The Things of Others: Ethnographies, Histories, and Other Artefacts

The Things of Others: Ethnographies, Histories, and Other Artefacts deals with the things mainly, but not only, mobilized by anthropologists in order to produce knowledge about the African American, the Afro-Brazilian and the Afro-Cuban during the 1930s.

About the author

Olívia Maria Gomes da Cunha is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Museu Nacional, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Her research focuses the production of textual and visual artefacts, archives, and modernist ethnographies. She also has been carrying on research on the Cottica Ndyuka in Eastern Suriname.

Product details

• Authors: Olívia Maria Gomes Da Cunha
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.05.2020
• EAN: 9789004428652
• ISBN: 978-90-04-42865-2
• No. of pages: 772
• Weight: 1263 g
• Series: Caribbean
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories