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Coping with Poverty: Pentecostals and Christian Base Communities in Brazil
ISBN: 9781566391139 / Angielski / Miękka / 187 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contends that only by understanding the enduring poverty of Brazil can one hope to understand the growth of Protestant evangelical churches there. Using interviews with members and leaders of religious groups, this book investigates how religious groups support individualism and encourage the poor to organize.
Contends that only by understanding the enduring poverty of Brazil can one hope to understand the growth of Protestant evangelical churches there. Usi...
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141,98 |
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Popular Organization and Democracy in Rio de Janeiro: A Tale of Two Favelas
ISBN: 9781566391207 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presents an urban tale of survival, which illustrates two versions of active, organized, aggressive participation in the political process. This book analyzes the favela's different responses to the popular movement that confronted the military in Rio de Janeiro in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Presents an urban tale of survival, which illustrates two versions of active, organized, aggressive participation in the political process. This book ...
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146,88 |
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I Remember Julia: Voices of the Disappeared
ISBN: 9781566394376 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1977 'Julia' became one of the 30,000 victims of Argentina's military dictatorship. Julia was a young physician and mother-to-be kidnapped from a medical clinic and found years later in a clandestine grave along with 334 other corpses. By covering the life of one victim, this book gives voice to the thousands of citizens who were 'disappeared'.
In 1977 'Julia' became one of the 30,000 victims of Argentina's military dictatorship. Julia was a young physician and mother-to-be kidnapped from a m...
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122,40 |
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Borderless Borders
ISBN: 9781566396202 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Latinos in the United States have emerged as strategic actors in major processes of social transformation. This work describes the structural processes and interventions inside and outside US Latino communities. It includes a context-setting introduction, with a focus on four themes, including forms of global and transnational interdependence.
Latinos in the United States have emerged as strategic actors in major processes of social transformation. This work describes the structural processe...
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141,98 |
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Return of Guatemala's Refugees
ISBN: 9781566396226 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On February 13, 1982, the Guatemalan army stormed into the remote northern Guatemala village of Santa Maria Tzeja. This book describes the experiences of the survivors - both those who stayed behind in conditions of savage repression and those who fled to Mexico where they learned to organize and defend their rights.
On February 13, 1982, the Guatemalan army stormed into the remote northern Guatemala village of Santa Maria Tzeja. This book describes the experiences...
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132,18 |
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Seeking Community in a Global City: Guatemalans and Salvadorans in Los Angeles
ISBN: 9781566398688 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Driven by the pressures of poverty and civil strife at home, large numbers of Central Americans came to the Los Angeles area during the 1980's. Neither purely economic migrants, though they were in search of stable work, nor official refugees, although they carried the scars of war and persecution, Guatemalans and Salvadorans were even denied the aid given to refugees such as Cubans and Vietnamese. In addition, these immigrants sought refuge in a city undergoing massive economic and demographic shifts of its own. The result was -- and is -- a complex interaction that will help to...
Driven by the pressures of poverty and civil strife at home, large numbers of Central Americans came to the Los Angeles area during the 1980's. Neithe...
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117,50 |
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Life in Laredo: A Documentary History from the Laredo Archives
ISBN: 9781574411737 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on documents from the Laredo Archives, "Life in Laredo" shows the evolution and development of daily life in a town under the flags of Spain, Mexico, and the United States. Isolated on the northern frontier of New Spain and often forgotten by authorities far away, the people of Laredo became as "grand" as the river that flowed by their town and left an enduring legacy in a world of challenges and changes. Because of its documentary nature, "Life in Laredo" offers insights into the nitty-gritty of the comings and goings of its early citizens not to be found elsewhere.
Robert D. Wood,... Based on documents from the Laredo Archives, "Life in Laredo" shows the evolution and development of daily life in a town under the flags of Spain, Me...
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102,81 |
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Mestizo Democracy: The Politics of Crossing Borders
ISBN: 9781585442089 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It can come as no surprise that the ethnic makeup of the American population is rapidly changing. In this volume, John Francis Burke offers a "mestizo" theory of democracy and traces its implications for public policy.
