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Memory, Subjectivities, and Representation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 256

Memory, Subjectivities, and Representation

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-04-29
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  • Publisher: Springer

This collection presents diverse scholarly approaches to oral narratives in the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking worlds. Eleven essays, originally written in Spanish, Portuguese, and English, coalesce around major themes that have long concerned oral historians and social scientists: collective memories of conflictive national pasts, subjectivity in re/framing social identities, and visual and performative re/presentations of identity and public memory.

The Churches and Democracy in Brazil
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 387

The Churches and Democracy in Brazil

Brazil is a rapidly emerging country. Brazilian theology, namely the Theology of Liberation, has become well known in the 1970s and 1980s. The politically active Base Ecclesial Communities and the progressive posture of the Roman Catholic Church contrasted with a steadily growing number of evangelicals, mostly aligned with the military regime but attractive precisely to the poor. After democratic transition in the mid-1980s, the context changed considerably. Democracy, growing religious pluralism and mobility, a vibrant civil society, the political ascension of the Worker's Party and growing wealth, albeit within a continuously wide social gap, are some of the elements that show the need of ...

The Cambridge World History of Sexualities: Volume 4, Modern Sexualities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 787

The Cambridge World History of Sexualities: Volume 4, Modern Sexualities

Volume IV examines the intersections of modernity and human sexuality through the forces, ideas, and events that have shaped the modern world. Through eighteen chapters, this volume examines connections between sexuality and the defining forces of modern global history including capitalism, colonialism, migration, consumerism, and war; sexuality in modern literature and print media; sexuality in dictatorships and democracies; and cultural changes such as sex education and the sexual revolution. The volume ends with discussions of the difficult issues we in the modern world continue to face, such as restrictions on reproductive rights, sex tourism, STDs and AIDS, sex trafficking, domestic violence, and illiberal attacks on sexuality.

Gendering the Portuguese-Speaking World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 300

Gendering the Portuguese-Speaking World

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-05-25
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This book explores the significance of gender in shaping the Portuguese-speaking world from the Middle Ages to the present. Sixteen scholars from disciplines including history, sociology, anthropology, linguistics, literature and cultural studies analyse different configurations and literary representations of women's rights and patriarchal constraints. Unstable constructions of masculinity, femininity, queer, homosexual, bisexual, and transgender identities and behaviours are placed in historical context. The volume pioneers in gendering the Portuguese expansion in Africa, Asia, and the New World and pays particular attention to an inclusive account of indigenous agencies. Contributors are: Darlene Abreu-Ferreira, Vanda Anastácio, Francisco Bethencourt, Dorothée Boulanger, Rosa Maria dos Santos Capelão, Maria Judite Mário Chipenembe, Gily Coene, Philip J. Havik, Ben James, Anna M. Klobucka, Chia Longman, Amélia Polónia, Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues, Isabel dos Guimarães Sá, Ana Cristina Santos, and João Paulo Silvestre.

Sustainable water management in the tropics and subtropics - and case studies in Brazil. Vl. 2
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 683
Sustainable water management in the tropics and subtropics - and case studies in Brazil. Vl.1
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1282
The Practice of Politics in Postcolonial Brazil
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 281

The Practice of Politics in Postcolonial Brazil

The Practice of Politics in Postcolonial Brazil traces the history of high and low politics in nineteenth-century Brazil from the vantage point of the provincial capital of Porto Alegre. In the immediate postcolonial period, new ideas about citizenship and freedom were developing, and elites struggled for control of the state as the lower classes sought inclusion in political life. In a shift from the Liberal Party to Positivist or Conservative rule during the bloody Federalist Revolt of 1893-1895, new leaders sought to bring about a more balanced structure of government where the capitalist was sympathetic to the worker, and the worker more passive toward the elite. This represented a compl...

Slavery and Slaving in World History: A Bibliography, 1900-91: v. 1
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1313

Slavery and Slaving in World History: A Bibliography, 1900-91: v. 1

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-07-23
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This bibliography of 20th century literature focuses on slavery and slave-trading from ancient times through the 19th century. It contains over 10,000 entries, with the principal sections organizing works by the political/geographical frameworks of the enslavers.

Partidos y padrones del obispado de Michoacán, 1680-1685
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 568

Partidos y padrones del obispado de Michoacán, 1680-1685

Este volumen presente un embozo de la población y una síntesis de la geografía histórica de todos y cada uno de los partidos de aquel Gran Michoacán que abarcaba los pueblos, villas y ciudades de los actuales estados de Guerrero, Michoacán, Colima y partes de Guanajuato, San Luis Potosí, Jalisco, y Tamaulipas en los años de 1680-1685.

Gender, Law and Material Culture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 306

Gender, Law and Material Culture

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-10-26
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This interdisciplinary volume discusses the division of the early modern material world into the important legal, economic, and personal categories of mobile and immobile property, possession, and the rights to usufruct. The chapters describe and compare different modes of acquisition and intergenerational transfer via law and custom. The varying perspectives, including cultural history, legal history, social and economic history, philosophy, and law, allow for a more nuanced understanding of the links between the movability of an object and the gender of the person who owned, possessed, or used it. Case studies and examples come from a wide geographical range, including Norway, England, Sco...