This paper considers my relationship as a co-learner (i.e., evaluator) with the Indigenous Early Learning Collaborative (IELC). I draw on my history of relations and conversations with IELC partners and explore what it means to be a co-learner along a number of dimensions (e.g., roles, responsibilities, reciprocity). Throughout the paper, I discuss the use of metaphor and story as forms of knowing that can support co-learning and Community-Based Inquiry in consequential ways. I conclude by reflecting on what it means to listen for and hear goodness as a co-learner.

This study tests the hypothesis that the Medieval Climatic Anomaly (MCA) resulted in resource stress and a decline in health in prehistoric California. Data were collected on the human remains (n = 98) from Canyon Oaks in Pleasanton, California. This analysis focuses on stature, linear enamel hypoplasias (LEH), dental caries, and evidence of violence in order to interpret patterns of growth stress, diet, and interpersonal violence in relationship to climatic changes. Statistical treatment reveals little diachronic change in the occurrence of stature, LEH, or interpersonal violence. However, the prevalence of dental caries shows significant temporal and sexual differences. These results suggest a substantive shift in diet during the MCA, without accompanying changes in growth stress or violence. It appears that this population mitigated stress through cultural and social means of buffering environmental changes. These findings underscore the role of the environment in prehistory, and the complexity of human responses to stress and climate.

This essay examines the rise of the devotion of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the eighteenth century and the debates that this devotion stirred within Catholicism concerning its iconographical representations. While images of the fleshy, anatomical heart of Jesus were perceived by the Jansenists as obscene and an ultimate Disrobing of Christ, the devotion, progressively sanitized in its representations, brought Christ to the center of Catholic devotional life again, and helped to move the much-criticized cult of the saints to the margins. While examining how the ultimate defining image of Christianity was so fiercely opposed and debated, I explore the thorny issue of the role of images in Catholicism.

Unlike most of the European civil law systems (Germany, Austria, Belgium, France, Italy, Portugal and Switzerland), Spanish law only allows courts to reduce the sum stipulated by the parties in a penalty clause if the breach of contract has less entity than the one anticipated. Hence, the judicial review of penalty clauses on the grounds of equity is excluded. This paper aims to analyze whether this is the most desirable solution in terms of efficiency.

Este artículo plantea el reto de escribir un nuevo relato en torno al estudio de las músicas coloniales latinoamericanas desde el paradigma de la “historia conectada”. A partir de un estudio de caso concreto, el de las conexiones musicales entre los actuales territorios de México y Colombia durante los siglos XVI y XVII, se reflexiona sobre el modo en que este enfoque puede enriquecer la visión del periodo colonial, superando la rigidez de otros modelos teóricos. El texto se divide en cuatro secciones. En la primera se discute el marco cronológico y geográfico. La segunda parte se aproxima al proceso paralelo de institucionalización de la tradición musical occidental en Nueva España y Nueva Granada. La tercera sección analiza las analogías entre el universo musical aborigen colombo-mexicano desde la particular visión que transmitieron los primeros pobladores europeos. La cuarta parte se centra en el ámbito catedralicio y en los nexos musicales entre las catedrales de ambas regiones. Para ello, se conjuga la revisión de bibliografía previa con la documentación de archivo. Además de ampliar nuestro conocimiento sobre las conexiones entre dos espacios geográficos específicos, las conclusiones de este trabajo –entre ellas la existencia de conexiones musicales entre virreinatos– pueden resultar aplicables a otros territorios del continente más allá del marco cronológico y geográfico estudiado en este artículo.