This book presents a cultural history of Latin America as seen through a symbolic good and a practice – the book, and the act of publication – two elements that have had an irrefutable power in shaping the modern world.
Gustavo Sorá has a PhD in Social Anthropology by the National Museum of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He works as an Independent Researcher of the Argentine Scientific Research Council (CONICET) and as Tenured Professor at the Anthropological Department of the National University of Córdoba (Argentina).