Cultural studies Books

Book SynopsisHow immigration influences the construction of family, identity, and community among Mexican Americans and migrants from MexicoTrade Review“I’m Neither Here nor There is a powerful, highly original ethnography about the complexities of the Mexican migrant and Mexican American population in the United States. By drawing primarily on work by scholars of color about people of color, Patricia Zavella decenters staid ways of understanding immigration, such as assimilation and the underclass models. Her use of the concepts of peripheral vision, double vision, and border thinking are particularly effective, as is her political-economic analysis of capitalism and neoliberalism in Santa Cruz County, California, and the poverty and challenges that they create for the area’s working poor.”—Lynn Stephen, author of Transborder Lives: Indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon“Among the most original and important contributions of I’m Neither Here nor There are: its focus on one California region, which helps us to see that migrants do not come to an undifferentiated ‘United States,’ but rather to specific locations with distinct regional economic and social dynamics; its sensitivity to gender and sexuality as key sites where social change gets registered in the lives of individuals; and its brilliant discussions of the popular music of Los Tigres del Norte, Quetzal, and Lila Downs as repositories of collective memory, sites of moral instruction, and mechanisms for calling old and new communities into being through performance. Patricia Zavella also makes clear the causes and consequences of residential density and overcrowding in immigrant communities, surely one of the most important but least understood features of contemporary immigrant life. I’m Neither Here nor There is an outstanding work that will be welcomed by specialists as well as general readers. It makes unique and valuable contributions to scholarship and civic life and presents an exemplary model of sophisticated and socially engaged research.”—George Lipsitz, author of How Racism Takes Place“This is the way ethnography should be written: with stories that entice, analysis that dazzles, and just the right mix of humor, music, and in-your-face dignidad. Border and migration studies will never be the same after Patricia Zavella’s impassioned new book, I’m Neither Here nor There.”—Matthew Gutmann, Brown University“I’m Neither Here nor There is a compelling examination of structures of difference, of becoming and belonging, and of forms of border thinking that map spatio-conceptual cosmos and the human integuments that hold them together through ‘transcommunal subjectivity.’... If only every book were as intellectually productive, ethically inspiring, and politically compelling.” -- Scott Catey * North American Dialogue *“Patricia Zavella’s timely I’m Neither Here Nor There serves as an example of a broadly accessible approach to the study of the working poor. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork in central California, Zavella analyses the daily challenges encountered by Santa Cruz County’s Mexican migrants and Mexican Americans, with an eye towards issues of family, gender, sexuality and legal status.” -- Angela S. García * Ethnic and Racial Studies *“With detail and sensitivity, Zavella illustrates how changing gender roles and generational expectations are affecting and transforming Mexican diaspora communities as migrants create inventive strategies for survival…. Theoretically sophisticated yet written in an accessible style, this book is especially apropos for graduate courses dealing with themes of globalization, immigration, transnationalism, and border life and is also recommended for general readers interested in these themes.” -- Regina Marchi * American Ethnologist *“The breadth of Patricia Zavella’s I’m Neither Here Nor There is staggering.... It is undeniable that Zavella is a rigorous, experienced, and sophisticated ethnographer who has made a monumental and original contribution with I’m Neither Here Nor There.... [It] amplifies the words of marginalized people who 'cannot shout' (p. xii) yet justifiably 'eel entitled to dignity in exchange for their labor'(p. xi).” -- Chad Broughton * American Journal of Sociology *“Zavella’s book is an important read for scholars of migration, transnationalism, citizenship, and political economy, as well as those whose work engages gender, sexuality and race. While set in the US, Zavella’s conceptual frame and analysis can be a useful tool for Canadian scholars, particularly those working in the areas of migrant integration, immigration status and radicalized poverty.” -- Paloma E. Villegas * Labour/Le Travail *“I’m Neither Here nor There by Patricia Zavella is impassioned, nuanced, powerful, and politically compelling. Above all, it is stunningly comprehensive in a way that only a senior scholar who has wrestled with her own research and chewed on existing scholarship for years can deliver. In one way or another, I’m Neither Here nor There addresses virtually every issue facing migrants in the U.S. and does so with remarkable sophistication.” -- Steve Striffler * International Migration Review *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction. The Mexican Diaspora in the United States 1 1. Crossings 25 2. Migrations 55 3. The Working Poor 89 4. Migrant Family Formations 123 5. The Divided Home 157 6. Transnational Cultural Memory 190 Epilogue 226 Appendix. Research Participants 233 Notes 239 References 281 Index 319

