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  • - Khipus and Cultural Life in a Peruvian Village
    af Frank Salomon
    273,95 - 998,95 kr.

    The Inkan empire did not have writing as it is usually understood. The Inkas kept track of information - including their social and political organization - on khipus, knotted cords of cotton or wool. This book offers a reading of the khipus of one Andean village, where villagers have conserved a set of these enigmatic cords to the present day.

  • - Latina Feminist Testimonios
    af Latina Feminist Group
    323,95 - 1.068,95 kr.

    In 1995, a group of Latina feminists began meeting to share life experiences. The group included oral historians, activists, literary scholars, poets, ethnographers, and psychologists. By presenting their diverse stories and reflections, this title provides a perspective on feminist theorising, one grounded in being Latina American.

  • - Memory Struggles in Pinochet's Chile, 1973-1988
    af Steve J. Stern
    318,95 - 1.208,95 kr.

    The story of the dramatic struggle to define collective memory in Chile during the violent, repressive dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.

  • - Subaltern Strategies of Labor and Resistance in the Pisco Valley, Peru
    af Vincent C. Peloso
    253,95 - 958,95 kr.

    Analyses the social and economic relationships governing the production of cotton in the Pisco Valley, an area of Peru's south coast. This book examines the interdependence of the planters, managers, and peasants. It offers a view of the monumental struggle between planters and peasants that was fundamental in shaping the agrarian history of Peru.

  • - La Violencia in Antioquia, Colombia, 1946-1953
    af Mary Roldan
    273,95 - 1.068,95 kr.

    Between 1946 and 1958 there was a surge of violence in Colombia that left 200,000 dead in one of the worst conflicts our hemisphere has ever experienced. This little-studied period of terror, is known as La Violencia. This title deals with La Violencia.

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    548,95 kr.

    Essays by intellectuals and specialists in Latin American cultural studies that provide a comprehensive view of the specific problems, topics, and methodologies of the field vis-a-vis British and U.S. cultural studies

  • - The Memory Question in Democratic Chile, 1989-2006
    af Steve J. Stern
    1.258,95 kr.

    The first comprehensive account of how Chile came to terms with General Augusto Pinochets legacy of human rights atrocities.

  • - Sexuality and Ritual in Early Nahua Culture
    af Pete Sigal
    273,95 - 1.068,95 kr.

    Sigal argues that sixteenth century Nahua sexuality cannot be fully understood only through colonial sensibilities and sources. He examines legal documents, clerical texts, pictorial manuscripts, images and glyphs of Nahua gods and goddesses and descriptions of fertility rituals and other historical accounts and stories to show the complexity of Nahua sexuality.

  • - Nationalism, Globalization, and the Politics of Culture in Jamaica
    af Deborah A. Thomas
    364,95 - 998,95 kr.

    An ethnographic study of cultural policy in Jamaica as seen from above and below in relation to race, class, and nation

  • - Mexico From Columbus to Blade Runner (1492-2019)
    af Serge Gruzinski
    334,95 - 953,95 kr.

    Explores Mexico and its romance with the image as well as othe issues of Spanish colonialism.

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    1.068,95 kr.

    Collection of essays explores the processes by which political power was constructed in four Andean republics--Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia--during the two formative centuries of nation-state formation.

  • - Postcolonial Predicaments of the Americas
     
    998,95 kr.

    Presents a collection of essays that engage postcolonial debates from the perspective of the Americas. This title includes essays that revise the insights of postcolonial studies in diverse Latin American contexts, ranging from the narratives of 18th-century travelers and clerics in the region to the status of indigenous intellectuals in Colombia.

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    1.113,95 kr.

    Argues for the saliency of the category of the subaltern over that of class. Aiming to provide a radical critique of elite culture and of liberal, bourgeois, and modern epistemologies and projects, these essays prove that this book is much more than the mere translation of subaltern studies from South Asia to Latin America.

  • - Remapping U.S. and Mexican National Imaginaries
    af Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt & Nicole Marie Guidotti-Hernandez
    370,95 - 1.068,95 kr.

    Unspeakable Violence argues that racialized and gendered violence in the U.S.Mexico borderlands from the mid-nineteenth century through the early twentieth was fundamental to U.S., Mexican, and Chicano/a nationalisms.

  • af Cristobal Aljovin de Losada
    273,95 kr.

    Collection of essays explores the processes by which political power was constructed in four Andean republics--Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia--during the two formative centuries of nation-state formation.

