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Angola: apontamentos para uma História Social da Cultura

open access: yesAfricana Studia, 2020
Este artigo é dividido em duas partes. Na primeira, apresenta-se uma reflexão a respeito da produção historiográfica, sobretudo a realizada em língua portuguesa, acerca do período colonial em Angola, enfatizando-se o que tem sido feito e o que ainda há ...
Andrea Marzano
doaj   +1 more source

Consumption and excess in Spanish America (1700-1830) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
It may be said without exaggeration, that the finest stuffs made in countries, where industry is always inventing something new, are more generally seen in Lima than in any other place; vanity and ostentation not being restrained by custom or law ...
Earle, Rebecca
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A Journey Between Science and the Arts: Templates for the Depiction of the Pineapple (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
wiley   +1 more source

Microbially generated ferruginous crusts: A potential biosignature of continental input in coastal settings

open access: yesSedimentology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Thin ferruginous sandy crusts are common on top of sandstone beds in the Early Permian post‐glacial deposits of the Paraná Basin in southern Brazil. These crusts usually preserve wrinkle structures, suggesting that they might be a product of microbial mediation.
Patrícia Weschenfelder   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

National Relics: Secular Sacrality, Museums, and Heritage‐Making in Nineteenth‐Century Chile

open access: yesMuseum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 2, Fall 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines how objects and bodily remains are transformed and ritualized into national relics through collecting and exhibiting practices in museums. Focusing on nineteenth‐century Chile, it draws on archival sources, material culture theory, and the anthropology of religion to argue that objects associated with Chile's nation‐state
Hugo Rueda Ramírez
wiley   +1 more source

Pulperos rurales: entre la vida privada y la pública

open access: yesMundo Agrario, 2004
Este trabajo estudia la vida privada del pulpero rural de la campaña de Buenos Aires y las actividades que desarrolla cuando no se encuentra frente a su negocio.
Julián Carrera
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Exiled From Their Own Lands: Indigenist Policies, Oil, and Colonial Plunder in 20th Century Venezuela

open access: yesThe Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines the historical displacement of Indigenous peoples in Venezuela, focusing on the links between indigenist policies and the exploitation of natural resources, particularly oil, throughout the 20th century. Using a combined historical and ethnographic approach, it demonstrates how the formation of the Venezuelan nation‐state
Gabriel Tardelli
wiley   +1 more source

Historia colonial de Santo Domingo [PDF]

open access: yesHispanic American Historical Review, 1976
Woodrow Borah, Frank Moya Pons
openaire   +2 more sources

Reseña de Belinda Palacios, Entre la historia y la ficción: estudio y edición de “Historia del Huérfano” de Andrés de León (1621), un texto inédito de la América colonial

open access: yesNuevas de Indias, 2020
Reseña de Belinda Palacios,  Entre la historia y la ficción: estudio y edición de “Historia del Huérfano” de Andrés de León (1621), un texto inédito de la América colonial.
Guillermo Serés
doaj   +1 more source

Un cacique y su tradición : el sur de Jalisco [PDF]

open access: yes, 1977
Es éste un apunte histórico-antropológico sobre la formación del caciquismo mediante la exposición del caso concreto del sur de Jalisco en México. Roto el vínculo colonial impuesto por la Corona española, se pone en marcha en toda la estructura social ...
Muriá, José M.
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