Since the 1990s, perfume plants in the grassois basin are rare and original productions in several farms. They are therefore sectors of excellence but remain marginalised. They are currently at the heart of the concerns of consumers and perfumers. Despite intense competition from the other producer...

Les Cahiers Alhim (Latin America History and Memory) of the University of Paris 8 have just published: ‘Latin American women in migration contexts: going, staying, returning’, No 31, 2016, under the leadership of Virginie Baby-Collin (Aix Marseille University) and Anna Perraudin (Paris University 7-...

the Teaching Committee is one of the special committees organised by the Conference for the History of Latin America (CLAH) of the American Association of History (AHA). In order to help improve the teaching of Latin American history — in the United States but also through the Internet in other coun...

University Bordeaux Montaigne5 March 20199H00, Room D 003 Amaia Cabranes — Bordeaux Montaigne University (EA3656 AMERIBER) Priscila Pilatowsky (IHEAL-CREDA-ECRE) Download the poster in pdf

This monumental work is a sort of encyclopaedia containing inputs from History, Language, Anthropology, Archaeology, Literature, Geography and Demography to improve knowledge of the ‘Andean world’. Originally published in English in 2008, this edition in Spanish, which is properly updated, makes a r...

Many North American plants have characteristics that are especially promising as candidates for expanding our food supply and generating new economically competitive crops. This book is an informative analysis of the top 100 indigenous food plants of North America, focusing on those species that hav...

Summary This article investigates the nature of religious experience as embodied in contemporary Latin American culture. With this in mind, he presented the study of two recent Chilean films (La passión de Michelangelo, 2012, and El Cristo ciego, 2016) featured by two characters with chronic charact...

conversation ‘What was of sandinism?’. On 19 July 1979, the Sandinista Revolution triumph overthrow Somoza. It was the latest armed revolution in Latin America’s most recent history and received with great enthusiasm inside and outside Nicaragua’s borders. In this digital debate, we looked at how it...

Rosa Nidia Buenfil offers in this book a rich and complex map that brings us closer to the intellectual history of recent decades, seen from the perspective of the developments of post-structuralism and post-marxism in the theoretical field of education. In doing so, it gives citizenship to theoreti...

The naming event, assigning a category that allows different subjects to be identified under the same line, often has important policy implications. In these actions, we find specialists in the study of human societies (anthropologists, sociologists, lawyers, historians, etc.), the actors identified...

ALHIM Latin America Histoire and Mémoire Seminar (2020-2021) Antonio Berni, Jujuy, 1937 PROGRAMME Wednesday 17 February 2021 La labor de ALHIM y el Pensamiento del Colectivo Cha’ixi (Bolivia), Natalia Molinaro and Vicente Romero (University of Paris 8) 13-15h, Paris 8-Building A (room A2-217) Friday...

The Garifuna, the products of the conflict between Africans and indigenous Caribes during the colonial period, have been living since the 18th century on the Caribbean coastline of four Central American countries (Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua). Following a steady migration process that...

The historical history of musical education research is clearly defined and studied in the Anglo-Saxon context. In Spain, there are a number of works that illuminate its journey and serve as a background for an exploratory study in the Ibero-American area. This work brings us closer to the state of...

Economic activities in socialist countries feature new objects in business history. The contributions gathered in this issue are part of this scientific news. They reveal the diversity of experiences and models, circulations and adaptations to local contexts, as well as initial hesitations when sett...

The aim of this work is to describe how poverty affects African descent in Latin America, based on analysis of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) presented by the United Nations at the beginning of this decade, for which the cases of Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador are analysed. In addition to des...

“deadwood”, “The Pacific”, “Mad Men”... Atlantic, the TV series revisit the country’s history from a new eye. They are particularly realistic and have an unexpected success. Last born, ‘Boardwalk Empire’, produced by Scorsese, who attacks the ban on America. Would they find a passion for history? On...

The Cahiers Latin America, History and Memory of the University of Paris 8, devote one of their upcoming issues (issue 19) to the theme of migration and religions, bringing together work on groups of Latin American and indigenous immigrants based in different host countries (Europe and the United St...

During the 1920s in Latin America, at a time when early movements and new technologies (radio, cinema) were gradually changing the design of everyday life, the chronic change of literary and social function. Unlike modernists (Martí, Gutiérrez Nájera, Darío), the chronists of this time (such as Robe...

The opening of the first palliative care units (PCUs) within hospitals in the summer of 1987 was met with resistance. Because this health care model emerged from within North America and Britain and the private sector, PCUs were first established in clinics and private hospices before opening in gen...

Introduction In the middle of the 19th century, major transformations are changing the relationship between the Americas and Europe. The first decades are marked by the promises of free trade, proclaiming the progress of societies without denying the asymmetry of actors. European powers affirm their...

The work of the enlightened hispano-American Jews, residing in Italy, reveals a wide and diverse cultural panorama, beyond the great signatures such as Viscardo or Clavigero. Since the 18th century italic peninsula, melancolic but also committed literature has become, in the long term, the extension...

National audience This study, based on a corpus of 53 French-speaking naturalists (French and Swiss) collecting insects in South America and the Antilles between 1815 and 1914, aims to highlight the role played by official scientific missions, wealthy amateurs, missionaries, natural history merchant...

With the discovery of the transismic passage between the North Sea — the Atlantic — and the South Sea — the Pacific — Panama became the most strategic point of the Spanish Crown in the New World in the 16th century. This led the different monarchies of the old continent to send corsarios to Tierra F...

Atlantic gardens and swimming pools constitute one of the most relevant features of a new phase in the history of the urbanization process in the Metropolitan Region of Barcelona, coinciding with the real state madness, by which the traditionally compact urban form typical of Mediterranean cultures...

The letters gathered here are the result of an invitation to 12 educational historians from Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, Uruguay and Argentina to reflect on the present production of educational histography in Latin America. The invitation to participate in this publication was accompanied by a...