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Peasant and Nation offers a major new statement on the making of national politics. Comparing the popular political cultures and discourses of postcolonial Mexico and Peru, Florencia Mallon provides a groundbreaking analysis of their effect on the evolution of these nation states. As political history from a variety of subaltern perspectives, the book takes seriously the history of peasant thought and action and the complexity of community politics. It reveals the hierarchy and the heroism, the solidarity and the surveillance, the exploitation and the reciprocity, that coexist in popular political struggle.
With this book Mallon not only forges a new path for Latin American history but challenges the very concept of nationalism. Placing it squarely within the struggles for power between colonized and colonizing peoples, she argues that nationalism must be seen not as an integrated ideology that puts the interest of the nation above all other loyalties, but as a project for collective identity over which many political groups and coalitions have struggled. Ambitious and bold, Peasant and Nation both draws on monumental archival research in two countries and enters into spirited dialogue with the literatures of post-colonial studies, gender studies, and peasant studies..
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For Native peoples of California, the abalone found along the state’s coast have remarkably complex significance as food, spirit, narrative symbol, tradable commodity, and material with which to make adornment and sacred regalia. The large mollusks also represent contemporary struggles surrounding cultural identity and political sovereignty. Abalone Tales, a collaborative ethnography, presents different perspectives on the multifaceted material and symbolic relationships between abalone and the Ohlone, Pomo, Karuk, Hupa, and Wiyot peoples of California. The research agenda, analyses, and writing strategies were determined through collaborative relationships between the anthropologist Les W. Field and Native individuals and communities. Several of these individuals contributed written texts or oral stories for inclusion in the book.

Tales about abalone and their historical and contemporary meanings are related by Field and his coauthors, who include the chair and other members of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe; a Point Arena Pomo elder; the chair of the Wiyot tribe and her sister; several Hupa Indians; and a Karuk scholar, artist, and performer. Reflecting the divergent perspectives of various Native groups and people, the stories and analyses belie any presumption of a single, unified indigenous understanding of abalone. At the same time, they shed light on abalone’s role in cultural revitalization, struggles over territory, tribal appeals for federal recognition, and connections among California’s Native groups. While California’s abalone are in danger of extinction, their symbolic power appears to surpass even the environmental crises affecting the state’s vulnerable coastline..
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Second Installment of El Cuarto Arcano. In 1806 the British, commanded by Gen. Beresford, prepare to invade Buenos Aires and Montevideo Roger Blackraven, charged with protecting his cousins, the children of Luis XVI and Marie Antoinette, escapes to the coasts of Brazil. Reading almost like a big-screen adventure, this final installment is jam-packed with action, conspiracy, murder, and high seas boarding. New characters and landscapes accompany this new adventure. Description in Spanish: Nuevos personajes y nuevos escenarios acompanan las aventuras del Capitan Black desde las costas americanas hasta la vieja Europa. El puerto de las tormentas, que culmina la historia de Roger y Melody, es una novela repleta de accion: conspiraciones, asesinatos y abordajes en alta mar hacen de su lectura una experiencia casi cinematografica, y situa a Florencia Bonelli en la cima de su poder narrativo..
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La Boca, Buenos Aires, early 1900's. After a long sojourn, Micaela Urtiaga Four, known throughout Europe as the Divine Four, returns to her native city. Unexpectedly, she finds herself linked to Carlos Varzi, an unscrupulous man with a past is as dark as his present Unable to resist, Micaela gives in to the powerful attraction. Set in the streets that witnessed the birth of Tango, the story captures the struggle of a woman to overcome her fears and the story of a man who fights to redeem himself, all in the nave of love. Description in Spanish: El tango nace en el barrio porteno de La Boca a principios del siglo XX y un amor imposible crece en sus calles. La famosa soprano Micaela Urtiaga Four, conocida en Europa como la divina Four, decide regresar a Buenos Aires, su ciudad natal, despues de anos de ausencia. Pero el remanso que ansiaba hallar entre sus seres queridos se transforma en un torbellino cuando su vida se vincula repentinamente a la de Carlo Varzi, un proxeneta del barrio de La Boca, un hombre temible y sin escrupulos, con un pasado tan oscuro como su presente. Y, aunque Micaela tratara de vencer la atraccion que ese hombre ejerce sobre ella, finalmente cedera al impulso que la domina. Remordimientos y temores, deseo y pasion. El conflicto sera inevitable. Esta novela, ambientada en la Buenos Aires que vio nacer el tango, retrata la historia de una mujer que lucha por superar sus miedos y defender su amor, y la de un hombre que intenta redimirse en el contexto mas denigrante, tambien por amor..
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Young Francesca has just started her brilliant career as a journalist working at her godfather s and mentor newspaper Victim of a terrible love affair, she accepts a position in her country s embassy in Geneva, hoping that time and distance will help cure the deep wound in her heart. This proves to be the first step in a long voyage on the other side of the world; amidst the most dazzling palaces of the Arabian Desert, she will find a second chance to happiness.

