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“elena langdon”

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  • Mama Africa

    Reinventing Blackness in Bahia

    by Patricia de Santana Pinho ...
    Translated by Elena Langdon ...
    Often called the “most African” part of Brazil, the northeastern state of Bahia has the country’s largest Afro-descendant population and a black culture renowned for its vibrancy. In Mama Africa, Patricia de Santana Pinho examines the meanings of Africa in Bahian constructions of blackness. Combining insights from anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies, Pinho considers how Afro-Bahian ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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  • The Lost City of Z

    A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

    by David Grann ...
    **#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Wager comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction “with all the pace and excitement of a movie thriller”(The New York Times) that unravels the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century—the story of the legendary British explorer who ventured into the Amazon jungle in search of a fabled civilization ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Beyond Bogotá

    Diary of a Drug War Journalist in Colombia

    by Garry Leech ...
    Independent journalist Garry Leech has spent the last eight years working in the most remote and dangerous regions of Colombia, uncovering the unofficial stories of people living in conflict zones. Beyond Bogotá is framed around the eleven hours that Leech was held captive by the FARC, Colombia's largest leftist guerrilla group, in August of 2006. He recalls nearly thirty years of travel and work ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Object and Apparition

    Envisioning the Christian Divine in the Colonial Andes

    by Maya Stanfield-Mazzi ...
    When Christianity was imposed on Native peoples in the Andes, visual images played a fundamental role, yet few scholars have written about this significant aspect. Object and Apparition proposes that Christianity took root in the region only when both Spanish colonizers and native Andeans actively envisioned the principal deities of the new religion in two- and three-dimensional forms. The book ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Amazon Town TV

    An Audience Ethnography in Gurupá, Brazil

    by Richard Pace, Brian P. Hinote ...
    Series series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
    In 1983, anthropologist Richard Pace began his fieldwork in the Amazonian community of Gurupá one year after the first few television sets arrived. On a nightly basis, as the community’s electricity was turned on, he observed crowds of people lining up outside open windows or doors of the few homes possessing TV sets, intent on catching a glimpse of this fascinating novelty. Stoic, mute, and ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Feeding the City

    From Street Market to Liberal Reform in Salvador, Brazil, 1780–1860

    by Richard Graham ...
    Series series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
    Winner, Bolton-Johnson Prize, Conference on Latin American History, 2011Murdo J. McLeod Book Prize, 2011On the eastern coast of Brazil, facing westward across a wide magnificent bay, lies Salvador, a major city in the Americas at the end of the eighteenth century. Those who distributed and sold food, from the poorest street vendors to the most prosperous traders—black and white, male and female, ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Gendered Paradoxes

    Women's Movements, State Restructuring, and Global Development in Ecuador

    by Amy Lind ...
    Since the early 1980s Ecuador has experienced a series of events unparalleled in its history. Its “free market” strategies exacerbated the debt crisis, and in response new forms of social movement organizing arose among the country’s poor, including women’s groups. Gendered Paradoxes focuses on women’s participation in the political and economic restructuring process of the past twenty-five years, ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Disappearing Mestizo

    Configuring Difference in the Colonial New Kingdom of Granada

    by Joanne Rappaport ...
    Much of the scholarship on difference in colonial Spanish America has been based on the "racial" categorizations of indigeneity, Africanness, and the eighteenth-century Mexican castas system. Adopting an alternative approach to the question of difference, Joanne Rappaport examines what it meant to be mestizo (of mixed parentage) in the early colonial era. She draws on lively vignettes culled from ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Prophets of Agroforestry

    Guaraní Communities and Commercial Gathering

    by Richard K. Reed ...
    For almost four centuries, the indigenous Chiripá (Guaraní) people of eastern Paraguay have maintained themselves as a distinct society and culture, despite continual and often intense relations with Paraguayan society and the international economy. In this study, Richard K. Reed explores the economic and social basis for this ethnic autonomy.Reed finds that Chiripá economic power derives from ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Across America; Or, The Great West and the Pacific Coast

    Journey through the American Frontier

    by James Fowler Rusling ...
    In "Across America; Or, The Great West and the Pacific Coast," James Fowler Rusling offers an evocative chronicle of his journey through the American landscape in the 19th century. The book, rich in vivid descriptions and personal anecdotes, captures the spirit of exploration during a time when the West was increasingly accessible yet largely unexplored. Rusling's narrative style intertwines ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mobility and Integration in Urban Argentina

    Córdoba in the Liberal Era

    by Mark D. Szuchman ...
    Series series LLILAS Latin American Monograph Series
    Between the 1870s, when the great influx of European immigrants began, and the start of World War I, Argentina underwent a radical alteration of its social composition and patterns of economic productivity. Mark Szuchman, in this groundbreaking study, examines the occupational, residential, educational, and economic patterns of mobility of some four thousand men, women, and children who resided in ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • The Invention of the Brazilian Northeast

    by Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr. ...
    Translated by Jerry Dennis Metz ...
    Series series Latin America in Translation
    Brazil's Northeast has traditionally been considered one of the country's poorest and most underdeveloped areas. In this impassioned work, the Brazilian historian Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr. investigates why Northeasterners are marginalized and stereotyped not only by inhabitants of other parts of Brazil but also by nordestinos themselves. His broader question though, is how "the Northeast" ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD