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DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2008)
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In Creating Our Own, anthropologist Zoila S. Mendoza explores the early-twentieth-century development of the "folkloric arts"-particularly music, dance, and drama-in Cuzco, Peru, revealing the central role these expressive practices played in shaping ethnic and regional ...
ABC-CLIO (2008)
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This book is a captivating and authoritative introduction to Brazil - its history, the evolution of its society and culture, and the staggering variety of peoples and landscapes within its borders.One of the few South ...
MOHR SIEBECK (2008)
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Jewish society in the Ottoman Empire has not been the subject of systematic research. The seventeenth century is the main object of this study, since it was a formative era. For Ottoman Jews, the 'Ottoman ...
LA GIUNTINA (2008)
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Il fitto intricarsi dei quartieri ebraici si è mutato ed immobilizzato nella rarefatta mestizia dei recinti dei cimiteri dove i morti di molte generazioni sono riuniti spesso in un piccolo spazio. I luoghi di sepoltura ...
LA GIUNTINA (2008)
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Non tutta la storia del popolo ebraico è nota a tutti, specialmente quella legata ai luoghi lontani del circuito tradizionale di osservazione. E' il caso della storia degli ebrei di Palermo.
Questo è uno dei ...
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS (2008)
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This wide-ranging narrative explores the role that Jews, Conversos, and Crypto-Jews played in settling and building the Atlantic world between 1500 and 1800. Through the interwoven themes of markets, politics, religion, culture, and identity, the ...
UNIVERSITY PITTSBURGH PRESS (2008)
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As Spain rebuilt its colonial regime in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines after the Spanish American revolutions, it turned to history to justify continued dominance. The metropolitan vision of history, however, always met with ...
WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2008)
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Since their expulsion from Spain in 1492, Sephardic Jews have managed to maintain their Jewish faith and Spanish group identity and have developed a uniquely Judeo-Spanish culture wherever they settled. Among the important cultural ties ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS (2008)
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In this detailed study, Nina Caputo examines conceptions of history and messianic redemption in the writings of the Catalonian rabbi and brilliant Talmudic scholar Nahmanides (1195-1270). An early exponent of kabbalah, Nahmanides was also a ...
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS (2008)
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For most of the last four centuries, the broad expanse of territory between the Baltic and the Black Seas, known since the Enlightenment as "Eastern Europe," has been home to the world's largest Jewish population. ...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS (2008)
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What did the Romans know about their gods? Why did they perform the rituals of their religion, and what motivated them to change those rituals? To these questions Clifford Ando proposes simple answers: In contrast ...
OXBOW BOOKS (2008)
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The main source of archaeological evidence for Late Roman Republican camps is a complex of installations around the Iberian city of Numantia in Spain, excavated by Adolf Schulten in the early 1900s. This book reassesses ...
OXFORD U. P. (2008)
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-The most extensive scholarly reference project covering African American lives and history ever undertaken
-8 volumes containing 4,000 biographies and 1,000 images
-The biographies will also be added to the Oxford African American Studies ...
MICHIGAN CLASSICAL PRESS (2008)
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John Matthews' brilliant analysis of Ammianus and his world is foundational for the study of the Roman Empire in the fourth century CE. Matthews' Ammianus is a man very much in touch with his times, ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2008)
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In the highland region of Sullk'ata, located in the rural Bolivian Andes, habitual activities such as sharing food, work, and stories create a sense of relatedness among people. Through these day-to-day interactions-as well as more ...
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2008)
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Imposing Harmony is a groundbreaking analysis of the role of music and musicians in the social and political life of colonial Cuzco. Challenging musicology's cathedral-centered approach to the history of music in colonial Latin America, ...
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2008)
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Why does Argentina's national anthem describe its citizens as sons of the Inca? Why did patriots in nineteenth-century Chile name a battleship after the Aztec emperor Montezuma? Answers to both questions lie in the tangled ...
ASHGATE (2008)
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This volume offers annotated texts with biographical and historical introductions of four previously unpublished travel journals from the period 1775-1874.
The first of these is the journal of a participant in a Spanish expedition ...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS (2008)
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Jewish Identities mounts a formidable challenge to prevailing essentialist assumptions about "Jewish music," which maintain that ethnic groups, nations, or religious communities possess an essence that must manifest itself in art created by members of ...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS (2008)
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This volume gathers sixteen essays on monarchy and power in the Hellenistic period and charts a new approach to Hellenistic history by focusing attention on biblical and Jewish evidence and reading that evidence in new ...