Mestizo, meaning "mixture, " is a term from the Mexican socio-political experience. It represents a blend of indigenous, African, and Spanish genes and cultures in Latin America. This mixture is not a "melting pot" experience; rather, the influences of the different cultures remain identifiable but influence each other in dynamic ways. Burke analyzes democratic theory and... It can come as no surprise that the ethnic makeup of the American population is rapidly changing. In this volume, John Francis Burke offers a "mestizo...
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166,52 |
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Mestizo Democracy: The Politics of Crossing Borders
ISBN: 9781585443468 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It can come as no surprise that the ethnic makeup of the American population is rapidly changing. That there are political repercussions from these changes is also self-evident. How the changes can, must, and should alter our very understanding of democracy, though, may not be obvious. Political theorist John Burke addresses these issues by offering a "mestizo" theory of democracy and tracing its implications for public policy. The challenge before the United States in the coming century, Burke posits, will be to articulate a politics that neither renders cultures utterly...
It can come as no surprise that the ethnic makeup of the American population is rapidly changing. That there are political repercussions from these ch...
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78,32 |
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Remembering the Hacienda : History and Memory in the Mexican American Southwest
ISBN: 9781585445110 / Angielski / Twarda / 251 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What the plantation has been to the history and literature of the American South, the hacienda has been to Mexico and the American Southwest. In "Remembering the Hacienda", Vincent Perez makes the case that the hacienda offers the emblem of an "antebellum," agrarian social order that predates the United States. It is the site in which the Mexican American community's "heroic," genteel forebears lived in dignity and pride, and it is the heritage from which they were cast out as "orphans," both in mother Mexico by the Revolution and in the American Southwest when the wars of 1836 and 1846-48...
What the plantation has been to the history and literature of the American South, the hacienda has been to Mexico and the American Southwest. In "Reme...
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205,71 |
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Remembering the Hacienda: History and Memory in the Mexican American Southwest
ISBN: 9781585445462 / Angielski / Miękka / 251 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What the plantation has been to the history and literature of the American South, the hacienda has been to Mexico and the American Southwest. In "Remembering the Hacienda", Vincent Perez makes the case that the hacienda offers the emblem of an "antebellum," agrarian social order that predates the United States. It is the site in which the Mexican American community's "heroic," genteel forebears lived in dignity and pride, and it is the heritage from which they were cast out as "orphans," both in mother Mexico by the Revolution and in the American Southwest when the wars of 1836 and 1846-48...
What the plantation has been to the history and literature of the American South, the hacienda has been to Mexico and the American Southwest. In "Reme...
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97,90 |
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Para romper con el insularismo : Letras puertorriquenas en comparacion
ISBN: 9789042020795 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Para romper con el insularismo que ha venido caracterizando la literatura puertorriquena nueve destacados especialistas proponen estudios desde una perspectiva comparatista. Quintuples de Luis Rafael Sanchez entra en dialogo con The Last Carnival de Derek Walcott. Los planteamientos (afro)antillanos de Pales Matos son revisitados en relacion con los de Guillen. Los ensayos de Jose Luis Gonzalez son puestos en relacion con el ideario del pensador dominicano Silvio Torres-Saillant. El cuento 'Cuatro selecciones por una peseta' de Ana Lydia Vega y Carmen Lugo Filippi engendra reflexiones sobre...
Para romper con el insularismo que ha venido caracterizando la literatura puertorriquena nueve destacados especialistas proponen estudios desde una pe...
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505,67 |
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American Encounters: Greater Mexico, the United States, and the Erotics of Culture
ISBN: 9780807002377 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Discusses U.S. and Mexican cultural relations.
Discusses U.S. and Mexican cultural relations.
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119,60 |
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Latin American Popular Culture
ISBN: 9780786435111 / Angielski / Miękka / 207 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book details many aspects of Latin American culture as experienced by millions of people living in Central and South America. The author argues that despite early and considerable European influences on the region, indigenous Latin American traditions still characterize much of the social and artistic heritage of the Latin American countries. Several chapters provide detailed accounts of daily life, including descriptions of contemporary dress, mealtime traditions, transportation, and traditional ways of conducting business. Other chapters focus on the cultural significance of the...
