La expedición científica de Malaspina en Nueva España, 1789-1794

Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad. Last year 1,607 people were killed, a number that is on pace to increase in 2009. In Murder City, Charles Bowden, one of the few journalists who has spent extended periods of time in Juarez, has written an extraordinary account of what happens when a city disintegrates. Interweaving stories of its inhabitants, a raped beauty queen, a repentant hitman, a journalist fleeing...

La primera aspiración de Frazer para realizar este trabajo era explicar la ley que regulaba la sucesión en el sacerdocio de Diana en Aricia, trabajo que formó doce volúmenes. En 1922 lo reduce y lo publica al español en 1944. Frazer nos presenta una investigación que ha hecho comprensible a la mentalidad occidental una amplia gama de usos y costumbres primitivas, descritas a su vez en un estilo que no está lejano del de la literatura.

Varios estudios analizan la presencia de la temática del cautiverio en las crónicas de Indias, con especial atención a una obra tan representativa como el "Cautiverio feliz" de Núñez de Pineda y Bascuñán.

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