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Há uma lacuna nos estudos antropológicos sobre o sistema de castas na Índia. São raros os trabalhos sobre Intocáveis, castas consideradas "impuras" e, como tal, socialmente depreciadas. Decidiu por isso a autora realizar um trabalho de campo sobre os Vankar, casta Intocável de tecelões do Estado do Gujarat. Ao leitor é proporcionada uma apresentação fascinante do universo Vankar, através das suas práticas e rituais, dos seus deuses e demónios, dos seus mitos. Arigidez atribuída à hierarquia do sistema social indiano é relativizada. Defende a autora que existem inúmeras passagens, contactos e contaminações entre castas - em teoria rigorosamente separadas umas das outras. Em particular, é sugerido que, quando a ordem social e cósmica está ameaçada de ruptura, os últimos passam, num certo sentido, a ser os primeiros. Cabe então à casta mais desvalorizada (Intocável) assumir o poder de sustentar ou restabelecer a ordem vacilante. Em Reis e Intocáveis, Rosa Maria Perez confronta-nos com um caso exemplar. Na aldeia de Valthera, atingida pela grande seca de 1985-1988, os Vankar são solicitados por toda a população, e em primeiro lugar pelos Rajput (a casta dominante), a exercer o poder de trazer a chuva, atributo partilhado com o soberano hindu. Este é um dos primeiros estudos antropológicos realizado numa universidade portuguesa que incide sobre um espaço exterior ao do antigo império colonial.

Sociology & Anthropology --- casta --- ritos --- soberanias --- India --- antropologia do simbólico --- Inde --- anthropologie symbolique --- castes --- rites

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"The Andes are a dry region. Water from melting glaciers, however, forms rivers and lakes that feed irrigation canals that have sustained communities for thousands of years. Managing and maintaining these water resources, then, is essential, and it is not surprising that the attendant responsibilities are grounded in religion. In 1921, in the village of San Pedro de Casta, Peru, when some folks were shirking their responsibilities (and claiming there was nothing written down to hold them accountable), local authorities detailed their duties in a Spanish-language document called the Entablo. This project consists of a critical introduction to the Entablo, a diplomatic transcription of the Spanish language manuscript, and an annotated English translation. The Entablo offers a wealth of insight into local rituals, religion, and community history, especially at an historical moment when these communities were changing rapidly. One of the unique aspects of the Entablo is that it provides instructions for the use of khipu boards, devices that meld the traditional khipus with a written alphabet"--

Quechua Indians --- Quechua Indians --- Quechua Indians --- Water --- Quechua Indians --- Quipu --- Quechua language --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology --- Rites and ceremonies. --- Religion. --- Social life and customs. --- Religious aspects. --- Religion --- Rituals --- Texts. --- Writing. --- Entablo --- Entablo --- Translations into English. --- San Pedro de Casta (Peru) --- History.

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"Focuses on costumbrismo, a cultural trend in Latin America and Spain toward representing local customs, types, and scenes of everyday life in the visual arts and literature, to examine the shifting terms of Mexican identity in the nineteenth century"--Provided by publisher.

Art, Mexican --- Mexican literature --- National characteristics, Mexican, in literature. --- National characteristics, Mexican, in art. --- Mexicans in literature. --- Mexicans in art. --- Contemporáneos (Group of writers) --- Mexican art --- Tepito Arte Acá (Group of artists) --- Themes, motives. --- Mexico --- In literature. --- ART / Caribbean & Latin American. --- ART / History / General. --- Art mexicain --- Art, Mexican. --- Littérature mexicaine --- Mexicains dans l'art --- Mexicains dans la littérature --- Mexican literature. --- Mexicans in art --- Mexicans in literature --- National characteristics, Mexican, in art --- National characteristics, Mexican, in literature --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire --- History and criticism --- History --- 1800-1899. --- Mexico. --- In art --- Casta. --- Costumbrismo. --- Gender Identity. --- Identity. --- Mestizaje. --- Mexican Art. --- Miscegenation. --- National Identity. --- Nationalism. --- Nineteenth-Century Latin American Art. --- Nineteenth-Century Mexican Art. --- Racial Identity. --- Racial Mixing. --- Realism. --- Social Identity.