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An Amazonian Myth and Its History
Peter Gow unites the ethnographic data collected by the fieldwork methods invented by Malinowski with Levi-Strauss's analyses of the relations between myth and time. His book is an analysis of a century of social transformation in an indigenous Amazonian society, the Piro people of PeruvianAmazonia, taking as its starting point a single myth told to the author by a Piro man. Gow explores Piro history and ethnography outwards into the domains of myth-telling in general, and following the logic of certain important myths, further out into important domains of Piro experience such asvisual art, shamanry and girls' initiation ritual. All of these domains, like the myths themselves, have been dem...
Fluent Selves
Fluent Selves examines narrative practices throughout lowland South America focusing on indigenous communities in Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, and Peru, illuminating the social and cultural processes that make the past as important as the present for these peoples. This collection brings together leading scholars in the fields of anthropology and linguistics to examine the intersection of these narratives of the past with the construction of personhood. The volume’s exploration of autobiographical and biographical accounts raises questions about fieldwork, ethical practices, and cultural boundaries in the study of anthropology. Rather than relying on a simple opposition between the “Western individual” and the non-Western rest, contributors to Fluent Selves explore the complex interplay of both individualizing as well as relational personhood in these practices. Transcending classic debates over the categorization of “myth” and “history,” the autobiographical and biographical narratives in Fluent Selves illustrate the very medium in which several modes of engaging with the past meet, are reconciled, and reemerge.
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The Other Poetry of Barcelona
The Other Poetry of Barcelona: Spanish and Spanish-American Women Poets. Edited by Carlota Caulfield and Jaime D. Parra. Introduction by Jaime D. Parra. The present book, is dedicated to a group of Spanish and Spanish-American poets, all women, who for one reason or another have Barcelona as their point of reference. They write in Spanish or Catalan and are tightly linked, despite differences in their styles, tastes and even languages. The Other Poetry of Barcelona is a collection of these voices, which have grown and developed around Barcelona in recent years. The poets included in this anthology are: Neus Aguado, Nicole d'Amonville Alegria, Carmen Borja, Carlota Caulfield, Marga Clark, Mariana Colomer, Gemma Ferron, Concha Garcia, Rosa Lentini, Gemma Mana Delgado, M. Cinta Montagut, Ana Nuno, Teresa Pascual, Susanna Rafart, Teresa Shaw, Anabel Torres, and Esther Zarraluki. The book includes an appendix with original poems in Spanish and Catalan, and bio-bibliographies of the poets."
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Spanish Culture
This book offers a comprehensive account of modern Spanish culture, tracing its dramatic and often unexpected development from its beginnings after the Revolution of 1868 to the present day. Specially-commissioned essays by leading experts provide analyses of the historical and political background of modern Spain, the culture of the major autonomous regions (notably Castile, Catalonia, and the Basque Country), and the country's literature: narrative, poetry, theatre and the essay. Spain's recent development is divided into three main phases: from 1868 to the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War; the period of the dictatorship of Francisco Franco; and the post-Franco arrival of democracy. The concept of 'Spanish culture' is investigated, and there are studies of Spanish painting and sculpture, architecture, cinema, dance, music, and the modern media. A chronology and guides to further reading are provided, making the volume an invaluable introduction to the politics, literature and culture of modern Spain.
Contemporary Spanish Poetry
Debicki's illuminating application of varied critical methodologies and theoretical approaches, in books such as Poetry of Discovery and Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century, is reflected in all the essays included in this book."
