Progress and Its Impact on the Nagas: A Clash of Worldviews
ISBN: 9781409468202 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The term a progress' is a modern Western notion that life is always improving and advancing toward an ideal state. It is a vital modern concept which underlies geographic explorations and scientific and technological inventions as well as the desire to harness nature in order to increase human beings' ease and comfort. With the advent of Western colonization and to the great detriment of the colonized, the notion of progress began to perniciously and pervasively permeate across cultures. This book details the impact of the notion of progress on the Nagas and their culture. The interaction...
The term a progress' is a modern Western notion that life is always improving and advancing toward an ideal state. It is a vital modern concept which...
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730,42 zł |
Epistemologies of the South: Justice Against Epistemicide
ISBN: 9781612055459 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a world of appalling social inequalities people are becoming more aware of the multiple dimensions of injustice, whether social, political, cultural, sexual, ethnic, religious, historical, or ecological. Rarely acknowledged is another vital dimension: cognitive injustice, the failure to recognize the different ways of knowing by which people across the globe run their lives and provide meaning to their existence. This book shows why cognitive injustice underlies all the other dimensions; global social justice is not possible without global cognitive justice. Santos's argument unfolds in...
In a world of appalling social inequalities people are becoming more aware of the multiple dimensions of injustice, whether social, political, cultura...
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181,29 zł |
Some Myths and Legends of the Australian Aborigines
ISBN: 9781499524291 / Angielski / Miękka / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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#Idlenomore: And the Remaking of Canada
ISBN: 9780889773424 / Angielski / Miękka / 255 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Idle No More bewildered many Canadians. Launched by four women in Saskatchewan in reaction to a federal omnibus budget bill, the protest became the most powerful demonstration of Aboriginal identity in Canadian history. Thousands of Aboriginal people and their supporters took to the streets, shopping malls, and other venues, drumming, dancing, and singing in a collective voice. It was a protest against generations of injustice, a rallying cry for cultural survival, and a reassertion of Aboriginal identity. Idle No More lasted for almost a year, and then the rallies dissipated. Many observers...
Idle No More bewildered many Canadians. Launched by four women in Saskatchewan in reaction to a federal omnibus budget bill, the protest became the mo...
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143,19 zł |
China's last but one matriarchy: The Jino of Yunnan
ISBN: 9781490421582 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hidden in the tropical mountains of China's southern border lives one of the most interesting Chinese minorities: The Jino nationality. With a population of only 21,000 people they are one of the less known ethnic groups in China, who in the past were often confused with the surrounding minorities. The study of their culture started only in the last decades of the 20th century and showed the world an ethnic group characterized for the strength with which they preserved their matriarchal tendencies and their surprising adaptability to their tropical environment. The shadow of their former...
Hidden in the tropical mountains of China's southern border lives one of the most interesting Chinese minorities: The Jino nationality. With a populat...
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Sistema alimentario de una comunidad indígena Panare del río Maniapure, estado Bolívar, VENEZUELA.: Tesis Doctoral
ISBN: 9781500589073 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. En 1976, el autor de este libro conocio la region del rio Maniapure ubicada al sur del rio Orinoco, en la Guayana venezolana. Son tierras de majestuosos paisajes y rica naturaleza, donde habitan los indigenas de la etnia Panare o E'nepa. Durante casi cuatro decadas, el autor se ha mantenido en contacto con esta region y sus pobladores, siendo testigo de como el inevitable incremento del contacto intercultural, ha impulsado a los Panares a transformar progresivamente sus costumbres para adaptarse a la nueva realidad y al mercado. Uno de los aspectos que ha sufrido mas cambios es la...
En 1976, el autor de este libro conocio la region del rio Maniapure ubicada al sur del rio Orinoco, en la Guayana venezolana. Son tierras de majestuos...
