The Americas
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Ancient Effigy Mound Landscapes of Upper Midwestern North America [Paperback]
Robert A. Birmingham (Author)
Regular Price: £38.00
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ISBN: 9781785700873
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: American Landscapes
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Between c. AD 700 and 1100, Late Woodland people of the Upper Midwest used the topography and other features of the natural landscape to create vast ceremonial landscapes consisting of thousands of earthen mounds sculpted into animals and... .... Learn More -
Lucayan Legacies: Indigenous lifeways in The Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands [Paperback]
Joanna Ostapkowicz (Author)
£65.00ISBN: 9789464261011
Published by : Sidestone Press
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This book is about Lucayan legacies – the heritage of the people who made the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands (the Lucayan archipelago) their home from the 8th to the 16th centuries. This legacy is not simply the surviving physical record, co... .... Learn More -
Lucayan Legacies: Indigenous lifeways in The Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands [Hardback]
Joanna Ostapkowicz (Author)
£180.00ISBN: 9789464261028
Published by : Sidestone Press
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This book is about Lucayan legacies – the heritage of the people who made the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands (the Lucayan archipelago) their home from the 8th to the 16th centuries. This legacy is not simply the surviving physical record, co... .... Learn More -
Faith in Democracy: The Political Power of Religion during the Military Dictatorship in Brazil [Paperback]
Massimo Sciarretta (Author)
£24.99ISBN: 9788869773754
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: History
The current work historically reconstructs the role played by the Brazilian Catholic Church during the military dictatorship that governed the country from 1964 to 1985. If in Latin America the denial of identity and rights has for centuries gone... .... Learn More -
Street Matters: A Critical History of Twentieth-Century Urban Policy in Brazil [Hardback]
Fernando Lara (Author); Ana Paula Koury (Author)
£33.00ISBN: 9780822947134
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Latin American Series
Street Matters links urban policy and planning with street protests in Brazil. It begins with the 2013 demonstrations that ostensibly began over public transportation fare increases but quickly grew to address larger questions of inequali... .... Learn More -
The Paradox of Violence in Venezuela: Crime and Revolution [Hardback]
David Smilde (Editor); Veronica Zubillaga (Editor); Rebecca Hanson (Editor)
£40.50ISBN: 9780822947127
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Latin American Series
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Crime and violence soared in twenty-first-century Venezuela even as poverty and inequality decreased, contradicting the conventional wisdom that these are the underlying causes of violence. The Paradox of Violence in Venezuela explains the rise of... .... Learn More -
Archaeologies of Cosmoscapes in the Americas [Paperback]
J. Grant Stauffer (Editor); Bretton T. Giles (Editor); Shawn P. Lambert (Editor)
£38.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789258448
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: American Landscapes
Volume: 5
This volume examines how pre-Columbian societies in the Americas envisioned their cosmos and iteratively modelled it through the creation of particular objects and places. It emphasises that American societies did this to materialize overarching m... .... Learn More -
Embodying Modernity: Global Fitness Culture and Building the Brazilian Body [Hardback]
Daniel Silva (Author)
£39.50ISBN: 9780822947110
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Illuminations
Since the late 20th-century, mainstream popular culture in Brazil has developed an intimate relationship with fitness culture
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Community of Peace: Performing Geographies of Ecological Dignity in Colombia [Hardback]
Christopher Courtheyn (Author)
£40.50ISBN: 9780822947141
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Latin American Series
Achieving peace is often thought about in terms of military operations or state negotiations. Yet, it also happens at the grassroots level where communities envision and create peace on their own. The San José de Apartadó Peace Community of small-... .... Learn More -
Against Racism: Organizing for Social Change in Latin America [Hardback]
Monica Moreno Figueroa (Editor); Peter Wade (Editor)
£40.50ISBN: 9780822947103
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Latin American Series
Powerful narratives often describe Latin American nations as fundamentally mestizo. These narratives have hampered the acknowledgement of racism in the region, but recent multiculturalist reforms have increased recognition of Black and Indigenous ... .... Learn More