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Book SynopsisThis book extends the conception of literacy beyond the written word to incorporate the visual. Focusing on the period of colonization in the Andean region the authors argue that the European cultural literacy that they imposed on the indigenous population was not just a tool for oppression and control but was used by the local people as a means to assert their own cultural identity.Trade Review“Beyond the Lettered City is a landmark study. It expands our understanding of colonial Andean culture by focusing on areas at the margins of pre-Hispanic Inka control (present-day Colombia and Ecuador). Even more important is the authors’ approach to cultural analysis. Examining the intersections of genres of cultural expression, including writing, painting, architecture, and performance, Joanne Rappaport and Thomas Cummins suggest that participation in literacy involved a great deal more than learning to read alphabetically inscribed texts and produce images according to European regimes of pictorial representation. Rappaport and Cummins show that native literacies were crucial arenas in which colonial culture was created, negotiated, and contested.”—Carolyn Dean, author of A Culture of Stone: Inka Perspectives on Rock“Beyond the Lettered City is a major contribution not only to South American colonial studies but also to broader debates about literacy and visual culture. It reveals the complex and varied interactions among European alphabetic writing, indigenous literacy systems, and the spoken languages of both the colonizers and the colonized. It also shows how indigenous actors engaged Castilian knowledge and literacy and turned them into their own decolonial advocacy.”—Walter D. Mignolo, author of The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options“Beyond the Lettered City reveals the complexity of Andean society, the challenges of new administrative procedures, and the interaction between Spaniards and the indigenous peoples who were able to become their own advocates.” -- Carlos Damian * Hispanic American Historical Review *“In this interesting contribution to the study of colonial expression, the authors take a novel approach to analysing culture by combining anthropology with art history. The result is an original perspective on how colonial domination at the level of meaning took place….The authors provide striking and dramatic examples of how the natives engaged with and internalised this new visual culture.” -- EC * Latin American Review of Books *“The collection of such a vast set of visual images is alone a momentous task. The breadth of scholarship is impressive. Text and image blend effortlessly in the fine narrative. Many forms of literacies are explored. I am certain that others, as they read and reread sections, will be stimulated as I am to explore further.” -- Noble David Cook * Ethnohistory *“Beyond the Lettered City is an exceptionally important, path-breaking contribution to the study of the transformations of society and culture in the northern and central Andes from the time of the Iberian invasion until the early 18th century.” -- Gary Urton * ReVista *“A richly researched work of mature, broad-reaching scholarship, Beyond the Lettered City is at the same time an experiment in innovative historiography. It is likely to intrigue art-oriented and letter-oriented readers for a long time to come.” -- Frank Salomon * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *“Beyond the Lettered City represents an important, innovative, and interdisciplinary study that should be mandatory reading for anyone seriously interested in the art, history, and culture of colonial Spanish America. More broadly, it deserves an audience among scholars of other colonial and postcolonial societies where the issues of artistic cultural adaptation and transfer also are topics of major concern.” -- Richard L. Kagan * Catholic Historical Review *“This book is a seminal text, an important addition to scholarship not only on the history of the Andes and colonial Latin America but on the semiotic, material, and meaning-making dimensions of colonial encounters generally. The book’s argument for a radically expanded notion of literacy is made with riveting force and precision. Received ideas about literacy and the domination of the written word have rarely been attacked through such a richly evocative analytic framework." -- Paja Faudree * Journal of Anthropological Research *"Beyond the Lettered City is full of highly original arguments and discoveries, and should be read by anyone with an interest in colonial Latin American art and writing." -- Alan Durston * Anthropos *Table of ContentsAbout the Series ix List of Illustrations xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 1. Imagining Colonial Culture 27 2. Genre/Gender/Género: "Que no es uno ni otro, ni está claro" 53 3. The Indigenous Lettered City 113 4. Genres in Action 153 5. The King's Quillca and the Rituality of Literacy 191 6. Reorienting the Colonial Body: Space and the Imposition of Literacy 219 Conclusion 251 Glossary 259 Notes 263 References Cited 317 Index 353

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Book SynopsisAn ethnography of post-Soviet Cubas health-care sector which reveals Cuba to be a pragmatic and contradictory state.Trade Review"Revolutionary Medicine is fabulous. In this intelligent, insightful, and nuanced book, P. Sean Brotherton takes health care as a window through which to view and understand the 'new Cuba,' which, as he notes, incorporates elements of the prerevolutionary period, the Soviet era, and the post-Soviet era. Both substantively and analytically, this is a book of very high quality."—Susan Eckstein, author of Back from the Future: Cuba under Castro“Revolutionary Medicine is a an engaging and theoretically curious ethnography which masterfully connects global macroeconomic changes to the micropolitics of health in contemporary Cuba, and will speak to a wide range of disciplines and scholars within medical anthropology, public health, political sciences and Latin American studies.” -- Eva Vernooij * Medische Antropologie *“Revolutionary Medicine…represents an important contribution to an emergent anthropological literature on the Cuban State in the post-1990 era…It will be of interest to a broad range of readers, including undergraduates, graduate students and specialists in global health, medical anthropology, political theory and Latin American studies.” -- Jennifer Lambe * Global Public Health *“This is a must-read book for the important questions that it asks, the lens through which Brotherton examines the Cuban experience of the health care system, and the carefully collected and analyzed data. . . . It is theoretically provocative, successfully problematizing conventional models of agency in health behavior and especially in the context of the Cuban health care system.” -- Kathleen Musante Dewalt * American Ethnologist *“In this excellent analysis of the impact of change since 1989, Brotherton provides a rich ethnographic picture of what this has meant in practice for both medical professionals and citizens seeking treatment…. This is a thought-provoking and sensitive study that will be of major interest both to public health professionals as well as scholars.” -- Gavin O'Toole * Latin American Review of Books *“The book does a brilliant job of demonstrating the productive relationships between individual bodily practices and macro-level socioeconomic change. Brotherton makes valuable contributions to analytic understandings of medically mediated citizenship, subjectivity, and the limits of individual agency and state authority in a context of ongoing economic crisis. Revolutionary Medicine would be an excellent stand-alone text to read in graduate or undergraduate courses in Latin American studies, medical anthropology, global health, or the medical humanities.” -- Amy Cooper * Somatosphere *“Others have studied the Cuban health system, but no one has delved into the political dynamics of Cuba’s universal health provision in the way that Brotherton has…. [T]his study… is an enormous contribution to our understandings of a tumultuous period of Cuban life and demonstrates the power of ethnographic analysis to those outside anthropology who belatedly discover Brotherton’s excellent analysis.” -- Thomas F. Carter * Anthropological Quarterly *“Brotherton’s book is a comprehensive, engaging, and original account of the health landscape in Cuba from the outset of the ‘Special Period’ of the 1990s...This intriguing book, over a decade in the making, is worthy of the time invested in it--it makes a valuable contribution to the literature on health in Cuba.” -- Elizabeth Kath * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *“Brotherton’s work has an important place within Cuban studies literature for two reasons. First, his attention to detail is phenomenal . . . The second important reason is that voices of dissent against the Cuban system, or against any system, are imperative for furthering our understanding of how policies and programs can shape the lived experiences of individuals.” -- Robert Huish * Anthropos *“The book is based on more than 10 years of intermittent fieldwork and hundreds of interviews with medical professionals and patients. This wealth of ethnographic material is channeled into a fluent analysis that makes it an exceptional read…. The monograph possesses a literary quality (i.e. it is highly descriptive and showcases wonderfully compelling stories), provides plenty of complementary visual material, and it reads well despite the theoretical depth.” -- Karina Vasilevska * Anthropological Notebooks *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix List of Tables xi Prologue xiii Preface. An Ethnography of Contradictions xv Acknowledgments xxv Introduction. Bodies in States of Crisis 1 Part I. Biopolitics in the Special Period 13 1. The Biopolitics of Health 15 2. Expanding Therapeutic Itineraries 35 Part II. Socialist Governmentality, Public Health, and Risk 55 3. Medicalized Subjectivities 57 4. Curing the Social Ills of Society 84 5. Preventive Strategies and Productive Bodies 111 Part III. We Have to Think Like Capitalists but Continue Being Socialists 145 6. Turismo y Salud, S.A.: The Rise of Socialist Entrepreneurs 147 7. My Doctor Keeps the Lights On 169 Conclusion. Bodies Entangled in History 182 Coda 191 Notes 193 Bibliography 219 Index 245