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127,47 zł |
Sistema alimentario de una comunidad indígena Panare o E'ñepa del río Maniapure, estado Bolívar, Venezuela: 2° Edición
ISBN: 9781500616922 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. En 1976, el autor de este libro conocio la region del rio Maniapure ubicada al sur del rio Orinoco, en la Guayana venezolana. Son tierras de majestuosos paisajes y rica naturaleza, donde habitan los indigenas de la etnia Panare o E'nepa. Durante casi cuatro decadas, el autor se ha mantenido en contacto con esta region y sus pobladores, siendo testigo de como el inevitable incremento del contacto intercultural, ha impulsado a los Panares a transformar progresivamente sus costumbres para adaptarse a la nueva realidad y al mercado. Uno de los aspectos que ha sufrido mas cambios es la...
En 1976, el autor de este libro conocio la region del rio Maniapure ubicada al sur del rio Orinoco, en la Guayana venezolana. Son tierras de majestuos...
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133,04 zł |
Protests, Land Rights, and Riots: Postcolonial Struggles in Australia in the 1980s
ISBN: 9781782385370 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Morris deploys the incisive tools of anthropology to deconstruct the way neoliberal policies of the 1980s began to reverse the political gains Australian Aborigines had made in the 1970s...This work is of crucial relevance for thinking beyond the present neoliberal impasse." - Gillian Cowlishaw, Sydney University "Morris reveals the lie underpinning so much recent cant but more sets the situation of Aborigines in the context of larger global forces. This is a much overdue work that should contribute to new understanding and which breaks out of some of the enduring categories that continue to...
"Morris deploys the incisive tools of anthropology to deconstruct the way neoliberal policies of the 1980s began to reverse the political gains Austra...
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498,70 zł |
Virginity Tests & Stray Marriages: Rumours and Realities of Marriage Practices in Contemporary Samin Society (A Study of the Samin People of Klopoduwu
ISBN: 9781291494778 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Dances with Spirits: Ancient Wisdom for a Modern World
ISBN: 9781497693982 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Scientific and technological advances have provided the means for destroying planetary life, but does humanity have the wisdom necessary to choose survival?While facing impending danger, cultures worldwide can benefit by exploring tried-and-true perspectives on humankind s place in the world.One proven measure for greater balance comes through reclaiming the spirit-infused views that ensured the survival of our ancestors for millennia."
Scientific and technological advances have provided the means for destroying planetary life, but does humanity have the wisdom necessary to choose sur...
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Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race
ISBN: 9781781689172 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Traces of History presents a new approach to race and to comparative colonial studies. Bringing a historical perspective to bear on the regimes of race that colonizers have sought to impose on Aboriginal people in Australia, on Blacks and Native Americans in the United States, on Ashkenazi Jews in Western Europe, on Arab Jews in Israel/Palestine, and on people of African descent in Brazil, this book shows how race marks and reproduces the different relationships of inequality into which Europeans have coopted subaltern populations: territorial dispossession, enslavement, confinement,...
Traces of History presents a new approach to race and to comparative colonial studies. Bringing a historical perspective to bear on the regimes...
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We Are A Horse Nation: The Making Of The Documentary Film And More
ISBN: 9781505604511 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. (Large format full color version) Sunka Wakan. It's what the Lakota people call the horse. For hundreds of years, the horse has been a vehicle, a tool, a companion and a friend to many different tribes, not the least of which were the Lakota. "We Are A Horse Nation" is a documentary which tells the story of the Sunka Wakan Oyate (Horse Nation) from the perspective of the Oceti Sakowin (Seven Council Fires of the Lakota, Dakota and Nakota). As relatives (Mitakuye Oyasin), we want to bring together traditional and contemporary Lakota, Dakota and Nakota songs, stories, teachings, experiences,...
(Large format full color version) Sunka Wakan. It's what the Lakota people call the horse. For hundreds of years, the horse has been a vehicle, a tool...
