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  • Redis Cookbook

    Practical Techniques for Fast Data Manipulation

    by Tiago Macedo, Fred Oliveira ...
    Two years since its initial release, Redis already has an impressive list of adopters, including Engine Yard, GitHub, Craigslist, and Digg. This open source data structure server is built for speed and flexibility, making it ideal for many applications. If you're using Redis, or considering it, this concise cookbook provides recipes for a variety of issues you're likely to face.Each recipe solves ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Performances of Spiral Time

    by Leda Maria Martins ...
    Translated by Bruna Barros, Jess Oliveira ...
    Series series Dissident Acts
    In Performances of Spiral Time, famed Afro-Brazilian thinker Leda Maria Martins theorizes forms of African and African diasporic temporality, corporeality, and space that exist apart from and critique Eurocentric notions of linear time. Martins introduces the notion of “spiral time”—curved and recurrent temporalities materialized in Black corporealities in which the body is the place of the ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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  • Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro

    Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality

    by Gloria Anzaldua ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    Light in the Dark is the culmination of Gloria E. Anzaldúa's mature thought and the most comprehensive presentation of her philosophy. Focusing on aesthetics, ontology, epistemology, and ethics, it contains several developments in her many important theoretical contributions. ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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  • Aztec Philosophy

    Understanding a World in Motion

    by James Maffie ...
    In Aztec Philosophy, James Maffie shows the Aztecs advanced a highly sophisticated and internally coherent systematic philosophy worthy of consideration alongside other philosophies from around the world. Bringing together the fields of comparative world philosophy and Mesoamerican studies, Maffie excavates the distinctly philosophical aspects of Aztec thought.Aztec Philosophy focuses on the ways ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Indigenous and Popular Thinking in América

    by Rodolfo Kusch, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
    Translated by María Lugones, Joshua M. Price ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    Originally published in Mexico in 1970, Indigenous and Popular Thinking in América is the first book by the Argentine philosopher Rodolfo Kusch (1922–79) to be translated into English. At its core is a binary created by colonization and the devaluation of indigenous practices and cosmologies: an opposition between the technologies and rationalities of European modernity and the popular mode of ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Outward Path

    The Wisdom of the Aztecs

    by Sebastian Purcell ...
    A practical and eye-opening guide to the Aztec philosophy on how to live.During the twilight decades of their empire, the learned ones among the Aztec filled numerous volumes with philosophical and ethical thought in testimony recorded by Spanish priests. However, these have been largely overlooked and Westerners often see Aztec culture as a matter for history, anthropology, and archaeology—not ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

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  • Creating Through Mind and Emotions

    Edited by Maria do Rosário Monteiro, Maria João Pereira Neto, Mário Ming Kong ...
    Series series PHI
    The texts presented in Proportion Harmonies and Identities (PHI) Creating Through Mind and Emotions were compiled to establish a multidisciplinary platform for presenting, interacting, and disseminating research. This platform also aims to foster the awareness and discussion on Creating Through Mind and Emotions, focusing on different visions relevant to Architecture, Arts and Humanities, Design ... Read more

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  • Living Santería

    Rituals and Experiences in an Afro-Cuban Religion

    by Michael Atwood Mason ...
    In 1992 Smithsonian anthropologist Michael Atwood Mason traveled to Cuba for initiation as a priest into the Santería religion. Since then he has created an active oricha “house” and has initiated five others as priests. He is a rare combination: a scholar-practitioner who is equally fluent in his profession and his religion. Interweaving his roles as researcher and priest, Mason explores Santería ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • The Social Life of Spirits

    Edited by Ruy Blanes, Diana Espírito Santo ...
    Spirits can be haunters, informants, possessors, and transformers of the living, but more than anything anthropologists have understood them as representations of something else—symbols that articulate facets of human experience in much the same way works of art do. The Social Life of Spirits challenges this notion. By stripping symbolism from the way we think about the spirit world, the ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • The Fate of Earthly Things

    Aztec Gods and God-Bodies

    by Molly H. Bassett ...
    Series series Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas
    "Bassett at last provides a path to understand better the specifically Aztec characteristics of the teteoh and their ritual 'embodiments.'" — EthnohistoryFollowing their first contact in 1519, accounts of Aztecs identifying Spaniards as gods proliferated. But what exactly did the Aztecs mean by a "god" ( teotl), and how could human beings become gods or take on godlike properties? This ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gender, Discourse, and Desire in Twentieth-Century Brazilian Women's Literature

    by Cristina Ferreira-Pinto ...
    Series Book 29 - Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures
    This study by Cristina Ferreira-Pinto explores the poetic and narrative strategies twentieth-century Brazilian women writers use to achieve new forms of representation of the female body, sexuality, and desire. Female writers discussed include: Gilka Machado, Lygia Fagundes Telles, Marcia Denser, and Marina Colasanti. While creating new forms, these writers are also deconstructing cultural myths ... Read more

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  • Truth in Motion

    The Recursive Anthropology of Cuban Divination

    by Martin Holbraad ...
    "An intellectual journey, a rigorous engagement with Cuban divination and theories of meaning . . . extremely original, innovative—indeed daring and radical." —Andrew Apter, University of California, Los AngelesEmbarking on an ethnographic journey to the inner barrios of Havana among practitioners of Ifá, a prestigious Afro-Cuban tradition of divination, Truth in Motion reevaluates Western ideas ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus