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The laws of war and Colombia
Esta obra estudia las particularidades de los delitos cometidos al interior de las sociedades, es decir, aquellos en los cuáles éstas son víctimas de actuaciones de sus propios empleados u otros actores dentro del mercado para lo cual se estructura en cinco capítulos. El primero explica cómo operan los delitos cometidos al interior de las empresas, teniendo en cuenta que muchas de sus modalidades son completamente nuevas y sofisticadas, para lo cual se estudian conductas como el fraude corporativo, la administración desleal, los conflictos de intereses al interior de la empresa, los fraudes contables, el insider trading, los kick backs y las approaching bribes. Adicionalmente, se muest...
Colombia is the least understood of Latin American countries. Its human tragedy, which features terrifying levels of kidnapping, homicide and extortion, is generally ignored or exploited. In this urgent new work Forrest Hylton, who has extensive first-hand experience of living and working in Colombia, explores its history of 150 years of political conflict, characterized by radical-popular mobilization and reactionary repression. Evil Hour in Colombia shows how patterns of political conflict, from the mid-nineteenth century to today's guerilla narco-traffickers and paramilitaries, explain the wear currently destroying Colombian lives, property, communities and territory. In doing so, it traces how Colombia's "coffee capitalism" gave way to the cattle and cocaine republic of the 1980s, and how land, wealth and power have been steadily accumulated by the light-skinned top of the social pyramid through a brutal combination of terror, expropriation and economic depression.
A provocative collection of essays, is at once a scathing and poetic critique of the pitfalls of modern society.
Updated with a new Preface, this seminal work challenges the routine ways in which anthropologists have thought about the complexity and quantity of their materials. Marilyn Strathern focuses on a problem normally regarded as commonplace; that of scale and proportion. She combines a wide-ranging interest in current theoretical issues with close attention to the cultural details of social life, attempting to establish proportionality between them. Strathern gives equal weight to two areas of contemporary debate: The difficulties inherent in anthropologically representing complex societies, and the future of cross-cultural comparison in a field where 'too much' seems known. The ethnographic fo...
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