La industria del sexo en Quito

"Excellent study by a team of Colombian social scientists of the recent evolution of Colombian-Venezuelan relations and their process of integration. Analyzes Colombian and Venezuelan roles in the other country's foreign policy, evolution of bilateral relations (1989-92), commercial relations, and negotiations and agreements on border, commercial, transportation, energy, environmental, and other issues. Concludes that integration process has lost momentum and recommends the reduction of the number and complexity of issues under discussion, while focusing attention on implementation of...

Este estudio pretende hacer una proximación a una caracterización de la familia colombiana de fin de siglo, haciendo un seguimiento de los cambios experimentados en un período de 15 años como resultante del comportamiento de factores que inciden en la formación de hogares como: la fecundidad, la mortalidad, la ruptura de uniones, los desplazamientos espaciales, la articulación de sus miembros, entre otros.

Decisions of the Colombian Supreme Court and Senate on the constitutionality of state laws and constitutions.

"Important contribution to the social history of the New Kingdom and Cartagena de Indias, in particular. Spanish efforts first to comprehend and then control, if not eliminate, indigenous and African forms of alleged magic, whether religious or medical, illustrated imperial imperatives of domination and cultural transformation of subject peoples. First half of book establishes definitions and structures within which confrontation of Spanish and non-Western belief systems clashed. Second half provides a series of illustrative case studies. A glossary and documentary appendices augment the...