Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “ellen b basso”
Skip side bar filters

  • Ritual Communication

    Edited by Gunter Senft, Ellen B Basso ...
    Series series Wenner-Gren International Symposium Series
    Ritual Communication examines how people create and express meaning through verbal and non-verbal ritual. Ritual communication extends beyond collective religious expression. It is an intrinsic part of everyday interactions, ceremonies, theatrical performances, shamanic chants, political demonstrations and rites of passage. Despite being largely formulaic and repetitive, ritual communication is a ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Last Cannibals

    A South American Oral History

    by Ellen B. Basso ...
    An especially comprehensive study of Brazilian Amazonian Indian history, The Last Cannibals is the first attempt to understand, through indigenous discourse, the emergence of Upper Xingú society. Drawing on oral documents recorded directly from the native language, Ellen Basso transcribes and analyzes nine traditional Kalapalo stories to offer important insights into Kalapalo historical knowledge ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Pretty Modern

    Beauty, Sex, and Plastic Surgery in Brazil

    by Alexander Edmonds ...
    Pretty Modern is a riveting account of Brazil’s emergence as a global leader in plastic surgery. Intrigued by a Carnaval parade that mysteriously paid homage to a Rio de Janeiro plastic surgeon, anthropologist Alexander Edmonds conducted research that took him from Ipanema socialite circles to glitzy telenovela studios to the packed waiting rooms of public hospitals offering free cosmetic surgery. ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • The Loss of El Dorado

    A Colonial History

    by V. S. Naipaul ...
    In this masterpiece about Trinidad, the Nobel Prize-winning author has “given us a lesson in history [and] shown us how it is best written” (The New York Times).The history of Trinidad begins with a delusion: the belief that somewhere nearby on the South American mainland lay El Dorado, the mythical kingdom of gold. In this extraordinary and often gripping book, V. S. Naipaul—himself a native of ... Read more

    Was $7.99 USD Now $6.99 USD

  • Facundo

    Or, Civilization and Barbarism

    by Domingo F. Sarmiento ...
    Translated by Mary Peabody Mann ...
    Ostensibly a biography of the gaucho barbarian Juan Facundo Quiroga, Facundo is also a complex, passionate work of history, sociology, and political commentary, and Latin America's most important essay of the nineteenth century. It is a study of the Argentine character, a prescription for the modernization of Latin America, and a protest against the tyranny of the government of Juan Manuel de ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • El Alto, Rebel City

    Self and Citizenship in Andean Bolivia

    by Sian Lazar, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    Combining anthropological methods and theories with political philosophy, Sian Lazar analyzes everyday practices and experiences of citizenship in a satellite city to the Bolivian capital of La Paz: El Alto, where more than three-quarters of the population identify as indigenous Aymara. For several years, El Alto has been at the heart of resistance to neoliberal market reforms, such as the export ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Insubordination of Signs

    Political Change, Cultural Transformation, and Poetics of the Crisis

    by Nelly Richard, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson ...
    Translated by Alice A. Nelson, Silvia R. Tandeciarz ...
    Series series Latin America in Translation
    Nelly Richard is one of the most prominent cultural theorists writing in Latin America today. As a participant in Chile’s neo-avantgarde, Richard worked to expand the possibilities for cultural debate within the constraints imposed by the Pinochet dictatorship (1973–1990), and she has continued to offer incisive commentary about the country’s transition to democracy. Well known as the founder and ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Culture Wars in Brazil

    The First Vargas Regime, 1930–1945

    by Daryle Williams ...
    In Culture Wars in Brazil Daryle Williams analyzes the contentious politicking over the administration, meaning, and look of Brazilian culture that marked the first regime of president-dictator Getúlio Vargas (1883–1954). Examining a series of interconnected battles waged among bureaucrats, artists, intellectuals, critics, and everyday citizens over the state’s power to regulate and consecrate the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Colour of Paradise: Emeralds in the Age of the Gunpowder Empires

    by Kris Lane ...

    $32.79 USD

  • This Land Is Ours Now

    Social Mobilization and the Meanings of Land in Brazil

    by Wendy Wolford ...
    In This Land Is Ours Now, Wendy Wolford presents an original framework for understanding social mobilization. She argues that social movements are not the politically coherent, bounded entities often portrayed by scholars, the press, and movement leaders. Instead, they are constantly changing mediations between localized moral economies and official movement ideologies. Wolford develops her ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Spanish Pioneers

    Enriched edition.

    by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Jared Black ...
    In "The Spanish Pioneers," Charles Fletcher Lummis delves into the rich tapestry of the Spanish exploration and settlement of the Americas, offering a meticulously researched narrative that combines historical account with vivid storytelling. Lummis exhibits a distinctive literary style that marries scholarly rigor with a captivating narrative voice, bringing to life the challenges, triumphs, and ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gendered Compromises

    Political Cultures and the State in Chile, 1920-1950

    by Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt ...
    With this book, Karin Rosemblatt presents a gendered history of the politics and political compromise that emerged in Chile during the 1930s and 1940s, when reformist popular-front coalitions held power. While other scholars have focused on the economic realignments and novel political pacts that characterized Chilean politics during this era, Rosemblatt explores how gender helped shape Chile’s ... Read more

    $28.49 USD