Sydamerika

Modernistisk klassiker. Andrade søkte i fabelens form å forene vestlig innflytelse og folkekulturens opprinnelige elementer. Helten Macunaima reiser på kryss og tvers over hele det …

A gripping and heartrending recollection of the harrowing brink-of-death experience that propelled survivor Roberto Canessa to become one of the world's leading paediatric …

A GRIPPING THRILLER FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR ‘Deadly conspiracies, bone-crunching action and a tormented hero with a heart . . . packs a real punch’ …

"e;[A] rich ethnographic portrait of the internal dynamics of two public sector unions in Argentina."e; -Political and Legal Anthropology Review A central motor of …

In this wide-ranging book Paul Christopher Johnson explores the changing, hidden face of the Afro-Brazilian indigenous religion of Candomblé. Despite its importance in Brazilian …

Latin America experienced an epochal cycle of revolutionary upheavals and insurgencies during the twentieth century, from the Mexican Revolution of 1910 through the mobilizations …

Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful …

Winner of The Womenâ??s Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The poignant â?? and at times very funny â?? novel from the author of The …

Emma är en ung, svensk antropolog. Hennes studier om mänsklig sexualitet leder henne till Brasilien, där hon har för avsikt att noggrant observera det erotiska beteendet hos …

In 1941, Richard Evans Schultes took a leave of absence from Harvard University and disappeared into the Northern Amazon of Colombia. The world's leading authority on the …