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Book SynopsisThis volume examines the power that can be imposed, and the misery that is caused, especially for the poor, by the simple act of waiting. Although set in Buenos Aires, Auyero describes a variety of different situations, including waiting for national identity cards, for welfare agencies, and the endless waiting for relocation from the slums.Trade Review“...this [book] is a careful and beautifully written ethnographicinvestigation of the contours of ordinary people’s lives underneoliberalism in Argentina.” - Gianpaolo Baiocchi, American Journal of Sociology“Patients of the State is an insightful and long-overdue exploration of how the worst Latin American welfare programs reinforce powerlessness and subcitizenship even as they sporadically relieve economic misery. Vividly describing the phenomenally cavalier ways in which the governmental agencies of Buenos Aires waste poor people’s time and resources, Javier Auyero calls attention to the insidious violence of systems that sap political initiative and hobble complex and delicate urban survival strategies. With this study, he has once again opened new pathways for the study of contemporary Latin American poverty.”—Brodwyn Fischer, author of A Poverty of Rights: Citizenship and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Rio de Janeiro“In this brilliant, insightful, and sensitive investigation, Javier Auyero brings careful ethnographic research to bear on the routine temporal experiences of people who seek help and social services from the state. In doing so, he shows us how the state constructs political dominance through the control of its citizens’ time and temporal experience. By making the urban poor wait for whatever they need, the state creates subordination and political resignation. Patients of the State will have a major impact on scholarly and public discourse; it helps us see what is happening to millions of people around the world.”—Michael G. Flaherty, author of The Textures of Time: Agency and Temporal Experience"Patients of the State shines in providing empiricalevidence in support of the importance of waiting for understanding the ways in which power and domination are played out in practice in the relations between the urban poor and the front-line bureaucrats of the state.... [It] shines in providing empirical in support of the importance of waiting for understanding the ways in which power and domination are played out in practice in the relations between the urban poor and the front-line bureaucrats of the state." -- Marcela López Levy * Journal of Latin American Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction. Tempography: Waiting Now and Then 1 1. The Time of the Denizens 23 2. Urban Relegation and Forms of Regulation Poverty 36 3. Poor People's Waiting: Speeding Up Time, but Still Waiting 64 4. The Welfare Office 92 5. Periculum in Mora: Flammable Revisited 128 Conclusion 153 Epilogue 162 Methodological Appendix 165 Notes 169 Works Cited 175 Index 191

