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Brazil in the Making

Author : Carmen Nava
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742537576
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Brazil in the Making written by Carmen Nava and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2006 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative volume traces Brazil's singular character, exploring both the remarkable richness and cohesion of the national culture and the contradictions and tensions that have developed over time. What shared experiences give its citizens their sense of being Brazilian? What memories bind them together? What metaphors and stereotypes of identity have emerged? Which groups are privileged over others in idealized representations of the nation? The contributors--a multidisciplinary group of U.S. and Brazilian scholars--offer a fresh look at questions that have been asked since the early nineteenth century and that continue to drive nationalist discourse today. Their chapters explore Brazilian identity through an innovative framework that brings in seldom-considered aspects of art, music, and visual images, offering a compelling analysis of how nationalism functions as a social, political, and cultural construction in Latin America. Contributions by: Cristina Antunes, Dain Borges, Val ria Costa e Silva, James Green, Efrain Kristal, Ludwig Lauerhass Jr., Cristina Magaldi, Elizabeth A. Marchant, Jos Mindlin, Carmen Nava, Jos Luis Passos, Robert Stam, and Val ria Torres

Brazil Through French Eyes

Author : Ana Lucia Araujo
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826337457
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Brazil Through French Eyes written by Ana Lucia Araujo and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book historian Ana Lucia Araujo examines Biard's Brazil with special attention to what she calls his "tropical romanticism" a vision of the country with an emphasis on the exotic.

Activist Biology

Author : Regina Horta Duarte
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816534616
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Activist Biology written by Regina Horta Duarte and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brazilian society was shaken by turmoil in the 1920s and 1930s. The country was rocked by heated debates over race and immigration, burgeoning social movements in cities and the countryside, entrenched oligarchies clinging to power, and nature being despoiled. Against this turbulent backdrop, a group of biology scholars at the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro joined the drive to renew the Brazilian nation, claiming as their weapon the voice of their fledgling field. Without discarding scientific rigor, they embraced biology as a creed and activism as a conviction—and achieved success in their bid to influence public policy in environmental protection and the rational use of natural resources. For the first time in English, Brazil’s leading environmental historian, Regina Horta Duarte, brings us a nuanced analysis of the National Museum of Brazil’s contribution to that country’s formation and history. In Activist Biology, Duarte explores the careers of three of these scientists as they leveraged biology as a strategy for change. Devoted to educational initiatives, they organized exhibits, promoted educational film and radio, wrote books, published science communication magazines, fostered school museums, and authored textbooks for young people. Their approach was transdisciplinary, and their reliance on multimedia formats was pioneering. Capturing a crucial period in Brazil’s history, this portrait of science as a creative and potentially transformative pathway will intrigue anyone fascinated by environmental history, museums, and the history of science. Duarte skillfully shows how Brazilian science furthered global scientific knowledge in ways that are relevant now more than ever.

Charting a New Course

Author : Fernando Henrique Cardoso
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742508934
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Charting a New Course written by Fernando Henrique Cardoso and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades F. H. Cardoso has been among the most influential of Latin American scholars, his writings on globalization, dependency, and politics having reached a world-wide audience. This book, the third by Cardoso to appear in English, is the first to incorporate essays written during his tenure as president of Brazil. The transformation of Cardoso's economic and political approach is nowhere better documented than in this broad-ranging collection of writings that span Cardoso's early theoretical work through his pragmatic agenda for Brazil in a rapidly changing world economy. The book also traces the development of one of the world's leading intellectuals, who took theory into the arena of policy when he became head of state.

Handbook of South American Indians

Author : Julian Haynes Steward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1002 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of South American Indians written by Julian Haynes Steward and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Emancipatory Narratives & Enslaved Motherhood

Author : Jane-Marie Collins
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1802070966
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Emancipatory Narratives & Enslaved Motherhood written by Jane-Marie Collins and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-15 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emancipatory Narratives & Enslaved Motherhood examines three major currents in the historiography of Brazilian slavery: manumission, miscegenation, and creolisation. It revisits themes central to the history of slavery and race relations in Brazil, updates the research about them, and revises interpretations of the role of gender and reproduction within them. First, about the preponderance of women and children in manumission; second, about the association of black female mobility with intimate inter-racial relations; third, about the racialised and gendered routes to freed status; and fourth, about the legacies of West African female socio-economic behaviours for modalities of family and freedom in nineteenth-century Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. The central concern within the book is how African and African descendant women navigated enslaved motherhood and negotiated the divide between enslavement and freedom for themselves and their children. The book is, therefore, organised around the subject position of the enslaved mother and the reproduction of her children in enslavement, while the condition of enslaved motherhood is examined through overlapping historical praxis evidenced in nineteenth-century Bahia: contested freedom, racialised mothering, and competing maternal interests - biological, ritual, surrogate. The point at which these interests converged historically was, it is argued, a conflict over black female reproductive rights.

