Análisis histórico del Ritual del Santo Arco Real

La Mina: A Royal Moche Tomb focuses on La Mina, an extraordinarily rich tomb that was looted on the north coast of Peru in 1987. The ceramic and metal objects it contained were among the most extraordinary ever produced in the Andean area, and it had the most colorfully decorated pre-Columbian burial chamber ever found in the Americas. The artifacts are now scattered throughout the world, nearly all of them held in private collections. In this work Donnan reveals how he was able to locate and document many of the tomb’s contents and determine how the tomb was constructed and embellished....

The first and most famous case in the history of criminology and the theories that have endured for more than a century are fleshed out in this study. Known as Jack the Ripper, this mysterious character is remembered as the first-ever serial killer, forcing the authorities to establish a brand-new field to study his criminal behavior. El primero y más famoso caso en la historia de la criminología y las teorías que han perdurado durante más de un siglo se desarrollan en éste estudio. Conocido como Jack el destripador, éste personaje misterioso es recordado como el primer asesino en...

Normally, in Archaeology, material culture tends to be the main object of study for past societies, especially those who have no written language. In this study the author also assumes that in addition to objects, landscape and spatial patterns are also part of the archaeological record to be analyzed. Today we know that the Iron Age Iberian territories are regional political entities that are characterized by a conscious organization and that prioritize different types of settlements, with a degree of complexity and dynamism consistent with that of other contemporary Mediterranean...

La principal inquietud del autor de este libro es situar a la criminología en un lugar preciso dentro del campo científico; para ello reinterpreta la antinomia modernidad-postmodernidad, central en la definición epistemológica de la disciplina, desde la perspectiva de nuestra situación periférica latinoamericana y busca propuestas capaces de consolidar la especificidad criminológica para ponerla al servicio de los dramáticos cambios sociales del presente.