Indigenous life projects and extractivism : ethnographies from South America /

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Blackness and modernity : the colour of humanity and the quest for freedom / by Foster, Cecil, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Blackness : method, differences, perspective -- Meaning, understanding, and knowing -- Common sense blackness : existentialism, epistemology, ontology -- Blackness and goodness : frameworks of study -- Ideology that privileges the somatic -- Phenomenology, history, and paradigms -- Blackness and speculative philosophy -- Greek mythologies and philosophies -- The cunning of blackness -- Blackness : status, citizenship, death, and rebirth -- Slavery and death -- Ethno-racial bondage -- Multiculturalism and blackness -- Promises of multiculturalism -- Blackness : essences, mythologies, and positioning -- Neo-mythic multiculturalism -- Blackness : social and political in Canada -- New ideals of Canadian blackness -- Black Canada : reconciliation?…”
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Aztec religion and art of writing : investigating embodied meaning, indigenous semiotics, and the Nahua sense of reality / by Laack, Isabel

Table of Contents: “…Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Figures -- Introduction 1 -- 1 Methodology 16 -- 2 Living in Cultural Diversity 59 -- 3 Living in Relation: Being Human in Tenochtitlan 80 -- 4 A World in Motion: Nahua Ontology 109 -- 5 Understanding a World in Motion: Nahua Epistemology 149 -- 6 Interacting with a World in Motion: Nahua Pragmatism and Aesthetics 167 -- 7 Expressing Reality in Language: Nahua Linguistic Theory 203 -- 8 Materializing Reality in Writing: Nahua Pictography 246 -- 9 Understanding Pictography: Interpreting Nahua Semiotics 286 -- 10 Interpretative Results: Nahua Religion, Scripture, and Sense of Reality 342 -- Conclusion 356 -- Figures 365 -- Figure Credits 381 -- Back Matter -- References -- Index.…”
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Pluriversal politics : the real and the possible / by Escobar, Arturo, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Preface to the English edition -- Introduction : another possible is possible -- Theory and the un/real : tools for rethinking "reality" and the possible -- From below, on the left, and with the Earth : the difference stemming from Abya Yala/Afro/Latino América makes -- The Earth-form of life : Nasa thought and the limits to the episteme of modernity -- Sentipensar with the Earth : territorial struggles and the ontological dimension of the epistemologies of the South -- Notes on intellectual colonialism and the dilemmas of Latin American social theory -- Post-development @ 25 : on "being stuck" and moving forward, sideways, backward and otherwise (a conversation with Gustavo Esteva) -- Cosmo/visions of the Colombian Pacific region and their socio-environmental implications : elements for a dialogue of visions -- Beyond "regional development" : outline of a design model for civilizational transition in the Cauca River Valley, Colombia.…”
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Ritual kinship. by Nutini, Hugo G.

Table of Contents: “…The structural analysis of the compadrazgo system -- The sacred nature of compadrazgo in Belen and the characteristics of the mediating entity -- The personnel of the compadrazgo system -- The structural implications of asking and being asked to enter into a compadrazgo relationship -- Confianza, respeto, and reliance -- The preferential and prescriptive structure of compadrazgo -- The structural implications of symmetrical and asymmetrical compadrazgo relationships -- The permanent and temporary dimensions of compadrazgo relationships -- The structural and functional implications of interchangeable compadrazgo types -- The structural articulation and ritual-symbolic nature of public-communal compadrazgo types -- The conscious and unconscious nature of compadrazgo and the absolute and relative importance of compadrazgo types -- Ritual kinship terminology -- Ritual kinship behavior -- The egocentric developmental cycle of compadrazgo -- The exocentric developmental cycle of compadrazgo -- The functional analysis of the compadrazgo system -- The political, economic, and demographic functions of compadrazgo -- The religious and social functions of compadrazgo -- The magico-symbolic functions of compadrazgo -- Conclusions -- Appendix: the epistemological and ontological foundations of the analytical framework.…”
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Archaeological interpretations : symbolic meaning within Andes prehistory /

Table of Contents: “…. -- Different Shades of Early Shamanism in the Upper Amazon / Francisco Valdez -- Metal in the Recuay Culture of Ancient Peru: Art, Imagery, and Social Context / George Lau -- The Meaning within Moche Masks / Edward Swenson -- Part IV. Rituals and Ontology. -- Ephemeral Memories: The Creation and Ritual Destruction of Architectonic Models in San José de Moro / Luis Jaime Castillo Butters -- Farewell to the Gods: Interpreting the Use and Voluntary Abandonment of a Ritual Building at -- Pachacamac, Peru / Peter Eeckhout…”
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Archaeological interpretations : symbolic meaning within Andes prehistory /