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Book SynopsisLynn Stephen uses the Oaxaca social movement of 2006 to illustrate how oral testimony is central to rights-claiming, participatory democracy, knowledge creation, and the production of new political subjects in contemporary social movements.Trade Review"We Are the Face of Oaxaca is a magnificent book. A model of engaged scholarship and the best work yet by Lynn Stephen, it is an original analysis of the massive popular rebellion in Oaxaca, Mexico, during 2006–07. Given her deep, long-term ties to Oaxacans in both Mexico and the United States, Stephen is uniquely positioned to analyze the social movement and the significance of participants' testimonials in its production and reception."—Patricia Zavella, author of I'm Neither Here nor There: Mexicans' Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty"Given the new visibility of protest, Lynn Stephen's fascinating book offers a valuable opportunity to understand how protest movements work at the grass roots. This ethnography of the Oaxacan protest of 2006 focuses on testimony: the performed, embodied act of telling a story. Protesters’ courageous testimonies broadcast over the radio made a difference. The book and its website with recordings provide a wonderful opportunity to hear the testimonies of those with courage to speak."—Sally Engle Merry, author of Human Rights and Gender Violence: Translating International Law into Local Justice“We Are the Face of Oaxaca is well suited for upper- or graduate-level courses, and is supported by the web site contents which are a welcome additions for interactive teaching. The work is unique in that the author has a personally informed view of the area of study and was able to capture testimonies and events on video and tape to create the book’s accompanying web site. . . . We are the Face of Oaxaca is an engaged ethnography that represents what the struggle was about, the voice of the people.” -- Paulette F. Steeves * North American Dialogue *“The analysis of testimony and human rights is valuable well beyond the case of Oaxaca. Woven throughout the text are segments of testimonies from the activists involved in the APPO, and links to a bilingual website containing video clips, maps, and photos, which will be particularly useful for university classes. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” -- C. M. Kovic * Choice *"Readers who are familiar with conditions in Oaxaca as well as those who were unaware of recent events will appreciate Stephen’s masterful weaving of scholarship in English and Spanish to provide a concise yet probing summary of 50 years of social unrest across a diverse state." -- Jayne Howell * Journal of Anthropological Research *“This work will be of upmost interest to the numerous anthropologists and other researchers who work in Oaxaca, from senior scholars to aspiring graduate students. It will also appeal to scholars of social movements, human rights, and testimony. Nevertheless, others seeking critical perspectives on the political terrain and social unrest that constantly threaten to destabilize the multicultural tourist fantasyland promoted by the Oaxacan state will also benefit from this well-written ethnography.” -- Ronda Brulotte * American Anthropologist *“Through the lens of oral history, Stephen offers a new way of looking at how the state engages with native peoples. . . . [T]his rich and innovative book offers an incredible contribution to social movement literature. It will be of interest to activists and scholars alike.” -- Kathleen M. McIntyre * The Latin Americanist *“While Oaxacan journalists and scholars have published articles and anthologies about the 2006 movement, We Are the Face of Oaxaca is the most important English language study on the movement to date. The pages of this book are seeped with the insights of a distinguished scholar with years of fieldwork and personal ties to Oaxacan transnational communities.” -- Luis Sánchez-López * Biography *“[A] good book is one that provokes thought, new questions, and new research. Lynn Stephen’s book chronicles one of the most important contemporary Latin American social movements and raises many questions key to their analysis. For that she is deserving of much praise and a wide readership.” -- Howard Campbell * The Americas *"This book contains a new and important analysis of social movements, emphasizing the way contemporary heterogeneous movements are organized and what their impact can be, especially bringing those on the margins to the center and creating multiple political subjects. This book is a model of the kind of engaged anthropology that is the future of our discipline." -- Louise Lamphere * North American Dialogue *“[Stephen] presents many of the testimonials in relatively unvarnished form so as to allow activists to speak for themselves and to come alive to an enlarged audience…. It is this kind of innovative ethnographic approach and politically engaged scholarship that marks this book as an important work that will be of interest to scholars studying social movements within Mexico and around the world.” -- Rick López * Hispanic American Historical Review *"Few scholars are better qualified than is Stephen to write about the arc of social protest that led to the formation of APPO, and its eventual unraveling." -- Marc Becker * Latin American Research Review *Table of ContentsMaps, Illustrations, and Videoclips vii Acronyms and Abbreviations xi About the Website xv Acknowledgments xvii 1. Testimony: Human Rights, and Social Movements 1 2. Histories and Movements: Antecedents to the Social Movement of 2006 36 3. The Emergence of the APPO and the 2006 Oaxaca Social Movement 66 4. Testimony and Human Rights Violations in Oaxaca 95 5. Community and Indigenous Radio in Oaxaca: Testimony and Participatory Democracy 121 6. The Women's Takeover of Media in Oaxaca: Gendered Rights "to Speak" and "to Be Heard" 145 7. The Economics and Politics of Conflict: Perspectives from Oaxacan Artisans, Merchants, and Business Owners 178 8. In Indigenous Activism: The Triqui Autonomous Municipality, APPO Juxtlahuaca, and Transborder Organizing in AAPO-L.A. 209 9. From Barricades to Autonomy and Art: Youth Organizing in Oaxaca 245 Conclusions 276 Notes 289 Bibliography 303 Index 323

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Book SynopsisArt historian Krista Thompson analyzes photographic practices in the Caribbean and the United States to show how African diasporic youth use the process of creating images to represent themselves in the public sphere and to communicate with other Afro-diasporic communities.Trade Review"Thompson’s study of light is nuanced and generative. . . . the structure of each section encourages the reader to embrace a protean reading practice, one that resists firmly embracing a single understanding of light, and of its affects and effects. The result is a powerful project that stands to impact multiple fields, while at the same time challenging how we see and understand black visual practices. In the end, Shine succeeds in reconstituting the very terms of photography and visual technology and their role in the diaspora." -- Autumn Marie Womack * SX Salon *"Shine provides important illumination; it shows that nonelite culture holds up to serious academic scrutiny. Particularly given their reach and popularity, the practices Thompson brings to light cannot go overlooked and unanalyzed." -- John A. Tyson * CAA Reviews *"Ultimately, Shine is a useful application of tools from the field of art history to popular culture and presentation of self in the technological age.... Cultural anthropologists, sociologists specializing in cultural aspects of race and ethnicity, and scholars of media would find this text a valuable read." -- Deinya Phenix * Visual Studies *"Shine, by Krista Thompson, presents a compelling investigation into the transnational aesthetics of hip-hop, bridging distinct visual practices, artistic forms, and modes of visibility in the African diaspora. Situating her work within art history, Thompson provides rich, multisited ethnographic research that spans the United States, Jamaica, and the Bahamas, allowing her to interrogate the intersecting cultures, histories, and media flows of the geopolitical region known as the circum-Caribbean. From street photography in New York to Jamaican dancehall videos, Thompson brings into dialogue disparate visual and embodied practices to provide a thought-provoking study on the mediation of the African diaspora in the circum-Caribbean." -- Eryn Snyder Berger * American Anthropologist *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ixAcknowledgments xvIntroduction. Of Shine, Bling, and Bixels 11. "Keep It Real": Street Photography, Public Visibility, and Afro-Modernity 472. Video Light: Dancehall and the Aesthetics of Spectacular Un-visibility in Jamaica 1123. Shine, Shimmer, and Splendor: African Diasporic Aesthetics and the Art of Being Seen in the Bahamas 1694. The Sound of Light: Reflections on Art History in the Visual Culture of Hip-Hop 215Notes 271Bibliography 317Index 335

