Nosotros y los otros... en la frontera sur de México

A lo largo de la presente investigación se expone de que modo la sensación de inseguridad viene explicada por los factores socieconómicos que configuran el entorno en donde se reside y no por el número de delitos, y la relación existente entre las características de este entorno y la tipología de delitos cometidos en él. El estudio demuestra que la seguridad en general y el sentimiento de inseguridad de los ciudadanos en particular, deben analizarse no únicamente desde el campo de la criminalidad sino que es preciso analizar una multiplicidad de factores, unos más próximos y otros...

A study of the political and archaeological controversies surrounding the Castilian Necropoleis of the V-VI Centuries AD and the Visigoth Settlement in the Iberian Peninsula. The author attempts to deconstruct the various controversies and presents fresh analysis based on the archaeological data and literary evidence.

This translation of a major work in Mexican anthropology argues that Mesoamerican civilization is an ongoing and undeniable force in contemporary Mexican life. For Guillermo Bonfil Batalla, the remaining Indian communities, the "de-Indianized" rural mestizo communities, and vast sectors of the poor urban population constitute the México profundo. Their lives and ways of understanding the world continue to be rooted in Mesoamerican civilization. An ancient agricultural complex provides their food supply, and work is understood as a way of maintaining a harmonious relationship with the natural ...

It has been said of the Mesolithic that this period heralded an increase in incidents of violence and warfare. These nine papers aim to evaluate whether such a statement holds any credence through a series of wide-ranging case studes: Portugal, Switzerland, the Ukraine, Uruguay, Serbia and Romania, Morocco and China.