Dispossession and the Environment: Rhetoric and Inequality in Papua New Guinea
ISBN: 9780231178785 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) When journalists, developers, surf tourists, and conservation NGOs cast Papua New Guineans as living in a prior nature and prior culture, they devalue their knowledge and practice, facilitating their dispossession. Paige West's searing study reveals how a range of actors produce and reinforce inequalities in today's globalized world. She shows how racist rhetorics of representation underlie all uneven patterns of development and seeks a more robust understanding of the ideological work that capital requires for constant regeneration.
When journalists, developers, surf tourists, and conservation NGOs cast Papua New Guineans as living in a prior nature and prior culture, they devalue...
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479,56 zł |
Fragile Settlements: Aboriginal Peoples, Law, and Resistance in South-West Australia and Prairie Canada
ISBN: 9780774830898 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Fragile Settlements compares the processes through which British colonial authority was asserted over Indigenous peoples in southwest Australia and prairie Canada from the 1830s to the early twentieth century. At the start of this period, as a humanitarian response to settlers? increased demand for land, Britain's Colonial Office moved to protect Indigenous peoples by making them subjects under British law. This book highlights the parallels and divergences between these connected British frontiers by examining how colonial actors and institutions interpreted and applied the... Fragile Settlements compares the processes through which British colonial authority was asserted over Indigenous peoples in southwest Austra... |
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155,26 zł |
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 (dostawa przed świętami) 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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776,56 zł |
Epistemologies of the South: Justice Against Epistemicide
ISBN: 9781612055459 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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186,32 zł |
Some Myths and Legends of the Australian Aborigines
ISBN: 9781499524291 / Angielski / Miękka / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) |
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26,88 zł |
#Idlenomore: And the Remaking of Canada
ISBN: 9780889773424 / Angielski / Miękka / 255 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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142,14 zł |
Na Moccasins
ISBN: 9781929572267 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) |
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China's last but one matriarchy: The Jino of Yunnan
ISBN: 9781490421582 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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 (dostawa przed świętami) 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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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 (dostawa przed świętami) 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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132,06 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 (dostawa przed świętami) "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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512,53 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 (dostawa przed świętami) |
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116,67 zł |
Dances with Spirits: Ancient Wisdom for a Modern World
ISBN: 9781497693982 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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 (dostawa przed świętami) 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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108,94 zł |
Out of the Depths, 4th Edition: The Experiences of Mi'kmaw Children at the Indian Residential School at Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia
ISBN: 9781552667293 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In the 1880s, through an amendment to the Indian Act of 1876, the government of Canada began to require all Aboriginal children to attend schools administered by churches. Separating these children from their families, removing them from their communities and destroying Aboriginal culture by denying them the right to speak Indigenous languages and perform native spiritual ceremonies, these residential schools were explicitly developed to assimilate Aboriginal peoples into Canadian culture and erase their existence as a people. Daring to break the code of silence imposed on Aboriginal... In the 1880s, through an amendment to the Indian Act of 1876, the government of Canada began to require all Aboriginal children to attend schools a... |
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91,39 zł |
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 (dostawa przed świętami) (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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111,95 zł |
The Black Pacific: Anti-Colonial Struggles and Oceanic Connections
ISBN: 9781472519238 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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621,24 zł |
The Black Pacific: Anti-Colonial Struggles and Oceanic Connections
ISBN: 9781472535542 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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139,72 zł |
Delaware Integrity: Rituals, Removals, Reforms by Lenape Indiens
ISBN: 9781507685952 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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44,88 zł |
Knowledge of Life: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australia
ISBN: 9781107477421 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Knowledge of Life is the first textbook to provide students with a comprehensive guide to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australia. The result of extensive research and experience, it offers fresh insights into a range of topics and, most importantly, is written by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander academics. It addresses topics ranging from history and reconciliation, to literature and politics, to art, sport and health. It presents social, cultural and political perspectives on these areas in a manner that is accessible to undergraduate students from a range of backgrounds and...
Knowledge of Life is the first textbook to provide students with a comprehensive guide to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australia. The result ...
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290,71 zł |