The things of others : : ethnographies, histories, and other artefacts / / by Olívia Maria Gomes da Cunha.

The Things of Others: Ethnographies, Histories, and Other Artefacts deals with the things mainly, but not only, mobilized by anthropologists in order to produce knowledge about the African American, the Afro-Brazilian and the Afro-Cuban during the 1930s. However, the book's goal is not to dig u...

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Superior document:Caribbean series ; Volume 37
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020]
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Caribbean series (Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (Netherlands)) ; 37.
Physical Description:1 online resource :; color illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • List of Ilustrations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: In/Out the Archives
  • Part 1: Memorabilia
  • 1 Unrestricted Gifts
  • 2 Becoming Brujo
  • 3 On Laundresses, Sergeants, and Assistants: The Arts of the Forgetting
  • 4 Janus
  • Part 2: Mobile Objects
  • 5 Tracings
  • 6 Paper Voyages
  • Part 3: Remakings
  • 7 Ruth’s Books: Creating Additional Lives
  • 8 Many Words Do not Fill a Basket
  • 9 Transformed Things
  • Bibliography
  • Index.