Table of Contents: “…. -- Different Shades of Early Shamanism in the Upper Amazon / Francisco Valdez -- Metal in the Recuay Culture of Ancient Peru: Art, Imagery, and Social Context / George Lau -- The Meaning within Moche Masks / Edward Swenson -- Part IV. Rituals and Ontology. -- Ephemeral Memories: The Creation and Ritual Destruction of Architectonic Models in San José de Moro / Luis Jaime Castillo Butters -- Farewell to the Gods: Interpreting the Use and Voluntary Abandonment of a Ritual Building at -- Pachacamac, Peru / Peter Eeckhout…”
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The connected Caribbean : a socio-material network approach to patterns of homogeneity and diversity in the pre-colonial period / by Mol, Angenitus Arie Andries, 1984-

Table of Contents: “…; The gift: a material total social fact; The interdependency of persons and gifts; Kula: from gift relations to socio-material network; Object perspectivism and socio-material interdependency; A Maussian and Amerindian ontological framework; A Heart of Stone: Lithic Networks from 3200 BC to AD 400; Nodes and ties; Period A: foundation ; Structure and subgraphs; Interpretation; Period B: growth; Structure and subgraphs; Interpretation.…”
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L' alternative patrimoniale des Iyiyiwch : savoir-faire, territoire et autonomie / by Wattez, Paul

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Couverture -- Dans la même collection -- Page de demi-titre -- Page titre -- Crédits -- Dédicace -- Remerciements -- Avant-propos -- Liste des Figures et Tableaux -- Liste des Sigles et Acronymes -- Introduction -- Iyiyiw Istchee, centre du monde -- Waswanipi, Iyiniw Atschee, Chiiwetau -- Nhodo istchee, nocimic -- Iiyiyiw iituun -- Chapitre 1 / Ontologie politique des patrimoines dans les mondes autochtones -- 1.1 / Ontologie politique des patrimoines -- 1.1.1 / Apports de l'anthropologie des ontologies -- 1.1.2 / Apports des études critiques du patrimoine…”
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The Andean world /

Table of Contents: “…God: Andean thought and cultural change in colonial Bolivia -- Making and unmaking the Andean food pyramid: agronomy, animal science, and ideology -- Drinking together: continuity and change in Andean world -- Kinship, households, and sociality -- Production, trade, reciprocity and markets -- Andean gods and Catholic saints: Indigenous and Catholic intercultural encounters -- Evangelicalism in the rural Andes -- Nation-making and nationalism -- Ordinary states: fantasy, fear, and displacement in twentieth-century Peruvian state formation -- Agrarian reform and development -- Revolutions and violence -- Extreme violence in museums of memory: the place of memory in Peru -- Indian identity and indigenous revitalization movements -- The multicultural turn, the new Latin American constitutionalism, and black social movements in Andean sub-region -- Gender and sexuality in the Andes -- Labeling and linguistic discrimination -- Patron saint festivals and dance in Peru: histories told from within -- Andean musical expressions: ethnographic notes on materialities, ontologies and alterities -- Envisaging Andean indigeneity through photographic and audiovisual technologies -- Art for a modern Peru: the poetics and polemics of Indigenismo -- Three axes of variability in Quechus: regional diversification, contact with other indigenous languages, and social enregisterment -- Document, law, and the state in the Andes -- Education, power, and distinctions -- Hip hop and guinea pigs: contextualizing the urban Andes -- Plurinationality, indigeneity, neoliberalism, and social movement -- Citizenship and rights -- Transnational circuits: migration, money, and might in Peru's Andean communities -- The political and cultural economies of tourism in the Andes -- Growing coca leaf in the midst of the war against cocaine -- Water rights, extractive resources, and petroleum politics -- Reflections and projections: Andean worlds.…”
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LA MOLEDORA. EL ULTIMO MITO DE LOS PASTOS. by AVALOS, EDISON; VASQUEZ, LUIS

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Textos y testimonios de academicos

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Historia privada de los colombianos.. by Caballero Calderón, Eduardo

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General de division Jose Maria Cordova.

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Making a Life in Multiethnic Miami : Immigration and the Rise of a Global City. by Aranda, Elizabeth M.

Table of Contents: “…Segregation and the Color Line in MiamiEthnic and Racial Discrimination in Miami; Immigrant Disidentification and Counterframing; Conclusion; Notes; 7-Immigrant Emotions and Strategies of Co-Presence; Immigration, Emotions, and Ontological Security; Co-Presence as a Strategy; Overlapping Strategies of Co-Presence; Co-Presence and Translocal Social Citizenship; Co-Presence and Feelings of Well-Being; Conclusion; Notes; 8-Translocal Placemaking and Belonging; Felt and Pragmatic Home: The Attraction of Miami; Placemaking and the Importance of Home; (Re)Enacting and (Re)Experiencing Home.…”
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STORIES IN STONE : memorialization, the creation of history and the role of preservation. by WILLIAMS, EMILY

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Le Québec : tournants d'une histoire nationale / by Bédard, Éric

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Narrar y habitar la ciudad : jovenes, comunicacion y educacion en las narrativas urbanas. by BUENDIA, ALEXANDER

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Entre cóndores y turpiales : la diplomacia italiana en América Latina (1945-1958).

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My Girlhood among Outlaws. by Klasner, Lily

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