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In recent years, Peru has transformed from a war-torn country to a global high-end culinary destination. Connecting chefs, state agencies, global capital, and Indigenous producers, this “gastronomic revolution” makes powerful claims: food unites Peruvians, dissolves racial antagonisms, and fuels development. Gastropolitics and the Specter of Race critically evaluates these claims and tracks the emergence of Peruvian gastropolitics, a biopolitical and aesthetic set of practices that reinscribe dominant racial and gendered orders. Through critical readings of high-end menus and ethnographic analysis of culinary festivals, guinea pig production, and national-branding campaigns, this work explores the intersections of race, species, and capital to reveal links between gastronomy and violence in Peru.
Taking on existing interpretations of "Peruvian exceptionalism," this book presents a multi-sited ethnographic exploration of the local and transnational articulations of indigenous movements, multicultural development policies, and indigenous citizenship in Peru.
SHORTLISTED for the International Booker Prize 2022 After Rita is found dead in a church she used to attend, the official investigation into the incident is quickly closed. Her sickly mother is the only person still determined to find the culprit. Chronicling a difficult journey across the suburbs of the city, an old debt and a revealing conversation, Elena Knows unravels the secrets of its characters and the hidden facets of authoritarianism and hypocrisy in our society.
When Mario attacks Natalia again she is transferred to a hospital in Madrid with serious injuries. There she meets Doctor Engel, a handsome and attractive German, with a Spanish mother, who is willing to help her. When the doctor discovers that it is a case of domestic abuse and that the life of the girl is in serious danger, he convinces her to leave her aggressor. When Mario finds out, the death threats begin. Natalia and Engel discover that there is something more between the two of them than a simple doctor-patient relationship and that their past is not as different as it seemed at first. Mario will try by all means to end the life of his ex-girlfriend, whatever the price that he must pay for it. Despite the love that Natalia and Engel end up feeling for each other, there is something that prevents them from being together...
Indigenous Colombia -- Tukanoan culture and the issue of "culture" -- The state's presence in the Vaupés increases -- The indigenous movement and rights -- Reindigenization and its discontents -- Conclusion : indigeneity's ironies and contradictions
On the outskirts of the spectacular baroque town of Noto, Sicily, Jacques Garcia has transformed an ancient monastery into an abode of earthly bliss. Celebrated interior designer Jacques Garcia invites readers inside his private residence in Sicily for the first time. The former monastery, rebuilt in Noto’s characteristic golden limestone, boasts spectacular salons that have been restored with a profusion of noble materials and techniques: colored marbles, flamboyant stuccowork, majolica tiles, damask silks, and velvets. Time stops in the elegant music room, decorated with embroidered silks and rococo-style mirrors that reflect the decor to infinity; the gilded dining room is hung with sil...
Welcome to sultry Miami—America’s last frontier and home to Alex Devlin, psychologist, law student, and part-time spiritual seeker. Cristina García, an old patient and daughter of a local legend, is shocked into action when her father, Jose García, reaches out to her from a dream, insisting she solve the mystery of his untimely death. Trusting no one, Cristina turns to Alex for help. Unable to say no, Alex is drawn into a web of mystical dreams, painful betrayals, and violent death. Meet some of the people in Alex’s world: Jack McKinnon, veteran detective and Alex’s lover who tries to stop her investigations…Lena Devlin, Alex’s stormy Cuban mother who knows more than she’s te...
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A groundbreaking collection that explores human–animal relations and deaths with depth and hope When Animals Die is an innovative collection of essays that delves into the intricate and uneasy dynamics between humans and other-than-human animals, particularly concerning animal deaths, which are predominantly caused by humans. This groundbreaking book brings together prominent scholars from various disciplines to address the challenging field of animal death studies, incorporating perspectives from social sciences, humanities, biological sciences, and perspectives from beyond academia. The collection explores profound questions about the experience of animal death for both animals and human...
It is a great pleasure to share with you the Springer CCIS proceedings of the First World Summit on the Knowledge Society - WSKS 2008 that was organized by the Open Research Society, NGO, http://www.open-knowledge-society.org, and hosted by the American College of Greece, http://www.acg.gr, during September 24–27, 2008, in Athens, Greece. The World Summit on the Knowledge Society Series is an international attempt to promote a dialogue on the main aspects of a knowledge society toward a better world for all based on knowledge and learning. The WSKS Series brings together academics, people from industry, policy makers, politicians, government officers and active citizens to look at the impa...