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Book SynopsisContaining over one hundred selections—many of which appear in English for the first time—this extensively revised and expanded second edition of the bestselling Brazil Reader presents the lived experience of Brazilians from all social and economic classes, racial backgrounds, genders, and political perspectives over the past half-millennia.Trade Review"Now in its second edition, The Brazil Reader is much more than just an update; it is essentially a different volume. . . . This edition features a Brazilian historiographical influence that prioritizes documents written by Brazilian historical figures over those by foreign observers. This edition also has added attention to earlier historical periods that are imperative to understanding modern Brazil. More focus is given to recent views on race, gender, and culture. A suggestion to librarians: do not deselect the first edition. The differences between the two volumes merit keeping both. Essential. All levels." -- M. L. Grover * Choice *“The editors’ language and writing style is accessible to most readers and each section and chapter is expertly explained and outlined. . . . It should become a must-read volume for undergraduate and graduate students of Brazil, as well as the general public who are also interested in Brazil.” -- Alan P. Marcus * Journal of Latin American Geography *“The Brazil Reader . . . weaves the histories of blackness, indigeneity, and mestiçagem into the national narrative, and this alone makes the book a welcome contribution.” -- Theodore W. Cohen * Latin American Research Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xv Introduction 1 I. Conquest and Colonial Rule, 1500-1579 1 II. Sugar and Slavery in the Atlantic World, 1580-1694 49 III. Gold and the New Colonial Order, 1695-1807 91 IV. The Portuguese Royal Family in Rio de Janeiro, 1801-1821 131 V. From Independence to the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1822-1850 163 VI. Coffee, the Empire, and Abolition, 1851-1888 205 VII. Republican Brazil and the Onset of Modernization, 1889-1929 261 VIII. Getúlio Vargas, the Estado Novo, and World War II, 1930-1945 321 IX. Democratic Governance and Developmentalism, 1946-1964 363 X. The Generals in Power and the Fight for Democracy, 1964-1985 427 XI. Redemocratization and the New Global Economy, 1895-Present 497 Suggestions for Further Reading 547 Brazil in the Movies 557 Acknowledgments of Copyrights and Sources 567 Index 577

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Book SynopsisThis textbook offers the most comprehensive introduction to Central Asia available.

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Book SynopsisA cultural imaginary is a structuring space through which collective understandings of cultural and society phenomena are formed, reproduced, and accepted as the norm.

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Book SynopsisFocuses on expressions of popular culture among blacks in Africa, the United States, and the Carribean. Fifteen essays cover a world of topics, from American girls' Double Dutch games to protest discourse in Ghana; from the history of Rasta to the evolving significance of kente cloth from rap video music to hip-hop to zouk.

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Book SynopsisThis innovative collection features studies of iconography in Mexico, telenovelas in Venezuela, drama in Chile, cinema in Brazil, comic strips and tango in Argentina, and ceramics in Peru. From the studies of these popular arts the idea of nationality in Latin America is revealed to be a problematic, divided one, worthy of further study.

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Book SynopsisA group of Jamaican entrepreneurs saw its potential and began to cultivate a tourism psychology which has led, more than one hundred years later, to an economy dependent upon the tourist industry.Trade ReviewPresents a complex analysis of the development of the Jamaican tourist Industry, combining economics with political and cultural history - Cilacs/Rcelac

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Book SynopsisRepositions Peruvian indigenismo as a discourse of and about modernity, in which the movement's artists and intellectuals used the figure of the Indian to mobilize larger questions about becoming modern.Trade ReviewA much-needed work on the cultural, aesthetic, and political dimensions of Peruvian indigenismo, arguably one of the most important and influential trends to have emerged in Latin America during the first half of the twentieth century. The analysis is solid, thorough, and convincing. - Carlos Aguirre, University of Oregon ""The Andes Imagined offers a fresh perspective on how Andean intellectuals responded to modernization in the early twentieth century. Relying on substantial research and engaged analysis, Coronado's insightful study provides a needed reaffirmation of the vitality and diversity of Peruvian thought during this period."" - Estelle Tarica, University of California, Berkeley

