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  • Contemporary Carioca

    Technologies of Mixing in a Brazilian Music Scene

    par Frederick Moehn ...
    Brazilian popular music is widely celebrated for its inventive amalgams of styles and sounds. Cariocas, native residents of Rio de Janeiro, think of their city as particularly conducive to musical mixture, given its history as a hub of Brazilian media and culture. In Contemporary Carioca, the ethnomusicologist Frederick Moehn introduces a generation of Rio-based musicians who collaboratively have ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

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  • Domination without Dominance

    Inca-Spanish Encounters in Early Colonial Peru

    par Gonzalo Lamana, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
    Collections series Latin America Otherwise
    Offering an alternative narrative of the conquest of the Incas, Gonzalo Lamana both examines and shifts away from the colonial imprint that still permeates most accounts of the conquest. Lamana focuses on a key moment of transition: the years that bridged the first contact between Spanish conquistadores and Andean peoples in 1531 and the moment, around 1550, when a functioning colonial regime ... En savoir plus

    $38.49 CAD

  • The Scramble for the Amazon and the Lost Paradise of Euclides da Cunha

    par Susanna B. Hecht ...
    A "compelling and elegantly written" history of the fight for the Amazon basin and the work of a brilliant but overlooked Brazilian intellectual ( Times Literary Supplement, UK).The fortunes of the late nineteenth century's imperial powers depended on a single raw material—rubber—with only one source: the Amazon basin. This scenario ignited a decades-long conflict that found Britain, France, ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Paraguay Reader

    History, Culture, Politics

    Modifié par Peter Lambert, Andrew Nickson ...
    Collections series The Latin America readers
    Hemmed in by the vast, arid Chaco to the west and, for most of its history, impenetrable jungles to the east, Paraguay has been defined largely by its isolation. Partly as a result, there has been a dearth of serious scholarship or journalism about the country. Going a long way toward redressing this lack of information and analysis, The Paraguay Reader is a lively compilation of testimonies, ... En savoir plus

    $34.99 CAD

  • We Cannot Remain Silent

    Opposition to the Brazilian Military Dictatorship in the United States

    par Daniel J. Walkowitz, James N. Green ...
    Collections series Radical Perspectives
    In 1964, Brazil’s democratically elected, left-wing government was ousted in a coup and replaced by a military junta. The Johnson administration quickly recognized the new government. The U.S. press and members of Congress were nearly unanimous in their support of the “revolution” and the coup leaders’ anticommunist agenda. Few Americans were aware of the human rights abuses perpetrated by Brazil ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Marxism of Che Guevara

    Philosophy, Economics, Revolutionary Warfare

    par Michael Löwy ...
    "Excellent. . . .The book gives one a clear understanding of the relationship of Guevara's thought to traditional Russian and Marxist philosophy." — Choice ReviewsIn this seminal exploration of Che Guevara's contributions to Marxist thinking, Michael Löwy traces Che's ideas about Marxism both as they related to Latin America and to more general philosophical, political, and economic issues. Now ... En savoir plus

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  • Myths and Legends of Alaska (Illustrations)

    par Various, Katharine Berry Judson ...
    Example in this ebookTHE RAVEN MYTHEskimo (Bering Straits)It was in the time when there were no people on the earth plain. The first man for four days lay coiled up in the pod of the beach pea. On the fifth day he stretched out his feet and burst the pod. He fell to the ground and when he stood up he was a full-grown man. Man looked all around him and then at himself. He moved his hands and arms, ... En savoir plus

    $2.08 CAD

  • Musicians in Transit

    Argentina and the Globalization of Popular Music

    par Matthew B. Karush ...
    In Musicians in Transit Matthew B. Karush examines the transnational careers of seven of the most influential Argentine musicians of the twentieth century: Afro-Argentine swing guitarist Oscar Alemán, jazz saxophonist Gato Barbieri, composer Lalo Schifrin, tango innovator Astor Piazzolla, balada singer Sandro, folksinger Mercedes Sosa, and rock musician Gustavo Santaolalla. As active participants ... En savoir plus

    $30.99 CAD

  • Café con leche

    Race, Class, and National Image in Venezuela

    par Winthrop R. Wright ...
    For over a hundred years, Venezuelans have referred to themselves as a café con leche (coffee with milk) people. This colorful expression well describes the racial composition of Venezuelan society, in which European, African, and Indian peoples have intermingled to produce a population in which almost everyone is of mixed blood. It also expresses a popular belief that within their blended society ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • Historical Dictionary of Peru

    par Peter F. Klarén ...
    Collections series Historical Dictionaries of the Americas
    With 10,000 years of history, Peru, with its formidable Inca and pre-Inca civilizations and its rich colonial and post-colonial past, formed the very foundations of multi-ethnic South American history and society. It is a country rich in natural and human resources, but has been largely confined to a state of underdevelopment for much of its history. However, since 2000 Peru has shown significant ... En savoir plus

    $158.99 CAD

  • The Tango Machine

    Musical Culture in the Age of Expediency

    par Morgan James Luker ...
    Collections series Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
    In Argentina, tango isn’t just the national music—it’s a national brand. But ask any contemporary Argentine if they ever really listen to it and chances are the answer is no: tango hasn’t been popular for more than fifty years. In this book, Morgan James Luker explores that odd paradox by tracing the many ways Argentina draws upon tango as a resource for a wide array of economic, social, and ... En savoir plus

    $35.19 CAD

  • Patagonia

    A Cultural History

    par Chris Moss ...
    Collections series Landscapes of the Imagination
    Forming a vast triangle at the southern tip of South America, Patagonia is a landscape of barren steppes, soaring peaks, and fierce wind, inspiring generations of travelers and artists. From the empty plans to the crashing seas, from the giant dinosaur fossils to the massive glacial sculptures, Chris Moss introduces readers to Patagonia's dramatic landscape--a land that, like Siberia and the ... En savoir plus

    $40.79 CAD