Oil Injustice – Resisting and Conceding a Pipeline in Ecuador – Recorded interview with author Dr. Patricia Widener (Recording Time- 01:44:05) Recorded November 08, 2011. Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. PURCHASE BOOK: Oil Injustice: Resisting and Conceding a Pipeline in Ecuador ——————————————————————————————– Oil Injustice examines the mobilization efforts of four communities with different oil [...]
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Guide to Documentary Sources for Andean Studies, 1530-1900. THREE VOLUME SET [Hardcover] – Recorded interview with editor Dr. Joanne Pillsbury (Recording Time- 01:31:16 ) Recorded October 28, 2011. Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Press (2008) – Published in Collaboration with the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art. PURCHASE BOOK:Guide to [...]
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Murder and Politics in Mexico: Political Killings in the Political Killings in the Partido de la Revolucion Democratica and its Consequences – Recorded interview with author Dr. Sara Schatz (Recording Time- 01:13:53) Recorded October 07, 2011. Publisher: Springer, 2011, Volume 10 in Studies of Organized Crime. PURCHASE BOOK:Murder and Politics in Mexico: Political Killings in [...]
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Policing Democracy: Overcoming obstacles to Citizen Security in Latin America – Recorded interview with author Dr. Mark Ungar (Recording Time- 01:06:56) Recorded September 23, 2011. Woodrow Wilson Center Press with Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011 PURCHASE BOOK:Policing Democracy: Overcoming Obstacles to Citizen Security in Latin America Latin America’s crime rates are astonishing by any standard—the [...]
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After Moctezuma – Indigenous Politics and Self-Government in Mexico City, 1524-1730 – Recorded interview with author Dr. William F. Connell (Recording Time- 01:22:45) Recorded September 16, 2011. University of Oklahoma Press PURCHASE BOOK:After Moctezuma: Indigenous Politics and Self-government in Mexico City, 1524-1730 The first study of indigenous political dynamics in Tenochtitlan after the Spanish [...]
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The Polemics of Possession in Spanish American Narrative – Recorded interview with author Dr. Rolena Adorno (Recording Time – 02:02:17) Recorded August 26, 2011. PURCHASE BOOK:The Polemics of Possession in Spanish American Narrative Winner of the 2008 Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, given by the Modern Language Association. In this book on early Latin American narrative, [...]
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Making Up the Difference: Women, Beauty, and Direct Selling in Ecuador – Recorded interview with author Dr. Erynn Masi de Casanova (Recording Time – 01:17:40) Recorded August 04, 2011. PURCHASE BOOK: Making Up the Difference: Women, Beauty, and Direct Selling in Ecuador (Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture) Globalization and economic restructuring have decimated formal [...]
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Cuban Fiestas – Recorded interview with author Dr. Roberto González Echevarría. (Recording Time – 01:29.52) Recorded July 14, 2011. PURCHASE BOOK:Cuban Fiestas (See all Cultural Anthropology Books) In the Cuban town of Sagua la Grande, a young Roberto González Echevarría peers out the window of his family home on the morning of the Nochebuena fiesta [...]
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Laws of Chance: Brazil’s Clandestine Lottery and the Making of Urban Public Life – Recorded interview with author Dr. Amy Chazkel (Recording Time – 01:17:01) PURCHASE BOOKLaws of Chance: Brazil’s Clandestine Lottery and the Making of Urban Public Life (Radical Perspectives) The lottery called the jogo do bicho, or “animal game,” originated as a raffle [...]
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The jar of Severed Hands Spanish Deportation of Apache Perisoners of War 1770-1810 – Recorded Interview with author Mark Santiago (Recording Time – 01:08:26) The Jar of Severed Hands: The Spanish Deportation of Apache Prisoners of War, 1770-1810 Explores colonial Spanish-Apache relations in the Southwest borderlands More than two centuries after the Coronado Expedition first [...]
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Pachakutik and the Rise and Decline of the Ecuadorian Indigenous Movement- Recorded interview with co-author Dr. Scott H. Beck (Dr. J. Mijeski) (Recording Time – 01:16:21) Pachakutik and the Rise and Decline of the Ecuadorian Indigenous Movement (Ohio RIS Latin America Series) The mobilization of militant indigenous politics is one of the most important stories [...]
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The Napo Runa of Amazonian Ecuador – Recorded interview with Dr.Michael Uzendoski – (Recording Time – 01:25:49) Purchase Book – The Napo Runa of Amazonian Ecuador (Interp Culture New Millennium) (See all Cultural Anthropology Books) An indigenous Amazonian group’s enlightening perspectives on value, reproduction, and exchange Based upon historical and archival research, as well as [...]
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Indigenous Writings from the Convent Negotiating Ethnic Autonomy in Colonial Mexico – Recorded interview with Dr.Mónica Díaz – (Recording Time – 54:41) Purchase Book – Indigenous Writings from the Convent: Negotiating Ethnic Autonomy in Colonial Mexico (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies) (See all History of Mexico Books) Sometime in the 1740s, Sor María [...]
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LESSONS FROM A QUECHUA STRONGWOMAN: IDEOPHONY, DIALOGUE, AND PERSPECTIVE – Recorded author interview with Dr. Janis B. Nuckolls – (Recording Time – 54:41) Purchase Book – Lessons from a Quechua Strongwoman: Ideophony, Dialogue and Perspective (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies) Using the intriguing stories and words of a Quechua-speaking woman named Luisa Cadena [...]
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‘Border Crossings – Transnational Americanist Anthropology’ – Recorded interview with editor Dr. Kathleen S. Fine-Dare (Co-editor, Dr. Steven L. Rebenstein) (Recording Time – 01:04:57) Purchase Book – Border Crossings: Transnational Americanist Anthropology For anthropologists and social scientists working in North and South America, the past few decades have brought considerable change as issues such as [...]
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‘LATIN AMERICA’S COLD WAR’ – Recorded interview with author Dr. Hal Brands (Recording Time – 37:31) Purchase Book – Latin America’s Cold War For Latin America, the Cold War was anything but cold. Nor was it the so-called “long peace” afforded the world’s superpowers by their nuclear standoff. In this book, the first to take [...]
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Pachakutik: Indigenous Movements and Electoral Politics in Ecuador RECORDED INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR: DR. MARC BECKER This authoritative book provides a deeply informed overview of one of the most dynamic social movements in Latin America. Focusing on contemporary Indigenous movements in Ecuador, leading scholar Marc Becker traces the growing influence of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities [...]
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Recorded Interview: Maguey Journey: Discovering Textiles in Guatemala Author Kathryn Rousso The name maguey refers to various forms of the agave and furcraea genus, also sometimes called the ecntury plant. The fibers extracted from the leaves of these plants are spun into fine cordage and worked with a variety of tools and techniques to create [...]
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