Getting out of fiction: Luiz Costa Lima, Hayden White, and the debate on the literary [PDF]
, 2010 In Control of the Imaginary, Luiz Costa Lima councils against viewing Euclides da Cunha’s foundational text Rebellion in the Backlands as literary or as a discourse of fiction, for he believes that fiction, like mimesis, is misunderstood within a ...
Weiser, Frans
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Threads in the labyrinth: perception/reception in the 'other' dramaturgies of Triangle Theatre, Odin Teatret and the Teat(r)o Oficina Uzyna Uzona [PDF]
The aim of this paper was to critically articulate an embodied re-membering of three different performances - The Dig (1992) do Triangle Theatre; Kaosmos (1994) do Odin Teatret; e Os Sertões do Teat(r)o Oficina Uzyna Uzona (2007).
Campbell, Patrick
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Exodus, or an imagined political community: the landless workers movement and internal migration in the work of Sebastião Salgado [PDF]
, 2004 The objective of this essay is to analyse the photographic production of Sebastião Salgado of the Landless Workers Movement, aiming at understanding the relationships between the photographic medium and the levels of ...
Cunha, M., Cunha, M.
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Indigenous territories and tropical forest management in Latin America [PDF]
Using data from Latin America, the authors argue that fundamental changes must take place in the legal recognition and demarcation of indigenous territories if indigenous peoples are to fulfill their potential as resource managers for threatened tropical
Davis, Shelton H., Wali, Alaka
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The Amazon: Land Without History [PDF]
, 2008 Book review of The Amazon: Land Without History. Euclides da Cunha (translation by Ronald Sousa of À margem da história (1909), with an introduction by Lúcia Sá). Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Hemming, John
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Ethnoracial Land Restitution: Finding Indians and Fugitive Slave Descendants in the Brazilian Northeast [PDF]
, 2009 This chapter considers how a desire for land and development can lead to a refashioning of ethnoracial identities and identifications. Debates in development studies have centered on culture as an impediment to development. I turn that debate on its head
French, Jan Hoffman
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Of Passionate Curves and Desirable Cadences: Themes on Waiwai Social Being [PDF]
, 2008 Book review of Of Passionate Curves and Desirable Cadences: Themes on Waiwai Social Being. George Mentore. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. xiv + 378 pp., illustrations, notes, references, index.
Ingold, Tim
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Dancing for Land: Law-Making and Cultural Performance in Northeastern Brazil [PDF]
, 2002 In Mocambo, cultural practices and performances are being reconfigured and retained in new forms and surrounded by new discourses, revealing modes of local self-fashioning and political action. However, our inquiry should not end there.
French, Jan Hoffman
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Imagens utópicas e distópicas do deserto e da floresta em Euclides da Cunha [PDF]
, 2011 This essay focuses on two important questions in the works of Euclides da Cunha. The first question addresses the utopian and dystopian images that Euclides creates to describe and to narrate the Amazonian rainforest; the second one, also related to his ...
Bernucci, Leopoldo M.
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