Search Results for 'Barbara A. Purdy'

This book highlights early-career Indigenous scholars conducting research in North America who are advancing the growing paradigm of archaeological study done with, by, and for members of Native-descendant communities.

Ritual and archaic states frequently ignite complex debates about their defining characteristics and archaeological signatures. Offering fresh perspectives on both subjects, this volume unites the two streams of scholarship and explores the varying nature, expression, and significance of ritual in archaic states.

<p>Juan Ramos uses &ldquo;decolonial aesthetics,&rdquo; a theory that frees the idea of art from Eurocentric forms of expression and philosophies of the beautiful, to examine the long decade of the 1960s in Latin America&mdash;a time of cultural production that has not been studied extensively from a decolonial perspective.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

The contributors emphasize how narratives and images of "the South" have real social, political, and economic ramifications, and that they register at various local, regional, national, and transnational scales.

Tommy Thompson's&nbsp;<em>The Saltwater Angler's Guide to Tampa Bay and Southwest Florida</em>&nbsp;is the one-stop-shop for all of the information you might need on saltwater fishing along the Gulf of Mexico below the panhandle.&nbsp;

This delightful collection is designed to assist students in developing their reading, speaking, and writing knowledge of Portuguese as it is used in present-day Brazil.

Bringing far-removed time periods into startling conversation, this book argues that certain attitudes and practices present in Europe’s Middle Ages were foundational in the development of the western concept of race.

<em>Venezuela's Petro-Diplomacy</em> offers fresh, authoritative insights into a wide array of questions hanging over Venezuelan foreign policy and the leadership of the maverick president, Chavez.&nbsp;