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Book Amore

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  • Author : Juan Carlos Rodríguez
  • Publisher : Palibrio
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 1463318863
  • Pages : 71 pages

Download or read book Amore written by Juan Carlos Rodríguez and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2012 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NO TODO LO QUE SE ESCRIBE ES PORQUE SE SIENTE, NI TODO LO QUE SE SIENTE SE PUEDE ESCRIBIR. TODO LO VIVIDO NO PUEDE SER PLASMADO EN LETRAS, NI TODO LO ESCRITO ES PORQUE SE HA VIVIDO. LAS PALABRAS SON DE QUIEN LAS LEE, NO DE QUIEN LAS ESCRIBE, NO JUZGUES AL QUE ESCRIBIO POR SUS PALABRAS, JUZGATE A TI MISMO POR LO QUE INTERPRETAS"

Book Beyond The Saints

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  • Author : Ramon Fuentes Sandoval
  • Publisher : Palibrio
  • Release : 2010-11-08
  • ISBN : 1617641456
  • Pages : 559 pages

Download or read book Beyond The Saints written by Ramon Fuentes Sandoval and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2010-11-08 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mas alla de los Santos... la historia comienza aqui.. Cuando Santa Esmeralda abre el libro titulado: "BEYOND THE SAINTS" para leerlo a un pequeno oyente, el mundo comienza a sufrir cambios repentinos. Pandemias, desastres naturales, plagas y toda una incertidumbre politica se desata en el mundo en aras de una guerra mundial. Sin imaginar los sucesos que ocurren en el mundo, Santa Esmeralda narra una historia acerca de seis valientes guerreros que pelearan por salvar al mundo, son conocidos como Santos y cada uno posee poderes supernaturales. En el transcurso de su lectura, la dama es interrumpida por un ser que la advierte de lo que ha sucedido por abrir aquel libro y que los Santos de los que ella narra en su historia son reales y que vienen en camino con una premicia; tomar la vida de Santa Esmeralda y con ello evitar el fin del mundo.

Book Picture writing and Other Documents

Download or read book Picture writing and Other Documents written by Erland Nordenskiöld and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fichte in the Americas

Download or read book Fichte in the Americas written by María Jimena Solé and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume present the first comprehensive account of Fichte's reception and influence in America, highlighting philosophical issues central to thinkers in the U.S., Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico.

Book Promiscuous Power

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  • Author : Martin Austin Nesvig
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2021-02-23
  • ISBN : 1477315837
  • Pages : 269 pages

Download or read book Promiscuous Power written by Martin Austin Nesvig and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honorable Mention, Bandelier/Lavrin Book Award in Colonial Latin America, Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies (RMCLAS), 2019 Honorable Mention, The Alfred B. Thomas Book Award, Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS), 2019 Scholars have written reams on the conquest of Mexico, from the grand designs of kings, viceroys, conquistadors, and inquisitors to the myriad ways that indigenous peoples contested imperial authority. But the actual work of establishing the Spanish empire in Mexico fell to a host of local agents—magistrates, bureaucrats, parish priests, ranchers, miners, sugar producers, and many others—who knew little and cared less about the goals of their superiors in Mexico City and Madrid. Through a case study of the province of Michoacán in western Mexico, Promiscuous Power focuses on the prosaic agents of colonialism to offer a paradigm-shifting view of the complexities of making empire at the ground level. Presenting rowdy, raunchy, and violent life histories from the archives, Martin Austin Nesvig reveals that the local colonizers of Michoacán were primarily motivated by personal gain, emboldened by the lack of oversight from the upper echelons of power, and thoroughly committed to their own corporate memberships. His findings challenge some of the most deeply held views of the Spanish colonization of Mexico, including the Black Legend, which asserts that the royal state and the institutional church colluded to produce a powerful Catholicism that crushed heterodoxy, punished cultural difference, and ruined indigenous worlds. Instead, Nesvig finds that Michoacán—typical of many frontier provinces of the empire—became a region of refuge from imperial and juridical control and formal Catholicism, where the ordinary rules of law, jurisprudence, and royal oversight collapsed in the entropy of decentralized rule.