Handbook of South American Indians: Physical anthropology, linguistics and cultural geography of South American Indians

Author : Julian Haynes Steward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 796 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of South American Indians: Physical anthropology, linguistics and cultural geography of South American Indians written by Julian Haynes Steward and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Edge of Empire

Author : Dr. Fabrício Prado
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520960734
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Edge of Empire written by Dr. Fabrício Prado and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first decades of the 1800s, after almost three centuries of Iberian rule, former Spanish territories fragmented into more than a dozen new polities. Edge of Empire analyzes the emergence of Montevideo as a hot spot of Atlantic trade and regional center of power, often opposing Buenos Aires. By focusing on commercial and social networks in the Rio de la Plata region, the book examines how Montevideo merchant elites used transimperial connections to expand their influence and how their trade offered crucial support to Montevideo’s autonomist projects. These transimperial networks offered different political, social, and economic options to local societies and shaped the politics that emerged in the region, including the formation of Uruguay. Connecting South America to the broader Atlantic World, this book provides an excellent case study for examining the significance of cross-border interactions in shaping independence processes and political identities.

Discrimination in an Unequal World

Author : Miguel Angel Centeno
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199742588
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Discrimination in an Unequal World written by Miguel Angel Centeno and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discrimination in an Unequal World explores the relationship between discrimination and inequality by comparing and examining what effect globalization has had on discrimination. Investigating a broad variety of social relations and practices with an equally broad array of methods, it establishes a base with which to effectively compare the varying forms of discrimination of different societies.

Kinship with Monkeys

Author : Loretta A. Cormier
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231516320
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Kinship with Monkeys written by Loretta A. Cormier and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-15 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intrigued by a slide showing a woman breast-feeding a monkey, anthropologist Loretta A. Cormier spent fifteen months living among the Guajá, a foraging people in a remote area of Brazil. The result is this ethnographic study of the extraordinary relationship between the Guajá Indians and monkeys. While monkeys are a key food source for the Guajá, certain pet monkeys have a quasi-human status. Some infant monkeys are adopted and nurtured as human children while others are consumed in accordance with the "symbolic cannibalism" of their belief system. The apparent contradiction of this predator/protector relationship became the central theme of Cormier's research: How can monkeys be both eaten as food and nurtured as children? Her research reveals that monkeys play a vital role in Guajá society, ecology, economy, and religion. In Guajá animistic beliefs, all forms of plant and animal life—especially monkeys—have souls and are woven into a comprehensive kinship system. Therefore, all consumption can be considered a form of cannibalism. Cormier sets the stage for this enlightening study by examining the history of the Guajá and the ecological relationships between human and nonhuman primates in Amazonia. She also addresses the importance of monkeys in Guajá ecological adaptation as well as their role in the Guajá kinship system. Cormier then looks at animism and life classification among the Guajá and the role of pets, which provide a context for understanding "symbolic cannibalism" and how the Guajá relate to various forms of life in their natural and supernatural world. The book concludes with a discussion of the implications of ethnoprimatology beyond Amazonia, including Western perceptions of primates.

Histories and Historicities in Amazonia

Author : Neil L. Whitehead
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803298170
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book Histories and Historicities in Amazonia written by Neil L. Whitehead and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropologist Neil L. Whitehead presents a collection of recent fieldwork and the latest theoretical perspectives that illuminate how a range of Native communities in the Amazon River basin, and those they encounter, use the past to make sense of their world and themselves. In recent decades, scholars have become increasingly aware of the role the past plays in the construction of culture and identity. Not only can the past be represented and codified overtly in various ways and media as a history, it also operates more fundamentally and pervasively in cultures as a mode of consciousness or way of thinking about the world, a historicity. ø In addition to examining the particular foundations and significance of history and historicity in such communities as the Guaj¾, Wapishana, Dekuana, and Patamuna, the contributors to this volume consider more broadly how different natural and cultural features can help shape historical consciousness: landscape and territory; rituals such as feasting; genealogy and kinship; and even the practice of archaeology. Also of interest are activist uses of historicity to promote and legitimize the cultural integrity and political agendas of Native communities, especially in contact situations past and present where multiple and often competing forms of history and historicity play important political roles in articulating relations between colonizers and the colonized. ø As this volume makes clear, understanding the powerful cultural role of the past helps scholars better appreciate the inherent dynamic quality of all cultures and recognize a rich resource of agency that can be used both to comprehend and to transform the present

