1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787592603321

Autore

Hayes Kelly E. <1968->

Titolo

Holy harlots [[electronic resource] ] : femininity, sexuality, and black magic in Brazil / / Kelly E. Hayes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley [Calif.], : University of California Press, 2011

ISBN

0-520-94943-9

1-283-27809-X

9786613278098

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (309 p.)

Disciplina

306.6/996121140981

Soggetti

Pomba-Gira

Afro-Brazilian cults - Brazil

Brazil Religious life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Publication and copyright date on DVD, 2010.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Wicked women and femmes fatales -- Pomba Gira and the religious imagination -- Life on the margins -- Sexuality, morality, and the logic of gender -- Becoming a zelador -- Spiritual defenders and protectors -- Maria Molambo's revenge -- If God is all good, then only the devil can combat evil -- Balancing human and spirit worlds.

Sommario/riassunto

Holy Harlots examines the intersections of social marginality, morality, and magic in contemporary Brazil by analyzing the beliefs and religious practices related to the Afro-Brazilian spirit entity Pomba Gira. Said to be the disembodied spirit of an unruly harlot, Pomba Gira is a controversial figure in Brazil. Devotees maintain that Pomba Gira possesses an intimate knowledge of human affairs and the mystical power to intervene in the human world. Others view this entity more ambivalently. Kelly E. Hayes provides an intimate and engaging account of the intricate relationship between Pomba Gira and one of her devotees, Nazaré da Silva. Combining Nazaré's spiritual biography with analysis of the gender politics and violence that shapes life on the periphery of Rio de Janeiro, Hayes highlights Pomba Gira's role in the rivalries, relationships, and struggles of everyday life in urban Brazil.A DVD of the film Slaves of the Saints is included.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910488694503321

Autore

Wen Tiejun

Titolo

Ten Crises : The Political Economy of China's Development (1949-2020) / / by Tiejun Wen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

2021

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021

ISBN

9789811604553

981160455X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (538 p.)

Collana

Global University for Sustainability Book Series, , 2752-7387

Classificazione

BUS023000BUS039000BUS051000BUS069000BUS069030BUS092000

Altri autori (Persone)

Kin ChiLau

TsuiSit

Disciplina

338.951009045

Soggetti

Economic history

Finance, Public

Development economics

Econometrics

Macroeconomics

Economy-wide Country Studies

Public Economics

Economic History

Development Economics

Quantitative Economics

Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: The First Crisis 1949-1950 -- Chapter 2: The Second to Fourth Crises 1958-1976 -- Chapter 3: The Fifth to Seventh Crises 1978-1996 -- Chapter 4: The Eighth and Ninth Crises 1997 and 2008 -- Chapter 5: The Tenth Crisis 2013-the present.

Sommario/riassunto

This open access book contextualizes China's 70 years of contemporary history against one coherent backdrop: a late developing country endeavoring at all costs to industrialize, whether it was in the name of socialism or capitalism. This path is even more complicated by



China's getting caught in the geo-political confrontation of two superpowers in the 20th century: the Soviet Union and the USA. The author argues that China could only cope with these costs by internalizing them. As one of the leading scholars of agrarian issues in China, the author emphasizes the role of rural sector having been a source of surplus extraction for industrialization and the receptor of cost of development being transferred by the urban sector. This book is the first volume of the Global University for Sustainability Book Series published with Palgrave Macmillan.