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Sophia's Gift
(Hardcover)
Karen B. Kurtz; Illustrated by Loran Chavez
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Discovery Miles 5 570
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A truly original story of life in and after care. The author's own
account of being left behind by her mother as a one year old and
her life in foster homes and institutions. When eventually traced,
'Call Me Auntie' was the best her mother could offer, but this was
just the start of a bizarre sequence of events. Call Me Auntie is a
telling account of abandonment, 'Heartbreak House' care homes,
family history and survival. It is also one of resilience and
personal achievement as the author discovered she also had a
brother left behind in the same way, forged a professional career,
searched for her long lost relatives in Barbados and eventually
came to understand that she 'may be a princess after all'.
Winner, Premio Flora Tristan Al Mejor Libro, Peru Section, Latin
American Studies Association, 2019 After the Spanish victories over
the Inca claimed Tawantinsuyu for Charles V in the 1530s, native
Andeans undertook a series of perilous trips from Peru to the royal
court in Spain. Ranging from an indigenous commoner entrusted with
delivering birds of prey for courtly entertainment to an Inca
prince who spent his days amid titles, pensions, and other royal
favors, these sojourners were both exceptional and paradigmatic.
Together, they shared a conviction that the sovereign's absolute
authority would guarantee that justice would be done and service
would receive its due reward. As they negotiated their claims with
imperial officials, Amerindian peoples helped forge the connections
that sustained the expanding Habsburg realm's imaginary and gave
the modern global age its defining character. Andean Cosmopolitans
recovers these travelers' dramatic experiences, while
simultaneously highlighting their profound influences on the making
and remaking of the colonial world. While Spain's American
possessions became Spanish in many ways, the Andean travelers (in
their cosmopolitan lives and journeys) also helped to shape Spain
in the image and likeness of Peru. De la Puente brings remarkable
insights to a narrative showing how previously unknown peoples and
ideas created new power structures and institutions, as well as
novel ways of being urban, Indian, elite, and subject. As
indigenous people articulated and defended their own views
regarding the legal and political character of the "Republic of the
Indians," they became state-builders of a special kind, cocreating
the colonial order.
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A Description of Patagonia, and the Adjoining Parts of South America
- Containing an Account of the Soil, Produce, Animals, Vales, Mountains, Rivers, Lakes, &c. of Those Countries; the Religion, Government, Policy, Customs, Dress, Arms, and Language Of...; Copy 1
(Hardcover)
Thomas 1707-1784 Falkner, William 1742-1823 Combe
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R798
Discovery Miles 7 980
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In 1988 Virginia Fabella from the Philippines and Mercy Amba
Oduyoye from Ghana coedited With Passion and Compassion: Third
world Women Doing Theology, based on the work of the Women's
Commission of the Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians
(EATWOT). The book has been widely used as an important resource
for understanding women's liberation theologies, in Africa, Asia,
and Latin America emerging out of women's struggles for justice in
church and society. More than twenty years have passed and it is
time to bring out a new collection of essays to signal newer
developments and to include emerging voices.
Divided into four partsContext and Theology; Scripture;
Christology; and Body, Sexuality, and Spiritualitythese carefully
selected essays paint a vivid picture of theological developments
among indigenous women and other women living in the global South
who face poverty, violence, and war and yet find abundant hope
through their faith.
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