Contact Strategies: Histories of Native Autonomy in Brazil, Paperback - Heather F. Roller

Around the year 1800, independent Native groups still effectively controlled about half the territory of the Americas. How did they maintain their ...

Reducere. Around the year 1800, independent Native groups still effectively controlled about half the territory of the Americas. How did they maintain their ...

An ultimate travel book, combining exquisite writing on food with history, culture and politics, to create an intelligent and enthralling portrait ...

Reducere. If you think that UFOs are not real or that only crazy people believe in aliens, think again. This story was originally reported in the Wall Street...

Highlights the work of contemporary Brazilian photographers with an emphasis on images which reflect the dynamism and eclecticism of Brazilian soci...

Reducere. Brazil was the American society that received the largest contingent of African slaves in the Americas and the longest lasting slave regime in the ...

This book amounts to a series of stories about my experience of living and working in Brazil over a period of thirty-three years. The aim of the bo...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Suely RolnikTranslator: Brian HolmesNumber of pages: 496Collection: Semiotext(e) / Foreign AgentsPublication dat...

This book opens up contemporary and novel practices of Brazil's democracy for examination, including responses to global food security, the purchas...

Reducere. Two previously unpublished collections by an important Chinese American poet depict daily life inside New York's Chinatown and across the Chinese d...

Reducere. A long-needed appraisal of the abstractions, mail art and conceptual work of Anna Bella Geiger, one of postwar Brazil's unsung pioneersBrazilian ar...

The present studies on Brazilian modern art seek to specify some of the dominant contradictions of capitalism's combined but uneven development as ...

Reducere. Rebelling against the Elvis-based, American-imported rock scene in late '60s Brazil, Caetano Veloso suffused lyrical Brazilian folksongs with fuzz ...

Democratic practices - participation, citizenship rights, and an inclusionary state - enhance human development. The book uncovers how local democr...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Christen A. SmithNumber of pages: 280Publication date: 2016Dimensions: 151 x 227 x 20Cover type: ...

DescriptionBrazil, like some countries in Africa, has become a major destination for African American tourists seeking the cultural roots of the bl...

By tracing the careers of Rio's pioneering black musicians from the late nineteenth century until the 1970s, Marc A. Hertzman revises the histories...

In 1550 the German adventurer Hans Staden was serving as a gunner in a Portuguese fort on the Brazilian coast. While out hunting, he was captured b...

Publisher: Mimesis InternationalAuthor(s): Massimo SciarrettaNumber of pages: 300Collection: HistoryPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 210 x 142 x 2...

Brazil changed drastically in the 21st century's second decade. In 2010, the country's outgoing president Lula left office with almost 90% approval...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Graham Denyer WillisIllustration(s): 7 b-w illustrations, 1 mapNumber of pages: 230Publication ...

Reducere. From ancient rock drawings to today's urban living, the Native American Almanac: More than 50, 000 Years of the Cultures and Histories of Indigenou...

Reducere. Featuring 155 color photographs and illustrations, Native American Weapons surveys weapons made and used by American Indians north of present-day M...

Most people fear meeting and talking to strangers. The problem is they don't know how! In this insightful and entertaining book, Marvin Brown provi...

Reducere. J.B. Schneewind's remarkable book is the most comprehensive study ever written of the history of moral philosophy. Its aim is to set Kant's still i...

Reducere. The practical and artistic creations of native peoples permeate everyday life in settler nations, from the design elements on our clothing to the p...

Publisher: UCL PressAuthor(s): Marilia DuqueIllustration(s): 61 Illustrations, colorCollection: Ageing with SmartphonesPublication date: 2022Dimens...

Reducere. This compact volume contains a series of lectures given by Dooyeweerd during his lecture tour throughout the United States and Canada in 1959. Thes...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Miriam JorgensenForeword by: Oren LyonsAfterword by: A revolution is underway among the Indigenous nations of North America...

Reducere. Those who have died usually give us touching and sometimes amazing signs of their survival, very much as if they were sending postcards from the be...

Liang has made a comprehensive study of the party autonomy principle in China from a practical perspective that includes an analysis of the enforce...