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Histórias de água
Existem muitas histórias de água contadas ao longo do tempo, tanto na literatura como na música, no filme e nas artes visuais. Neste livro, o leitor/a leitora se depara com a água em forma de rios, lagoas, riachos, ondas do mar e tantos outros caminhos aquáticos transfigurados em metáforas da imaginação, da memória, da transitoriedade e dos trânsitos.
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Women’s Football in a Global, Professional Era
In this collection, a range of scholars contribute research covering three key areas as women’s football shifts into a global, professional era: issues surrounding the historical development of professional women’s football, documentation of the lived experiences of women in an emerging professional space and, finally, discussions around commercialisation and media coverage of the sport.
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Navigating the Spanish Lake
Navigating the Spanish Lake examines Spain’s long presence in the Pacific Ocean (1521–1898) in the context of its global empire. Building on a growing body of literature on the Atlantic world and indigenous peoples in the Pacific, this pioneering book investigates the historiographical "Spanish Lake" as an artifact that unites the Pacific Rim (the Americas and Asia) and Basin (Oceania) with the Iberian Atlantic.
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Mary Magdalene
From faithful apostle and seductress to feminist icon, Mary Magdalene's many complex roles in Christian history have fascinated us for 2000 years. Illustrated in full colour, this visual history reveals how images and presentations have created a Mary who is often far different from the real woman, the first witness of the Resurrection in the gospels, or even from her appearances in the works of the Church Fathers.
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Anthropology, Nationalism and Colonialism
A major contribution to the history of European anthropology, this book highlights the Porto School of Anthropology and analyses the work of its main mentor, Mendes Correia (1888-1960).
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Goya & the Mystery of Reading
Goya and the Mystery of Reading studies the way Goya's work heralds the emergence of a new kind of viewer, one who he assumes can and does read, and whose comportment as a skilled interpreter of signs alters the sense of his art, multiplying its potential for meaning.
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The Valencian Sainet
Demeaned since the beginning of Franco's dictatorship due to narratives of cultural exclusion, the Valencian Sainet is here the subject of a vivid first-time analysis of its role in shaping the Valencian socio-cultural identity during a precise timeframe.
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A Companion to Spanish Environmental Cultural Studies
An exploration of how writers, artists, and filmmakers expose the costs and contest the assumptions of the Capitalocene era that guides readers through the rapidly developing field of Spanish environmental cultural studies.
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