Related Books
Language: en
Pages: 315
Pages: 315
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-03-15 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
In this classic book, Michael Taussig explores the social significance of the devil in the folklore of contemporary plantation workers and miners in South Ameri
Language: en
Pages: 216
Pages: 216
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-18 - Publisher: Routledge
Set in the enchanted mountain of a spirit-queen presiding over an unnamed, postcolonial country, this ethnographic work of ficto-criticism recreates in written
Language: en
Pages: 414
Pages: 414
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993 - Publisher: Columbia University Press
In this powerful anthropological study of a Bolivian tin mining town, Nash explores the influence of modern industrialization on the traditional culture of Quec
Language: en
Pages: 260
Pages: 260
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-04-13 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
In September 1940, Walter Benjamin committed suicide in Port Bou on the Spanish-French border when it appeared that he and his travelling partners would be deni
Language: en
Pages: 359
Pages: 359
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-12-19 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
In this book, a make-believe cocaine museum becomes a vantage point from which to assess the lives of Afro-Colombian gold miners drawn into the dangerous world