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41. Publications & Writing
Journey of Song: Public Life and Morality in Cameroon
During the long dry season, Tupuri men and women in northern Cameroon gather in gurna camps outside their villages to learn the songs that will be performed at widely attended celebrations to honor the year’s dead. The gurna provides a space for them to join together in solidar…
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42. Publications & Writing
Judicial Power and National Politics: Courts and Gender in the Religious-Secular Conflict in Israel
In Judicial Power and National Politics, 1999 IDRF Fellow Patricia J. Woods examines a controversial issue in the politics of many countries around the world: the increasing role that courts and justices have played in deeply charged political battles. Through an extensive case s…
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43. Publications & Writing
Karl Marx on Technology and Alienation
In Karl Marx on Technology and Alienation, 2003 IDRF Fellow Amy Wendling draws on lesser known archival materials, including Marx’s notebooks on women and patriarchy and technology to offer a new interpretation of Marx’s concept of alienation as it develops throughout his wor…
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44. Publications & Writing
La Diaspora Cubana en México: Terceros Espacios y Miradas Excéntricas
By looking to the Cuban-produced narrative in Mexico, 2004 IDRF Fellow Tanya Weimer considers the different perspectives on the Diaspora that are produced in Mexico. Cubana en Mexico offers the first study about the Cuban Diaspora in a place other than Miami. It explores the term…
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45. Publications & Writing
Land, Protest, and Politics: The Landless Movement and the Struggle for Agrarian Reform in Brazil
In this work, 1999 IDRF Fellow Gabriel Ondetti engages in a critical dialogue with contemporary political opportunity theory and Mancur Olson’s classic economic theory of collective action. In recent decades in Brazil, poor and landless workers have presented a major challenge…
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46. Publications & Writing
Legalizing Identities: Becoming Black or Indian in Brazil's Northeast
Anthropologists widely agree that identities--even ethnic and racial ones--are socially constructed. Less understood are the processes by which social identities are conceived and developed. Legalizing Identities shows how law can successfully serve as the impetus for the transfo…
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47. Publications & Writing
Living Memory: The Social Aesthetics in a Northern Italian Town
In Living Memory, 1999 IDRF Fellow Jillian Cavanaugh investigates the complex question of language and its place at the heart of Bergamasco culture in northern Italy. By integrating extensive participant observation with sociolinguistic data collection, she reveals the political…
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48. Publications & Writing
Market Reform in Society: Post-Crisis Politics and Economic Change in Authoritarian Peru
The central question addressed in 1997 IDRF Fellow Moises Arce’s account of Fujimoro’s Peru is how liberal market reforms affect the relative strength of different social groups. This places the book in a quite different class from the numerous ethnographically inclined studi…
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49. Publications & Writing
Measures of Equality: Social Science, Citizenship, and Race in Cuba, 1902-1940
…1997 IDRF Fellow Alejandra Bronfman’s study explores the notion of race and equality through an analysis of scientific, legal and political ideas. It includes a list of archival sources and an extensive bibliography. Buy from Amazon.
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50. Publications & Writing
Myths of Harmony: Race and Republicanism during the Age of Revolution, Colombia, 1795-1831 (Pitt Latin American Studies)
While most contemporary scholarship has focused the explanation for racial tolerance—or its absence—in the colonial period, 2000 IDRF Fellow Marixa Lasso argues that the key to understanding the origins of modern race relations are to be found in the Age of Revolution. In thi…
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