Trigésimo Noveno Congreso Internacional de Americanistas

Trigésimo noveno Congreso Internacional de Americanistas, Resúmenes de Ponencias, Lima, Perú, 1970.

Índice de resúmenes disponible en B.B.A.A. Boletín Bibliográfico de Antropología Americana.

Ver además: Actas y memorias del XXXIX Congreso Internacional de Americanistas.

El Congreso Internacional de Americanistas se llevó a cabo por primera ocasión en Nancy, Francia, del 18 de junio al 18 de julio de 1875, mediante la iniciativa de la Société Américaine de France la cual emitió su convocatoria el 25 de agosto de 1874. Desde entonces, se han celebrado más de cincuenta reuniones durante más de 125 años.

The Economic Basis of Politics, and Related Writings

Beard, Charles Austin, The Economic Basis of Politics, and Related Writings New York: Vintage Books, 1957.

Available in part online.

Charles Austin Beard (November 27, 1874 – September 1, 1948) was, with Frederick Jackson Turner, one of the most influential American historians of the first half of the 20th century. For a while he was a history professor at Columbia University but his influence came from hundreds of monographs, textbooks and interpretive studies in both history and political science. His works included a radical re-evaluation of the founding fathers of the United States, who he believed were motivated more by economics than by philosophical principles. Beard's most influential book, An Economic Interpretation of the U.S. Constitution (1913), has been the subject of great controversy ever since its publication. While frequently criticized for its methodology and conclusions, it was responsible for a wide-ranging reinterpretation of American history of the founding era.[1][2][3] He was also the co-author with his wife Mary Beard of The Rise of American Civilization (1927), which had a major influence on American historians.

Luis Muñoz Marín: A Concise Biography

Mathews, Thomas, Luis Muñoz Marín: A Concise Biography, New York: American R.D.M. Corporation, 1967.

José Luis Alberto Muñoz Marín (February 18, 1898 – April 30, 1980), known as Luis Muñoz Marín, was a Puerto Rican poet, journalist, politician and statesman, regarded as the "Father of Modern Puerto Rico,"[1][2] and the "Architect of the Commonwealth." In 1948 he was the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico, spearheading an administration that engineered profound economic, political and social reforms…

La República Dominicana ante el Proceso de Integración Económica en Latinoamérica

Vega, Bernardo, La República Dominicana ante el proceso de integración económica en Latinoamérica, Santo Domingo: Banco Central de la República Dominicana, 1966.

De la introducción:

El presente documento fue preparado como resultado de la participación del autor en el Segundo Curso del Instituto para la Integración de América Latina (INTAL), organismo creado hace dos años por el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo. Este curso, de una duración de siete semanas, incluyó visitas a la Secretaría Ejecutiva de ALALC, en Montevideo, a la Secretaría de Integración Económica de Centroamérica (SIECA), en Guatemala, y a los Bancos Centrales de cada uno de los cinco países miembros del Mercado Común Centroamericano.

El Concepto de Múltiples Almas y Algunos Ritos Fúnebres entre los Negros Americanos

Pollak-Eltz, Angelina, El Concepto de Múltiples Almas y Algunos Ritos Fúnebres entre los Negros Americanos, Caracas: Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Católica “Andrés Bello”, 1974.

De la introducción:

Al investigar la cultura negra venezolana y el aporte africano a la cultura popular de nuestra tierra me fije en el hecho de que los campesinos de descendencia africana creen a menudo en la existencia de múltiples almas, a pesar de su afiliación nominal a la Iglesia Católica. Por lo menos una de estas almas se convierte en espíritu después de la muerte. Estudiando estos conceptos más a fondo, llegue a la conclusión de que los ritos fúnebres están funcionalmente ligados a tales creencias y solo se comprenden a la luz de sus conceptos acerca de la muerte y del alma (o del as almas). La creencia en el espíritu del difunto ocupa un puesto bien determinado e importante dentro del marco de esta estructura. Para proseguir este estudio me dedique a la búsqueda de datos acerca de tales fenómenos en la literatura etnográfica de África Occidental y de algunas culturas afroamericanas, llegando a la conclusión de que estructural y funcionalmente las creencias y los ritos se originaron entre los negros africanos.

The Ambassador and the Dictator: The Braden Mission to Argentina and Its Significance for United States Relations with Latin America (separata)

McGann, Thomas F., The Ambassador and the Dictator: The Braden Mission to Argentina and Its Significance for United States Relations with Latin America, reprinted from The Centennial Review, Vol. VI, No.3, Summer 1962.

