Una noche en el infierno

Here the physician and anthropologist Melvin Konner examines the arc of evolution to explain the relationships between women and men. Drawing on examples from Nature, Konner sheds light on our biologically different identities and the poignant exceptions that challenge the traditional man / woman division. We will meet the hunter-gatherers of Botswana, whose culture gave women a prominent place, creating the figure of the working mother and respecting the voices of women around the fire. Orientation of societies towards war and the conquest fostered extreme male dominance. But our species has ...

La Sociedad de la esquina es una de las pocas obras que puede llamarse con razón «clásico de la investigación sociológica». El relato de la barriada italoamericana que William Foote Whyte llamó «Cornerville» (North End de Boston) ha sido el modelo para la etnografía urbana durante cincuenta años. Cartografiando los mundos sociales complejos de pandillas callejeras y «chicos de la esquina», Whyte fue uno de los primeros en demostrar que una comunidad pobre no tiene por qué estar socialmente desorganizada. Su trabajo fijó un estándar sobre retratos vigorosos de personas reales...

Many archaeologists and ethnohistorians use historic documents to help interpret prehistoric archaeological sequences. A sixteenth-century Spanish document called Justicia 413 has been instrumental in helping researchers understand conflict among the prehistoric polities of coastal Peru. Volume 4 of the subseries Studies in Latin American Ethnohistory & Archaeology.

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...