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Book SynopsisActing as an important historical archive for the Jews of Eastern Europe, The Rise of Modern Yiddish Culture examines the progress of Yiddish culture from its origins in Tsarist and inter-war Poland to its apex with the founding of the Yiddish Scientific Institute in 1925.Trade Review"Fishman's no-nonsense account of modern Yiddish and twentieth-century Jewish schisms... eschews the nostalgia and sentimentality associated with Yiddish, and gives a vivid picture of how Yiddish and Yiddish literature were promoted by even the socialist and anti-Zionist Bundists as a means of preserving Jewishness." - International Jerusalem Post "Yiddish was above all a language of the people... Hebrew was the tongue of traditional Jewish learning... German, Polish and Russian, by contrast, offered the Jews a way from isolation to assimilation, cultural as much as linguistic. These multiple associations are all incisively reconstructed and investigated in Fishman's The Rise of Modern Yiddish Culture.... It gives a vivid sense of a language that flourished in the first decades of the twentieth century." - London Review of Books "This book can be warmly recommended not only to students of East European Jewish history and culture but also to all those interested in the ways in which language intersects with nationalism." - Jews in Russia and East Europe "Fishman has a terrific command of the subject and utilizes a wealth of primary sources to flesh out some of the pivotal turning points in the growth of modern Yiddish culture.... [His] book is a solid and much needed contribution to serious scholarship." - Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies"

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Book SynopsisAn international group of writers explore conceptualizations of what defined "East" and "West" in Eastern Europe, imperial Russia, and the Soviet Union. The contributors analyze the effects of transnational interactions on ideology, politics, and cultural production.

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Book SynopsisRickert develops the concept of ambience to engage all of the elements that comprise the ecologies in which we exist.

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Book SynopsisProvides a comprehensive ethnography of writing in the Andes, and details the relationship between Andean peoples' struggle to preserve their indigenous textual forms in the face of Western cirricula, with their struggle for land and power.

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Book SynopsisIn Plateau Indian Ways with Words, Barbara Monroe makes visible the arts of persuasion of the Plateau Indians, whose ancestral grounds stretch from the Cascades to the Rockies, revealing a chain of cultural identification that predates the colonial period and continues to this day.

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Book SynopsisNew in Paper Janet Carey Eldred examines the rise of women magazine editors during the mid-twentieth century and reveals their unheralded role in creating a literary aesthetic for the American public.

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Book SynopsisAngel Rama (1926-1983) is a major figure in Latin American literary and cultural studies, but little has been published on his critical work.

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Book SynopsisModernity at Gunpoint provides the first study of the political and cultural significance of weaponry in the context of major armed conflicts in Mexico and Central America.Trade ReviewModernity at Gunpoint is a unique and groundbreaking study on the culture of guns and the way in which material objects and the imagination about them contribute to discussions of gender, politics, and ideology. This is a rare book that organically understands the shared and diverging histories of Mexico and Central America, in ways that have been rendered urgent by new migration and economic patterns."" - Ignacio M. Sanchez Prado, Washington University, St. Louis""To the saying that ‘war is the continuation of politics by other means,' Foucault replied that ‘power is the continuation of war by other means.' Esch shows that, in the context of Mexican and Central American modern history, both sayings are relevant. Brilliantly argued, and using the rifle as a symbolic tool, she produces a striking new image of these cultures."" - Jorge Aguilar Mora, University of Maryland

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Book SynopsisFrom the late 1940s to the early 1960s, Puerto Rico was swept by a wave of modernization, transforming the island from a predominantly rural society to an unquestionably urban one. By examining a wide range of cultural texts, Concrete and Countryside offers an in-depth analysis of how Puerto Ricans responded to this transformative period.Trade ReviewConcrete and Countryside represents a valuable, much-welcomed intervention and contribution to cultural studies, Latin American and Caribbean studies, Puerto Rican studies, and literary studies in general. Esterrich's work is theoretically and methodologically sound."" - Agustin Lao-Montes, University of Massachusetts-Amherst""A timely project, well-conceived and executed. General readers as well as specialists will be able to navigate this text."" - Jason Cortes, Rutgers University-Newark

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the role of vision and the culture of observation in Victorian and modernist ways of seeing. Willis charts the characterization of vision through four organizing principles—small, large, past and future—to survey Victorian conceptions of what vision was.Trade ReviewProvides a fresh account of modern visualities in the overlap between scientific and literary cultures . . . the book abounds with incisive readings and innovative conjunctions."" - —Victorian Studies""A highly original work and a landmark study whose impact is likely to be long lasting."" - —European Society for the Study of English""The history and philosophy of science merge seamlessly with literary studies in this intelligently crafted study of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century vision. By comparing literary and scientific narratives of visual technologies, Willis uncovers cultural assumptions about the way knowledge works. He stands out as an interdisciplinary scholar who analyzes literature as a source as well as a recipient of learning."" - Laura Otis, Emory University""In explaining the role played by literary narratives in the history of science, and specifically in the visual culture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Willis shows both scientists and novelists at their most human, both driven by wonder and rigor, method and imagination."" - —Review 19""The interdisciplinary study of science and science fiction would do well to pursue the combination of archival research with engagement in current debates on the history of scientific culture that Willis exemplifies."" - —Science Fiction Studies

