Duke University Press: 2463 books
Insurgent Encounters
Transnational Activism, Ethnography, and the Political
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Insurgent Encounters illuminates the dynamics of contemporary transnational social movements, including those advocating for women and indigenous groups, environmental justice, and alternative—cooperative rather than exploitative—forms of globalization. The contributors are politically engaged...
Romancing the Wild
Cultural Dimensions of Ecotourism
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
The worldwide development of ecotourism—including adventures such as mountain climbing and whitewater rafting, as well as more pedestrian pursuits such as birdwatching—has been extensively studied, but until now little attention has been paid to why vacationers choose to take part in what are...
Techniques of Pleasure
BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Techniques of Pleasure is a vivid portrayal of the San Francisco Bay Area’s pansexual BDSM (SM) community. Margot Weiss conducted ethnographic research at dungeon play parties and at workshops on bondage, role play, and flogging, and she interviewed more than sixty SM practitioners. She describes...
To Die in this Way
Nicaraguan Indians and the Myth of Mestizaje, 1880-1965
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 1998
Challenging the widely held belief that Nicaragua has been ethnically homogeneous since the nineteenth century, To Die in This Way reveals the continued existence and importance of an officially “forgotten” indigenous culture. Jeffrey L. Gould argues that mestizaje—a cultural homogeneity that...
Territories of Difference
Place, Movements, Life, Redes
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
In Territories of Difference, Arturo Escobar, author of the widely debated book Encountering Development, analyzes the politics of difference enacted by specific place-based ethnic and environmental movements in the context of neoliberal globalization. His analysis is based on his many years of engagement...
The Grimace of Macho Ratón
Artisans, Identity, and Nation in Late-Twentieth-Century Western Nicaragua
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
In this creative ethnography Les W. Field challenges a post-Sandinista national conception of identity, one that threatens to constrict the future of subaltern Nicaraguans. Drawing on the works and words of artisans and artisanas, Indians, and mestizos, Field critiques the national ideology of ethnic...
On Site, In Sound
Performance Geographies in América Latina
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
In On Site, In Sound Kirstie A. Dorr examines the spatiality of sound and the ways in which the sonic is bound up in perceptions and constructions of geographic space. Focusing on the hemispheric circulation of South American musical cultures, Dorr shows how sonic production and spatial formation...
Ideology and Power in the Middle East
Studies in Honor of George Lenczowski
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
Scholars from the United States, Canada, Europe, and the Middle East combine their talents and expertise to honor George Lenczowski, whose studies of the Middle East over two generations have made him a foremost expert on contemporary affairs in this most volatile and complex region.
Outlawed
Between Security and Rights in a Bolivian City
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
In Outlawed, Daniel M. Goldstein reveals how indigenous residents of marginal neighborhoods in Cochabamba, Bolivia, struggle to balance security with rights. Feeling abandoned to the crime and violence that grip their communities, they sometimes turn to vigilante practices, including lynching, to...
by Edward E. Telles, Howard Winant, Michael Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 1999
Bringing together U.S. and Brazilian scholars, as well as Afro-Brazilian political activists, Racial Politics in Contemporary Brazil represents a significant advance in understanding the complexities of racial difference in contemporary Brazilian society. While previous scholarship on this subject...
Diploma of Whiteness
Race and Social Policy in Brazil, 1917–1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2003
In Brazil, the country with the largest population of African descent in the Americas, the idea of race underwent a dramatic shift in the first half of the twentieth century. Brazilian authorities, who had considered race a biological fact, began to view it as a cultural and environmental condition....
Human Rights in the Maya Region
Global Politics, Cultural Contentions, and Moral Engagements
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2008
In recent years Latin American indigenous groups have regularly deployed the discourse of human rights to legitimate their positions and pursue their goals. Perhaps nowhere is this more evident than in the Maya region of Chiapas and Guatemala, where in the last two decades indigenous social movements...
New Languages of the State
Indigenous Resurgence and the Politics of Knowledge in Bolivia
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2009
During the mid-1990s, a bilingual intercultural education initiative was launched to promote the introduction of indigenous languages alongside Spanish in public elementary schools in Bolivia’s indigenous regions. Bret Gustafson spent fourteen years studying and working in southeastern Bolivia with...
The Great Woman Singer
Gender and Voice in Puerto Rican Music
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Licia Fiol-Matta traces the careers of four iconic Puerto Rican singers—Myrta Silva, Ruth Fernández, Ernestina Reyes, and Lucecita Benítez—to explore how their voices and performance style transform the possibilities for comprehending the figure of the woman singer. Fiol-Matta shows how these...