Cruelty and Utopia

Author : Jean-François Lejeune
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 1568984898
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (689 download)

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Download or read book Cruelty and Utopia written by Jean-François Lejeune and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2005-02-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark collection of illustrated essays explores the vastly underappreciated history of America's other cities -- the great metropolises found south of our borders in Central and South America. Buenos Aires, So Paulo, Mexico City, Caracas, Havana, Santiago, Rio, Tijuana, and Quito are just some of the subjects of this diverse collection. How have desires to create modern societies shaped these cities, leading to both architectural masterworks (by the likes of Luis Barragn, Juan O'Gorman, Lcio Costa, Roberto Burle Marx, Carlos Ral Villanueva, and Lina Bo Bardi) and the most shocking favelas? How have they grappled with concepts of national identity, their colonial history, and the continued demands of a globalized economy? Lavishly illustrated, Cruelty and Utopia features the work of such leading scholars as Carlos Fuentes, Edward Burian, Lauro Cavalcanti, Fernando Oayrzn, Roberto Segre, and Eduardo Subirats, along with artwork ranging from colonial paintings to stills from Chantal Akerman's film From the Other Side. Also included is a revised translation of Spanish King Philip II's influential planning treatise of 1573, the "Laws of the Indies," which did so much to define the form of the Latin American city.

The National Union Catalogs, 1963-

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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The Jewish Presence in Latin America

Author : Judith Laikin Elkin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000034917
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jewish Presence in Latin America written by Judith Laikin Elkin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-06 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1987, this collection of essays is a major contribution toward developing a realistic picture of the Latin American Jewish communities in the late 20th Century. The book will be of interest to students of comparative studies, Jewish studies and Latin American studies and responds to the need to learn more about the Jewish communities of Latin America, both as a fragment of the Jewish diaspora and as an element in the economic and social life of the continent.

Brazil

Author : Ignacy Sachs
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807831301
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Brazil written by Ignacy Sachs and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brazil, the largest of the Latin American nations, is fast becoming a potent international economic player as well as a regional power. This English translation of an acclaimed Brazilian anthology provides critical overviews of Brazilian life, history, an

Brazil by British and Irish Authors

Author : Leslie Bethell
Publisher : Centre for Brazilian Studies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brazil by British and Irish Authors written by Leslie Bethell and published by Centre for Brazilian Studies. This book was released on 2003 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A detailed survey of ... literature on Brazil by British (and some Irish) authors published between the late 15th century and the present day. It first surveys the relatively few descriptions of Brazil under Portuguese colonial rule in British travel narratives. Secondly, it offers a comprehensive guide to the many, lengthier accounts of Brazil by British residents and British visitors during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Finally, it examines the books on Brazil by British scholars in universities and other research institutions and by British travellers and independent authors during the second half of the twentieth century"--Page 4 of cover

Rio de Janeiro

Author : Marcia Zoladz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442252324
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Rio de Janeiro written by Marcia Zoladz and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-09-02 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From fish soup to caipirinha, the culinary traditions of Rio de Janeiro come alive in this rich and sumptuous tour of its people and the foods they cook, eat, love, and enjoy. In the last four centuries of its history, the inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro created a lifestyle that is unique and has been much admired since the very first travelers published their impressions in the sixteenth century. Indeed, this international hot spot welcomes approximately 1.8 million tourists every year who come to the city to visit, to work, to study, and to eat. It was and it is a place of cultural and artistic creativity, and it has largely kept concealed one of its most interesting cultural traits: its food. Rio de Janeiro: A Food Biography unveils the high quality and variety of Rio’s fresh produce, the special dishes served in parties or at home, and the very traditional ones inherited from the immigrants who made the culture of the city as varied as its food. Starting with a history of the city and its native plants and animals, Marcia Zoladz offers a rich and sumptuous tour of the culture, the people, and the foods they cook, dine on, love, and enjoy. From fish soup to caipirinha, the culinary traditions come alive through an exploration of the festivals, the people, the places, and the hot-spots that continue to draw people from around the world to this world-class destination.