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Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
The Institute of Latin American Studies of the University of Texas at Austin During the Administration of William P. Glade, Jr., 1971-1986
Author: Recent Books in Mexico
Author: LEV
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Category : Catalogs, Publishers'
Languages : es
Pages : 1020
Book Description
Twentieth Century Population Thinking
Author: The Population Knowledge NetworkPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317479629
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
This reader on the history of demography and historical perspectives on "population" in the twentieth century features a unique collection of primary sources from around the globe, written by scholars, politicians, journalists, and activists. Many of the sources are available in English for the first time. Background information is provided on each source. Together, the sources mirror the circumstances under which scientific knowledge about "population" was produced, how demography evolved as a discipline, and how demographic developments were interpreted and discussed in different political and cultural settings. Readers thereby gain insight into the historical precedents on debates on race, migration, reproduction, natural resources, development and urbanization, the role of statistics in the making of the nation state, and family structures and gender roles, among others. The reader is designed for undergraduate and graduate students as well as scholars in the fields of demography and population studies as well as to anyone interested in the history of science and knowledge.
Letters to a Young Novelist
Author: Mario Vargas LlosaPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429921927
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Mario Vargas Llosa condenses a lifetime of writing, reading, and thought into an essential manual for aspiring writers. Drawing on the stories and novels of writers from around the globe-Borges, Bierce, Céline, Cortázar, Faulkner, Kafka, Robbe-Grillet-he lays bare the inner workings of fiction, all the while urging young novelists not to lose touch with the elemental urge to create. Conversational, eloquent, and effortlessly erudite, this little book is destined to be read and re-read by young writers, old writers, would-be writers, and all those with a stake in the world of letters.
Fixing Men
Author: Matthew C. GutmannPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520941233
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Most studies on reproductive rights make women their focus, but in Fixing Men, Matthew Gutmann illuminates what men in the Mexican state of Oaxaca say and do about contraception, sex, and AIDS. Based on extensive fieldwork, this breakthrough study by a preeminent anthropologist of men and masculinities reveals how these men and the women in their lives make decisions about birth control, how they cope with the plague of AIDS, and the contradictory healing techniques biomedical and indigenous medical practitioners employ for infertility, impotence, and infidelity. Gutmann talks with men during and after their vasectomies and discovers why some opt for sterilization while so many others feel "planned out of family planning."
Fragments of a Golden Age
Author: Gilbert M. JosephPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822327189
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
DIVThe first cultural history of post-1940s Mexico to relate issues of representation and meaning to questions of power; it includes essays on popular music, unions, TV, tourism, cinema, wrestling, and illustrated magazines./div
Understanding Mario Vargas Llosa
Author: Sara Castro-KlarénPublisher: Understanding Modern European
ISBN: 9780872498488
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
'This book provides an intelligent & perceptive reading of Vargas Llosa's narratives; it will become a standard reference for understanding the Peruvian writer's works. . . '--Choice.
Democracy Within Reason
Author: Miguel Angel CentenoPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271045825
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
The Language of Passion
Author: Mario Vargas LlosaPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312422547
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Internationally acclaimed novelist Mario Vargas Llosa has contributed a biweekly column to Spain's major newspaper, El País, since 1977. In this collection of columns from the 1990s, Vargas Llosa weighs in on the burning questions of the last decade, including the travails of Latin American democracy, the role of religion in civic life, and the future of globalization. But Vargas Llosa's influence is hardly limited to politics. In some of the liveliest critical writing of his career, he makes a pilgrimage to Bob Marley's shrine in Jamaica, celebrates the sexual abandon of Carnaval in Rio, and examines the legacies of Vermeer, Bertolt Brecht, Frida Kahlo, and Octavio Paz, among others.