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Includes both police records and true crime reporting to bring to life the underworld pistoleros, the policemen who fought them, and the crime journalists who brought the conflicts to light.
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Examines the formation of self among the Urarina, an Amazonian people of lowland Peru. Based on detailed ethnography, this title highlights the... Læs mere
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Examines the formation of self among the Urarina, an Amazonian people of lowland Peru. Based on detailed ethnography, this title highlights the... Læs mere
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The massacre of Canudos in 1897 is a pivotal episode in Brazilian social history. Looking at the event through the eyes of... Læs mere
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Brazil's innovative all-female police stations, installed as part of the return to civilian rule in the 1980s, mark the country's first... Læs mere
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This text chronicles the chaotic path to what could be one of the greatest natural disasters of modern times: the disappearance of the Atlantic Forest. Based on documentary and scientific resources, the book is a history of Brazil told from an environmental perspective.
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This text tells the poignant and puzzling story of how, earlier this century, in spite of the power of anti-Semitic politicians and intellectuals, Jews made their exodus to Brazil, "the land of the future."
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Offering new insight into 3000 years of Mesoamerican history, from roughly 1500 BC to the Spanish conquest, this study examines the methods, purposes and values of warfare as practiced by the major pre-Columbian societies and shows how warfare affected the rise of the state.
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Late in 1965, Ashaninka Indians, members of one of the Amazon's largest native tribes, joined forces with Marxist revolutionaries who had... Læs mere
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A collection that examines the history of women's participation in literary, journalistic, educational, and political activity in Latin American history.
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Of the 23 Brazilian policemen interviewed in-depth for this study, 14 were direct perpetrators of torture and murder... Læs mere