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  • Luso-Tropicalism and Its Discontents

    The Making and Unmaking of Racial Exceptionalism

    Edited by Warwick Anderson, Ricardo Roque, Ricardo Ventura Santos ...
    Modern perceptions of race across much of the Global South are indebted to the Brazilian social scientist Gilberto Freyre, who in works such as The Masters and the Slaves claimed that Portuguese colonialism produced exceptionally benign and tolerant race relations. This volume radically reinterprets Freyre’s Luso-tropicalist arguments and critically engages with the historical complexity of racial ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Resistance and Colonialism

    Insurgent Peoples in World History

    Edited by Nuno Domingos, Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo, Ricardo Roque ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This volume offers a critical re-examination of colonial and anti-colonial resistance imageries and practices in imperial history. It offers a fresh critique of both pejorative and celebratory readings of ‘insurgent peoples’, and it seeks to revitalize the study of ‘resistance’ as an analytical field in the comparative history of Western colonialisms. It explores how to read and (de)code these ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • States of Imitation

    Mimetic Governmentality and Colonial Rule

    Edited by Ricardo Roque, Patrice Ladwig ...
    Series Book 11 - Studies in Social Analysis
    Late Western colonialism often relied on the practice of imitating indigenous forms of rule in order to maintain power; conversely, indigenous polities could imitate Western sociopolitical forms to their own benefit. Drawing on historical ethnographic studies of colonialism in Asia and Africa, States of Imitation examines how the colonial state attempted to administer, control, and integrate its ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Crossing Histories and Ethnographies

    Following Colonial Historicities in Timor-Leste

    Edited by Elizabeth G. Traube, Ricardo Roque ...
    Series Book 37 - Methodology & History in Anthropology
    The key question for many anthropologists and historians today is not whether to cross the boundary between their disciplines, but whether the idea of a disciplinary boundary should be sustained. Reinterpreting the dynamic interplay between archive and field, these essays propose a method for mutually productive crossings between historical and ethnographic research. It engages critically with the ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

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    Travel Writing and Transculturation

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  • The Extractive Zone

    Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives

    by Macarena Gómez-Barris ...
    Series series Dissident Acts
    In The Extractive Zone Macarena Gómez-Barris traces the political, aesthetic, and performative practices that emerge in opposition to the ruinous effects of extractive capital. The work of Indigenous activists, intellectuals, and artists in spaces Gómez-Barris labels extractive zones—majority indigenous regions in South America noted for their biodiversity and long history of exploitative natural ... Read more

    $18.69 USD

  • Creole Indigeneity

    Between Myth and Nation in the Caribbean

    by Shona N. Jackson ...
    Series series First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
    During the colonial period in Guyana, the country’s coastal lands were worked by enslaved Africans and indentured Indians. In Creole Indigeneity, Shona N. Jackson investigates how their descendants, collectively called Creoles, have remade themselves as Guyana’s new natives, displacing indigenous peoples in the Caribbean through an extension of colonial attitudes and policies.Looking particularly ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Promise of the Foreign

    Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines

    by Vicente L. Rafael ...
    In The Promise of the Foreign, Vicente L. Rafael argues that translation was key to the emergence of Filipino nationalism in the nineteenth century. Acts of translation entailed technics from which issued the promise of nationhood. Such a promise consisted of revising the heterogeneous and violent origins of the nation by mediating one’s encounter with things foreign while preserving their ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia

    Reconstructing Past Identities from Archaeology, Linguistics, and Ethnohistory

    Edited by Alf Hornborg, Jonathan D. Hill ...
    A transdisciplinary collaboration among ethnologists, linguists, and archaeologists, Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia traces the emergence, expansion, and decline of cultural identities in indigenous Amazonia.Hornborg and Hill argue that the tendency to link language, culture, and biology--essentialist notions of ethnic identities--is a Eurocentric bias that has characterized largely inaccurate ... Read more

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  • City and Nation

    Rethinking Place and Identity

    by Michael Peter Smith, Thomas Bender ...
    Series series Comparative Urban and Community Research
    This compendium offers a textured historical and comparative examination of the significance of locality or "place," and the role of urban representations and spatial practices in defining national identities. Drawing upon a wide range of disciplines - from literature to architecture and planning, sociology, and history - these essays problematize the dynamic between the local and the national, ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Local Histories/Global Designs

    Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking

    by Walter D. Mignolo ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
    Local Histories/Global Designs is an extended argument about the "coloniality" of power by one of the most innovative Latin American and Latino scholars. In a shrinking world where sharp dichotomies, such as East/West and developing/developed, blur and shift, Walter Mignolo points to the inadequacy of current practices in the social sciences and area studies. He explores the crucial notion of ... Read more

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  • Earth Beings

    Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds

    by Marisol de la Cadena ...
    Series Book 2011 - The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
    Earth Beings is the fruit of Marisol de la Cadena's decade-long conversations with Mariano and Nazario Turpo, father and son, runakuna or Quechua people. Concerned with the mutual entanglements of indigenous and nonindigenous worlds, and the partial connections between them, de la Cadena presents how the Turpos' indigenous ways of knowing and being include and exceed modern and nonmodern practices ... Read more

    $21.59 USD