Author: Pan American UnionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pan-Americanism
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Monthly Bulletin of the International Bureau of the American Republics
Author: Pan American UnionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pan-Americanism
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Monthly Bulletin of the International Bureau of the American Republics, International Union of American Republics
Author: Bulletin
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Quarterly accession lists; beginning with Apr. 1893, the bulletin is limited to "subject lists, special bibliographies, and reprints or facsimiles of original documents, prints and manuscripts in the Library," the accessions being recorded in a separate classified list, Jan.-Apr. 1893, a weekly bulletin Apr. 1893-Apr. 1894, as well as a classified list of later accessions in the last number published of the bulletin itself (Jan. 1896)
Imperial Debris
Author: Ann Laura StolerPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822395851
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Imperial Debris redirects critical focus from ruins as evidence of the past to "ruination" as the processes through which imperial power occupies the present. Ann Laura Stoler's introduction is a manifesto, a compelling call for postcolonial studies to expand its analytical scope to address the toxic but less perceptible corrosions and violent accruals of colonial aftermaths, as well as their durable traces on the material environment and people's bodies and minds. In their provocative, tightly focused responses to Stoler, the contributors explore subjects as seemingly diverse as villages submerged during the building of a massive dam in southern India, Palestinian children taught to envision and document ancestral homes razed by the Israeli military, and survival on the toxic edges of oil refineries and amid the remains of apartheid in Durban, South Africa. They consider the significance of Cold War imagery of a United States decimated by nuclear blast, perceptions of a swath of Argentina's Gran Chaco as a barbarous void, and the enduring resonance, in contemporary sexual violence, of atrocities in King Leopold's Congo. Reflecting on the physical destruction of Sri Lanka, on Detroit as a colonial metropole in relation to sites of ruination in the Amazon, and on interactions near a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Brazilian state of Bahia, the contributors attend to present-day harms in the occluded, unexpected sites and situations where earlier imperial formations persist. Contributors. Ariella Azoulay, John F. Collins, Sharad Chari, E. Valentine Daniel, Gastón Gordillo, Greg Grandin, Nancy Rose Hunt, Joseph Masco, Vyjayanthi Venuturupalli Rao, Ann Laura Stoler
Handbook of South American Indians
Author: Julian Haynes StewardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of South America
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
Handbook of South American Indians: The Marginal tribes
Author: Julian Haynes StewardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
List of Latin American History and Description in the Columbus Memorial Library
Author: Columbus Memorial LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Subject Index of Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum in the Years 1881-1900
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
The Romance of the River Plate...
Author: William Henry KoebelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Argentina
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Complete)
Author: Sir James George FrazerPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465538461
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 6687
Book Description
For some time I have been preparing a general work on primitive superstition and religion. Among the problems which had attracted my attention was the hitherto unexplained rule of the Arician priesthood; and last spring it happened that in the course of my reading I came across some facts which, combined with others I had noted before, suggested an explanation of the rule in question. As the explanation, if correct, promised to throw light on some obscure features of primitive religion, I resolved to develop it fully, and, detaching it from my general work, to issue it as a separate study. This book is the result. Now that the theory, which necessarily presented itself to me at first in outline, has been worked out in detail, I cannot but feel that in some places I may have pushed it too far. If this should prove to have been the case, I will readily acknowledge and retract my error as soon as it is brought home to me. Meantime my essay may serve its purpose as a first attempt to solve a difficult problem, and to bring a variety of scattered facts into some sort of order and system. A justification is perhaps needed of the length at which I have dwelt upon the popular festivals observed by European peasants in spring, at midsummer, and at harvest. It can hardly be too often repeated, since it is not yet generally recognised, that in spite of their fragmentary character the popular superstitions and customs of the peasantry are by far the fullest and most trustworthy evidence we possess as to the primitive religion of the Aryans. Indeed the primitive Aryan, in all that regards his mental fibre and texture, is not extinct. He is amongst us to this day. The great intellectual and moral forces which have revolutionised the educated world have scarcely affected the peasant. In his inmost beliefs he is what his forefathers were in the days when forest trees still grew and squirrels played on the ground where Rome and London now stand.