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  • Publisher : KARTHALA Editions
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 2811107630
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book written by and published by KARTHALA Editions. This book was released on with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Between the Sword and the Wall

Download or read book Between the Sword and the Wall written by Harvey F. Kline and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the peace process negotiations between Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos and the Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia In Between the Sword and the Wall: The Santos Peace Negotiations with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, Harvey Kline, a noted expert on contemporary Colombian politics, brings to a close his multivolume chronicle of the incessant violence that has devastated Colombia’s population, politics, and military for decades. This, his newest work on the subject, recounts and analyzes the negotiations between Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos and the Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), which ended with a peace agreement in 2016. The FARC insurgency began in 1964, and every Colombian president after 1980 unsuccessfully tried to negotiate a peace agreement with the group. Kline analyzes how the Santos administration was ultimately able to negotiate peace with the FARC. The agreement failed to receive the approval of the Colombian people in an October 2016 plebiscite, but a renegotiated version was later approved by the congress in the same year. Afterward, more than 7,000 rebels turned over their weapons to the UN mission in Colombia. The former combatants were then to be judged by a special court empowered to punish but not imprison those who had violated human rights. Throughout the book, Kline emphasizes the dual nature of the Santos negotiations, first with the FARC and second with the democratic opposition to the agreement led by former president Álvaro Uribe Vélez. Kline provides readers with a well-researched analysis based on a variety of resources, including media articles and primary documents from the government, international organizations, and the FARC. He also conducted extensive interviews with twenty-eight government officials and Colombian experts from all ideological persuasions.

Book The Master Plant

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  • Author : Andrew Russell
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2020-06-03
  • ISBN : 1000183114
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book The Master Plant written by Andrew Russell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Described as a ‘master plant’ by many indigenous groups in lowland South America, tobacco is an essential part of shamanic ritual, as well as a source of everyday health, wellbeing and community. In sharp contrast to the condemnation of the tobacco industry and its place in contemporary public health discourse, the book considers tobacco in a more nuanced light, as an agent both of enlightenment and destruction.Exploring the role of tobacco in the lives of indigenous peoples, The Master Plant offers an important and unique contribution to this field of study through its focus on lowland South America: the historical source region of this controversial plant, yet rarely discussed in recent scholarship. The ten chapters in this collection bring together ethnographic accounts, key developments in anthropological theory and emergent public health responses to indigenous tobacco use. Moving from a historical study of tobacco usage – covering the initial domestication of wild varieties and its value as a commodity in colonial times – to an examination of the transcendent properties of tobacco, and the magic, symbolism and healing properties associated with it, the authors present wide-ranging perspectives on the history and cultural significance of this important plant. The final part of the book examines the changing landscape of tobacco use in these communities today, set against the backdrop of the increasing power of the national and transnational tobacco industry.The first critical overview of tobacco and its uses across lowland South America, this book encourages new ways of thinking about the problems of commercially exploited tobacco both within and beyond this source region.

Book Mercenaries of Knowledge

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  • Author : Fabien Montcher
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2023-07-31
  • ISBN : 1009340476
  • Pages : 347 pages

Download or read book Mercenaries of Knowledge written by Fabien Montcher and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Lisbon to Rome via the Gulf of Guinea and the sugar mills of northern Brazil, this book explores the strategies and practices that displaced scholars cultivated to navigate the murky waters of late Renaissance politics. By tracing the life of the Portuguese jurist-scholar Vicente Nogueira (1586–1654) across diverse social, cultural, and pol-itical spaces, Fabien Montcher reveals a world of religious conflicts and imperial rivalries. Here, European agents developed the practice of 'bibliopolitics'– using local and international systems for buying and selling books and manuscripts to foster political communication and debate, and ultimately to negotiate their survival. Bibliopolitics fostered the advent of a generation of 'mercenaries of knowledge' whose stories constitute a key part of seventeenth-century social and cultural history. This book also demonstrates their crucial role in creating an inter-national and dynamic Republic of Letters with others who helped shape early modern intellectual and political worlds.

