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"Bilingual (Spanish/Aymara) biography of the Aymara secretary for the early-20th-century Caciques Apoderados movement. Interesting testimony edited by a member of the same ethnic group (Ticona Alejo), which carefully examines urban indigenous life in La Paz and the organization of the movement"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57

"In this work, one of Latin America's most renowned legal philosophers conducts a comprehensive survey of the ancient Greek understanding of the law, drawing on texts by poets (Hesiod), philosophers (Anaximander), playwrights (Aeschylus and Sophocles), and historians (Herodotus and Thucydides). The book ends with a finely detailed analysis of the relationship between language and reality in Aristotle, and the emergence of the notion of the system and its subsequent introduction into Roman law. The author's in-depth study of all these aspects makes this volume an essential reference for philosophers, jurists, and historians"--