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The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature
"This book explores Indigenous American literature and the development of an inter- and trans-Indigenous orientation in Native American and Indigenous literary studies. Drawing on the perspectives of scholars in the field, it seeks to reconcile tribal nation specificity, Indigenous literary nationalism, and trans-Indigenous methodologies as necessary components of post-Renaissance Native American and Indigenous literary studies. It looks at the work of Renaissance writers, including Louise Erdrich's Tracks (1988) and Leslie Marmon Silko's Sacred Water (1993), along with novels by S. Alice Callahan and John Milton Oskison. It also discusses Indigenous poetics and Salt Publishing's Earthworks ...
The World of Indigenous North America
The World of Indigenous North America is a comprehensive look at issues that concern indigenous people in North America. Though no single volume can cover every tribe and every issue around this fertile area of inquiry, this book takes on the fields of law, archaeology, literature, socio-linguistics, geography, sciences, and gender studies, among others, in order to make sense of the Indigenous experience. Covering both Canada's First Nations and the Native American tribes of the United States, and alluding to the work being done in indigenous studies through the rest of the world, the volume reflects the critical mass of scholarship that has developed in Indigenous Studies over the past dec...
Core skills
Tudo o que a humanidade desenha nos desenha de volta. E, se a velocidade dessas criações – na forma de novas narrativas, tecno-logias, conceitos e realidades – só tem aumentado, isso significa que estamos sendo modificados por elas a uma taxa surpreenden-temente alta. Isso pode nos provocar angústia e medo e, ao mesmo tempo, entusiasmo e excitação. O que podemos fazer para dar conta desse novo cenário? Se pudéssemos escolher um conjunto especial de habilidades para guiar nosso desenvolvimento como seres humanos, quais escolheríamos e por quê? E, mais importan-te: como empreender essa busca?As core skills são habilidades indispensáveis para cada um chegar aonde quer e para nó...
Aprendiz de si mesmo
Um mundo cada vez mais volátil, incerto, complexo e ambíguo, que ao mesmo tempo que se mostra como um espaço de impermanência, mas, também, um tempo que convida a humanidade a explorar suas Soft Skills, a fim de gerar novas oportunidades de crescimento pessoal e profissional. O livro Aprendiz de si mesmo foi desenhado para ser um guia que ajude o leitor a reconhecer suas Soft Skills, explorando reflexões sobre suas habilidades de aprender a aprender, de resolver problemas, de pensar criticamente, de ser criativo, de se comunicar, de se adaptar intencionalmente, de ser flexível cognitivamente, de ser empático, de possuir consciência emocional e de se autoconhecer. Na sequência, a au...
Telling and Being Told
Oral literature has been excluded from the analysis of Yucatec Maya literature, but it is a key component and a vital force in the cultural communities and their contemporary writing. Telling and Being Told shows the vital role Yucatec storytelling claims in Mayan ways of knowing and in the Mexican literary canon.
The Archaeology of Household Activities
This pioneering collection engages with recent research in different areas of the archaeological discipline to bring together case-studies of the household material culture from later prehistoric and classical periods. The book provides a comprehensive and accessible study for students into the material records of past households, aiding wider understanding of our own domestic development.
Recovering Lost Footprints, Volume 2
Analyzes contemporary Yucatecan and Chiapanecan Maya narratives. Recovering Lost Footprints, Volume 2 is an in-depth analysis of the sociohistorical conflict impacting Indigenous communities in Latin America. Continuing the project he began in volume 1, Arturo Arias analyzes contemporary Peninsular and Chiapanecan Maya narratives. He examines the works of Yucatecan writers Jorge Cocom Pech, Javier Gómez Navarrete, Isaac Carrillo Can, and Marisol Ceh Moo. For Chiapas, Arias looks at the works of Tseltal novelist Diego Méndez Guzmán, Tsotsil short-story writer Nicolás Huet Bautista, and Tseltal narrative writer Josías López Gómez. Arias problematizes the nature of Western modernity and ...