This book details many aspects of Latin American culture as experienced by millions of people living in Central and South America. The author argues t...
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167,87 |
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Football Weekends at Notre Dame: Snapshots and Traditions
ISBN: 9780268041298 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When people ask the question, What makes a football weekend at Notre Dame so special? members of the Notre Dame family know that it could take an entire book to give the whole answer. This is that book. It tells the gameday story with over one hundred color photographs that bring the experience alive from the perspectives of many different groups, and its words add a context that is rich in the traditions, community connections, values, and spirit that make Notre Dame unique.Writer Bill Schmitt and photographer Lou Sabo approached the question with the kind of wide-ranging curiosity that... When people ask the question, What makes a football weekend at Notre Dame so special? members of the Notre Dame family know that it could take an e... |
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73,42 |
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Racism and God-Talk: A Latino/a Perspective
ISBN: 9780814776117 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 2011 Winner of the Book Awards Contest in the Discipline of Theology Presented by Alpha Sigma Nu
The apostle Paul wrote that -All of you are one in Christ Jesus.- Given Paul's vision of God's kingdom defined by the breakdown of all distinctions and relationships of domination--no longer Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female--how do we make sense of ethnic particularity within the church's theological formulations? Racism and God-Talk explores the biblical and religious dimensions of North American racism while highlighting examples of... 2011 Winner of the Book Awards Contest in the Discipline of Theology Presented by Alpha Sigma Nu
The apostle Paul wr... |
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151,83 |
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Tejano Empire: Life on the South Texas Ranchosvolume 7
ISBN: 9781603440516 / Angielski / Miękka / 159 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A silent story is told by the stone chimneys of South Texas that were used to prepare the Tejano ranch meals of an earlier century and by the rifle port holes still seen in crumbling walls that once protected families. It is a story of a life and culture rarely portrayed in standard historical accounts, but to some degree kept alive in literary works and ballads and revealed mutely in the material culture nineteenth-century ranchers left behind. Andres Tijerina has mined both traditional and nontraditional sources to portray the daily lives of the Texans of Mexican descent who peopled the...
A silent story is told by the stone chimneys of South Texas that were used to prepare the Tejano ranch meals of an earlier century and by the rifle po...
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76,88 |
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The Migrant Project: Contemporary California Farm Workers
ISBN: 9780826344076 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The images in this book highlight the lives of the men and women who struggle to exist while literally feeding this country. Countless words and studies over decades bemoan the plight of those who toil in the fields, but Rick Nahmias' pictures bring farm workers to us in an unforgettable way, taking us beyond stoop labor stills and into their intimate moments and inner lives. Having traveled over four thousand miles to document California's migrant workforce, Nahmias' soulful images and incisive text go beyond one state's issues, illuminating the bigger story about the human cost of feeding...
The images in this book highlight the lives of the men and women who struggle to exist while literally feeding this country. Countless words and studi...
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107,70 |
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Latsploitation, Exploitation Cinemas, and Latin America
ISBN: 9780415993869 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Exploring Latin American cinema, this anthology challenges established continental and national histories and canons which often exclude exploitation cinema due to its perceived 'low' cultural status. It argues that Latin American exploitation cinema makes an important aesthetic and social contribution to the larger body of Latin American cinema.
Exploring Latin American cinema, this anthology challenges established continental and national histories and canons which often exclude exploitation ...
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783,64 |
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An Uncertain Cure: Living with Leprosy in Brazil
ISBN: 9780813544571 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In many cultures, leprosy elicits fear, stigma, and misunderstanding. Historically, people affected by leprosy were banished or isolated from the rest of society. Although the worldwide incidence of leprosy has declined markedly over the past quarter century with the advent of new multidrug therapies, developing nations are still encountering a high number of cases.
In An Uncertain Cure, Cassandra White goes deep into the shantytowns of Rio de Janeiro to give a riveting account of the contemporary leprosy experience among poor and working class Brazilians. In this ethnographic treatment of... In many cultures, leprosy elicits fear, stigma, and misunderstanding. Historically, people affected by leprosy were banished or isolated from the rest...
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151,83 |
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