El problema colonial contemporáneo

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...

A propósito de la poesía de Horácio Costa, José Saramago ha escrito lo siguiente: "El poeta paulista, parece ver en la ciencia una rama de la literatura fantástica". Sin duda, en este libro, se descubre la fascinación que la ciencia ejerce sobre el autor, lo mismo en un soneto, en una metáfora barroca o un poema de vanguardia.

Se trata de la primera entrega de una serie que permitirá en años sucesivos examinar el contenido y el alcance del patrimonio etnográfico de Cantabria. En esta ocasión se ha tomado como referencia a Carmona, el pueblo cabuérnigo situado en el Valle del Quivierda, entre las dos grandes cuencas de los ríos Nansa y Saja.

This volume includes a collection of chapters dealing with a number of aspects pertaining to the intersection between translation studies and gender studies. Although these disciplines have received the attention of numerous scholars since the 1970s, the current multidisciplinary approach in the humanities and social sciences involves the use of new methodological and analytical tools, which undoubtedly enrich and provide new insights in these fields. The articles in the present monograph represent the current state of translation studies from a gender perspective. From diverse methodological ...