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The art of memory : an ethnographer's journey / Stefano Varese ; translated by Margaret Randall ; foreword by Lynn Stephen.
Penn Museum Library GN21.V365 A3 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Varese, Stefano, author.
- Series:
- History and social sciences series
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Anthropologists--Latin America--Biography.
- Anthropologists.
- College teachers--United States--Biography.
- College teachers.
- United States.
- Latin America.
- Indians of South America--Peru--Social life and customs.
- Indians of South America.
- Peru.
- Manners and customs.
- Indians of Mexico--Social life and customs.
- Indians of Mexico.
- Indians of South America--Social life and customs.
- Varese, Stefano.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 211 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Distribution:
- [Chapel Hill, North Carolina] : University of North Carolina Press.
- Place of Publication:
- Raleigh, North Carolina : Editorial A Contracorriente, [2020]
- Summary:
- "Combining personal and family recollections with incisive accounts of academic, political, and institutional experiences, The Art of Memory offers a remarkable account of the life of one of the foremost Latin American ethnographers and a leading expert in Indigenous cultures, peoples, and cosmologies. Varese narrates the story of his journey from Italy to Peru, his formative years as an anthropologist and the critical work he did with Amazonian communities in the 1970s, his transformation into an activist scholar, his move to Mexico and his long-standing commitment with the peoples of Oaxaca, and his life as an academic in the United States ... combines the personal, the political, and the transnational to produce a vivid account of a unique and fulfilling journey"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Sechura I
- ch. 2 To Lima
- ch. 3 Casaregis Beneath the Bombs
- ch. 4 Vita Nuova
- ch. 5 My Linguas Francas
- ch. 6 Of Trains and Ships
- ch. 7 Via Pietro Micca
- ch. 8 The Intrigues of Love
- ch. 9 From Whence the Left?
- ch. 10 The Cave of Books
- ch. 11 Gramsci Devoured
- ch. 12 From Plaza Francia to Miraflores
- ch. 13 Poets, Filmmakers and Revolutionaries
- ch. 14 Campa Doctorate
- ch. 15 Entering the Gran Pajonal
- ch. 16 Pashuka, Incestuous Coca, and Ashaninka Eros
- ch. 17 Moises and the Ashaninka Cosmology
- ch. 18 Kirinko, Wiracocha, Chori and the Kamari
- ch. 19 Poshano, the Shiripiari, in California
- ch. 20 The "Chino" of Hilda Street
- ch. 21 Interlude with Margaret
- ch. 22 The Revolutions Limitation
- ch. 23 From Ethnographer to Activist
- ch. 24 European Interlude
- ch. 25 A Leap into the Future by Way of the Past
- ch. 26 The Spiderweb
- ch. 27 Bertrand Russell and American Indians
- ch. 28 Berkeley, Stanford, and the Miskitos
- ch. 29 Oaxacalifornia
- ch. 30 Lie and Banishment
- ch. 31 The Body's Entanglements
- ch. 32 Crossroads
- ch. 33 To Mexico pro/undo ... To Oaxaca by Mistake
- ch. 34 Spell and Panic
- ch. 35 Article 33
- ch. 36 The Miseries of Oil
- ch. 37 More than Forty Years of Silence
- ch. 38 Small Deaths
- ch. 39 Our Struggle in California.
- Notes:
- Translated from the Spanish.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781469661681
- 1469661683
- OCLC:
- 1154254785
- Publisher Number:
- 99987394971
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