by Nicholas J. Saunders · Debate · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788474449679
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«Los espíritus animales» is Nicholas J. Saunders's essay on animal symbolism and mythology, published by Debate in paperback (184 pages, in Spanish).
It studies how different cultures have endowed animals with symbolic and mythological meanings, from ancient worship to the beliefs of nomadic peoples. It includes a bestiary of real and fantastic creatures, and addresses the animal soul, hunting, vegetarianism, and animal intelligence, relating symbols to biological and ecological data.
It belongs to the «Culturas de la Sabiduría» collection from Debate. Its original English title is «Animal Spirits».
Recommended for readers interested in animal symbolism, comparative mythology, and the history of beliefs.
Nicholas J. Saunders is a British academic archaeologist and anthropologist. He was educated at the universities of Sheffield, Cambridge, and Southampton. He has held teaching and research positions at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, the University of the West Indies, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C., and at University College London, where he was Reader in Material Culture, and undertook a major British Academy sponsored investigation into the material culture anthropology of the First World War (1998–2004). Between 2006 and 2014, he was co-director of the Great Arab Revolt Project (GARP), investigating the archaeology and anthropology of the 1916-1918 Arab Revolt in southern Jordan. As of 2014 Saunders was Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Bristol, where he was responsible for the MA programmes in historical archaeology and conflict archaeology. As of 2018, he is Emeritus Professor of Material Culture in that department. He is a prominent contributor to the nascent field of conflict archaeology, and has authored and edited numerous academic publications in the field. In addition to his research specialising in the anthropology of 20th-century conflicts and the archaeology of World War I theatres in Belgium, France and the Middle East, Saunders has also conducted extensive fieldwork and research in pre-Columbian and historical archaeology of the Americas. He has been involved with major museum exhibitions in London, Ypres (Belgium), Tübingen (Germany), and at the Centre Pompidou-Metz (France). Saunders has investigated and published on material cultures and landscapes of Mesoamerica, South America, and the Caribbean. His most recent research has been on the aesthetics of brilliance and colour in indigenous Amerindian symbolism, an extensive survey investigation of the Nazca Lines in Peru, the anthropological archaeology of twentieth-century conflict and its legacies along the Soca (Isonzo) Front on the Slovenian-Italian border, and the conflict artworks of the Chinese Labour Corps on the Western Front during and after the First World War.
