Interp Culture New Millennium – serie
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27 produkter
Cape Verde, Let's Go
Creole Rappers and Citizenship in Portugal
Av Derek Pardue
Häftad, 2015
339 kr
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Musicians rapping in kriolu--a hybrid of Portuguese and West African languages spoken in Cape Verde--have recently emerged from Lisbon's periphery. They popularize the struggles with identity and belonging among young people in a Cape Verdean immigrant community that shares not only the kriolu …
Kings for Three Days
The Play of Race and Gender in an Afro-Ecuadorian Festival
Inbunden, 2013
1239 kr
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With its rich mix of cultures, European influences, colonial tensions, and migration from bordering nations, Ecuador has long drawn the interest of ethnographers, historians, and political scientists. In this book, Jean Muteba Rahier delivers a highly detailed, thought-provoking examination of the …
Maya Market Women
Power and Tradition in San Juan Chamelco, Guatemala
Inbunden, 2014
1239 kr
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As cultural mediators, Chamelco's market women offer a model of contemporary Q'eqchi' identity grounded in the strength of the Maya historical legacy. Guatemala's Maya communities have faced nearly five hundred years of constant challenges to their culture, from colonial oppression to the …
Embodied Protests
Emotions and Women's Health in Bolivia
Av Maria Tapias
Inbunden, 2015
1275 kr
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Embodied Protests examines how Bolivia's hesitant courtship with globalization manifested in the visceral and emotional diseases that afflicted many Bolivian women. Drawing on case studies conducted among market- and working-class women in the provincial town of Punata, Maria Tapias examines how …
Street Life Under a Roof
Youth Homelessness in South Africa
Inbunden, 2015
1275 kr
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Point Place stands near the city center of Durban, South Africa. Condemned and off the grid, the five-story apartment building is nonetheless home to a hundred-plus teenagers and young adults marginalized by poverty and chronic unemployment. In Street Life under a Roof, Emily Margaretten draws on …
Cape Verde, Let's Go
Creole Rappers and Citizenship in Portugal
Av Derek Pardue
Inbunden, 2015
1275 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Musicians rapping in kriolu--a hybrid of Portuguese and West African languages spoken in Cape Verde--have recently emerged from Lisbon's periphery. They popularize the struggles with identity and belonging among young people in a Cape Verdean immigrant community that shares not only the kriolu …
Street Is My Pulpit
Hip Hop and Christianity in Kenya
Inbunden, 2016
1239 kr
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To some, Christianity and hip hop seem antithetical. Not so in Kenya. There, the music of Julius Owino, aka Juliani, blends faith and beats into a potent hip hop gospel aimed at a youth culture hungry for answers spiritual, material, and otherwise. Mwenda Ntarangwi explores the Kenyan hip hop scene …
Cultural Heritage in Mali in the Neoliberal Era
Inbunden, 2016
1275 kr
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Up to 2012, Mali was a poster child of African democracy, despite multiple signs of growing dissatisfaction with the democratic experiment. Then disaster struck, bringing many of the nation's unresolved contradictions to international attention. A military coup carved off the country's south. A …
Somalis Abroad
Clan and Everyday Life in Finland
Inbunden, 2017
1275 kr
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Drawing on a wealth of ethnographic detail, Stephanie Bjork offers the first study on the messy role of clan or tribe in the Somali diaspora, and the only study on the subject to include women's perspectives. Somalis Abroad illuminates the ways clan is contested alongside ideas of autonomy and …
Hierarchies of Care
Girls, Motherhood, and Inequality in Peru
Inbunden, 2019
1239 kr
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PalomitÁy is an orphanage in highland Peru that provides a home for unmarried mothers as young as twelve years old. In their ordinary lives, these young women encounter diverse social expectations and face moral dilemmas. They endeavor to create a "good life" for themselves and their children in a …
Quinoa
Food Politics and Agrarian Life in the Andean Highlands
Inbunden, 2023
1239 kr
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Quinoa's new status as a superfood has altered the economic fortunes of Quechua farmers in the Andean highlands. Linda J. Seligmann journeys to the Huanoquite region of Peru to track the mixed blessings brought about by the surging worldwide popularity of this "exquisite grain." Focusing on how …
Graceful Resistance
How Capoeiristas Use Their Art for Activism and Community Engagement
Inbunden, 2023
1239 kr
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Capoeira began as a martial art developed by enslaved Afro-Brazilians. Today, the practice incorporates song, dance, acrobatics, and theatrical improvisation-and leads many participants into activism.Lauren Miller Griffith’s extensive participant observation with multiple capoeira groups informs …
Ritual Encounters
Otavalan Modern and Mythic Community
Häftad, 2008
329 kr
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This book examines ritual practices and public festivals in the Otavalo and Cotacachi areas of northern Andean Ecuador's Imbabura province. OtavaleÑos are a unique group in that they maintain their traditional identity but also cultivate a cosmopolitanism through frequent international travel. …
Finding Cholita
