Visión íntegra de América: De la independencia anticolonial a la dominación imperialista
Visión íntegra de América: De la independencia anticolonial a la dominación imperialista

Author: Alberto Prieto

Publisher: Ocean Press (WA)

Published: 2014-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781921700569

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Este volumen aborda el nacimiento de las repblicas del continente americano: el inicio de las luchas libertarias y anticoloniales con la independencia de las Trece Colonias de Norteamerica, seguida por la de Haiti y, ya entrado el siglo XIX, por las guerras independentistas de Sur y Centroamerica, marcadas por el esfuerzo integrador de Simon Bolivar y Francisco Morazan.

The Colonial System Unveiled
The Colonial System Unveiled

Author: Baron de Vastey

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016-01-25

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 1781383049

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The first translation into English of 'Le Système colonial dévoilé', the first systematic critique of colonialism ever written from the perspective of a colonized subject.

World Anthropologies
World Anthropologies

Author: Gustavo Lins Ribeiro

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-07-12

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1000184498

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Since its inception, anthropology's authority has been based on the assumption that it is a unified discipline emanating from the West. In an age of heightened globalization, anthropologists have failed to discuss consistently the current status of their practice and its mutations across the globe. World Anthropologies is the first book to provoke this conversation from various regions of the world in order to assess the diversity of relations between regional or national anthropologies and a contested, power-laden Western discourse. Can a planetary anthropology cope with both the 'provincial cosmopolitanism' of alternative anthropologies and the 'metropolitan provincialism' of hegemonic schools? How might the resulting 'world anthropologies' challenge the current panorama in which certain allegedly national anthropological traditions have more paradigmatic weight - and hence more power - than others? Critically examining the international dissemination of anthropology within and across national power fields, contributors address these questions and provide the outline for a veritable world anthropologies project.

Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism
Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism

Author: Marlene L. Daut

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2018-11-14

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9781349693764

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Focusing on the influential life and works of the Haitian political writer and statesman, Baron de Vastey (1781-1820), in this book Marlene L. Daut examines the legacy of Vastey’s extensive writings as a form of what she calls black Atlantic humanism, a discourse devoted to attacking the enlightenment foundations of colonialism. Daut argues that Vastey, the most important secretary of Haiti’s King Henry Christophe, was a pioneer in a tradition of deconstructing colonial racism and colonial slavery that is much more closely associated with twentieth-century writers like W.E.B. Du Bois, Frantz Fanon, and Aimé Césaire. By expertly forging exciting new historical and theoretical connections among Vastey and these later twentieth-century writers, as well as eighteenth- and nineteenth-century black Atlantic authors, such as Phillis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, William Wells Brown, and Harriet Jacobs, Daut proves that any understanding of the genesis of Afro-diasporic thought must include Haiti’s Baron de Vastey.

Women and the Ancestors
Women and the Ancestors

Author: Virginia Kerns

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9780252066658

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This classic study of Black Carib culture and its preservation through ancestral rituals organized by older women now includes a foreword by Constance R. Sutton and an afterword by the author. "One of the outstanding studies of this genre. . . . Refreshingly, the book has good photographs, as well as strong endnotes and bibliography, and very useful tables, figures, maps, and index." -- Choice "An outstanding contribution to the literature on female-centered bilateral kinship and residence." -- Grant D. Jones, American Ethnologist "A richly detailed account of a contemporary culture in which older women are important, valued, and self-respecting." -- Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly "A combination of competent research, interwoven themes, and an easily readable, sometimes beautifully evocative, prose style." -- Heather Strange, The Gerontologist

African Roots/American Cultures
African Roots/American Cultures

Author: Sheila S. Walker

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9780742501652

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This multidisciplinary volume highlights the African presence throughout the Americas, and African and African Diasporan contributions to the material and cultural life of all of the Americas, and of all Americans. It includes articles from leading scholars and from cultural leaders from both well-known and little-known African Diasporan communities. Privileging African Diasporan voices, it offers new perspectives, data, and interpretations that challenge prevailing understandings of the Americas. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Free University, Berlin
Free University, Berlin

Author: Gabriel Feld

Publisher: Exemplary Projects

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781870890762

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Berlin Free University is an imagination of what a building might be - a building designed to function as a piece of the city, adapting to the needs of its users while generating opportunities for social interaction. The university offers a window onto the politicized and optimistic discourse of the Sixties and Seventies, but at the same time illuminates contemporary debates around large projects of infrastructure and public space. This extensive study of the building combines texts with a visual survey containing specifically commissioned photographs as well as archive material, plans and construction details.

On Humour
On Humour

Author: Simon Critchley

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2011-08-26

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 1135199035

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This is a fascinating and beautifully written book on what philosophy can tell us about humour and about what it is to be human. It will fascinate and intrigue anyone with a sense of humour.

Henri Lefebvre on Space
Henri Lefebvre on Space

Author: Lukasz Stanek

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 389

ISBN-13: 0816666164

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Shows how Lefebvre's theory of space developed out of direct engagement with architecture, urbanism, and urban sociology.