  • - A History of State Fixations and Fugitive Landscapes
    af Raymond B. Craib
    345,95 - 998,95 kr.

    Analyzes spatial history of 19th and early 20th century Mexico, particularly political uses of mapping and surveying, to demonstrate multiple ways that space can be negotiated in the service of local or national agendas.

  • - Peru and the Colonial Origins of the Civilized World
    af Irene Silverblatt
    263,95 - 998,95 kr.

    Explores the profound cultural transformations triggered by Spain's efforts to colonize the Andean region, and demonstrates the continuing influence of the Inquisition to the present day.

  • - Postcolonial Predicaments of the Americas
     
    355,95 kr.

    Insisting on the critical value of Latin American histories for recasting theories of postcolonialism, this title features essays that give insights of postcolonial studies in diverse Latin American contexts, ranging from the narratives of 18th century travelers and clerics in the region to the status of indigenous intellectuals in Colombia.

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    298,95 kr.

    Aiming to provide a radical critique of elite culture and of liberal, bourgeois, and modern epistemologies and projects, the essays included here prove that Latin American Subaltern Studies is much more than the mere translation of subaltern studies from South Asia to Latin America.

  • - The Family in Chicano/a Cultural Politics
    af Richard Rodriguez
    253,95 - 953,95 kr.

    As both an idea and an institution, the family has been at the heart of Chicano/a cultural politics since the Mexican American civil rights movement emerged in the late 1960s. This book explores the competing notions of la familia found in movement-inspired literature, film, video, music, painting, and other forms of cultural expression.

  • - Kinship, Adoption, and Morality in Andean Peru
    af Jessaca Leinaweaver
    317,95 - 953,95 kr.

    Explores "child circulation," informal arrangements in which indigenous Andean children are sent by their parents to live in other households. This title demonstrates that such an understanding of the practice is simplistic and misleading.

  • - Place, Community, and the Politics of History in Yucatan
    af Paul K. Eiss
    358,95 - 998,95 kr.

    An anthropological and historical analysis of the multiple meanings of the term el pueblo, among working-class indigenous and mestizo populations in Mexicos Yucatan peninsula.

  • - In the Age of Globalization and Exclusion
    af Enrique Dussel
    493,95 - 1.343,95 kr.

    Available in English for the first time, a masterwork by Enrique Dussel, one of the world's foremost philosophers, and a cornerstone of the philosophy of liberation, which he helped to found and develop.

  • - Religion, Gender, Race, and Nation in Contemporary Chicana Narrative
    af Theresa Delgadillo
    253,95 - 958,95 kr.

    Demonstrates the centrality of Gloria Anzalduas concept of spiritual mestizaje to the queer feminist Chicana theorists life and thought, and its utility as a framework for interpreting contemporary Chicana narratives.

  • - Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America
     
    343,95 kr.

    Historical investigations into how Iberian settlers, African slaves, Native Americans, and their multiethnic progeny understood their identities in colonial Latin America.

  • - Metaphors of Race and Religious Identity among South Asians in Trinidad
    af Aisha Khan
    253,95 - 953,95 kr.

    Analyzes the relationship between conceptions of racial and ethnic identity and the ways social stratification and inequality are reproduced and experienced in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.

  • af Rodolfo Kusch
    253,95 kr.

    An influential work originally published in Mexico in 1970; the Argentine philosopher Rodolfo Kusch seeks to identify and recover indigenous and popular ways of thinking devalued since colonization.

  • - Views from the Underside of Modernity
    af Nelson Maldonado-Torres
    273,95 - 1.008,95 kr.

    Argues that European modernity has become inextricably linked with the experience of the warrior and conqueror. This title develops a powerful critique of modernity, and offers a critical response combining ethics, political theory, and ideas rooted in Christian and Jewish thought.

  • - The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco, Peru, 1919-1991
    af Marisol de la Cadena
    288,95 - 1.118,95 kr.

    In the early twentieth century, Peruvian intellectuals, like their European counterparts, rejected biological categories of race as a basis for discrimination. This title traces the history of the notion of race from this turn-of-the-century definition to a denial of the definition's scientific validity.

  • - Global Futures, Decolonial Options
    af Walter D. Mignolo
    373,95 - 1.098,95 kr.

    Walter D. Mignolo analyzes the "colonial logic" that has driven five hundred years of Western imperialism, from colonialism through neoliberalism