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Este livro propõe compreender práticas e representações relativas à morte no sul da Bahia, relacionando-as com o contexto histórico de emergência e florescimento do urbanismo regional. Enfoca os mecanismos baseados na construção da memória, utilizados na afirmação do poder de determinados grupos políticos. Na análise das formas arquitetônicas e dos materiais empregados em túmulos percebe-se o vínculo entre os discursos construídos sobre a morte e a trajetória das relações sociais locais.

History of the Americas --- Brazil

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Latin America --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- Bolivia --- Historia. --- History.

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This intriguing book examines how material objects of the 20th century-ranging from articles of clothing to tools and weapons, communication devices, and toys and games-reflect dominant ideas and testify to the ways social change happens. Objects of everyday life tell stories about the ways everyday Americans lived. Some are private or personal things-such as Maidenform brassiere or a pair of patched blue jeans. Some are public by definition, such as the bus Rosa Parks boarded and refused to move back for a white passenger. Some material things or inventions reflect the ways public policy affected the lives of Americans, such as the Enovid birth control pill. An invention like the electric wheelchair benefited both the private and public spheres: it eased the lives of physically disabled individuals, and it played a role in assisting those with disabilities to campaign successfully for broader civil rights. Artifacts from Modern America demonstrates how dozens of the material objects, items, technologies, or inventions of the 20th century serve as a window into a period of history. After an introductory discussion of how to approach material culture-the world of things-to better understand the American past, essays describe objects from the previous century that made a wide-ranging or long-lasting impact. The chapters reflect the ways that communication devices, objects of religious life, household appliances, vehicles, and tools and weapons changed the lives of everyday Americans. Readers will learn how to use material culture in their own research through the book's detailed examples of how interpreting the historical, cultural, and social context of objects can provide a better understanding of the 20th-century experience.

History of the Americas --- Popular culture --- Material culture --- History --- United States --- Social life and customs --- Civilization

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"¿Pueden las imágenes incidir en la historia? ¿Son fieles evidencias del pasado? Esta compilación aparece frente al renovado interés de la disciplina histórica y las ciencias humanas, por interpretar las fuentes visuales como producciones intencionalmente elaboradas y difundidas tanto en momentos como en espacios particulares. Alejándose de la vista inocente y contemplativa, los autores del libro proponen desde sus contribuciones, situar la función social de las imágenes en el centro de sus análisis de caso, los cuales abarcan un amplio conjunto de procesos latinoamericanos ocurridos entre los siglos XIX y XXI en países como Chile, Brasil, Perú, Colombia y Argentina. De esta manera, cada capítulo invita al lector a “pensar visualmente” temas como la propaganda política, la construcción de la nación, el ensamblaje de identidades o de memorias colectivas, etc., partiendo del supuesto metodológico que sugiere rastrear las imágenes desde su producción hasta su recepción, donde adquieren múltiples sentidos en su respectivo presente, así como en su preservación actual. Imaginando América Latina se presenta entonces como una iniciativa abierta a diferentes perspectivas disciplinares no solo limitadas a la lectura del historiador. Los doce capítulos contenidos en este libro, buscarán reflexionar sobre la capacidad de la imagen para conectar realidades en escalas globales y locales, insistiendo en mostrar la doble relación entre una historicidad de lo visual y una visualidad de la historia."

Photography --- Latin America --- Fotografía. --- Medio social. --- Historia. --- History. --- Social conditions --- Photography. --- América Latina. --- Social conditions. --- History of the Americas

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This text provides a distinctive and empirically rich account of the European Union's relationship with the Common Market of the South (Mercosur) and the motivations that determine the EU's policy towards Mercosur.

EU (European Union) --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European. --- The Americas --- MERCOSUR (Organization) --- Europe --- South America --- European Union countries --- Foreign economic relations --- Political Science --- European Union --- Latin America --- International Relations --- Politics --- Government --- Mercosur --- Member state of the European Union --- Portugal --- Spain