In Praise of the Ancestors. Names, Identity, and Memory in Africa and the Americas, Paperback - Susan Elizabeth Ramirez

In Praise of the Ancestors is a revisionist interpretation of early colonial accounts and sources that reveal incongruities in accepted knowledge a...

Handbook of Comparative Educational Law: Selected European from Africa and the Americas, Volume 4 provides detailed analysis of education law in Br...

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Reducere. This book details the goddess Kali and the culture of devotion to her in West Bengal and South Asia. The term Adya means primal, original or archea...

Reducere. The Mexican American woman zoot suiter, or pachuca, often wore a V-neck sweater or a long, broad-shouldered coat, a knee-length pleated skirt, fish...

This history of the struggles to regenerate France's colonial empire in the eighteenth century reveals how political economists, colonial administr...

Reducere. The result of extensive recent research, Migrating Objects reveals Peggy Guggenheim's two-decade period of collecting beyond the European and North...

This vibrant biography of Griffintown, an inner-city Irish Catholic neighbourhood in Montreal, brings to life the history of Irish identity and col...

Reducere. In a century marked by totalitarian regimes, genocide, mass migrations, and shifting borders, the concept of memory in Eastern Europe is often syno...

In Praise of the Stepmother is a witty and subtle meditation on the mysterious nature of human happiness and the corrupting power of innocence

On a motorcycle trip from Manitoba to southern Chile, Cameron Dueck seeks out isolated enclaves of Mennonites--and himself. "An engrossing account ...

Reducere. DescriptionWitness the French anthropologist as we have never seen him before. Marc Aug coined the term "non-place" to describe the ubiquitous airp...

How many times have you rehearsed what you were gonna say or cursed yourself for what you should have said?

Reducere. Art of the Non-Western World: Asia, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas gives students the tools to better understand and appreciate the arts in a gl...

Reducere. DescriptionWhite Poison is probably the strongest and most reasonable appeal ever addressed to the African continent, for its spiritual liberation,...

Systems of belonging are not static, automatic, or free of contest. Historical contexts shape the ways which we are included in or excluded from sp...

This volume examines the Italian peninsula in the early Middle Ages by focusing on research fields such as ethnic identity, memory, and use of the ...

Staying Roman: Conquest and Identity in Africa and the Mediterranean, 439–700 - Jonathan Conant

Reducere. Lives of fifteen Saints from North America, Central America, and South America, illustrated in full color.

Reducere. With meticulous observation and the seductive skill of a great storyteller, Vargas Llosa lures the reader into the shadow of perversion that, littl...

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Long before Christopher Columbus set foot in the Americas, long before the Vikings discovered the New World, the indigenous cultures of the America...

Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press LtdAuthor(s): Lamont DeHaven KingIllustration(s): maps; mapsNumber of pages: 244Publication date: 2006Dimensions:...

Reducere. Located at Fort Benning in Columbus, Georgia, the School of the Americas (soa) is a U.S. Army center that has trained more than sixty thousand sold...

Reducere. A beautiful presentation of this Marian Feast. Illustrated in full color.

PAR EntreMundos: A Pedagogy of the Americas challenges the standard narratives of "achievement" to think about how Latinx students can experience a...

This book explores culture, memory, and creativity in acting and plays in Tamajaq-speaking, Muslim, semi-nomadic Tuareg society in northern Mali. R...

Reducere. DescriptionThey lived with professors and waited on former presidents. They were masons and nurses, school teachers and field hands, 246 people own...

Reducere. The spiritual classic, the Devimahatmya, is a central text for worshippers of the Hindu Goddess Devi. Written about 16 centuries ago, it addresses ...

Drawing on the intriguing interdisciplinary research on war commemoration, the book shows that war pervades the pages of the Bible because its auth...

Reducere. Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang examines one of the least understood migrations in modern East Asia - the human exodus from China to Taiwan when Chiang Kai...

Reducere. This unprecedented work is the first one-volume study of the history of Christianity in Africa. Written by Elizabeth Isichei, a leading scholar in ...

This book, first published in 2007, offered the first and only summary of decades of archaeological research in the Oman Peninsula. The original el...

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Susan Gilson MillerNumber of pages: 248Collection: Worlding the Middle EastPublication date: 2021Dim...

DescriptionIn 1890, the United States government outlawed the Ghost Dance. The ceremony remained illegal until 1978. Why? Did the authorities fear ...

Reducere. One of the outstanding mysteries of the twentieth century, and one with huge political resonance, is the death of Dag Hammarskjold and his UN team ...

An examination of how Pre-Columbian societies in the Americas envisioned their cosmos.Publisher: Oxbow BooksIllustration(s): B/w and colourNumber o...

This study provides a broad examination of historical memory of World War II. Focusing on the Asia Pacific region, the contributors analyze how the...

The 400th anniversaries of Don Quixote in 2005 and 2015 sparked worldwide celebrations that brought to the fore its ongoing cultural and ideologica...

Examining three turning points that shaped exceptionalism in both Americas - the late colonial and early Republican period, expansion into the fron...

Reducere. 1. As Seen From Above 4: 40 2. In Praise Of Dreams 5: 21 3. One Goes There Alone 5: 06 4. Knot Of Place And Time 6: 22 5. If You Go Far Enough 0: 3...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Retief MullerNumber of pages: 232Collection: Scottish Religious CulturesPublication date: 2021Dimen...

This book presents current research in the political ecology of indigenous revival and its role in nature conservation in critical areas in the Ame...

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Reducere. This autobiographical collection of letters and diary entries by Elizabeth of the Trinity relates the life of the young nun whose intense spiritual...

Sàngó in Africa and the African Diaspora is a multidisciplinary, transregional exploration of Sàngó religious traditions in West Africa and beyond....