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Machine Gun Voices: Favelas and Utopia In Brazilian Gangster Funk
서울대학교 서어서문학과 폴 스니드 교수는 파벨라 중 가장 큰 지역인 호시냐(Rocinha)에서 생활하면서 가장 가까운 곳에서 ‘관찰’했다. 그리고 『Machine Gun Voices』에서 “브라질의 펑크 음악 발리 펑크로 분석한 빈민가 주민의 삶” 그 관찰 결과를 민족지학적으로 분석해냈다.
Life and Evolution
This book offers to the international reader a collection of original articles of some of the most skillful historians and philosophers of biology currently working in Latin American universities. During the last decades, increasing attention has been paid in Latin America to the history and philosophy of biology, but since many local authors prefer to write in Spanish or in Portuguese, their ideas have barely crossed the boundaries of the continent. This volume aims to remedy this state of things, providing a good sample of this production to the English speaking readers, bringing together contributions from researchers working in Brazilian, Argentinean, Chilean, Colombian and Mexican unive...
The Spectacular Favela
"This book examines the political economy of violence in the Rio de Janeiro favela of Rocinha. Based on over two years of research and residence in the community, it offers an ethnographic account of how entangled forms of violence become essential forces shaping everyday social relations in the favela. The first part of the book shows how armed actors--drug traffickers and police--use spectacle to perform power. Yet despite the prevalence of physical violence, the favela has itself become a valuable global brand, consumed in disembodied fashion through media and in embodied fashion through tourism. Exploring media and favela tourism, the second part of the book demonstrates how the social relationships that arise from ongoing favela violence have a direct relationship to the market economy"--Provided by publisher.
Chaco Canyon
Relates the nineteenth-century discovery of cliff dwellings in the Chaco Canyon of northwest New Mexico, the excavations of the ancient ruins, and what the artifacts reveal about the civilization of the ancient Pueblo Indians.
