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Untold Stories of the Spanish Civil War
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 258

Untold Stories of the Spanish Civil War

This is the first scholarly volume to offer an insight into the less known stories of women, children, and international volunteers in the Spanish Civil War. Special attention is given to volunteers of different historical experiences, especially Jews, and voices from less researched countries in the context of the Spanish war, such as Palestine and Turkey. Of an interdisciplinary nature, this volume brings together historians and literary scholars from different countries. Their research is based on newly found primary sources in both national and private archives, as well as on post-essentialist methodological insights for women’s history, Jewish history, and studies on belonging. By bri...

Histories, Cultures, and National Identities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 251

Histories, Cultures, and National Identities

Issues around national identities have been central in Hispanism in recent years. However, scholarship remains pending on women's contributions to Spanish national agendas. This book addresses the visions of history, culture, and national identity articulated by Rosario de Acuna (1851-1923), angela Figuera (1902-1984), and Rosa Chacel (1898-1994). Their works elucidate the contested formation of Spanish democracy and the gendered politics of culture. Types of liberalism in late nineteenth-century Spain are debated in Acuna's theater and essays in part 1. Figuera's poetry, the focus of part 2, highlights the notion of history as trauma resulting from the Spanish Civil War and Franco dictatorship, to privilege the recovery of historical memory. Part 3 explores Chacel's re-invention, in Barrio de Maravillas and Acropolis, of the liberal cultures of early twentieth-century Spain, from within a post-Franco era eager to reclaim those histories. The conclusion addresses the relevance of the writers' projects for present-day Spain. Christine Arkinstall is Associate Professor in Spanish at The University of Auckland.

Women Political Prisoners after the Spanish Civil War
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 269

Women Political Prisoners after the Spanish Civil War

At the end of the Spanish Civil War the Nationalist government instigated mass repression against anyone suspected of loyalty to the defeated Republican side. Around 200,000 people were imprisoned for political crimes in the weeks and months following 1st April 1939, including thousands of women who were charged with offences ranging from directing the home front to supporting their loved ones engaged in combat. Many women wrote and published texts about their experiences, seeking to make their voices heard and to counteract the dehumanising master narrative of the right-wing victors that had criminalised their existence. The memoirs of Communist women, such as Tomasa Cuevas and Juana Doña,...

Working in the Field
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 162

Working in the Field

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-06-20
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  • Publisher: Springer

How are ethnographic knowledge and anthropological theory created out of field experiences? Spanning Papua New Guinea, Taiwan, and Scotland, and Ireland, Stewart and Strathern show how fieldwork in apparently different areas can lead to unexpected comparisons and discoveries of similarities in human cross-cultural patterns of behavior.

Breaking the Frames
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 111

Breaking the Frames

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-11-23
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book argues that the breaking and re-making of frames of analysis underlie the history of theorizing in anthropology. Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew J. Strathern note that this mode of analysis risks fabricating over-essentialized dichotomies between viewpoints. The authors advocate a mindful, nuanced, people-centered approach to all theorizing-one that avoids total system approaches (-isms) and suggest that theory should relate cogently to ethnography. Mindful anthropology, as this book envisages it, is not a specific theory but a philosophical aspiration for the discipline as a whole.

Delicioso
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 344

Delicioso

Spanish cuisine is a melting-pot of cultures, flavors, and ingredients: Greek and Roman; Jewish, Moorish, and Middle Eastern. It has been enriched by Spanish climate, geology, and spectacular topography, which have encouraged a variety of regional food traditions and “Cocinas,” such as Basque, Galician, Castilian, Andalusian, and Catalan. It has been shaped by the country’s complex history, as foreign occupations brought religious and cultural influences that determined what people ate and still eat. And it has continually evolved with the arrival of new ideas and foodstuffs from Italy, France, and the Americas, including cocoa, potatoes, tomatoes, beans, and chili peppers. Having beco...

Configurations of a Cultural Scene
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 309

Configurations of a Cultural Scene

Throughout the 1920s, a remarkable number of young writers and artists lived and worked in Madrid, creating an atmosphere of effervescence and an upsurge in creativity that has rarely been equalled. These young people, acquainting themselves with one another within the span of only a few years, came together to form a tightly woven network of both personal and artistic relationships. In Configurations of a Cultural Scene Andrew Anderson explores this growing community of artists and writers with a focus on how sites of face-to-face interaction in Madrid fostered creative work and forged young identities. Organizing locations into places of sociability, learning, and residence, Anderson offer...

Matilde Landa
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 416

Matilde Landa

Matilde Landa Vaz (1904-1942) fue una de las principales figuras del movimiento de mujeres antifascistas de los años treinta y cuarenta del siglo XX. Formada en el entorno de la Institución Libre de Enseñanza y relacionada con intelectuales como Antonio Machado y Miguel Hernández, durante la Segunda República se afilió al PCE. Su protagonismo en la ayuda a los refugiados republicanos durante la Guerra Civil y en la articulación de la solidaridad con las condenadas a muerte (1939-1940) en la Cárcel de Ventas la convirtieron en una heroína entre las presas políticas de la inmediata posguerra, pero fueron, sobre todo, las pavorosas circunstancias que la condujeron a quitarse la vida e...

Mujeres en los orígenes de la Psicología
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 582

Mujeres en los orígenes de la Psicología

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-09-20
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  • Publisher: ESIC

Mujeres en los orígenes de la Psicología.

Escenografía de la danza en la Edad de Plata (1916-1936)
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 268

Escenografía de la danza en la Edad de Plata (1916-1936)

En este libro la autora estudia la labor que los artistas dedicaron a la escenografía de la danza durante la Edad de Plata española, desde la llegada de los Ballets Russes de Diaghilev hasta el estallido de la Guerra Civil. Se analizan así las trayectorias de los artistas, las colaboraciones con bailarines e intelectuales, el contexto cultural e histórico y la producción artística de los protagonistas más destacados.