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Monuments to Mestizaje and the Commemoration of Racial Democracy in Puerto Rico

Visual Anthropology Review, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 350-387, Fall 2023., 2023
Abstract In this paper, I argue that monuments to mestizaje (miscegenation) in Puerto Rico reaffirm the myth of a harmonious mixture between the White Spaniard, Black African, and Indigenous Taíno. This racial triad, originally conceived in the nineteenth century, was institutionalized in 1956 by the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture to legitimize the ...
Rafael V. Capó García
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Homenaje a Cage [PDF]

Ricercare, 2014
En 1945, John Cage se unió a Henry Cowell, Lou Harrison y Virgil Thomson para crear los Party Pieces: Sonorous and Exquisite Corpses, para flauta, clarinete, fagot, corno y piano. Se trata de 20 breves piezas construidas con la famosa técnica surrealista del “cadáver exquisito”.
Posada Saldarriaga, Andrés, Agudelo Ramírez, Victor, Alunno, Marco   +2 more
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The Art of Assemblage at La Venta

Art History, Volume 45, Issue 4, Page 832-857, September 2022., 2022
How might the meaning of monumental sculpture be ephemeral? At La Venta, objects from greenstone figurines to massive basalt sculptures were recycled, reworked, and moved around the landscape, their new configurations and associations creating new kinds of meaning and enabling new kinds of ritual interaction.
Claudia Brittenham
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Teudefred and the king. On the manuscript Carcassonne G 6 and the intertwining of localities and centre in the Carolingian world

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 209-235, May 2022., 2022
Carcassonne G 6, preserving a judicial oath from 833, is an exceptional source for the history of the Spanish March and more generally the workings of power in the Carolingian world. The oath, concerning at first glance a very local dispute, links a body of royal charters with the precepts for the hispani issued by Charlemagne, Louis the Pious and ...
Christoph Haack, Thomas Kohl
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The Basque Heroine Libe and the Nationalist Press (1895–1936)

Gender &History, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 77-97, March 2022., 2022
Abstract The founder of Basque nationalism, Sabino Arana, wrote Libe. Melodrama dramático (a dramatic melodrama) in 1902. Arana placed the heroine ‘Libe’ in a medieval battle. She was created to convey what the role of Basque women should be in defending their Homeland. Arana died shortly after the script was published in 1903. His successors attempted
Leyre Arrieta
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HUMBOLDT IN VENEZUELA AND CUBA: THE ‘SECOND SLAVERY’

German Life and Letters, Volume 74, Issue 3, Page 311-325, July 2021., 2021
ABSTRACT The reception of Humboldt's work now spans more than 200 years. It began with the publication of the texts that form his Opus Americanum (1808–31). Among these works, it was in the Political Essay on Cuba, where a chapter was devoted to the demography of the slave trade from Africa to Cuba, that became a cornerstone of the global historical ...
Michael Zeuske
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The Death Penalty and Historical Change in Spain

Journal of Historical Sociology, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 305-322, June 2021., 2021
Abstract This article studies the long duration of the death penalty in Spain until its abolition in the Constitution of 1978. After analysing the plurality of theoretical approaches and possibilities offered by archival sources and specialised historiography (particularly those produced by specialists in the history of law and social history), I ...
Pedro Oliver Olmo
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Los homenajes de Ramón Gaya [PDF]

, 2012
Ramón Gaya’s “homages” constitute an example of an artist’s criticism by another, from the point of view of preference and admiration. In his “homages” R.
Muñoz Millanes, José
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Elecciones y lecciones poéticas de José Emilio Pacheco (Terrazas, Sor Juana, Darío, Lugones y Vallejo) [PDF]

, 2015
Fecha de recepción: 7 de noviembre de 2013. Fecha de aceptación: 3 de noviembre de 2014.     La poesía de José Emilio Pacheco está íntimamente relacionada con lareflexión poética que ofrece en sus artes poéticas, sus “Aproximaciones” y sus poemas ...
Alemany, Carmen
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“Homenagem a Mãe Practitioner”, uma celebração histórica original e genuíno dos Assistentes Saúde Alicante (1959-1970) [PDF]

, 2015
Tras poner de relieve las iniciativas y aportaciones originales del Colegio de Practicantes de Alicante a la historia de las fiestas y conmemoraciones institucionales de la profesión a nivel provincial y nacional, ofrecemos una visión antropológica de la
Ávila Olivares, José Antonio
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