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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “michelle bigenho”
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  • Heritage Fever

    Law and Cultural Politics in a Decolonizing State

    by Michelle Bigenho, Henry Stobart ...
    The early twenty-first century ushered in a period of change in Bolivia. The country welcomed its first Indigenous president, a new constitution, and a profusion of laws that recognized individual music and dance expressions as intangible cultural heritage. Using cultural heritage lawmaking as a window through which to view the de-centered workings of the Indigenous-focused Plurinational Bolivian ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Intimate Distance

    Andean Music in Japan

    by Michelle Bigenho ...
    What does it mean to play "someone else’s music"? Intimate Distance delves into this question through a focus on Bolivian musicians who tour Japan playing Andean music and Japanese audiences, who often go beyond fandom to take up these musical forms as hobbyists and even as professional musicians. Michelle Bigenho conducted part of her ethnographic research while performing with Bolivian musicians ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • The New (Ethno)musicologies

    by John Baily, Michelle Bigenho, Caroline Bithell, Martin Clayton, Nicholas Cook, Fabian Holt, Laudan Nooshin, Tina K. Ramnarine, Jim Samson, Jonathan P. J. Stock, Martin Stokes, Abigail Wood, Philip V. Bohlman ...
    Series series Europea: Ethnomusicologies and Modernities
    Over the past twenty years, a range of radical developments has revolutionized musicology, leading certain practitioners to describe their discipline as "New." What has happened to ethnomusicology during this period? Have its theories, methodologies, and values remain rooted in the 1970s and 1980s or have they also transformed? What directions might or should it take in the new millennium?The New ... Read more

    $72.89 USD

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    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    Combining anthropological methods and theories with political philosophy, Sian Lazar analyzes everyday practices and experiences of citizenship in a satellite city to the Bolivian capital of La Paz: El Alto, where more than three-quarters of the population identify as indigenous Aymara. For several years, El Alto has been at the heart of resistance to neoliberal market reforms, such as the export ... Read more

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  • The Chicano Studies Reader

    An Anthology of Aztlán, 1970–2019

    Edited by Chon A. Noriega, Eric Avila, Karen Mary Davalos, Chela Sandoval, Rafael Pérez-Torres, Charlene Villaseñor Black ...
    The Chicano Studies Reader, the best-selling anthology of articles from Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, has been newly expanded with a group of essays that focus on Chicana/o and Latina/o youth. This section, Generations against Exclusion, joins Decolonizing the Territory, Performing Politics, (Re)Configuring Identities, Remapping the World, and Continuing to Push Boundaries. Introductions ... Read more

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  • Kuxlejal Politics

    Indigenous Autonomy, Race, and Decolonizing Research in Zapatista Communities

    by Mariana Mora ...
    Over the past two decades, Zapatista indigenous community members have asserted their autonomy and self-determination by using everyday practices as part of their struggle for lekil kuxlejal, a dignified collective life connected to a specific territory. This in-depth ethnography summarizes Mariana Mora’s more than ten years of extended research and solidarity work in Chiapas, with Tseltal and ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Keywords for Latina/o Studies

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  • Gender, Sexuality, and Power in Latin America since Independence

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    Series series Jaguar Books on Latin America
    Featuring the original primary research of a number of leading scholars, this innovative volume integrates gender and sexuality into the main currents of historical interpretation concerning Latin America. The book argues that gender and sexuality-rather than simply supplementing existing explanations of political, social, cultural, and economic phenomena-are central to understanding these ... Read more

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  • Becoming Brazilians

    Race and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Brazil

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    Series series New Approaches to the Americas
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  • Everyday Revolutions

    Horizontalism and Autonomy in Argentina

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  • Chicana Movidas

    New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era

    Edited by María Eugenia Cotera, Dionne Espinoza, Maylei Blackwell ...
    Winner, Best Multiauthor Nonfiction Book, International Latino Book Awards, 2019With contributions from a wide array of scholars and activists, including leading Chicana feminists from the period, this groundbreaking anthology is the first collection of scholarly essays and testimonios that focuses on Chicana organizing, activism, and leadership in the movement years. The essays in Chicana Movidas ... Read more

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