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Búsqueda de Editorial : DUKE UNIVERSITY 16 resultados

  • A SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION FOR THE WORKING MAN -10%
    A SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION FOR THE WORKING MAN
    ROBERT M. BUFFINGTON
    In u003ciu003eA Sentimental Education for the Working Manu003c/iu003e Robert Buffington reconstructs the complex, shifting, and contradictory ideas about working-class masculinity in early twentieth-century Mexico City. He argues that from 1900 to 1910, the capital’s satirical penny press provided working-class readers with alternative masculine scripts that were more realistic...
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    Q. 450Q. 405

  • VIBRANT MATTER -10%
    VIBRANT MATTER
    JANE BENNETT
    In Vibrant Matter the political theorist Jane Bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and affect, shifts her focus from the human experience of things to things themselves. Bennett argues that political theory needs to do a better job of recognizing the active participation of nonhuman forces in events. Toward that end, she theorizes a “vital materiality” that runs th...
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    Q. 370Q. 333

  • MEETING THE UNIVERSE HALFWAY -10%
    MEETING THE UNIVERSE HALFWAY
    KAREN BARAD
    Meeting the Universe Halfway is an ambitious book with far-reaching implications for numerous fields in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. In this volume, Karen Barad, theoretical physicist and feminist theorist, elaborates her theory of agential realism. Offering an account of the world as a whole rather than as composed of separate natural and social realm...
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    Q. 550Q. 495

  • APPREHENDING THE CRIMINAL: THE PRODUCTION OF DEVIANCE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY DISCOURSE -10%
    APPREHENDING THE CRIMINAL: THE PRODUCTION OF DEVIANCE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY DISCOURSE
    MARIE-CHRISTINE LEPS
    In this wide-ranging analysis, Marie-Christine Leps traces the production and circulation of knowledge about the criminal in nineteenth-century discourse, and shows how the delineation of deviance served to construct cultural norms. She demonstrates how the apprehension of crime and criminals was an important factor in the establishment of such key institutions as national syst...
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    Q. 1.490Q. 1.341

  • APPREHENDING THE CRIMINAL: THE PRODUCTION OF DEVIANCE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY DISCOURSE -10%
    APPREHENDING THE CRIMINAL: THE PRODUCTION OF DEVIANCE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY DISCOURSE
    MARIE-CHRISTINE LEPS
    In this wide-ranging analysis, Marie-Christine Leps traces the production and circulation of knowledge about the criminal in nineteenth-century discourse, and shows how the delineation of deviance served to construct cultural norms. She demonstrates how the apprehension of crime and criminals was an important factor in the establishment of such key institutions as national syst...
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    Q. 430Q. 387

  • PAINTING THE MAYA UNIVERSE: ROYAL CERAMICS -10%
    PAINTING THE MAYA UNIVERSE: ROYAL CERAMICS
    DORIE REENTS-BUDET
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    Q. 580Q. 522

  • LOST SHORES, FORGOTTEN PEOPLES -10%
    LOST SHORES, FORGOTTEN PEOPLES
    LAWRENCE H. FELDMAN
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    Q. 200Q. 180

  • THE DARKER SIDE OF WESTERN MODERNITY: GLOBAL FUTURES, DECOLONIAL OPTIONS -10%
    THE DARKER SIDE OF WESTERN MODERNITY: GLOBAL FUTURES, DECOLONIAL OPTIONS
    WALTER MIGNOLO
    During the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, coloniality emerged as a new structure of power as Europeans colonized the Americas and built on the ideas of Western civilization and modernity as the endpoints of historical time and Europe as the center of the world. Walter D. Mignolo argues that coloniality is the darker side of Western modernity, a complex matrix of power that ...
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    Q. 280Q. 252

  • THE REAL THING. TESTIMONIAL DISCOUR -10%
    THE REAL THING. TESTIMONIAL DISCOUR
    GEORG M.GUGELBERGER
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    Q. 210Q. 189

  • PAPER CADAVERS: THE ARCHIVES OF DICTATORSHIP IN GUATEMALA -10%
    PAPER CADAVERS: THE ARCHIVES OF DICTATORSHIP IN GUATEMALA
    KIRSTEN WELD
    In Paper Cadavers, an inside account of the astonishing discovery and rescue of Guatemala's secret police archives, Kirsten Weld probes the politics of memory, the wages of the Cold War, and the stakes of historical knowledge production. After Guatemala's bloody thirty-six years of civil war (1960-1996), silence and impunity reigned. That is, until 2005, when human rights inves...
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    Q. 270Q. 243

  • THE MAYAN IN THE MALL -10%
    THE MAYAN IN THE MALL
    JOHN THOMAS WAY
    In "The Mayan in the Mall," J. T. Way traces the creation of modern Guatemala from the 1920s to the present through a series of national and international development projects. Way shows that, far from being chronically underdeveloped, this nation of stark contrasts--where shopping malls and multinational corporate headquarters coexist with some of the Western Hemisphere's poor...
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    Q. 250Q. 225

  • HOW DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS PERSIST -10%
    HOW DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS PERSIST
    ERIN BECK
    Erin Beck examines microfinance NGOs working with poor, rural women in Guatemala to show how these women creatively and strategically use the NGOs to their own benefit in ways that do not necessarily match the goals of the NGOs, demonstrating that development projects are often transformed and persist in unexpected ways. ...
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    Q. 390Q. 351

  • ON DECOLONIALITY -10%
    ON DECOLONIALITY
    CATHERINE WALSH
    Walter D. Mignolo and Catherine E. Walsh introduce the concept of decoloniality by providing a theoretical overview and discussing concrete examples of decolonial projects in action. ...
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    Q. 405Q. 365

  • SILENCE ON THE MOUNTAIN -10%
    SILENCE ON THE MOUNTAIN
    DANIEL WILKINSON
    Silence on the Mountain is a virtuoso work of reporting and a masterfully plotted narrative tracing the history of Guatemala’s thirty-six-year internal war, a conflict that claimed the lives of some 200,000 people, the vast majority of whom died (or were “disappeared”) at the hands of the U.S.-backed military government. Written by Daniel Wilkinson, a young human rights worker,...
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    Q. 415Q. 374

  • THE GUATEMALA READER: HISTORY, CULTURE, POLITICS -10%
    THE GUATEMALA READER: HISTORY, CULTURE, POLITICS
    GREG GRANDIN / DEBORAH LEVENSON
    This reader brings together more than 200 texts and images in a broad introduction to Guatemala’s history, culture, and politics. In choosing the selections, the editors sought to avoid representing the country only in terms of its long experience of conflict, racism, and violence. And so, while offering many perspectives on that violence, this anthology portrays Guatemal...
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    Q. 475Q. 428

  • THE BLOOD OF GUATEMALA, A HISTORY O -10%
    THE BLOOD OF GUATEMALA, A HISTORY O
    GREG GRANDIN
    Over the latter half of the twentieth century, the Guatemalan state slaughtered more than two hundred thousand of its citizens. In the wake of this violence, a vibrant pan-Mayan movement has emerged, one that is challenging Ladino (non-indigenous) notions of citizenship and national identity. In The Blood of Guatemala Greg Grandin locates the origins of this ethnic resurgence w...
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    Q. 310Q. 279