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112,78 zł |
The Black Pacific: Anti-Colonial Struggles and Oceanic Connections
ISBN: 9781472519238 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why have the struggles of the African Diaspora so resonated with South Pacific people? How have Maori, Pasifika and Pakeha activists incorporated the ideologies of the African diaspora into their struggle against colonial rule and racism, and their pursuit of social justice? This book challenges predominant understandings of the historical linkages that make up the (post-)colonial world. The author goes beyond both the domination of the Atlantic viewpoint, and the correctives now being offered by South Pacific and Indian Ocean studies, to look at how the Atlantic ecumene is... Why have the struggles of the African Diaspora so resonated with South Pacific people? How have Maori, Pasifika and Pakeha activists incorporated t... |
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604,49 zł |
The Black Pacific: Anti-Colonial Struggles and Oceanic Connections
ISBN: 9781472535542 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why have the struggles of the African Diaspora so resonated with South Pacific people? How have Maori, Pasifika and Pakeha activists incorporated the ideologies of the African diaspora into their struggle against colonial rule and racism, and their pursuit of social justice? This book challenges predominant understandings of the historical linkages that make up the (post-)colonial world. The author goes beyond both the domination of the Atlantic viewpoint, and the correctives now being offered by South Pacific and Indian Ocean studies, to look at how the Atlantic ecumene is... Why have the struggles of the African Diaspora so resonated with South Pacific people? How have Maori, Pasifika and Pakeha activists incorporated t... |
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135,95 zł |
Delaware Integrity: Rituals, Removals, Reforms by Lenape Indiens
ISBN: 9781507685952 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An overview of Delaware Lenape Indien culture and ethnohistory focused on the Gamwing Big House Rite.
An overview of Delaware Lenape Indien culture and ethnohistory focused on the Gamwing Big House Rite.
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45,20 zł |
Minter Bay: Land, Lore, Loss, and Lucre in the South Salish Sea
ISBN: 9781511819848 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Unique ethnography of a native town and its residents near Tacoma Narrows and its shifts over time by fate and fire.
Unique ethnography of a native town and its residents near Tacoma Narrows and its shifts over time by fate and fire.
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Pacific Plateau Portrayals: People Places Ponderings
ISBN: 9781508733959 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here are two dozen key people, events, and ideas in the anthropology of the Northwest, coastal and plateau, over 220 years, along with nine iconic articles and an informative endnote exploring key aspects of this region.
Here are two dozen key people, events, and ideas in the anthropology of the Northwest, coastal and plateau, over 220 years, along with nine iconic art...
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54,24 zł |
Aboriginal Children, History and Health: Beyond Social Determinants
ISBN: 9781138955240 / Angielski / Twarda / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Kabunianism & Pneumasomatic Sickness: (cordillera Indigenous People in the Philippines)
ISBN: 9781514286036 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Cordillera mountain ranges in the Philippine Northern Luzon Island are the home of indigenous people collectively known as Kaigorotan (Igorot peoples). These indigenous communities have a homogeneous identity in sociocultural traits and religious beliefs. The traditional religion has its own cosmic worldview. The supreme God is often identified with the sun and lives in space, referred to as Kabunian. Western influences arrived in the Cordillera in the early 20th century when the Catholic missionaries started schools and hospitals as a means of spreading Christianity. They unscrupulously...
The Cordillera mountain ranges in the Philippine Northern Luzon Island are the home of indigenous people collectively known as Kaigorotan (Igorot peop...
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Learn, Teach, Challenge: Approaching Indigenous Literatures
ISBN: 9781771121859 / Angielski / Miękka / 485 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a collection of classic and newly commissioned essays about the study of Indigenous literatures in North America. The contributing scholars include some of the most venerable Indigenous theorists, among them Gerald Vizenor (Anishinaabe), Jeannette Armstrong (Okanagan), Craig Womack (Creek), Kimberley Blaeser (Anishinaabe), Emma LaRocque (Metis), Daniel Heath Justice (Cherokee), Janice Acoose (Saulteaux), and Jo-Ann Episkenew (Metis). Also included are settler scholars foundational to the field, including Helen Hoy, Margery Fee, and Renate Eigenbrod. Among the newer voices are both... This is a collection of classic and newly commissioned essays about the study of Indigenous literatures in North America. The contributing scholars... |
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280,50 zł |