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Modernity in Black and White
In his first single-authored English-language work, Rafael Cardoso offers a re-evaluation of modern art and modernism in Brazil.
Folk Art
Listen to the artists of the Brazilian Northeast. Their work, they say, comes of continuity and creativity. Continuity runs along lines of learning toward social coherence. Creativity brings challenges and deep personal satisfaction. What they say and do in Brazil aligns with ethnographic evidence from New Mexico and North Carolina; from Ireland, Portugal, and Italy; from Nigeria, Turkey, India, and Bangladesh; from China and Japan. This book is about that, about folk art as a sign of human unity.
The Economics of the Frontier
This book deals with the economics of establishing a frontier by conquest or by peaceful settlement, the costs involved, and the optimum extension of the territory. The opening chapters discuss the most relevant literature about frontiers – conceptual, theoretical and empirical – and introduce the fundamental theoretical model for extending frontiers which is drawn on throughout the book. The authors use this theoretical apparatus by applying it to a number of historical cases. These include the division of the European territory between the Byzantine Empire, Islam and Western Europe, the creation and expansion of the Mongol Empire, the impact of the Black Death, the European discovery of the New World, the staples trade from 1870–1914, and the rise and fall of banditry in Brazil. The Economics of the Frontier brings together a collection of essays which explore how economically optimal frontiers were founded from sixth-century Europe through to twentieth-century Brazil.
Modern Brazil
Modern Brazil, a collection of original essays, views the largest country in South America through the multiple lenses of political science, economics, telecommunications, and religion. The editors, Michael L. Conniff and Frank D. McCann, have provided a frame for this analysis of a complex society by centering on the elites, those who run national affairs, and the masses, those poor and working-class people who have little direct influence on them. Discussing the political elites from regional, national, and military standpoints are, respectively, Joseph L. Love and Bert J. Barickman, Conniff, and McCann. The economic elites, notably businessmen and industrialists, are analyzed by Steven To...
A Century of Brazilian Documentary Film
Since the late nineteenth century, Brazilians have turned to documentaries to explain their country to themselves and to the world. In a magisterial history covering one hundred years of cinema, Darlene J. Sadlier identifies Brazilians’ unique contributions to a diverse genre while exploring how that genre has, in turn, contributed to the making and remaking of Brazil. A Century of Brazilian Documentary Film is a comprehensive tour of feature and short films that have charted the social and political story of modern Brazil. The Amazon appears repeatedly and vividly. Sometimes—as in a prize-winning 1922 feature—the rainforest is a galvanizing site of national pride; at other times, the ...
Legalizing Identities
Anthropologists widely agree that identities_even ethnic and racial ones_are socially constructed. Less understood are the processes by which social identities are conceived and developed. Legalizing Identities shows how law can successfully serve
Das ewige Versprechen
Brasilien boomt. Lange als Land der Zukunft beschworen, muss man mit Blick auf heutige Verhältnisse sagen: Die Zukunft ist jetzt! »Das ewige Versprechen« wirft einen lebhaften Blick auf die schillernde und faszinierende Vielfalt der brasilianischen Kultur, von den Anfängen bis in die Gegenwart. Ob in Musik, Malerei, Mode oder Architektur – Brasilien war immer schon stilprägend. Kersten Knipp geht der vitalen Geschichte dieser Kultur nach, deren Ausdrucks- und Strahlkraft gewaltiger ist denn je. Was also ist Brasilien, und wer sind die Brasilianer? Wie wurde Brasilien zu einem solchen Erfolgsmodell? Welche Verheißungen und Ideale halten bis heute ein so vielgestaltiges Land zusammen? Anekdotenreich, in großen und kleinen Geschichten erzählt Kersten Knipp von einem Land, das sein ́ewiges Versprechen` einzulösen begonnen hat.
Handbook of Latin American Studies
Contains records describing books, book chapters, articles, and conference papers published in the field of Latin American studies. Coverage includes relevant books as well as over 800 social science and 550 humanities journals and volumes of conference proceedings. Most records include abstracts with evaluations.
A diversidade das culturas
Este livro reúne trabalhos preparados, apresentados e discutidos, em diferentes momentos, ao longo de quatro anos de intensa cooperação entre distintas universidades da América Latina, entre 2015 e 2018. Ao longo desse período, sob a liderança do Programa de Pós-Graduação em História da Universidade Federal de Goiás, em parceria com o Doctorado em Ciencias Sociales da Universidade Nacional de Jujuy, contando com o ?nanciamento da Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) e do Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientí?cas y Técnicas (CONICET) – realizaram-se, periodicamente, em Goiânia e em Jujuy, eventos, nos quais equipes altamente quali?cadas propuseram “pensar com”/“pensar a” noção de diversidade das culturas.
