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The Hidden History of Capoeira: A Collision of Cultures in the Brazilian Battle Dance (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Capoeira, a Brazilian battle dance and national sport, has become popular all over the world. This book combines cultural history with anthropological research to offer a study of the development and meaning of capoeira, starting with the African cultures.
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Moctezuma's Children: Aztec Royalty Under Spanish Rule, 1520–1700 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The surprising story of how the children of the vanquished retained their rights and privileges in colonial Mexico.
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Portuguese: A Reference Manual (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A boon for students and teachers of the language, culture, and literature of the Portuguese-speaking world, this language resource manual delves beyond the realm of traditional language textbooks
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Chican@ Artivistas: Music, Community, and Transborder Tactics in East Los Angeles (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A Grammy Award–winning singer and scholar explores how Chican@ artivistas in East Los Angeles, from 1995 to the present, have created a unique community of process-based political engagement influenced by the Zapatista and Fandango movements.
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Surrealist Women: An International Anthology (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Beginning in Paris in the 1920s, women poets, essayists, painters, and artists in other media have actively collaborated in defining and refining surrealism's... Læs mere
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On the Plaza: The Politics of Public Space and Culture (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Explores the interplay of space and culture in the plaza, showing how culture acts to shape public spaces and how the physical form of the plaza encodes the social, political, and economic relations within the city.
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Film Genre Reader IV (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Newly revised and expanded, this is the standard reference and classroom text for the study of genre in film, with more than 25,000 copies sold
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Founding Finance: How Debt, Speculation, Foreclosures, Protests, and Crackdowns Made Us a Nation (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Offers a perspective on America's economic infancy: foreclosure crises that make to look mild; investment... Læs mere
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Kuxlejal Politics: Indigenous Autonomy, Race, and Decolonizing Research in Zapatista Communities (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This work of activist anthropology investigates the decolonializing cultural practices that the Zapatistas of Chiapas employed to resist the racialized policies of the Mexican neoliberal state and assert their autonomy.
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Beyonce in Formation: Remixing Black Feminism (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In this enthralling, empowering “mixtape” memoir, a visionary feminist scholar retraces her personal journey while reflecting on the painful legacies and exhilarating liberations that permeate Beyoncé’s game-changing Lemonade album.
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Foodways and Daily Life in Medieval Anatolia: A New Social History (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Bringing to life an overlooked aspect of the dawn of the Ottoman empire, this illuminating study uses the prism of food—from farming to mealtimes, religious rituals, and commerce—to understand how Anatolian society gave rise to a superpower.
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El Derecho En Espanol: Terminologia Y Habilidades Juridicas Para Un Ejercicio Legal Exitoso (Bog, Paperback / softback, Spansk)
Trains intermediate-level Spanish speakers (either in the classroom or for self-study) in legal terminology and the contexts in which it is used in Latin America and Spain.
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage
