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Of Beasts and Beauty
All societies around the world and through time value beauty highly. Tracing the evolutions of the Colombian standards of beauty since 1845, Michael Edward Stanfield explores their significance to and symbiotic relationship with violence and inequality in the country. Arguing that beauty holds not only social power but also economic and political power, he positions it as a pacific and inclusive influence in a country “ripped apart by violence, private armies, seizures of land, and abuse of governmental authority, one hoping that female beauty could save it from the ravages of the male beast.” One specific means of obscuring those harsh realities is the beauty pageant, of which Colombia has over 300 per year. Stanfield investigates the ways in which these pageants reveal the effects of European modernity and notions of ethnicity on Colombian women, and how beauty for Colombians has become an external representation of order and morality that can counter the pathological effects of violence, inequality, and exclusion in their country.
Harvesting Coffee, Bargaining Wages
A close ethnographic study of how culture, power, gender, and institutions affect labor exchanges
Science and Empires
SCIENCE AND EMPIRES: FROM THE INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM TO THE BOOK Patrick PETITJEAN, Catherine JAMI and Anne Marie MOULIN The International Colloquium "Science and Empires - Historical Studies about Scientific De velopment and European Expansion" is the product of an International Colloquium, "Sciences and Empires - A Comparative History of Scien tific Exchanges: European Expansion and Scientific Development in Asian, African, American and Oceanian Countries". Organized by the REHSEIS group (Research on Epistemology and History of Exact Sciences and Scientific Institutions) of CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research), the colloquium was held from 3 to 6 April 1990 in the UNESCO buildi...
Civilización y violencia
A primera vista, la civilización' y la 'violencia' parecen conceptos opuestos. De hecho, podría pensarse que la violencia evita los avances de la civilización, con lo que se explicaría por qué en ciertos países, como los del denominado "tercer mundo", parece haber una correlación entre un bajo desarrollo económico, político, cultural y social y altos niveles de inseguridad, conflicto y mortandad. Sin embargo, este libro plantea que estos conceptos no son necesariamente antagónicos, sino que, de hecho, en el siglo XIX colombiano, se entremezclaron y se apoyaron mutuamente. Para demostrarlo, aborda la trama cultural de las violencias de ese momento histórico y problematiza la racionalidad de la dominación que legitimó muchas de las formas de exclusión de las poblaciones negras, indígenas y de las mujeres en estas comunidades.
Group Behaviour and Development
A substantial introduction to the study of group behaviour in developing countries, this text provides both relevant theoretical issues and case studies.
Frontier Road
Frontier Road uses the history of one road in southern Colombia—known locally as “the trampoline of death”—to demonstrate how state-building processes and practices have depended on the production and maintenance of frontiers as inclusive-exclusive zones, often through violent means. Considers the topic from multiple perspectives, including ethnography of the state, the dynamics of frontiers, and the nature of postcolonial power, space, and violence Draws attention to the political, environmental, and racial dynamics involved in the history and development of transport infrastructure in the Amazon region Examines the violence that has sustained the state through time and space, as well as the ways in which ordinary people have made sense of and contested that violence in everyday life Incorporates a broad range of engaging sources, such as missionary and government archives, travel writing, and oral histories
Contemporary Latin American Cultural Studies
Contemporary Latin American Cultural Studies is a collection of new essays by recognised experts from around the world on various aspects of the new discipline of Latin American cultural studies. Essays are grouped in five distinct but interconnected sections focusing respectively on: (I) the theory of Latin American cultural studies; (II) the icons of culture; (III) culture as a commodity; (IV) culture as a site of resistance; and (V) everyday cultural practices. The essays range across a wide gamut of theories about Latin American culture; some, for example, analyse the role that ideas about the nation - and national icons have played in the formation of a sense of identity in Latin Am...
