South America category: 2208 books
by J.M. Porup
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2012
Paris, New York, Peru — they all have a symbol. An icon that draws people from around the world. But what about Colombia? It has everything a tourist might want — except for this all-important photo opportunity.At the invitation of the Colombian Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Lonely Planet...
by Rough Guides
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
The Rough Guide Snapshot to Southern Brazil is the ultimate travel guide to this captivating region of Brazil. It leads you through the area with reliable information and comprehensive coverage of all the major sights and attractions. Detailed maps and up-to-date listings pinpoint the best cafés,...
A Walk to the River in Amazonia
Ordinary Reality for the Mehinaku Indians
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Our lives are mostly composed of ordinary reality — the flow of moment-to-moment existence — and yet it has been largely overlooked as a subject in itself for anthropological study. In this work, the author achieves an understanding of this part of reality for the Mehinaku Indians, an Amazonian...
The Ecological Native
Indigenous Peoples' Movements and Eco-Governmentality in Columbia
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This text analyzes indigenous peoples' processes of identity construction as ecological natives. It opens space for reconstructing all the different networks, conditions of emergence, and implications (political, cultural, social and economic) of one specific event: the consolidation of the relationship...
by Janice Tingum
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2015
Step into Quito, Ecuador, with this photo gallery and take a look around. Enjoy unique glimpses of a fascinating city from the Basílica del Voto Nacional. Discover rich textiles in the Otavalo Market. Inspiring views and a great travel resource.
by Lorenzo Mazzoni
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Un libro ironico, commovente e spensierato tra l'Italia, il Cile e l'Olanda Denil, giovane italo-cileno, conduce una vita tranquilla e solitaria, immerso nella multi-etnicità di Amsterdam e dei suoi canali. Divide le giornate tra la musica, il lavoro al coffee shop Sunflower Bay, le lunghe camminate...
Brésil : Dans les pas du géant
L'Âme des peuples
Language: French
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Parce que pour connaître les peuples, il faut d’abord les comprendre
Immense pays. Immenses ressources. Immenses défis. Pour le visiteur, condamné à ne découvrir qu’une infime partie de ce territoire géant, le Brésil est une aventure en soi. Mais qui connaît les Brésiliens sait...
The Dictator’s Highway
Patagonian Exploits along the Carretera Austral
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
After seizing power in a violent coup, President Augusto Pinochet ordered the construction of the Carretera Austral, a highway across Chile’s southern wilderness. Staggering over mountain passes, skirting around volcanoes and glaciers, and cutting across interminable stretches of dense rainforest,...
Transmitting the Spirit
Religious Conversion, Media, and Urban Violence in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Pentecostalism is one of the most rapidly expanding religious-cultural forms in the world. Its rise in popularity is often attributed to its successfully incorporating native cosmologies in new religious frameworks. This volume probes for more complex explanations to this phenomenon in the favelas...
by Helena Morley
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Originally published in 1942 under the title Minha Vida de Menina—Portuguese meaning “My Life as a Little Girl or “Young Girl”—this book is a diary that was kept by the author, Helena Morley (pseudonym of Alice Dayrell Caldeira Brant), when she was between the ages of twelve and fifteen...
Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil
State Policy, Frontier Expansion, and the Xavante Indians, 1937–1988
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2001
Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil examines the dynamic interplay between the Brazilian government and the Xavante Indians of central Brazil in the context of twentieth-century western frontier expansion and the state’s indigenous policy. Offering a window onto Brazilian developmental policy...
by Bill the Geek
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
"I read Bill the Geek´s book and it got me all pumped up. My girlfriend read it too. We did our internet research and actually called some Americans that were already living in Puerto Vallarta. They had friends with a place for rent right on the ocean. We were doing web design in San Francisco...
by DK Travel
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
An unbeatable, pocket-sized guide to Rio de Janeiro, packed with insider tips and ideas, color maps, and top 10 lists--all designed to help you see the very best of Rio de Janeiro.
Take a Rio walking tour, marvel at the spectacular Christ the Redeemer, relax in the sun on Ipanema beach, or...
For Social Peace in Brazil
Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working Class in São Paulo, 1920-1964
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
This book is the first major study of industrialists and social policy in Latin America. Barbara Weinstein examines the vast array of programs sponsored by a new generation of Brazilian industrialists who sought to impose on the nation their vision of a rational, hierarchical, and efficient society....