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  • Religious Conversion and Imperial Rule

    Self, Otherness, and Power in a Global Perspective (16th-19th Centuries)

    Series Book 35 - Religion und Moderne
    For centuries and across continents religious communities have shaped the ways in which individuals position themselves within their societies. While historians and anthropologists have increasingly focused on the phenomenon of religious conversion, studies on the relationship between conversion and imperial rule have remained sporadic and geographically isolated. To remedy this, the present ... Read more

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  • Heritage and Its Missions

    Contested Meanings and Constructive Appropriations

    Series series Catholic Practice in the Americas
    Explores how heritage discourses and local publics interact at Catholic mission sites in the southwestern United States, northern Mexico, and the Southern ConeInterdisciplinary in scope and classed under the name “critical heritage studies,” Heritage and Its Missions makes extensive use of ethnographic perspectives to examine heritage not as a collection of inert things upon which a general ... Read more

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  • Musical Practices and Mobility in Asunción

    Indigenous Musicians in Colonial Paraguay

    Series series Music, Culture, and Identity in Latin America
    The Indigenous musicians from the surrounding pueblos de indios took on a leading role in urban musical activity. Musical Practices and Mobility in Asunción: Indigenous Musicians in Colonial Paraguay sheds light on dynamics that go beyond the studies centered on the doing of Jesuits in missionary contexts and provides a more thorough comprehension of the urban musical models that were imposed and ... Read more

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  • México Profundo

    Reclaiming a Civilization

    Translated by Philip A. Dennis ...
    Series series LLILAS Translations from Latin America Series
    This translation of a major work in Mexican anthropology argues that Mesoamerican civilization is an ongoing and undeniable force in contemporary Mexican life.For Guillermo Bonfil Batalla, the remaining Indian communities, the "de-Indianized" rural mestizo communities, and vast sectors of the poor urban population constitute the México profundo. Their lives and ways of understanding the world ... Read more

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  • On the Plaza

    The Politics of Public Space and Culture

    by Setha M. Low ...
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  • The Chicano Studies Reader

    An Anthology of Aztlán, 1970–2019

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    Indigenous Autonomy, Race, and Decolonizing Research in Zapatista Communities

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  • Black Atlantic Religion

    Tradition, Transnationalism, and Matriarchy in the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé

    Black Atlantic Religion illuminates the mutual transformation of African and African-American cultures, highlighting the example of the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé religion. This book contests both the recent conviction that transnationalism is new and the long-held supposition that African culture endures in the Americas only among the poorest and most isolated of black populations. In fact, African ... Read more

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  • Streetwalking

    LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic

    Series series Critical Caribbean Studies
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    Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops

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