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An anthropological approach to the Afro-American past : a Caribbean perspective

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The article was published on 1976-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 192 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Perspective (graphical).

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Embodying Difference: Issues in Dance and Cultural Studies

Jane Desmond
- 24 Jan 1993 - 
TL;DR: Aman and a woman embrace each other and look past each other, eyes focused on distant points in the space as discussed by the authors, like mirror images, their legs strike out, first forward, then back.
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culture, genuine and spurious: the politics of Indianness in the Vaupés, Colombia

TL;DR: This article explored how Tukanoans of Colombia's Northwest Amazon are learning to change their notions of their own history and culture to achieve a better fit with received wisdom about Indianness.
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Material culture and social death: African-American burial practices

TL;DR: A survey of archaeological evidence for mortuary practices in African-American society as mentioned in this paper shows that such inherited meanings were present throughout the early historical period, and in some communities are still present.
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The Bondsman's New Clothes: The Contradictory Consciousness of Slave Resistance on the Swahili Coast

TL;DR: The most fruitful approaches to the study of slave resistance in the New World have involved examination of slaves' struggles to create and control institutions of community and kinship in the face of planters' attempts to suppress local social reproduction altogether.