Author: Mariano Rojas
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9401772037
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 624
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This book presents original happiness research from and about a region that shows unexpectedly high levels of happiness. Even when Latin American countries cannot be classified as high-income countries their population do enjoy, on average, high happiness levels. The book draws attention to some important factors that contribute to the happiness of people, such as: relational values, human relations, solidarity networks, the role of the family, and the availability and gratifying using of leisure time. In a world where happiness is acquiring greater relevance as a final social and personal aim both the academic community and the social-actors and policy-makers community would benefit from Happiness Research in Latin America.
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Publisher: Editorial Ink
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Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Author: Fernando Santos-Granero
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477317163
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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In the first half of the twentieth century, a charismatic Peruvian Amazonian indigenous chief, José Carlos Amaringo Chico, played a key role in leading his people, the Ashaninka, through the chaos generated by the collapse of the rubber economy in 1910 and the subsequent pressures of colonists, missionaries, and government officials to assimilate them into the national society. Slavery and Utopia reconstructs the life and political trajectory of this leader whom the people called Tasorentsi, the name the Ashaninka give to the world-transforming gods and divine emissaries that come to this earth to aid the Ashaninka in times of crisis. Fernando Santos-Granero follows Tasorentsi’s transformations as he evolved from being a debt-peon and quasi-slave to being a slave raider; inspirer of an Ashaninka movement against white-mestizo rubber extractors and slave traffickers; paramount chief of a multiethnic, anti-colonial, and anti-slavery uprising; and enthusiastic preacher of an indigenized version of Seventh-Day Adventist doctrine, whose world-transforming message and personal influence extended well beyond Peru’s frontiers. Drawing on an immense body of original materials ranging from archival documents and oral histories to musical recordings and visual works, Santos-Granero presents an in-depth analysis of chief Tasorentsi’s political discourse and actions. He demonstrates that, despite Tasorentsi’s constant self-reinventions, the chief never forsook his millenarian beliefs, anti-slavery discourse, or efforts to liberate his people from white-mestizo oppression. Slavery and Utopia thus convincingly refutes those who claim that the Ashaninka proclivity to messianism is an anthropological invention.
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Category : Geology
Languages : es
Pages : 208
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Author: J. L. VÁZQUEZ BORAU
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291525610
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Languages : es
Pages : 101
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Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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Author: Carlos Machado Allison
Publisher: Cognitio
ISBN: 1939393825
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Carlos Augusto, el joven guerrillero llegará a ser General de los ejércitos independentistas, agente diplomático en Europa y luego, con su hijo mayor Eduardo, acompañará a Bolívar hasta las batallas finales. Los Carvallo, tratan de preservar sus haciendas, en particular Altagracia, en el marco de una guerra que divide al país en dos bandos, aquellos que prefieren la firme mano de la corona y los que aspiran a la independencia. María Antonia, acompañada por Mariana, la segunda esposa de Carlos Augusto, son los pilares de la vida familiar. El escenario está matizado por figuras históricas y sus ideas, entre ellos Miranda, Mirabeau, Fernando VII, Condorcet, Mier y Terán, O ́Higgins, Pitt, Napoleón, Godoy, Hamilton, Bolívar, Iturbide, Owen, Casa León, Páez, Fermín Toro, Vargas, el Conde de Tovar, los hermanos Monagas, Zamora, Falcón y Guzmán Blanco. La novela se desarrolla en Venezuela, España, Francia, Inglaterra, Colombia, Perú, Curazao, Santo Domingo, Cuba y Estados Unidos.
Author: Javier Martinez
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030505405
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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This handbook provides the latest research related to quality of life and sustainability, taking into account social, economic, environmental, and political/governance aspects as well as specific socio-spatial contexts. The volume includes contributions from established and upcoming scholars from various disciplines and geographical contexts (Global South and North). The varying cultural and socio-spatial contexts of the authors in the selected cases contribute to first-hand knowledge on the realities of sustainability issues affecting the quality of life. The authors apply a wide diversity of methods and tools, which facilitates a unique understanding of the interlinkages between quality of life and sustainability. The chapters are grouped in three main sections: concepts and foundations; tools, techniques, and applications; and innovations. The authors provide their own view and theoretical approximation of the dimensions of sustainability, in particular on how these dimensions play out in relation to quality of life. The combination of sustainability and quality of life concepts and perspectives is particularly important in unravelling the multi-faceted nature of human, urban, rural/spatial development.
Author: Cordell Hull
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Category : Peace
Languages : en
Pages : 804
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Author: Gerónimo de UZTÁRIZ
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Languages : en
Pages : 508
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