Antropologías para después de una guerra: plenitud y declive de la obra antropológica de Pérez de Barradas (1939-1952)

Depto. de Prehistoria, Historia Antigua y ArqueologíaFac. de Geografía e HistoriaFALSEpu

Mythical anatomies: The case of Agustín Luengo Capilla, ‘The Giant of Extremadura’

El propósito del artículo es revisar la historia vital y sobre todo la historia post mórtem del “gigante” español con mayor proyección mediática de todos los tiempos: Agustín Luengo Capilla (1849-1875), conocido como “El Gigante Extremeño”. Estudiamos las circunstancias que le vinculan con el famoso doctor Pedro González Velasco y la consecuencia última de esa relación: que su cuerpo pase a formar parte del Museo Antropológico fundado por el médico segoviano en 1875, actual sede del Museo Nacional de Antropología en Madrid. Seguidamente, analizamos el proceso de formación de la leyenda creada en torno a Luengo y Velasco y cuestionamos la orientación y parte del argumento de un proyecto que pretende “poner en valor” la figura del gigante, pues lo hace dando por buenos los contenidos de esa leyenda y las invenciones de una novela histórica que, en realidad, presentan una imagen espuria del personaje biografiadoThe aim of this paper is to revise the life history and especially the post mortem history of a “giant” who had and still has the greatest media coverage of the Spanish giants of all times: Agustín Luengo Capilla (1849-1875), known as “The Giant from Extremadura”. The famous Spanish surgeon Pedro González Velasco met him in Madrid, and the result derived from that relationship was really peculiar: Luengo’s remains became part of the Anthropological Museum founded by Velasco in 1875, currently National Museum of Anthropology. We analyze the legend created around Luengo (and Velasco) and we question the direction and part of the contents of a project that aims “to promote” the knowledge of his life. Our criticism is based on the fact that the project validates the legend and the inventions of a recently published novel about the giant, and on the fact that both narratives just offer a spurious image of himEstudio realizado en el marco del proyecto de investigación “Ciencia y espectáculo de la naturaleza. Viajes científicos y museos de historia natural” (HAR2013-48065-C2-2-P), financiado por el Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad del Gobierno de Españ

Anatomías míticas: el caso de Agustín Luengo Capilla, “El Gigante Extremeño”

El propósito del artículo es revisar la historia vital y sobre todo la historia post mórtem del “gigante” español con mayor proyección mediática de todos los tiempos: Agustín Luengo Capilla (1849-1875), conocido como “El Gigante Extremeño”. Estudiamos las circunstancias que le vinculan con el famoso doctor Pedro González Velasco y la consecuencia última de esa relación: que su cuerpo pase a formar parte del Museo Antropológico fundado por el médico segoviano en 1875, actual sede del Museo Nacional de Antropología en Madrid. Seguidamente, analizamos el proceso de formación de la leyenda creada en torno a Luengo y Velasco y cuestionamos la orientación y parte del argumento de un proyecto que pretende “poner en valor” la figura del gigante, pues lo hace dando por buenos los contenidos de esa leyenda y las invenciones de una novela histórica que, en realidad, presentan una imagen espuria del personaje biografiado

Espectáculos demasiado humanos. Las exhibiciones de etnias salvajes en la Europa del siglo XIX

El artículo resume las principales modalidades de exhibición "viva" de seres humanos (considerados "primitivos" o "salvajes") celebradas en Europa durante la segunda mitad del siglo XIX. A continuación, se comentan las que tienen lugar en España

Contextos y práctica de la antropología ‘oficial’ en los fascismos ibéricos

Depto. de Prehistoria, Historia Antigua y ArqueologíaFac. de Geografía e HistoriaTRUEpu

Asymmetrical treatment and revenue from regional protest

This study seeks to empirically determine to what extent continual protest by regionalist parties may generate revenue for their regions. To this end, we perform an econometric estimation using the collaboration agreements between Spanish governments and the autonomous communities as the dependent variable (first-level political and administrative divisions, CCAA in their Spanish initials). We test our hypothesis by analogously applying the economic specifications employed in studies of "pork barrel politics", including control variables regarding per capita income, regional financing systems, political variables such as support for regional governments from the same political party or the existence of pivot parties. The results support the theoretical conclusions reached by Treisman (1999), namely that non-sovereignist regionalism generates revenue while sovereignist nationalism or regionalism leads governments to react by applying unfavourable treatment. Similarly, the fact that a regionalist party plays a key role in the investiture of the national president brings with it even greater revenue to the region in question, concurring with the results predicted by Brancati (2008)

Retrieval of bilingual Spanish-English information by means of a standard automatic translation system

This paper describes our participation in bilingual retrieval (queries in Spanish on documents in English), by means of an information retrieval system based on the vector model. The queries, formulated in Spanish, were translated into English by means of a commercial automatic translation system; the terms extracted from the resulting translations were filtered in order to get rid of empty words and then they were normalised by stemming. Results are poorer than those obtained through monolingual retrieval with the original queries in English slightly above 15%

On the Trail of Spatial Patterns of Genetic Variation

[EN] The accurate determination of the spatial trends on the variability of a species' gene pool is essential to elucidate the underlying demographic-evolutionary events, thus helping to unravel the microevolutionary history of the population under study. Herein we present a new software called GenoCline, mainly addressed to detect genetic clines from allele, haplotype, and genome-wide data. This program package allows identifying the geographic orientation of clinal genetic variation through a system of iterative rotation of a virtual coordinate axis. Besides, GenoCline can perform complementary analyses to explore the potential origin of the genetic clines observed, including spatial autocorrelation, isolation by distance, centroid method, multidimensional scaling and Sammon projection. Among the advantages of this software is the ease in data entry and potential interconnection with other programs. Genetic and geographic data can be entered in spreadsheet table formatting (.xls), whereas genome-wide data can be imported in Eigensoft format. Genetic frequencies can also be exported in a format compatible with other programs dealing with population genetic and evolutionary biology analyses. All illustrations of results are saved in.svg format so that there will be high quality and easily editable vectorial graphs available for the researcher. Being implemented in Java, GenoCline is highly portable, thus working in different operating systems.Open Access funding provided thanks to the CRUE-CSIC agreement with Springer Nature

The uneven impact of the health crisis on the euro area economies in 2020

El impacto económico de la pandemia de COVID-19 ha sido desigual en los países de la zona del euro. Entre los factores que lo explican, estarían la intensidad de la crisis sanitaria en cada territorio y la severidad y la duración de las medidas de contención aplicadas para limitar la propagación del virus, así como las diferencias estructurales de las economías, y singularmente su especialización productiva. El análisis empírico presentado en este trabajo indica que la importancia relativa de las ramas de servicios más vulnerables —al conllevar una mayor interacción social— y la capacidad para implantar teletrabajo explican en buena parte el impacto económico diferencial de la pandemia entre los países de la zona del euro.The economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been uneven across euro área countries. Among the factors explaining this are the intensity of the health crisis in each territory and the severity and duration of the containment measures applied to limit the spread of the virus, as well as the structural differences between the economies, and, in particular, their productive specialisation. The empirical analysis presented in this paper indicates that the variation of the economic impact of the pandemic across euro área countries is largely explained by the relative importance of the most vulnerable service industries – those involving greater face-to-face social interaction – and the capacity to implement teleworking