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Working Images
In Working Images, prominent visual anthropologists and artists explore how old and new visual media can be integrated into contemporary forms of research and representation.
Urban Sustainability Through Environmental Design
What can architects, landscape architects and urban designers do to make urban open spaces, streets and squares, more responsive, lively and safe? Urban Sustainability through Environmental Design answers this question by providing the analytical tools and practical methodologies that can be employed for sustainable solutions to the design and management of urban environments. The book calls into question the capability of ‘quick-fix’ development solutions to provide the establishment of fixed communities and suggests a more time-conscious and evolutionary approach. This is the first significant book to draw together a pan-European view on sustainable urban design with a specific focus on social sustainability. It presents an innovative approach that focuses on the tools of urban analysis rather than the interventions themselves. With its practical approach and wide-ranging discussion, this book will appeal to all those involved in producing communities and spaces for sustainable living, from students to academics through to decision makers and professional leaders.
The Peace Epistemologies of the National Coordination of Indigenous Women in Mexico
By focusing on the efforts of the National Coordination of Indigenous Women (CONAMI) to dismantle racism, sexism, ageism, and other forms of discrimination, this book challenges outdated assumptions about the roles of Indigenous people--especially women--in creating proactive, responsive, and socially progressive peace epistemologies.
Marginalised and Endangered Worldviews
"The study of worldviews marginalized by mainstream modernity is an eminently important undertaking. It helps us better recognise, cherish and keep the values of traditions and practices that exist. This is important, when the uniform vision of the world heaped on us from the medias, modernist political movements and ideologies, revealed itself as unreal and fake, rendering it evident that the modern utopia of enlightened rationality is just a delirious nightmare."--Arpad Szakolczai, Professor of Sociology, U. College Cork. ***This book fosters dialogue on critical problems faced by endangered indigenous cultures and marginalised communities. The ethos is collaborative and comparative describing the implications for global society of the destruction and impoverishment of human and ecological cultural diversity. (Series: Ethnology: Research and Science / Ethnologie: Forschung und Wissenschaft, Vol. 26) [Subject: Sociology, Anthropology, Environmental Studies, Politics, Globalization, Cultural Studies]
Abiayalan Pluriverses
Abiayalan Pluriverses: Bridging Indigenous Studies and Hispanic Studies looks for pathways that better connect two often siloed disciplines. This edited collection brings together different disciplinary experiences and perspectives to this objective, weaving together researchers, artists, instructors, and authors who have found ways of bridging Indigenous and Hispanic studies through trans-Indigenous reading methods, intercultural dialogues, and reflections on translation and epistemology. Each chapter brings rich context that bears on some aspect of the Indigenous Americas and its crossroads with Hispanic studies, from Canada to Chile. Such a hemispheric and interdisciplinary approach offers innovative and significant means of challenging the coloniality of Hispanic studies.
Refocusing Ethnographic Museums through Oceanic Lenses
Refocusing Ethnographic Museums through Oceanic Lenses offers a collaborative ethnographic investigation of Indigenous museum practices in three Pacific museums located at the corners of the so-called Polynesian triangle: Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Hawai‘i; Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa; and Museo Antropológico Padre Sebastián Englert, Rapa Nui. Since their inception, ethnographic museums have influenced academic and public imaginations of other cultural-geographic regions, and the often resulting Euro-Americentric projection of anthropological imaginations has come under intense pressure, as seen in recent debates and conflicts around the Humboldt Forum in Berlin, Germany. ...
Autoctonía, poder local y espacio global frente a la noción de ciudadanía (eBook)
Autoctonía, poder local y espacio global frente a la noción de ciudadanía pretende actualizar los ámbitos, los actores, las relaciones y los procesos que deberían configurar una etnografía contemporánea de los pueblos indígenas abordada desde la complejidad que pueden procurar las ciencias sociales. Su principal aportación es demostrar que el constatado viraje, entre los años 1980-1990, de las relaciones de los pueblos indígenas con el Estado debería conllevar una revisión, e incluso un replanteamiento, de las perspectivas, las preguntas y los debates sobre estas realidades sociales y culturales. La presente obra es fruto de un ciclo de conferencias que, bajo el mismo título, tuvo lugar en Barcelona en 2010, por lo que no solo reúne estudios de investigadores de acreditada solvencia, sino que en cierta forma se hace eco del debate ulterior que suscitó la presentación pública de dichos trabajos.
Cuerpo y persona
Esta obra está compuesta por 12 capítulos que, con diferentes marcos teóricos y metodológicos, exploran lo que acerca del cuerpo nos dicen los pueblos nawas, pumé, nahuas, yúhu, mayas, teenek, otomíes, chichimecas jonas y mixtecos. Su lectura nos permite afirmar que estos temas no están agotados para la antropología americanista.
Resistencia y territorialidad: culturas indígenas y afroamericanas (eBook)
Desde la década de los 80 numerosas organizaciones y movimientos indígenas y afrodescendientes han articulado sus reclamaciones identitarias y políticas en torno al concepto de territorio. Este concepto, que ha sido reconocido por el Convenio de la OIT sobre pueblos indígenas y tribales (Convenio nº169 de 1989), sobrepasa las demandas sobre la tierra ya que el concepto territorio engloba no sólo el suelo sino el subsuelo, la masa forestal, los recursos hídricos y, a la vez, reconoce unos derechos colectivos -inalienables e indivisibles-, así como la autonomía étnica.
Het gemankeerde (t)huis
Het gemankeerde (t)huis is een visueel antropologische studie van de woonpraktijken van zelfstandig wonende ouderen in Brussel. Aan de hand van interviews en fotografische reportages onderzoekt het boek hoe ouderen hun alledaagse leefwereld structureren en vormgeven, en daarmee inspelen op lichamelijke en geestelijke beperkingen en obstakels in de woning en de publieke ruimte van de stad. Welke coping-strategieën hanteren ouderen om hun woonomgeving leefbaar en werkzaam te maken? Welke betekenissen kennen oudere mensen toe aan hun woning en woonomgeving? Het boek gaat over concrete praktijken van toe-eigening waarmee ouderen hun woonomgeving inrichten en tot thuis maken. Hoe zij hun boodschappen doen, waar en hoe zij eten, hoe zij met fysieke obstakels omgaan, hoe zij sociale netwerken vormen en hoe hun alledaagse leefwereld zich verhoudt tot die van instituties en professionele hulpverleners. Dit beeldboek heeft als intentie een fijnmaziger inzicht in de zintuiglijke leefwereld van ouderen te verwerven door de alledaagse woonomgeving vanuit hun perspectief te bekijken, door met hen om de tafel te zitten en op pad te gaan.
