Antropología en perspectiva ambiental

In 2007, during the archaeological excavations for the construction of a metro station in the Piazza Venetia of Rome, two auditoria were discovered that date to the first half of the second century AD. Some archaeologists identified them as part of Hadrian's Athenaeum, the first great Roman academic institution that is mentioned in classical sources. This book is the result of a thorough analysis covering topography, architecture, and philology, with the goal of revealing the function of the structures, which could have formed part of the Atheneum or, perhaps, of a judicial institution...

Aguirre evoca en el primer capítulo –dedicado a Voltaire- los tiempos fundacionales del derecho penal del Estado liberal, continuando con las idas y venidas de esos principios reflejados en los conmovedores alegatos de Zola en el caso Dreyfus, como en los procesos criminales descriptos en clave literaria por las insignes plumas de Honoré de Balzac, Víctor Hugo, Anatole France y Albert Camus. Su elección responde a la mirada que tuvieron al momento de opinar respecto de un asunto penal en particular o sobre el proceso judicial punitivo en general, haya sido real o corresponda al mundo de ...

While gangs and gang culture have been around for countless centuries, The Gang is one of the first academic studies of the phenomenon. Originally published in 1927, Frederic Milton Thrasher's magnum opus offers a profound and careful analysis of hundreds of gangs in Chicago in the early part of the twentieth century. With rich prose and an eye for detail, Thrasher looked specifically at the way in which urban geography shaped gangs and posited the thesis that neighborhoods in flux were more likely to produce gangs. Moreover, he traced gang culture back to feudal and medieval power systems...

El autonomismo cubano ha sido hasta ahora uno de los personajes desconocidos de nuestra historia del siglo XIX, y aun de la propia historia de Cuba. Aparentemente, todo se reduce a una partida jugada entre integristas peninsulares y patriotas cubanos. Sin embargo, entre 1878 (Convenio del Zanjón) y 1895 (Grito de Baire) el Partido Autonomista es un auténtico portavoz de las aspiraciones cubanas y desarrolla un proyecto que hubiera cambiado el curso histórico de la isla. En este volumen se reproduce "El problema colonial contemporáneo", serie de conferencias donde, al borde de la Guerra de ...