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The Struggle for Land in Brazil
Sober and gripping chronicle of the repression of demands for agrarian reform includes several well-detailed case studies. Presents excellent background on the justice system and its uneven enforcement of the law--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v.57.
Sacred Leaves of Candomblé
Winner, Hubert Herring Book Award, Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies Candomblé, an African religious and healing tradition that spread to Brazil during the slave trade, relies heavily on the use of plants in its spiritual and medicinal practices. When its African adherents were forcibly transplanted to the New World, they faced the challenge not only of maintaining their culture and beliefs in the face of European domination but also of finding plants with similar properties to the ones they had used in Africa. This book traces the origin, diffusion, medicinal use, and meaning of Candomblé's healing pharmacopoeia—the sacred leaves. Robert Voeks examines such topics as the biogeography of Africa and Brazil, the transference—and transformation—of Candomblé as its adherents encountered both native South American belief systems and European Christianity, and the African system of medicinal plant classification that allowed Candomblé to survive and even thrive in the New World. This research casts new light on topics ranging from the creation of African American cultures to tropical rain forest healing floras.
Postcolonial Disorders
The contributors explore modes of social and psychological experience, the constitution of the subject, and forms of subjection that shape the lives of Basque youth, Indonesian artists, members of nongovernmental HIV/AIDS programmes in China and Zaire, and psychiatrists and their patients in Morocco and Ireland.
Peasant Rebellion in a Slave Society
Peasant Rebellion in a Slave Society identifies the immediate and remote reasons for the Balaiada revolt in Maranhão, Brazil, analyzing the special characteristics of the region that favored the development of a relatively independent peasantry within and around the cotton, rice, cassava, and cattle estates. The book explores the demography of Maranhão and patterns of land ownership and documents the rapid degradation of the environment by plantation‐based export agriculture. The analysis of various types of coerced and free labor, the oligopolistic structure of the colonial economy, and the key determinants of class and status contextualizes the conflict potential in Maranhão during th...
Heróis Anônimos
Durante a pandemia, vivenciamos perdas e tragédias pessoais e coletivas que nos permitiram lançar um olhar especial para os profissionais de saúde, que nem sempre foram vislumbrados com o devido merecimento. Muito aprendemos que, enquanto cuidamos de nossas vidas, alguns homens e mulheres cuidam diligentemente dos outros, sem fazer alarde ou exigir reconhecimento da sociedade. Para ser um profissional de saúde, é necessária uma dose generosa de altruísmo, empatia e fraternidade, especialmente em momentos em que se tornam insubstituíveis, como uma pandemia. A presente obra lança luz sobre a luta silenciosa de um desses profissionais. Longe de querer se coroar a si mesmo, o autor convida o leitor a participar de experiências muitas vezes profundamente solitárias e ocultas.
