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...


“steven van wolputte”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “steven van wolputte”
Skip side bar filters

  • In the Land of the Lacandón

    A Graphic History of Adventure and Imperialism

    by Steven Van Wolputte, Richard Jobs ...
    In the mid-1930s the amateur French ethnographer and filmmaker Bernard de Colmont ventured into the mountainous state of Chiapas to study the Lacandón people and broadcast their way of life to a curious European public. Considered a “lost tribe,” the Lacandón were thought to be the closest living relatives of the ancient Maya.De Colmont became a celebrity explorer whose adventures generated ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • In the Land of the Lacandón

    A Graphic History of Adventure and Imperialism

    by Steven Van Wolputte, Richard Jobs ...
    In the mid-1930s the amateur French ethnographer and filmmaker Bernard de Colmont ventured into the mountainous state of Chiapas to study the Lacandón people and broadcast their way of life to a curious European public. Considered a “lost tribe,” the Lacandón were thought to be the closest living relatives of the ancient Maya.De Colmont became a celebrity explorer whose adventures generated ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Imperial Eyes

    Travel Writing and Transculturation

    by Mary Louise Pratt ...
    Updated and expanded throughout with new illustrations and new material, this is the long- awaited second edition of a highly acclaimed and interdisciplinary book which quickly established itself as a seminal text in its field. ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Playing Oppression

    The Legacy of Conquest and Empire in Colonialist Board Games

    by Mary Flanagan, Mikael Jakobsson ...
    A striking analysis of popular board games’ roots in imperialist reasoning—and why the future of play depends on reckoning with it.Board games conjure up images of innocuously enriching entertainment: family game nights, childhood pastimes, cooperative board games centered around resource management and strategic play. Yet in Playing Oppression, Mary Flanagan and Mikael Jakobsson apply the ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Maya

    Lost Civilizations

    by Megan E. O’Neil ...
    Series Book 15 - Lost Civilizations
    The Maya reveals how this ancient civilization – its buildings, ideas, objects and identities – has been perceived, portrayed and exploited over five hundred years in the Americas, Europe and beyond. Megan E. O’Neil summarizes ancient Maya art and history from the Preclassic period to the Spanish invasion, as well as the history of engagement with the ancient Maya, from Spanish invaders in the ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Cinema and Landscape

    Film, Nation and Cultural Geography: Film, Nation and Cultural Geography

    Edited by Graeme Harper, Jonathan Rayner ...
    The notion of landscape is a complex one, but it has been central to the art and artistry of the cinema. After all, what is the French New Wave without Paris? What are the films of Sidney Lumet, Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, and Spike Lee without New York? Cinema and Landscape frames contemporary film landscapes across the world, in an exploration of screen aesthetics and national ideology, film ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Lingua Cosmica

    Science Fiction from around the World

    by Daína Chaviano, Jacek Dukaj, Jean-Claude Dunyach, Andreas Eschbach, Angélica Gorodischer, Sakyo Komatsu, Cixin Liu, Laurent McAllister, Olatunde Osunsanmi, Johanna Sinisalo, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Alexis Brooks de Vita, Pawel Frelik, Yvonne Howell, Yolanda Molina-Gavilán, Vibeke Rützou Petersen, Amy J Ransom, Hanna-Riikka Roine, Hanna Samola, Mingwei Song, Tatsumi Takayuki, Juan Carlos Toledano Redondo, Natacha Vas-Deyres ...
    Anthologies, awards, journals, and works in translation have sprung up to reflect science fiction's increasingly international scope. Yet scholars and students alike face a problem. Where does one begin to explore global SF in the absence of an established canon? Lingua Cosmica opens the door to some of the creators in the vanguard of international science fiction. Eleven experts offer innovative ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Unthinking Eurocentrism

    Multiculturalism and the Media

    by Ella Shohat, Robert Stam ...
    Series series Sightlines
    Unthinking Eurocentrism, a seminal and award-winning work in postcolonial studies first published in 1994, explored Eurocentrism as an interlocking network of buried premises, embedded narratives, and submerged tropes that constituted a broadly shared epistemology. Within a transdisciplinary study, the authors argued that the debates about Eurocentrism and post/coloniality must be considered ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • World Cinemas, Transnational Perspectives

    Edited by Nataša Durovicová, Kathleen E. Newman ...
    Series series AFI Film Readers
    SCMS Award Winner "Best Edited Collection"The standard analytical category of "national cinema" has increasingly been called into question by the category of the "transnational." This anthology examines the premises and consequences of the coexistence of these two categories and the parameters of historiographical approaches that cross the borders of nation-states. The three sections of World ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase

    Contemporary North American Dystopian Literature

    Edited by Brett Josef Grubisic, Gisèle M. Baxter, Tara Lee ...
    In Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase, twenty-five contributors investigate how dystopian fiction reflects twenty-first century reality, using diverse critical methodologies to examine how North America is portrayed in a perceived age of crisis, accelerated uncertainty, and political volatility.Drawing from contemporary novels such as Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, Neil Gaiman’s American Gods, and the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Silent Cinema and the Politics of Space

    Edited by Jennifer M. Bean, Anupama Kapse, Laura Horak ...
    Series series New Directions in National Cinemas
    In this cross-cultural history of narrative cinema and media from the 1910s to the 1930s, leading and emergent scholars explore the transnational crossings and exchanges that occurred in early cinema between the two world wars. Drawing on film archives from around the world, this volume advances the premise that silent cinema freely crossed national borders and linguistic thresholds in ways that ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ancient Maya Politics

    A Political Anthropology of the Classic Period 150–900 CE

    by Simon Martin ...
    The Classic Maya have long presented scholars with vexing problems. One of the longest running and most contested of these, and the source of deeply polarized interpretations, has been their political organization. Using recently deciphered inscriptions and fresh archaeological finds, Simon Martin argues that this particular debate can be laid to rest. He offers a comprehensive re-analysis of the ... Read more

    $34.99 USD