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This paper deals with sexual violence against women in Polybius' Histories. Modern scholarship on the subject is scarce and has not addressed this issue. Though women did not play a central role in the narrated deeds in the work, some passages seem to relate women's rape to concrete political and didactic reflexions. Here, it is argued that Polybius consciously explored the consequences of the degradation of alliances between states and its transformation from equality to tyrannical rule by using an explicit sexual metaphor. In that sense, the examples of Philip V of Macedon, the Carthaginians in Iberia, and Scipio Africanus are studied. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper seeks to review the brief but intense history of the Frepaso, trying to explain that his rapid political cycle of quick rise and crushing decomposition was largely due to the type of structure with which the party was built, with a omnipresent leadership on the part of Alvarez which led to a marked institutional weakness. Thus it is emphasized that because of the personalism that the Frepaso acquired, the party developed three institutional weaknesses: the organizational, the identity and the programmatic. In this way, party deficits would be projected in the conformation of the Alliance and in the experience of government it entailed, so that everything would finally contribute to the rapid disintegration of the Frepaso in 2001. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the findings of a piece of qualitative research aimed at investigating the perception therapists have of difficult moments in the psychotherapeutic process. The applied methodological resource was a semi-structured interview, and the sample consisted of eight therapists 'from different approaches: psychoanalytic, cognitive-behavioral, humanistic, systemic and social constructionist. The therapists agree on the fact that difficult moments are an opportunity to advance in the therapeutic process and that these are determined by the therapeutic alliance, which involves both the patient's and the therapist's personal characteristics, the context and the psychotherapeutic techniques. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the framework of the self-determination process of 'indigenous integral territories' led by the Coordinadora Regional de los Pueblos Indígenas (CORPI), the Awajún and Wampis organizations have been defining their territories in a series of intra- and inter-ethnic meetings, objectifying their relationship with their respective geographic areas. In this sense, such process of indigenous autonomization interacts with State models and political institutions. In this paper, on the basis of our participation in anthropological reports to support the demand for recognition of 'integral territories', we try to describe and analyze the dynamics of local autonomy, supra-local alliances and inter-ethnic borders among the Awajún and Wampis and how such dynamics have mobilized them facing the increasing pressure by the national society and global capitalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper are suggested several possible interpretations to the analogy mentioned by Lévi-Strauss in order to understand totemism as a kind of mental activity, similar to that implicit in Boole's algebra. For such purpose, there is an outline of the boolean representation on Lévi-Strauss proposed general formula of kinship. Ultimately this leads the author to suggest that "savage thinking" is similar to mathematical thought when working with algorithms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]