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Book SynopsisAn encounter with historic and contemporary Naples, in which it presents itself as an irresolvable paradox: acity in economic and political decline, despite its revival in the 1990s, that, nonetheless, produces a vital and profound intellectual life and a brilliant and exuberant artistic, literary and urban culture.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface Returning to the Broken Fountain: Omaggio a Thomas Belmonte Theresa Aiello Foreword The Irresolvable Paradox: Essaying Naples Pellegrino D’Acierno and Stanislao Pugliese Introduction Naples as Chaosmos or, The City That Makes You Repeat Its Discourse Pellegrino D’Acierno LEARNING FROM CONTEMPORARY NAPLES/WRITING AS A NEAPOLITAN 1. Napòlide: A Man Without Naples Erri de Luca 2. Scuorno (Vergogna) Francesco Durante THE VIEW FROM AMERICA 3. Naples/New York: Across the Watery Divide B. Amore 4. Auratic Detritus/Sublime Trash: “Rough Magic” or, The Art of Transfiguration in B. Amore’s Naples/New York Installation Pellegrino D’Acierno 5. One Early Twenty-First Century Summer in Naples: A Personal Essay John Domini 6. Investigating Gilda Mignonette as a “Newpolitan” Approach to Popular Culture Simona Frasca 7. Go Make Naples: New Perspectives from Italian American Artists Fred Gardaphé 8. You Want To Be Americano? Robert Zweig HISTORY, MEMORY & MERCY 9. Words in Journey: Echoes From Pompeii Angelo Cannavacciuolo 10. One of These Days Ilaria Marchesi and Simone Marchesi 11. Mediterranean Crossroads: Naples as a Model of South-Centric Cosmopolitanism Patrizia La Trecchia 12. The Form and Language of the Neapolitan Baroque Nick Napoli 13. The Sansevero Chapel: A Case Study of the Neapolitan Enlightenment Salvatore Napolitano 14. Caravaggio’s Mercy in Naples Terence Ward MALANAPOLI: FROM THE LAZARONITUM TO GOMORRAH/CAMORRA 15. Il Paradiso Abitato da Diavoli: Naples as the Obscure Object of Discourse Pellegrino D’Acierno 16. The Contact Zone: Where Organized Crime and Everyday Life Meet Jason Pine 17. Gomorrah: The Rest of the Story Valerio Caprara WRITING & SINGING NAPLES 18. Anna Maria Ortese: Breaking the Spell of Naples? Andrea Baldi 19. Filumena Marturano: Eduardo De Filippo’s Beloved Whore Rose De Angelis 20. Matilde Serao’s Art of Numbers: Naples and the Game of Lotto Gabriella Romani 21. Opera and the Classical Tradition in Naples Joseph Rescigno 22. Poetry Charles Sant’Elia 23. Evoking Naples in a Story and a Story About Stories Gioia Timpanelli OMAGGI, or PAROLE d’AMMORE 24. Tributes to Shirley Hazzard Joseph Connors and Jonathan Galassi 25. A Tribute to John Turturro’s Passione Stanislao Pugliese 26. A Celluloid Tribute to Thomas Belmonte Pellegrino D’Acierno CONTRIBUTORS

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Book SynopsisTraces the story of India's expansion that is woven into the culture of Southeast Asia.Trade ReviewCoedes will long be honored and remembered for the achievement and the inspiration of his scholarship, so splendidly embodied in this work." —Pacific Affairs

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Book SynopsisAn exploration of the rich complexity of the worship of the deity Inari in contemporary Japan. The work covers institutional and popular power in religion, the personal meaningfulness of religious figures and the communicative styles that preserve homogeneity in the face of factionalism.

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Book SynopsisAn introduction to Japanese history and culture. This fourth edition includes expanded sections on numerous topics, among which are samurai values, Zen Buddhism, the tea ceremony, Confucianism in the Tokugawa period, the story of the 47 ronin, and mass culture in contemporary times.Trade ReviewThough many books on Japanese culture have appeared in recent years, none has yet matched Varley's for the combined breadth and depth of detail and for his skill at conjuring up the zeitgeist of each period of Japanese history.- New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies;""This is a masterpiece of much in little space. It neatly surveys over 2,000 years of the arts, religion, and cultural peculiarities (e.g., the tea ceremony) of one of the most cultivated of nations. It leaves virtually no major individual, religious sect, genre and style of visual art, form of literary expression, variety of theater, or influence of extra-Japanese origin unconsidered. It nonetheless admirably retains its focus, ignoring the temptation to relate history that doesn't impinge on cultural developments. What's more, Varley writes superbly lucid prose. . . . A superior one-volume introduction to Japanese culture.""- Booklist

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Book SynopsisLords of Things offers an interpretation of modernity in late 19th and early 20th century Siam by focusing on the novel material possessions and social practices adopted by the royal elite to refashion itself and its public image in the early stages of globalization.

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Book SynopsisCraig Clunas analyses ‘superfluous things’ - the paintings, calligraphy, bronzes, ceramics, carved jade, and other objects owned by the elites of Ming China - and describes contemporary attitudes to them. He informs his discussions with reference to both socio-cultural theory and current debates on eighteenth-century England concerning luxury, conspicuous consumption, and the growth of the consumer society.

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Book SynopsisThis in-depth exploration of culture, media, and protest follows South Korea's transition from the Korean War to the political struggles and socioeconomic transformations of the Park Chung Hee era. Charles Kim explores how state ideologues and mainstream intellectuals expanded their efforts by elevating the nation's youth as the core protagonist of a newly independent Korea.

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Book SynopsisDrawing on a decade of ethnographic research on the Philippine island of Siquijor, this volume explores myths, meanings, and practices of development and its counterparts, progress and modernization. It does so not only by considering development as planned, community-wide interventions aimed at society-wide improvements in living standards, but by recognizing that development is personal.

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Book SynopsisOffers a wide-ranging account of how women writers have made sense (and nonsense) of pregnancy in postwar Japan. In her fascinating study, Amanda C. Seaman introduces readers to a body of work notable for the wide range of genres employed by its authors, the many political, personal, and social concerns informing it, and the diverse creative approaches contained therein.

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Book SynopsisIn its role as a scriptural charter, vinaya has justified widely dissimilar approaches to religious life as Buddhist orders in different times and places have interpreted it in contradictory ways. Going Forth focuses on these issues over a wide sweep of history, from early fifth-century China to modern Japan.

