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Category : International law
Languages : es
Pages : 532
Book Description
Recopilación de tratados, convenciones, actas y demás instrumentos internacionales de las naciones civilizadas: ser. 2 de 1820 á 1864
Author: The Poisoned Water
Author: Fernando BenítezPublisher: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
This first English translation makes available to English-speaking readers a powerful modern Mexican novel, first published in 1961. Fernando Benítez, well-known Mexican author, journalist, and winner of Mexico's 1968 best-book award, exploits a true but little-known incident by building it into a tightly structured, tense, and tragic novel of social protest. The incident on which the novel is based is a bloody rebellion against the village feudal master touched off by joking comment on the "poisoning" of the water as one of Don Ulises's men is pushed into the plaza fountain. Feeding on itself, the rumor spreads that the "boss" has poisoned the local spring, and rebellion follows, with its violent and unforeseen consequences. The result is a frightening look at one of Mexico's major social problems and glaring ironies--that over fifty years after a revolution fought by the peasant and for the peasant, most rural groups are still living below the national economic standard.
The Italian Legacy in Philadelphia
Author: Andrea CanepariPublisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 1439916470
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
"The Italian Legacy in Philadelphia examines the impact and influence of Italian arts, culture, people, and ideas on the city of Philadelphia from the founding to the present"--
Recopilación de tratados, convenciones, actas y demás instrumentos internacionales de las naciones civilizadas: ser. 3 de 1865 á 1902
Author: Genealogies for the Present in Cultural Anthropology
Author: Bruce M. KnauftPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136661271
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
In the wake of tensions between modern and postmodern sensibilities, what larger directions now emerge in cultural anthropology? In this major work, Bruce Knauft takes stock of important recent initiatives in cultural and critical theory. By combining critical reviews and ethnographic engagements with fresh readings of major figures and approaches, the work develops a larger vantage point for considering the dispersing influence of practice theories, postmodernism, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, modern/post-positive feminism, and multicultural criticisms.
Watunna
Author: Marc de CivrieuxPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292715899
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Originally published in Spanish in 1970, Watunna is the epic history and creation stories of the Makiritare, or Yekuana, people living along the northern bank of the Upper Orinoco River of Venezuela, a region of mountains and virgin forest virtually unexplored even to the present. The first English edition of this book was published in 1980 to rave reviews. This edition contains a new foreword by David Guss, as well as Mediata, a detailed myth that recounts the origins of shamanism.
From Primitive to Postcolonial in Melanesia and Anthropology
Author: Bruce M. KnauftPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472066872
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
A prominent scholar surveys the special place of Melanesia in our understanding of human cultural variation
Shamanism, History, and the State
Author: Nicholas ThomasPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472084012
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Nine case studies of shamanic practice in widely different cultures
Recopilación de tratados, convenciones, actas y demás, instrumentos internacionales de las naciones civilizadas
Author: Estevan OvallePublisher:
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Category : International law
Languages : es
Pages : 590
Book Description
The Italian Legacy in Washington, D.C.
Author: Luca MolinariPublisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
From the Neoclassicism of Thomas Jefferson design of Monticello and sketches of the White House, to "all'italiana" gardens and parks, to the strong Roman classicism of the Jefferson Memorial, to Costantino Brumidi's frescoes in Congress and the National Library, to the striking composition of Luigi Moretti's Watergate Complex - America's capital is infused with the influences of a culture that laid the foundations of Western society. This book is an homage to this strong and still alive relationship and essential reading for all those interested in architecture and the visual arts.