Häftad, 2009
346 kr
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Finding Cholita is fictionalized ethnography of the Ayacucho region of Peru covering a thirty-year period from the 1970s to today. It is a story of human tragedy resulting from the region's long history of discrimination, class oppression, and then the rise and fall of the communist organization …
East African Hip Hop
Youth Culture and Globalization
Häftad, 2009
310 kr
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In this book, Mwenda Ntarangwi analyzes how young hip hop artists in the East African nations of Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania showcase the opportunities and challenges brought by the globalization of music. Combining local popular music traditions with American and Jamaican styles of rap, East …
Sarajevo: a Bosnian Kaleidoscope
Häftad, 2010
327 kr
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This fascinating urban anthropological analysis of Sarajevo and its cultural complexities examines contemporary issues of social divisiveness, pluralism, and intergroup dynamics in the context of national identity and state formation. Rather than seeing Bosnia-Herzegovina as a volatile …
Becoming Mapuche
Person and Ritual in Indigenous Chile
Häftad, 2011
325 kr
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Magnus Course blends convincing historical analysis with sophisticated contemporary theory in this superb ethnography of the Mapuche people of southern Chile. Based on many years of ethnographic fieldwork, Becoming Mapuche takes readers to the indigenous reserves where many Mapuche have been forced …
Kings for Three Days
The Play of Race and Gender in an Afro-Ecuadorian Festival
Häftad, 2013
343 kr
Lägg i varukorg
With its rich mix of cultures, European influences, colonial tensions, and migration from bordering nations, Ecuador has long drawn the interest of ethnographers, historians, and political scientists. In this book, Jean Muteba Rahier delivers a highly detailed, thought-provoking examination of the …
Maya Market Women
Power and Tradition in San Juan Chamelco, Guatemala
Häftad, 2014
343 kr
Lägg i varukorg
As cultural mediators, Chamelco's market women offer a model of contemporary Q'eqchi' identity grounded in the strength of the Maya historical legacy. Guatemala's Maya communities have faced nearly five hundred years of constant challenges to their culture, from colonial oppression to the …
Embodied Protests
Emotions and Women's Health in Bolivia
Av Maria Tapias
Häftad, 2015
341 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Embodied Protests examines how Bolivia's hesitant courtship with globalization manifested in the visceral and emotional diseases that afflicted many Bolivian women. Drawing on case studies conducted among market- and working-class women in the provincial town of Punata, Maria Tapias examines how …
Street Life Under a Roof
Youth Homelessness in South Africa
Häftad, 2015
339 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Point Place stands near the city center of Durban, South Africa. Condemned and off the grid, the five-story apartment building is nonetheless home to a hundred-plus teenagers and young adults marginalized by poverty and chronic unemployment. In Street Life under a Roof, Emily Margaretten draws on …
Street Is My Pulpit
Hip Hop and Christianity in Kenya
Häftad, 2016
329 kr
Lägg i varukorg
To some, Christianity and hip hop seem antithetical. Not so in Kenya. There, the music of Julius Owino, aka Juliani, blends faith and beats into a potent hip hop gospel aimed at a youth culture hungry for answers spiritual, material, and otherwise. Mwenda Ntarangwi explores the Kenyan hip hop scene …
Cultural Heritage in Mali in the Neoliberal Era
Häftad, 2016
367 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Up to 2012, Mali was a poster child of African democracy, despite multiple signs of growing dissatisfaction with the democratic experiment. Then disaster struck, bringing many of the nation's unresolved contradictions to international attention. A military coup carved off the country's south. A …
Somalis Abroad
Clan and Everyday Life in Finland
Häftad, 2017
367 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Drawing on a wealth of ethnographic detail, Stephanie Bjork offers the first study on the messy role of clan or tribe in the Somali diaspora, and the only study on the subject to include women's perspectives. Somalis Abroad illuminates the ways clan is contested alongside ideas of autonomy and …
Hierarchies of Care
Girls, Motherhood, and Inequality in Peru
Häftad, 2019
343 kr
Lägg i varukorg
PalomitÁy is an orphanage in highland Peru that provides a home for unmarried mothers as young as twelve years old. In their ordinary lives, these young women encounter diverse social expectations and face moral dilemmas. They endeavor to create a "good life" for themselves and their children in a …
Quinoa
Food Politics and Agrarian Life in the Andean Highlands
Häftad, 2023
329 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Quinoa's new status as a superfood has altered the economic fortunes of Quechua farmers in the Andean highlands. Linda J. Seligmann journeys to the Huanoquite region of Peru to track the mixed blessings brought about by the surging worldwide popularity of this "exquisite grain." Focusing on how …
Graceful Resistance
How Capoeiristas Use Their Art for Activism and Community Engagement
Häftad, 2023
329 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Capoeira began as a martial art developed by enslaved Afro-Brazilians. Today, the practice incorporates song, dance, acrobatics, and theatrical improvisation-and leads many participants into activism.Lauren Miller Griffith’s extensive participant observation with multiple capoeira groups informs …
