Diálogos y problemáticas de los movimientos indios de América Latina entre los siglos XX y XXI


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A finales del pasado siglo xx, aprovechando el altavoz que supuso la tan controvertida celebración del llamado V Centenario del descubrimiento de América en el año 1992, se produjo un fenómeno paralelo de reflexiones, análisis, discursos y cambios en la academia española -en el ámbito de la Antropología americanista- que no se entiende sin la participación, presencia y voces de múltiples representantes de los pueblos indígenas que en esos años tuvieron la oportunidad de trasladar en nuestro entorno su malestar, sus reivindicaciones y el objeto y razón de sus luchas por defender sus derechos como pueblos. El Departamento de Historia de América, con su subsección de Antropología americana, vería iniciar su andadura en el curso 1967-68, de donde saldrían antropólogos como Carlos M.ª Caravantes García, Rafael Díaz Maderuelo, Mariano Cuesta o María Cátedra, así como varios de los autores que participan en este libro. Este Departamento, tras varias décadas de andadura, se ha visto subsumido en el Departamento de Historia de América y Medieval y Ciencias Historiográficas, pero durante más de una década sirvió como lugar de llegada para varios dirigentes –hombres y mujeres– de diversas organizaciones indígenas donde tuvieron voz, fueron escuchados y fueron determinantes para que se configurase una forma diferente de hacer Antropología basada en el compromiso y el paradigma decolonial. Este libro, que rinde homenaje a la figura del profesor Carlos M.ª Caravantes en su papel relevante a la hora de crear una escuela de antropólogos/as comprometidos. El libro transita por temáticas que nos llevan a conocer detalles sobre cómo se configuraron aquellos años de cambio en la academia y cómo se vertebró la Antropología con la práctica política, en qué punto se encuentran las problemáticas de los pueblos indígenas, qué papel están jugando las mujeres en la lucha por los derechos de sus pueblos, para terminar con un interesante recorrido crítico y reflexivo sobre salud intercultural en contextos americanos de la mano de tres reconocidos antropólogos americanistas.




Constructing the Criollo Archive


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Focusing on a period neglected by scholars, Higgins reconstructs how during the colonial period criollos - individuals identified as being of Spanish descent born in America - elaborated a body of knowledge, an "archive," in order to establish their intellectual autonomy within the Spanish colonial administrative structures." "This book opens up an important area of research that will be of interest to scholars and students of Spanish American colonial literature and history."--BOOK JACKET.




Multiple InJustices


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R. Aída Hernández Castillo synthesizes twenty-four years of research and activism among indigenous women's organizations in Latin America, offering a critical new contribution to the field of activist anthropology and for anyone interested in social justice.




Cultural Creation in Modern Society


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Histories of Race and Racism


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Historians, anthropologists, and sociologists examine how race and racism have mattered in Andean and Mesoamerican societies from the early colonial era to the present day.




¡Printing the Revolution!


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Printing and collecting the revolution : the rise and impact of Chicano graphics, 1965 to now / E. Carmen Ramos -- Aesthetics of the message : Chicana/o posters, 1965-1987 / Terezita Romo -- War at home : conceptual iconoclasm in American printmaking / Tatiana Reinoza -- Chicanx graphics in the digital age / Claudia E. Zapata.




Democracy in Mexico


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Nomadic Subjects


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For more than fifteen years, Nomadic Subjects has guided discourse in continental philosophy and feminist theory, exploring the constitution of contemporary subjectivity, especially the concept of difference within European philosophy and political theory. Rosi Braidotti's creative style vividly renders a productive crisis of modernity. From a feminist perspective, she recasts embodiment, sexual difference, and complex concepts through relations to technology, historical events, and popular culture. This thoroughly revised and expanded edition retains all but two of Braidotti's original essays, including her investigations into epistemology's relation to the "woman question;" feminism and biomedical ethics; European feminism; and the possible relations between American feminism and European politics and philosophy. A new piece integrates Deleuze and Guattari's concept of the "becoming-minoritarian" more deeply into modern democratic thought, and a chapter on methodology explains Braidotti's methods while engaging with her critics. A new introduction muses on Braidotti's provocative legacy.




Juan de la Rosa


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Long considered a classic in Bolivia, Juan de la Rosa tells the story of a young boy's coming of age during the violent and tumultuous years of Bolivia's struggle for independence. Indeed, in this remarkable novel, Juan's search for his personal identity functions as an allegory of Bolivia's search for its identity as a nation. Set in the early 1800s, the novel is narrated by one of the last surviving Bolivian rebels, octogenarian Juan de la Rosa. Juan recreates his childhood in the rebellious town of Cochabamba, and with it a large cast of full bodied, Dickensian characters both heroic and malevolent. The larger cultural dislocations brought about by Bolivia's political upheaval are echoed in those experienced by Juan, whose mother's untimely death sets off a chain of unpredictable events that propel him into the fiery crucible of the South American Independence Movement. Outraged by Juan's outspokenness against Spanish rule and his awakening political consciousness, his loyalist guardians banish him to the countryside, where he witnesses firsthand the Spaniards' violent repression and rebels' valiant resistance that crystallize both his personal destiny and that of his country. In Sergio Gabriel Waisman's fluid translation, English readers have access to Juan de la Rosa for the very first time.