludes to ancient civilizations that, under different names, venerated the Goddess of three faces: maiden, mother, and harpy. They erected temples in the name of the Goddess: they venerated her, prayed to her, took refuge in her lap, until they were torn down and the Goddess was replaced by a bloodthirsty and power-hungry Christian god. "But we are the last bastion of the Ancient People, of the power that ruled the land during a distant era, when the Ancients, who now...
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SpotlightRead MoreJust over three years ago, work began on the application for the Rutas del Agua candidate geopark to obtain the UNESCO Global Geopark designation. These parks are special geographic areas in which sites and landscapes of international geological importance are managed in connection with all other aspects of the natural and cultural heritage of the area. It is a holistic concept of protection, education and sustainable development that promotes a sense of pride and belonging; it stimulates the increase of new ventures, always with a bottom-up approach. Geoparks are a development tool that...
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SpotlightRead MoreInstitutions shape, constrain, and influence our social lives, making it possible for behavior to be stable, recurrent, repetitive, and patterned in many areas of our private and public lives: family and kinship institutions, educational, economic, political, cultural, and stratification institutions. Now, to speak of institutional design is to speak of an intentional social change, which is challenged by different models of social transformation: accident, evolution, and intention.
Since the end of the last century, Robert E. Goodin has promoted academic and interdisciplinary study...