Book Rethinking Race in Modern Argentina

Download or read book Rethinking Race in Modern Argentina written by Paulina Alberto and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reconsiders the relationship between race and nation in Argentina during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and places Argentina firmly in dialog with the literature on race and nation in Latin America, from where it has long been excluded or marginalized for being a white, European exception in a mixed-race region. The contributors, based both in North America and Argentina, hail from the fields of history, anthropology, and literary and cultural studies. Their essays collectively destabilize widespread certainties about Argentina, showing that whiteness in that country has more in common with practices and ideologies of Mestizaje and 'racial democracy' elsewhere in the region than has typically been acknowledged. The essays also situate Argentina within the well-established literature on race, nation, and whiteness in world regions beyond Latin America (particularly, other European 'settler societies'). The collection thus contributes to rethinking race for other global contexts as well.

Book The Mexican Mission

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  • Author : Ryan Dominic Crewe
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2019-06-27
  • ISBN : 1108492541
  • Pages : 329 pages

Download or read book The Mexican Mission written by Ryan Dominic Crewe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a social history of the Mexican mission enterprise, emphasizing the centrality of indigenous politics, economics, and demographic catastrophe.

Book Focus On  100 Most Popular Real Madrid C F  Players

Download or read book Focus On 100 Most Popular Real Madrid C F Players written by Wikipedia contributors and published by e-artnow sro. This book was released on with total page 987 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Falling Sky

Download or read book The Falling Sky written by Davi Kopenawa and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropologist Bruce Albert captures the poetic voice of Davi Kopenawa, shaman and spokesman for the Yanomami of the Brazilian Amazon, in this unique reading experience—a coming-of-age story, historical account, and shamanic philosophy, but most of all an impassioned plea to respect native rights and preserve the Amazon rainforest.

Book The State  Literacy  and Popular Education in Chile  1964 1990

Download or read book The State Literacy and Popular Education in Chile 1964 1990 written by Robert Austin and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popular education and adult literacy movements in Chile have historically represented competing paths toward a literate society: one born and nurtured through bitter nineteenth-century labor struggles, the other a compensatory effort by the modern state to limit the political potential of literacy. Robert Austin's book explores the contest between the state and popular education in three paradigmatic Latin American regimes: that of Eduardo Frei Montalva (Christian Democrat, 1964-70), Salvador Allende (Socialist, 1970-73) and Augusto Pinochet (Dictator, 1973-90). Robert Austin's engaging narrative captures the relationship between the Chilean state, formal and non-formal literacy, and popular education, from the demise of liberal capitalism to the consolidation of neoliberalism. This remarkable investigation of the dynamic link between the historical process, literacy, and pedagogy celebrates popular education's victory in securing the inclusion, and subsequent empowerment, of women and ethnic minorities. The State, Literacy, and Popular Education in Chile, 1964-1990 will be of great interest to political scientists, cultural historians, and scholars of education.

Book Comparative Ethnographical Studies  Picture writings and other documents

Download or read book Comparative Ethnographical Studies Picture writings and other documents written by Erland Nordenskiöld and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Haunted Heart

Download or read book Haunted Heart written by Linda Dahl and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2008-03-28 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning as a disciple of Billie Holiday, Susannah McCorkle carefully crafted her own unique singing style, performing in New York and venues around the world. However, she struggled with bipolar disorder. Unable to overcome crippling bouts of depression, McCorkle committed suicide in 2001. Author Linda Dahl offers a revealing portrait of one of America's greatest yet misunderstood singers. 8 page photo insert.

Book The Anthropology of Love and Anger

Download or read book The Anthropology of Love and Anger written by Joanna Overing and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Anthropology of Love and Anger questions the very foundations of western sociological thought. In their examination of indigenous peoples from across the South American continent, the contributors to this volume have come to realise that western thought does not possess the vocabulary to define even the fundamentals of indigenous thought and practice. The dualisms of public and private, political and domestic, individual and collective, even male and female, in which western anthropology was founded cannot legitimately be applied to peoples whose 'sociality' is based on an 'aesthetics of community'. For indigenous people success is measured by the extent to which conviviality, (all that is peaceful, harmonious and sociable) has been attained. Yet conviviality is not just reliant on love and good but instead on an even balance between all that is constructive, love, and all that is destructive, anger. With case studies from across the South American region, ranging from the (so-called) fierce Yanomami of Venezuela and Brazil to the Enxet of Paraguay, and with discussions on topics from the efficacy of laughter, the role of language, anger as a marker of love and even homesickness, The Anthropology of Love and Anger is a seminal, fascinating work which should be read by all students and academics in the post-colonial world.