Half Bitter/Half Sweet
Author: Dorothy C. Kucera
Publisher:
Published: 1993-09-01
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780965812115
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Published: 1993-09-01
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780965812115
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Theresa L. Miller
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2019-05-14
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 1477317406
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Indigenous Canela inhabit a vibrant multispecies community of nearly 3,000 people and over 300 types of cultivated and wild plants living together in Maranhão State in the Brazilian Cerrado (savannah) a biome threatened with deforestation and climate change. In the face of these environmental threats, Canela women and men work to maintain riverbank and forest gardens and care for their growing crops who they consider to be, literally, children. This nurturing, loving relationship between people and plants—which offers a thought-provoking model for supporting multispecies survival and well-being throughout the world—is the focus of Plant Kin. Theresa L. Miller shows how kinship develops between Canela people and plants through intimate, multi-sensory, and embodied relationships. Using an approach she calls “sensory ethnobotany,” Miller explores the Canela bio-sociocultural life-world, including Canela landscape aesthetics, ethnobotanical classification, mythical storytelling, historical and modern-day gardening practices, transmission of ecological knowledge through an education of affection for plant kin, shamanic engagements with plant friends and lovers, and myriad other human-nonhuman experiences. This multispecies ethnography reveals the transformations of Canela human-environment and human-plant engagements over the past two centuries and envisions possible futures for this Indigenous multispecies community as they reckon with the rapid environmental and climatic changes facing the Brazilian Cerrado as the Anthropocene epoch unfolds.
Author: David A.J. Richards
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 1999-07-01
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0814763804
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When southern Italians began emigrating to the U.S. in large numbers in the 1870s-part of the "new immigration" from southern and eastern rather than northern Europe-they were seen as racially inferior, what David A. J. Richards terms "nonvisibly" black. The first study of its kind, Italian American explores the acculturation process of Italian immigrants in terms of then-current patterns of European and American racism. Delving into the political and legal context of flawed liberal nationalism both in Italy (the Risorgimento) and the United States (Reconstruction Amendments), Richards examines why Italian Americans were so reluctant to influence depictions of themselves and their own collective identity. He argues that American racism could not have had the durability or political power it has had either in the popular understanding or in the corruption of constitutional ideals unless many new immigrants, themselves often regarded as racially inferior, had been drawn into accepting and supporting many of the terms of American racism. With its unprecedented focus on Italian American identity and an interdisciplinary approach to comparative culture and law, this timely study sheds important light on the history and contemporary importance of identity and multicultural politics in American political and constitutional debate.
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 1076
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: H.M. Elliot
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2022-05-10
Total Pages: 597
ISBN-13: 3375022301
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Author: John Dowson
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2022-06-05
Total Pages: 598
ISBN-13: 337504447X
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Author: Henry Miers Elliot
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2021-10-29
Total Pages: 598
ISBN-13: 3752523719
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Author: Sir Henry Miers Elliot
Publisher:
Published: 1869
Total Pages: 612
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Published: 1869
Total Pages: 604
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