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Mapuche Prisoners on Hunger Strike to Demand Talks via IPS ipsnews.net. The hunger strike is a product of “the desperation of the Mapuche community members, who see all of the doors closing and that there is no political will to engage in talks and recognise the existence of a conflict” over land, Fernando Lira, the […]
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Brazilian historians are well familiar with the Brazilianists: American scholars who travel to the Latin American country’s archives looking, one might say, to encounter themselves as Americans. From her interesting H-Net review, ‘The Pitfalls of the Transnational Approach to Race and Nation in Brazil and the United States’, which looks at Seigel’s Uneven Encounters: Making […]
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Andrew Dawson and Matthew Lange, ‘Dividing and Ruling the World? A Statistical Test of the Effects of Colonialism on Postcolonial Civil Violence’, Social Forces 88, 2, 2009 abstract To test claims that postcolonial civil violence is a common legacy of colonialism, we create a dataset on the colonial heritage of 160 countries and explore whether […]
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From BBC UK: Peru’s indigenous Amazon groups say they plan to launch their own political party ahead of elections next year. […] Peru’s large indigenous minority has historically had little representation in national politics. The new party will be called the Alliance for an Alternative for Humanity or APHU. […] “We want to seize the […]
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Fernanda Peñaloza, ‘On Skulls, Orgies, Virgins and the Making of Patagonia as a National Territory: Francisco Pascasio Moreno’s Representations of Indigenous Tribes’, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 87, 4 (2010,), pp. 455-472 Abstract/Resumen: This paper focuses on the anxiety of possession that underlies the anthropological inquisitiveness of the nineteenth-century Argentine explorer Francisco Pascasio Moreno. Moreno’s Viaje […]
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a warning from the editor
This blog is going to be a little dead over the next three weeks.
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oxford english dictionary
settler 1. a. One who or a thing which, settles, fixes, decides, etc. b. colloq. Something that settles or ‘does for’ a person, a finisher; something that settles an antagonist in an encounter or argument; a crushing or finishing blow, shot, speech, etc. c. A clerk in a betting shop who calculates the winnings. 2. […]
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Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson (ed), Natural Experiments of History (Harvard University Press, 2010): Some central questions in the natural and social sciences can’t be answered by controlled laboratory experiments, often considered to be the hallmark of the scientific method. This impossibility holds for any science concerned with the past. In addition, many manipulative […]
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