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Living with Patriarchy
Examines patriarchal hegemonies from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives. This book challenges the Anglo-American bias of much gender and language research to date by including new data and insights from scholars working in countries such as Colombia, Liberia, Kenya, Vietnam, Japan, Greece, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and more.
Healing the World's Children
In 1990, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child declared that children's "survival, protection, growth and development in good health and with proper nutrition is the essential foundation of human development." Drawing from many disciplines - history, anthropology, demography, art history, disability studies, and sociology - and across a broad geography, Healing the World's Children sheds light on the medical, political, and cultural dimensions of the efforts to preserve and protect the lives of our most vulnerable citizens.
Indigenous Movements, Self-Representation, and the State in Latin America
Throughout Latin America, indigenous peoples are responding to state violence and pro-democracy social movements by asserting their rights to a greater measure of cultural autonomy and self-determination. This volume's rich case studies of movements in Colombia, Guatemala, and Brazil weigh the degree of success achieved by indigenous leaders in influencing national agendas when governments display highly ambivalent attitudes about strengthening ethnic diversity. The contributors to this volume are leading anthropologists and indigenous activists from the United States and Latin America. They address the double binds of indigenous organizing and "working within the system" as well as the flex...
Ethnography and Education in the South
This book presents results of educational ethnographies carried out in non- hegemonic academies situated in the South. The chapters bring out methodological and theoretical contributions and offer the possibility to discuss tensions between universalizable and local ways of knowing and the emergence of alternative schools of ethnographic thinking. The term ‘South’ transcends geographical location to refer allegorically to the generation of situated knowledge and experience, and to original ways of producing knowledge that show how social theories about the modern world from non- hegemonic academies are equal in intellectual rigour and often of greater political relevance to our changing ...
The Languages of the Andes
The Andean and Pacific regions of South America are home to a remarkable variety of languages and language families, with a range of typological differences. This linguistic diversity results from a complex historical background, comprising periods of greater communication between different peoples and languages, and periods of fragmentation and individual development. The Languages of the Andes documents in a single volume the indigenous languages spoken and formerly spoken in this linguistically rich region, as well as in adjacent areas. Grouping the languages into different cultural spheres, it describes their characteristics in terms of language typology, language contact, and the social perspectives of present-day languages. The authors provide both historical and contemporary information, and illustrate the languages with detailed grammatical sketches. Written in a clear and accessible style, this book will be a valuable source for students and scholars of linguistics and anthropology alike.
Portuguese Missionary Grammars in Asia, Africa and Brazil, 1550-1800
From the 16th century onwards, Europeans encountered languages in the Americas, Africa, and Asia which were radically different from any of the languages of the Old World. Missionaries were in the forefront of this encounter: in order to speak to potential converts, they needed to learn local languages. A great wealth of missionary grammars survives from the 16th century onwards. Some of these are precious records of the languages they document, and all of them witness their authors' attempts to develop the methods of grammatical description with which they were familiar, to accommodate dramatically new linguistic features.This book is the first monograph covering the whole Portuguese gramma...
Militarized Youth
Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews from across Colombia—including former child guerillas, former hostages of the guerilla organization, mothers of child soldiers, and humanitarian aid workers— this volume explores the experiences of children involved with the Colombian guerilla group the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc). Going beyond the predominant humanitarian perspectives on child soldiers, Johanna Higgs delves into the specific social and cultural aspects of the Colombian conflict to give a contextualized, culturally relevant understanding of the processes of both militarization and demobilization of children, deploying the theoretical lens of “lifewor...
El oficio del historiador: Reflexiones metodológicas en torno a las fuentes
En esta compilación se reflexiona sobre una variedad de fuentes documentales y visuales que los historiadores tienen a su alcance. Los textos compilados no solo muestran los caminos que se abren a partir de expedientes, manuscritos, periódicos, películas, juguetes, mapas, fotografías, comics o pinturas, sino también los desafíos, las dificultades, los cuidados y las diversas maneras en que estas fuentes pueden ser estudiadas por medio de complejos procesos de búsqueda y la correspondiente formulación de preguntas y problemas que le conciernen al historiador en su investigación. Por esto, en vez de mostrar grandes postulados eruditos del estudio de las llamadas fuentes primarias, aqu...
Gramática descriptiva básica del nasa yuwe
Las lenguas constituyen una parte importante del patrimonio cultural de la humanidad. En este libro se presenta una descripción de la gramática del nasa yuwe, una lengua indígena colombiana hablada en el sur andino del país. Se describe la lengua a partir de los niveles considerados en una gramática básica: fonológico, morfológico, sintáctico y semántico-gramatical. De las lenguas indígenas colombianas, el nasa yuwe es una de las que cuenta con un mayor número de hablantes. El nasa yuwe tiene un sistema fonológico altamente complejo, con 69 fonemas en total, 37 consonánticos y 32 vocálicos. Es una lengua flexiva que cuenta con nueve paradigmas de afijos para la expresión de c...
