The social structure of the Apinaye, a Central Brazilian Indian tribe, has puzzled anthropologists for forty years. Now, in this long-awaited book previously unavailable in English, Roberto Da Matta comprehensively describes Apinaye social life and the dualistic conceptual structure that underlies it. Special attention is given to the organization of daily and ceremonial life, the ideological aspects of kinship, the political system, and the confrontation between the Apinaye and the national Brazilian society. Da Matta then enlarges his account of the Apinaye to suggest a general interpretation of Indian culture in Central Brazil.
The social structure of the Apinaye, a Central Brazilian Indian tribe, has puzzled anthropologists for forty years. Now, in this long-awaited book previously unavailable in English, Roberto Da Matta comprehensively describes Apinaye social life and the dualistic conceptual structure that underlies it. Special attention is given to the organization of daily and ceremonial life, the ideological aspects of kinship, the political system, and the confrontation between the Apinaye and the national Brazilian society. Da Matta then enlarges his account of the Apinaye to suggest a general interpretation of Indian culture in Central Brazil.
Eighteen-year-old Hilda, known as “the girl in the gold bikini” when she swam at her country club in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, abruptly leaves the gilded life to take up residence in room 304 of the Hotel Marvelous—as a prostitute. There she becomes Hilda Hurricane, an erotic force of nature no man can resist. The exception is reporter-narrator Roberto Drummond, who attempts to unravel the mystery of why the girl in the gold bikini would forego a comfortable life to join the world’s oldest profession. While some in Belo Horizonte cheer Hilda’s liberated lifestyle, others seek to have her moved outside the city limits, and a would-be saint cannot seem to finish the exorcism he began outside the Hotel Marvelous. Set against the social and political upheaval of the 1960s, Hilda’s story seduces even as Drummond becomes aware of more ominous forces approaching Belo Horizonte. Hilda Hurricane was both a critical and a commercial success in Brazil, with more than 200,000 copies sold. (The DVD of the television adaptation has sold more than a million copies.) Admirers of Kurt Vonnegut will revel in Drummond’s similarly sharp satire and playful digressions, particularly about left-wing politics, which blur the boundary between fiction and autobiography. Yet the real genius of the author’s interventions may be that they never slow the story long enough to lose sight of this mysterious beauty swept up in the turmoil of the times.
Quarantasei racconti brevi ispirati alle figure femminili più trascurate nella letteratura per riabilitare il ruolo dell'amore passionale e renderlo vincente sugli -ismi che hanno tormentato gli ultimi due secoli.
Es una Novela Negra sobre el narcotrafico en México, Narrando la historia del Càrtel de Culiacàn con los lideres Joaquin El Chapo Guzmán e Ismael El Mayo Zambada. Thomas un joven capo del Càrtel de Culiacàn avanza en la escalera mafiosa, arremangando enemigos y tumbando panteras. Con Charola de Maldito inicia su propia operacion, bajo la sombra de Guzmán y del MZ, cruzando droga desde Colombia hasta los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica. Operando siempre a la moda, con su cuerno terciado en el lomo, teniendo como Socio a Melesio, y como escolta personal a Pako y sus Kaibiles y a Yiyo y sus Ángeles de la Muerte. Toda similitud con la realidad es mera coincidencia.
Una raccolta di poemetti moderni in dialetto romanesco che raccontano, con la tipica flemma romanesca, di amori, di battaglie (Fratelli Cairoli, Giovanna d'Arco) e anche di esileranti macchiette moderne di uomini alla prese con le contraddizioni della vita.
Storie vissute e raccontate in modo semplice ma avvincente e divertente di una ragazza italiana dagli anni del fascismo fino all'Italia di oggi. Una prospettiva inedita da cui osservare i fatti della Storia ma anche uno spunto per riflettere.
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