"For a while at least" : Toni Morrison, Nikki Wallschlaeger, and the ecoaesthetic shapes of home -- The art of the matter : Samiya Bashir and Gabrielle Ralambo-Rajerison's cosmopoetics -- Arrangements against the sentence : Gayl Jones's early literature" -- "A "project from outs…
In this first-person account, Todd Ramón Ochoa explores Palo, a poorly-understood Kongo-inspired 'society of afflication' at the margins of Cuban popular religion. Narrated as an encounter with two teachers of Palo, the book unfolds on the outskirts of Havana.
Place -- Capital -- Nature -- Development -- Identity -- Networks.
Examines international indigenous advocacy from the 1970s to today, and considers how questions of culture play into discourses of self-determination and indigenous rights.
Around the world, indigenous peoples use international law to make claims for heritage, territory, and economic development. Karen Engle traces the history of these claims, considering the prevalence of particular legal frameworks and their costs and benefits for indigenous grou…