Description in Spanish: Francesca, una periodista que inicia una prometedora carrera, lo deja todo por un desengaño amoroso y emprende una huida de sí misma que la lleva a Ginebra y que se prolonga hasta los lejanos confines del desierto... Al otro lado del mundo, en un universo de lujosos palacios, Francesca encuentra una segunda oportunidad para ser feliz..
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Visually appealing, conceptually startling, and intellectually engaging - these phrases aptly describe the art of Liliana Porter. Florencia Bazzano-Nelson's study focuses on the principal theme in the Argentine-born artist's work since the 1970s: her playful but subversive dismantling of the limits that separate everyday reality from the world of illusion and simulacra. Over the years, Porter's own evolving interest in perception lead the author to explore a series of interconnected and timely issues in her artistic production, such as the representative function of art, the structural links between art and language, and the witty re-signification of the art-historical images and mass-produced kitsch figurines she has so often featured in her art.Strongly founded in critical theory, Bazzano-Nelson's approach considers Porter's art as the site of conceptually exciting dialogues with Jorge Luis Borges, Rene Magritte, Michel Foucault, and Jean Baudrillard. Her carefully crafted interdisciplinary analysis not only combines art-historical, literary, and theoretical perspectives but also addresses the artist's work in different media, such as printmaking, conceptual art, photography, and film..
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Until now, very little about the recent history of the Mapuche, Chile’s largest indigenous group, has been available to English-language readers. Courage Tastes of Blood helps to rectify this situation. It tells the story of one Mapuche community—Nicolás Ailío, located in the south of the country—across the entire twentieth century, from its founding in the resettlement process that followed the military defeat of the Mapuche by the Chilean state at the end of the nineteenth century. Florencia E. Mallon places oral histories gathered from community members over an extended period of time in the 1990s in dialogue with one another and with her research in national and regional archives. Taking seriously the often quite divergent subjectivities and political visions of the community’s members, Mallon presents an innovative historical narrative, one that reflects a mutual collaboration between herself and the residents of Nicolás Ailío.

Mallon recounts the land usurpation Nicolás Ailío endured in the first decades of the twentieth century and the community’s ongoing struggle for restitution. Facing extreme poverty and inspired by the agrarian mobilizations of the 1960s, some community members participated in the agrarian reform under the government of socialist president Salvador Allende. With the military coup of 1973, they suffered repression and desperate impoverishment. Out of this turbulent period the Mapuche revitalization movement was born. What began as an effort to protest the privatization of community lands under the military dictatorship evolved into a broad movement for cultural and political recognition that continues to the present day. By providing the historical and local context for the emergence of the Mapuche revitalization movement, Courage Tastes of Blood offers a distinctive perspective on the evolution of Chilean democracy and its rupture with the military coup of 1973.

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Tropical Forest Ecology: The Basis for Conservation and Management, takes a multi-disciplinary approach for increasing the understanding of tropical forest ecology, as a necessary step to developing kowledge on adequate strategies for conservation and management. The authors have long experience in both academic and practical matters related to tropical forest ecology and management.

Tropical forestry is confronted with the task of finding strategies to alleviate pressure on remaining forests, and techniques to enhance forest regeneration and restore abandoned lands, using productive alternatives that can be attractive to local human populations. In addition, sustainable forestry in tropical countries must be supported by the adequate policies to promote and maintain specific activities at local and regional scales.

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