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Tierras tradicionalmente ocupadas
El libro Tierras tradicionalmente ocupadas presenta la síntesis de una multiplicidad de situaciones concretas referidas a los procesos de territorialización diferenciados, que conciernen tanto al Sur del Brasil, como al Nordeste y a la Amazonia. Considerando que estamos viviendo un tiempo en donde el saber en acción de los agentes sociales a la orden del día parece estar al frente de cualquier posibilidad de interpretación, sólo un trabajo que reflexione sobre estos procesos sociales a partir de la consideración de la acción de los sujetos y de una práctica antropológica comprometida podría producir un estudio coherente con la situación actual. El libro analiza situaciones concretas con un refinamiento teórico que no recurre a modelos interpretativos rígidos ni a amarras metodológicas. Al contrario, son las situaciones mismas las que le han impuesto al investigador su forma interpretativa.
Radical Cartographies
Cartography has a troubled history as a technology of power. The production and distribution of maps, often understood to be ideological representations that support the interests of their developers, have served as tools of colonization, imperialism, and global development, advancing Western notions of space and place at the expense of indigenous peoples and other marginalized communities. But over the past two decades, these marginalized populations have increasingly turned to participatory mapping practices to develop new, innovative maps that reassert local concepts of place and space, thus harnessing the power of cartography in their struggles for justice. In twelve essays written by co...
Beyond the Eagle's Shadow
The dominant tradition in writing about U.S.–Latin American relations during the Cold War views the United States as all-powerful. That perspective, represented in the metaphor “talons of the eagle,” continues to influence much scholarly work down to the present day. The goal of this collection of essays is not to write the United States out of the picture but to explore the ways Latin American governments, groups, companies, organizations, and individuals promoted their own interests and perspectives. The book also challenges the tendency among scholars to see the Cold War as a simple clash of “left” and “right.” In various ways, several essays disassemble those categories and explore the complexities of the Cold War as it was experienced beneath the level of great-power relations.
The Decline and Fall of the Lettered City
The cultural Cold War in Latin America was waged as a war of values. This book charts the conflicting universals of this period, the clash between avant-garde and political vanguard.
Constellations of Inequality
Introduction: relaunching Alcântara -- Mimetic convergence and complementary hierarchy -- Alcântara in space and time -- Interpreting an explosion -- Expertise and inequality -- Racialization and race-based law -- The making of race and class -- Space at the edge of the Amazon -- Conclusion: space and utopia
Peasant Rebellion in a Slave Society
Peasant Rebellion in a Slave Society identifies the immediate and remote reasons for the Balaiada revolt in Maranhão, Brazil, analyzing the special characteristics of the region that favored the development of a relatively independent peasantry within and around the cotton, rice, cassava, and cattle estates. The book explores the demography of Maranhão and patterns of land ownership and documents the rapid degradation of the environment by plantation‐based export agriculture. The analysis of various types of coerced and free labor, the oligopolistic structure of the colonial economy, and the key determinants of class and status contextualizes the conflict potential in Maranhão during th...