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Book SynopsisIlluminates how Bosnian migrant and diaspora scholars are contributing to the development of Bosnian Studies. The authors included in this volume are either writing from their (new) home bases in Australia, Austria, Canada, Switzerland, the UK, and the US, among others, or they have returned to Bosnia after a period of migration.Trade Review“The cruelty of war, the horror of genocide, and the suffering of displacement ruptured Bosnian society. This volume gathers together studies specifically by Bosnian scholars on that rupture and its aftermath. It examines a Bosnia that is local, in-between and global, a society scarred by war legacies but resilient, a culture enriching the world as it writes through its experiences. These are Bosnian studies for us all.”—Gerard Toal, Virginia Tech, Co-author of Bosnia Remade: Ethnic Cleansing and Its Reversal“This is an outstanding collection of thoughtful and deeply researched essays on diaspora, ethnicity, and politics in the contemporary Balkans. The volume stands as a very valuable synthesis of interdisciplinary scholarship that outlines and expands what ‘Bosnian Studies’ means today.” —Edin Hajdarpasic, Associate Professor of History, Loyola University Chicago, author of Whose Bosnia? Nationalism and Political Imagination in the Modern Balkans“Karabegovic and Karamehic-Oates make a compelling, if not obvious case for the emergent scholarly field in Bosnian Studies. Ironically, without the tragic and violent breakup of the former Yugoslavia, 'Bosnian Studies' as a concept may have never emerged. Genocide and the study of human rights are indeed a cornerstone to the establishment of this field of research distinctively intertwined with the study of diaspora experiences in all its realms. Bosnian Studies also makes a case for scholarly research in this burgeoning field through the lens of sociology, anthropology and psychology, which has been thus far dominated by political scientists and historians.”—Tanya Domi, Columbia University and the former Spokesperson of the OSCE Mission to BiH“Speaking as a genocide studies scholar, I found this collection of essays brilliant, beautifully written, and unlike anything I have ever read.”—Douglas Irvin-Erickson, George Mason University, author of RaphaËl Lemkin and the Concept of Genocide“Using a multitude of different methodologies, positionalities, scales, themes, and voices, the contributors to Bosnian Studies each uniquely show what an academic and personal commitment to a place—Bosnia and Herzegovina—looks like, feels like, and moves like.”—Azra Hromadžić, Syracuse University, author of Citizens of an Empty Nation: Youth and State-Making in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina

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Book SynopsisIlluminates how Bosnian migrant and diaspora scholars are contributing to the development of Bosnian Studies. The authors included in this volume are either writing from their (new) home bases in Australia, Austria, Canada, Switzerland, the UK, and the US, among others, or they have returned to Bosnia after a period of migration.Trade Review“The cruelty of war, the horror of genocide, and the suffering of displacement ruptured Bosnian society. This volume gathers together studies specifically by Bosnian scholars on that rupture and its aftermath. It examines a Bosnia that is local, in-between and global, a society scarred by war legacies but resilient, a culture enriching the world as it writes through its experiences. These are Bosnian studies for us all.”—Gerard Toal, Virginia Tech, Co-author of Bosnia Remade: Ethnic Cleansing and Its Reversal“This is an outstanding collection of thoughtful and deeply researched essays on diaspora, ethnicity, and politics in the contemporary Balkans. The volume stands as a very valuable synthesis of interdisciplinary scholarship that outlines and expands what ‘Bosnian Studies’ means today.” —Edin Hajdarpasic, Associate Professor of History, Loyola University Chicago, author of Whose Bosnia? Nationalism and Political Imagination in the Modern Balkans“Karabegovic and Karamehic-Oates make a compelling, if not obvious case for the emergent scholarly field in Bosnian Studies. Ironically, without the tragic and violent breakup of the former Yugoslavia, 'Bosnian Studies' as a concept may have never emerged. Genocide and the study of human rights are indeed a cornerstone to the establishment of this field of research distinctively intertwined with the study of diaspora experiences in all its realms. Bosnian Studies also makes a case for scholarly research in this burgeoning field through the lens of sociology, anthropology and psychology, which has been thus far dominated by political scientists and historians.”—Tanya Domi, Columbia University and the former Spokesperson of the OSCE Mission to BiH“Speaking as a genocide studies scholar, I found this collection of essays brilliant, beautifully written, and unlike anything I have ever read.”—Douglas Irvin-Erickson, George Mason University, author of RaphaËl Lemkin and the Concept of Genocide“Using a multitude of different methodologies, positionalities, scales, themes, and voices, the contributors to Bosnian Studies each uniquely show what an academic and personal commitment to a place—Bosnia and Herzegovina—looks like, feels like, and moves like.”—Azra Hromadžić, Syracuse University, author of Citizens of an Empty Nation: Youth and State-Making in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina

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Trade ReviewIt's fascinating to read this alternative history of pop music, as Land of a Thousand Dances offers a wealth of anecdotes, interviews, and facts that have never been so meticulously documented. The book helps fill one of the biggest gaps in the rock timeline, ensuring that rock 'n' roll's Chicano roots will not be forgotten. - A. V. Club ""Authors [David] Reyes and [Tom] Waldman give a flavorful overview of the ever-changing East L.A. scene.... They note that barrio culture, which so richly intertwines American and Mexican traditions, has given rise to groups who move through many different types of music with ease, as well as the type of fans who can appreciate them all."" - Raza Report ""[Land of a Thousand Dances] is written with insight and intelligence and I highly recommend it."" - Mark Guerro, member of Mark & the Escorts, Tango, and Radio Aztlan For this edition, the authors have written a new introduction.

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