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The Rise of Ethnic Politics in Latin America
Explores why indigenous movements have recently won elections for the first time in the history of Latin America.
Dragons in the Land of the Condor
"The book considers the influence of a Chinese ethnic background or lack thereof in the writing of several twentieth and twenty-first century Sino-Peruvian authors"--
Death and Dying in Colonial Spanish America
When the Spanish colonized the Americas, they brought many cultural beliefs and practices with them, not the least of which involved death and dying. The essays in this volume explore the resulting intersections of cultures through recent scholarship related to death and dying in colonial Spanish America between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. The authors address such important questions as: What were the relationships between the worlds of the living and the dead? How were these relationships sustained not just through religious dogma and rituals but also through everyday practices? How was unnatural death defined within different population strata? How did demographic and cultural ...
Rien de ce qui est humain ne nous est étranger
Rien de ce qui est humain ne nous est étranger retrace la vie des grands-parents de Claudio Lomnitz, Misha et Noemi, deux jeunes Juifs de Bessarabie. L’un migre seul au Pérou en 1919. L’autre y part avec ses parents en 1921. Fondateurs de revues, imprégnés d’idéaux internationalistes, antiimpérialistes puis antifascistes, passionnés d’éducation populaire et d’ethnologie, attachés à l’émancipation des Juifs et des Indiens, fraternisant avec les Quechua, intimes du Gramsci latino-américain, José Carlos Mariategui, Misha et Noémi n’ont cessé de rechercher les moyens de faire advenir une civilisation universelle. Globe-trotters de l’émancipation, séjournant à Pa...
Piety and Danger
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Nuestra América
NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS A riveting study of the intersections between Jewish and Latin American culture, this immigrant family memoir recounts history with psychological insight and the immediacy of a thriller. In Nuestra América, eminent anthropologist and historian Claudio Lomnitz traces his grandparents’ exile from Eastern Europe to South America. At the same time, the book is a pretext to explain and analyze the worldview, culture, and spirit of countries such as Peru, Colombia, and Chile, from the perspective of educated Jewish emigrants imbued with the hope and determination typical of those who escaped Europe in the 1920s. Lomnitz’s grandparent...
Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World
This interdisciplinary collection takes a deep dive into early modern Hispanic health and demonstrates the multiples ways medical practices and experiences are tied to gender.
Un siglo de constitucionalismo en América Latina (1917-2017)
Un siglo de constitucionalismo en América Latina (1917 -2017). Tomo I En el centenario de la Constitución Política de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos vale la pena reflexionar acerca de la historia constitucional de México y su vínculo con las trayectorias constitucionales de otros países en América Latina. En este volumen el lector conocerá un panorama diverso de estudios académicos acerca de estas cuestiones y su relación con el desarrollo constitucional latinoamericano en el último siglo. Cuenta con contribuciones de destacados historiadores, juristas y politólogos provenientes de América Latina, así como de académicos europeos y estadounidenses.
