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Plusieurs formes anciennes fondent le théâtre autochtone des trois Amériques. Certaines ont survécu au génocide entrepris par les puissances coloniales au cours des derniers siècles. Elles partagent les liens sacrés qui nous unissent à nos ancêtres et aux Esprits de la Terre. Le Xajoj Tun Rabinal Achi, inscrit depuis 2008 sur la liste du patrimoine culturel immatériel de l'humanité par l'UNESCO, est exceptionnel. Il est le seul vestige...
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Jon Cruz is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the coeditor of Viewing, Reading, Listening: Audiences and Cultural Reception.
In Culture on the Margins, Jon Cruz recounts the "discovery" of black music by white elites in the nineteenth century, boldly revealing how the episode shaped modern approaches to studying racial and ethnic cultures. Slave owners had long heard black song making as meaningless...
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Get the Summary of Graham Hancock's Magicians of the Gods in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Magicians of the Gods" by Graham Hancock delves into the ancient site of Göbekli Tepe, which challenges conventional historical timelines with its sophisticated structures dating back over 11,600 years. Hancock explores the possibility of a forgotten advanced civilization that may have influenced the site's creation. He...
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Vincanne Adams is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Princeton University.
Sherpas are portrayed by Westerners as heroic mountain guides, or "tigers of the snow," as Buddhist adepts, and as a people in touch with intimate ways of life that seem no longer available in the Western world. In this book, Vincanne Adams explores how attempts to characterize an "authentic" Sherpa are complicated by Western fascination with Sherpas...
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William A. Christian, Jr., is a religious historian and independent scholar. His books include Moving Crucifixes in Modern Spain, Local Religion in Sixteenth-Century Spain, and Apparitions in Late Medieval and Renaissance Spain (all Princeton).
A classic twentieth-century work in the anthropology of Catholicism
Person and God in a Spanish Valley is a moving portrait of how individuals and communities in a remote, mountainous valley of northern...
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E. Valentine Daniel is Professor of Anthropology at Columbia Universityr. He is the author of Fluid Signs: Being a Person the Tamil Way.
How does an ethnographer write about violence? How can he make sense of violent acts, for himself and for his readers, without compromising its sheer excess and its meaning-defying core? How can he remain a scholarly observer when the country of his birth is engulfed by terror? These are some of the questions that...
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Paulla A. Ebron is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University.
The jali--a member of a hereditary group of Mandinka professional performers--is a charismatic but contradictory figure. He is at once the repository of his people's history, the voice of contemporary political authority, the inspiration for African American dreams of an African homeland, and the chief entertainment for the burgeoning transnational tourist industry. Numerous...
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La modernidad argentina puede identificarse con la expansión de modelos del capitalismo europeo condensados en modos de producción económica y en lógicas de organización cultural (un territorio, una lengua, una religión). El proceso histórico nacional invisibilizó las denominadas "minorías religiosas", construyendo una ideología donde rasgos diferentes de los del catolicismo estaban ausentes de los diacríticos simbólicos de la argentinidad.
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1994" One of the leading members of the well-known Subaltern Studies collective of scholars, Partha Chatterjee is Professor of Political Science at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences in Calcutta. His other works include Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World (Zed/Minnesota).
In this book, the prominent theorist Partha Chatterjee looks at the creative and powerful results of the nationalist...
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Nicholas B. Dirks is Franz Boas Professor of History and Anthropology at Columbia University. He is the author of The Hollow Crown: Ethnohistory of an Indian Kingdom and the editor of Colonialism and Culture and In Near Ruins. He has taught at the University of Michigan, the California Institute of Technology, and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociale in Paris.
When thinking of India, it is hard not to think of caste. In academic and common...
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"Winner of the 2003 Diana Forsythe Prize, American Anthropological Association" Cori Hayden is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley and Research Fellow in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge.
Bioprospecting--the exchange of plants for corporate promises of royalties or community development assistance--has been lauded as a way to develop new medicines while offering southern nations and indigenous...
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The description for this book, The Poetics of Manhood: Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village, will be forthcoming. "The Cretan mountain-dwellers are in particular famous for their sustained resistance to Turkish rule and then to German occupation. Their values, well-expressed in the motto of the Cretan writer Kazantzakis--'I hope for nothing; I fear nothing; I am free'--made them heroes at times when such qualities were positively endorsed...
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John Hartigan Jr. is Assistant Professor in the Institute of Anthropology at the University of North Texas. His work on "white trash" and the "white underclass" has been published in a range of journals and edited volumes.
Racial Situations challenges perspectives on race that rely upon oft-repeated claims that race is culturally constructed and, hence, simply false and distorting. John Hartigan asserts, instead, that we need to explain how race...
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"Winner of the 2002 Williard Hurst Prize in Legal History" Sally Engle Merry is Class of 1949 Professor of Ethics in the Anthropology Department at Wellesley College. Her books include Urban Danger: Life in a Neighborhood of Strangers, Getting Justice and Getting Even: Legal Consciousness among Working-Class Americans, and The Possibility of Popular Justice: A Case Study of American Community Mediation, coedited with Neal Milner. She is currently...
15) Firewalking and Religious Healing: The Anastenaria of Greece and the American Firewalking Movement
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"If the Saint calls you, if you have an open road, then you don't feel the fire as if it were your enemy," says one of the participants in the Anastenaria. This compelling work evokes and contrasts two forms of firewalking and religious healing: first, the Anastenaria, a northern Greek ritual in which people who are possessed by Saint Constantine dance dramatically over red-hot coals, and, second,...
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The best of the American Indian myths are works of art, blending form and content into an organic whole in which the great themes of human experience are interwoven much as they are in a memorable short story or novella. But if the underlying themes are similar, the metaphorical and narrative conventions are vastly different; and it is this aesthetic gap that critic John Bierhorst intends to bridge in this companion volume to his well-known anthology...
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Mahmood Mamdani is the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government in the Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies Department at Columbia University. His many books include Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror.
In analyzing the obstacles to democratization in post- independence Africa, Mahmood Mamdani offers a bold, insightful account of colonialism's legacy--a bifurcated power that mediated racial domination through...
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"Honorable Mention for the 2017 APLA Book Prize, Association for Political and Legal Anthropology" Antina von Schnitzler is an anthropologist and assistant professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs at The New School.
In the past decade, South Africa's "miracle transition" has been interrupted by waves of protests in relation to basic services such as water and electricity. Less visibly, the post-apartheid period has witnessed widespread...
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Get the Summary of Marc Morris's The AngloSaxons in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Anglo-Saxons" by Marc Morris explores the tumultuous period of late Roman Britain and the subsequent rise of Anglo-Saxon England. The Hoxne Hoard discovery in 1992, with its Roman treasures, reflects the era's instability. Roman Britain, established in AD 43, experienced both the benefits of Roman civilization and the hardships...
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"Co-Winner of the 2003 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, Society for Humanistic Anthropology and American Anthropological Association" "Honorable Mention for the 2004 Sharon Stephens First Book Prize, American Ethnological Society" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2003" Hugh Raffles is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
The Amazon is not what it seems. As Hugh Raffles shows...
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