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Urban Mountain Beings is an ethnographic and historically grounded study of recognition strategies and ethnogenesis carried out on the flanks of Mt. Pichincha in Quito, Ecuador. Kathleen S. Fine-Dare employs feminist geographical and Indigenous pedagogical frameworks to illustrate how histories of exclusion have created attitudes and policies that treat Native peoples as “out of place and time” in cities. Fine-Dare concentrates on two overlapping contexts for Indigenous vindication: the Yumbada of Cotocollao, an ancestral performance through which mountain and other spirits are called into the urban plaza; and Casa Kinde (Hummingbird House), a cultural organization that engages in workshops, filmmaking, photography, commerce, community education, and the formation of alliances with anthropologists, activists, filmmakers, engineers, and teachers.
Con una perspectiva interdisciplinaria, que combina análisis desde la sociología, la antropología, la geografía, la ciencia política y la economía agraria (entre otros campos del conocimiento), este libro propone estudiar los procesos de construcción de paz en las “fronteras internas”. El concepto que aquí se plantea articula los estudios regionales previos para el caso de Colombia con las nuevas literaturas que hacen hincapié en los fenómenos de las fronteras. Esta mirada ayuda a analizar los modos de construcción de paz desde perspectivas interdisciplinarias que tienen en cuenta procesos históricos, socio-espaciales, políticos, ambientales, económicos e institucionales. S...
As an avid supporter of New Mexico statehood, the author argued the territorys case for elevated political status, celebrated its final victory in 1912, and even designed New Mexicos first state flag in 1915. This reprint of his 1911 edition serves as a tribute to the states centennial celebration of 2012.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1889.
This book is considered to be the starting place for anyone having family history ties to New Mexico, and for those interested in the history of New Mexico. Well before Jamestown and the Pilgrims, New Mexico was settled continuously beginning in 1598 by Spaniards whose descendants still make up a major portion of the population of New Mexico.
A complete guide to the evolving methods by which we may recover by-products and significantly reduce food waste Across the globe, one third of cereals and almost half of all fruits and vegetables go to waste. The cost of such waste – both to economies and to the environment – is a serious and increasing concern within the food industry. If we are to overcome this crisis and move towards a sustainable future, we must do everything possible to utilize innovative new methods of extracting and processing valuable by-products of all kinds. Food Wastes and By-products represents a complete primer to this important and complex process. Edited and written by leading researchers, the text provid...