Culturas políticas en la región andina

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La primera aspiración de Frazer para realizar este trabajo era explicar la ley que regulaba la sucesión en el sacerdocio de Diana en Aricia, trabajo que formó doce volúmenes. En 1922 lo reduce y lo publica al español en 1944. Frazer nos presenta una investigación que ha hecho comprensible a la mentalidad occidental una amplia gama de usos y costumbres primitivas, descritas a su vez en un estilo que no está lejano del de la literatura.

Según el historiador Indalecio Liévano Aguirre, las galerías de prohombres colombianos están llenas de mediocres, provenientes de una fronda aristrocrática, que mediante las leyes redactadas al acomodo, abusa del poder político, gracias a la ignorancia colectiva del pueblo. Por otra parte, es usual que muchos de esos prohombres hayan sido delincuentes de cuello blanco, cuyas familias amasaron ingentes capitales expoliando dineros públicos o negociaciones siniestras. A juzgar por la denuncia pública reiterada en múltiples escenarios políticos y académicos por el historiador Enrique...