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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Latin American Languages, Literatures, and Cultures"”.
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Dispossession, Realism and the History of Neoliberalism in Peru and Colombia (1964-2014)
This dissertation belongs to the fields of Latin American literary studies, Marxist literary criticism, and Andean studies. Throughout the dissertation, I explore profound connections between these fields to study the historical dimension in the Peruvian and Colombian novels of the second half of …
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The Scientist and the Jaguar: Sacred Plants and the Politics of Knowledge in the northwestern Amazon, 1849 - 2023
… a plant derivative native to the Amazonian lowlands that I describe as a “plant-being.” The project traces how a transnational network life and human scientists sought to transform ayahuasca from a sacred being into a scientific object and biomedical therapeutic from the 1850s to the present. …
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The Anti-Marriage Plot in the Age of Informal Empire, 1850-1930
… emerged in the nineteenth century where marriage and its adjacent forms—alliance, coalition, union, association—became extraordinarily fraught proxies for understanding a convoluted, Anglo-centric world-system. In reading novels by José Mármol (Amalia), Anthony Trollope (The Prime Minister), …
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STATECRAFT IN BLACK: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, PARTY POLITICS, AND THE RISE OF ETHNORACIAL INSTITUTIONS IN BRAZIL
… exclusion from decision-making arenas, and systemic exposure to both state and social violence. In response to these enduring inequalities, state- and municipal-level governments have established a range of institutional measures, including anti-discrimination laws, affirmative action …