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  • The Repeating Island

    The Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective

    par Antonio Benitez-Rojo, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson ...
    Traduit par James E. Maraniss ...
    Collections series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    In this second edition of The Repeating Island, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, a master of the historical novel, short story, and critical essay, continues to confront the legacy and myths of colonialism. This co-winner of the 1993 MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize has been expanded to include three entirely new chapters that add a Lacanian perspective and a view of the carnivalesque to an already ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

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  • Earth Beings

    Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds

    par Marisol de la Cadena ...
    Collections Livre 2011 - The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
    Earth Beings is the fruit of Marisol de la Cadena's decade-long conversations with Mariano and Nazario Turpo, father and son, runakuna or Quechua people. Concerned with the mutual entanglements of indigenous and nonindigenous worlds, and the partial connections between them, de la Cadena presents how the Turpos' indigenous ways of knowing and being include and exceed modern and nonmodern practices ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • Imperial Eyes

    Travel Writing and Transculturation

    par Mary Louise Pratt ...
    Updated and expanded throughout with new illustrations and new material, this is the long- awaited second edition of a highly acclaimed and interdisciplinary book which quickly established itself as a seminal text in its field. ... En savoir plus

    $83.99 CAD

  • Rubble

    The Afterlife of Destruction

    par Gastón R. Gordillo ...
    At the foot of the Argentine Andes, bulldozers are destroying forests and homes to create soy fields in an area already strewn with rubble from previous waves of destruction and violence. Based on ethnographic research in this region where the mountains give way to the Gran Chaco lowlands, Gastón R. Gordillo shows how geographic space is inseparable from the material, historical, and affective ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • Indigenous and Popular Thinking in América

    par Rodolfo Kusch, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
    Traduit par María Lugones, Joshua M. Price ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Social Life of Spirits

    Modifié par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $37.99 CAD

  • The Formation of Candomblé

    Vodun History and Ritual in Brazil

    Traduit par Richard Vernon ...
    par Luis Nicolau Parés ...
    Collections series Latin America in Translation/en Traducción/em Tradução
    Interweaving three centuries of transatlantic religious and social history with historical and present-day ethnography, Luis Nicolau Parés traces the formation of Candomblé, one of the most influential African-derived religious forms in the African diaspora, with practitioners today centered in Brazil but also living in Europe and elsewhere in the Americas. Originally published in Brazil and not ... En savoir plus

    $34.99 CAD

  • Maya or Mestizo?

    Nationalism, Modernity, and its Discontents

    par Ronald Loewe ...
    Collections series Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
    The Maya of the Yucatán have long been drawn into the Mexican state's attempt to create modern Mexican citizens (mestizos). At the same time, they have contended with globalization pressures, first with hemp production and more recently with increased tourism and the fast-growing influence of American-based evangelical Protestantism. Despite these pressures to turn Maya into mestizo, the citizens ... En savoir plus

    $26.99 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 Promise of the Foreign

    Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines

    par Vicente L. Rafael ...
    In The Promise of the Foreign, Vicente L. Rafael argues that translation was key to the emergence of Filipino nationalism in the nineteenth century. Acts of translation entailed technics from which issued the promise of nationhood. Such a promise consisted of revising the heterogeneous and violent origins of the nation by mediating one’s encounter with things foreign while preserving their ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • Extensions of African Cultures in Brazil

    par Gerhard Kubik ...
    Brazil owes a significant portion of its social and cultural heritage of several West and Central African cultures. Due to his intensive knowledge of the African culture renown ethnomusicologist Gerhard Kubik has studied the presence of African culture phenomena in several research trips in Brazil. His insights and interpretations in areas such as language, music, religion, and social organization ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • Rise and Fall of the Cosmic Race

    The Cult of Mestizaje in Latin America

    par Marilyn Grace Miller ...
    Latin America is characterized by a uniquely rich history of cultural and racial mixtures known collectively as mestizaje. These mixtures reflect the influences of indigenous peoples from Latin America, Europeans, and Africans, and spawn a fascinating and often volatile blend of cultural practices and products. Yet no scholarly study to date has provided an articulate context for fully ... En savoir plus

    $24.99 CAD