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Spruille Braden (March 13, 1894 – January 10, 1978) was an American diplomat, businessman, lobbyist, and member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He served as the ambassador of various Latin American countries, and as Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs. He is notable for his interventionist activities and his prominent role in several coups d'état.
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Beginning in 1948, Braden was a paid lobbyist for the United Fruit Company. When the company's interests were threatened in Guatemala by President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, Braden helped to conceive and execute the 1954 coup d'état that overthrew him. In his first act as newly ignaugurated President of Nicaragua on May 1, 1967, Anastasio Somoza Debayle conferred Nicaragua's highest decoration, the Grand Cross of Ruben Dario, on Ambassador Spruille Braden and his wife Verbena for their "unstinting efforts in the cause of freedom in all of Latin America".

The Role of Women in Caribbean Development

Cuthbert, Marlene, Ed., The Role of Women in Caribbean Development, Study paper # 6, Bridgetown, Barbados: Caribbean Ecumenical Consultation for Development, 1971.

Contents:

Foreword by Robert Cuthbert
Rationale, by Marlene Cuthbert
Tribute to Betty John
The Church in Caribbean Development, by Robert Cuthbert
Economic Development & the Caribbean Woman, by Carmen McFarlane
Education for Development, by Wesley Powell
Social Development & the Caribbean Woman, by Nita Barrow
Summary of Forum on Ecumenical Co-operation
The Church & the Caribbean Woman – Panel
Workshops: (A) Development & the Caribbean Woman; (B) Inter-faith Relations
Area Groups
Resolutions & Recommendations
Appendices.

Education for Development in the Caribbean

Edwards, P. A., Education for Development in the Caribbean, Study paper # 3, Bridgetown, Barbados: Caribbean Ecumenical Consultation for Development, 1971.

From the Introduction:

”If only the churches would relinquish all their control over education in the West Indies we would get somewhere.” These are the words of a prominent Trinidadian politician and they have been spoken with slightly differing grammar and syntax by many a bureaucrat since formal mass education began in the West Indies in 1838. “Politicians have used the education system as a political football which has been kicked so often that it is worn out, almost deflated and horribly misshapen.” So said and English church official on a recent visit to the West Indies…
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It is the contention of this paper that this dichotomy in approach and intention between church and state and among various Christian denominations has been at the core of the rather chaotic evolution of West Indian education.

Politics and the Caribbean Church: A Confession of Guilt

Goodridge, Sehon, Politics and the Caribbean Church: A Confession of Guilt, Study paper # 2, Bridgetown, Barbados: Caribbean Ecumenical Consultation for Development, 1971.

From the Introduction:

This paper is primarily designed to raise questions rather than to provide a replete coverage of the topics covered. As a working paper for the Caribbean Ecumenical Consultation for Development, it has been deliberately designed to survey the issues of church and politics in as thought-provoking a manner as possible.

Caribbean Quarterly, December 1976 (Journal)

Caribbean Quarterly, "Mass Media in the Caribbean", Vol. 22, No. 4, December 1976.

Available online.

Liberation or Development: The Role of the Church in the New Caribbean

McCormack, Michael, Liberation or Development: The Role of the Church in the New Caribbean, Study paper # 5 - Caribbean Ecumenical Consultation for Development, 1971.

From the author’s introduction:

The first part of the paper is devoted to a description of the social, economic and political life of the region. The description is made in such a manner as to facilitate judgements on the basic problems of the region. In the second part, the past, present and possible roles of the Christian churches of the region are assessed in terms of participation in the social process. The final part of the paper is devoted to a consideration of the contribution that the churches make to the society in formation in the Caribbean.

The Political Economy of the English-Speaking Caribbean: A Summary View

Demas, William G., The Political Economy of the English-Speaking Caribbean: A Summary View, Study paper # 4, Bridgetown, Barbados: Caribbean Ecumenical Consultation for Development, 1971. (2 copies)

From the author’s introduction:

I propose to conduct the exposition under the following headings: (a) Brief Historical Overview, (b) The Present Economic Situation, (c) Some Factors Working Against Change, (d) Strategy for Change.

In Search of New Perspectives

Hamid, Idris, In Search of New Perspectives, Bridgetown, Barbados: Caribbean Ecumenical Consultation for Development, 1971.

From the introduction by Rev. Robert W. M. Cuthbert:

This paper was commissioned to provide an opportunity for reflecting on the underlying theological and biblical premises which have precipitated action of the Caribbean Churches in the field of development.

Acclimatization in the Andes

Monge, Carlos, Acclimatization in the Andes: historical confirmation of climatic aggression in the development of Andean man, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1948. (fragile)

Available as an American Council of Learned Societies eBook.

See also Andean Biology in Peru: Scientific Styles on the Periphery.

From the Foreword, by Isaiah Bowman:

Out of experimental data that have not yet been published and in the light of relevant historical material, Dr. Monge has drawn certain conclusions about biological effects in high altitudes. The whole is presented as a preliminary study to be followed by a series of scientific papers. Three themes are interwoven in this fascinating account of altitude effects on man. They are, (1) the conclusions drawn from the experimental work of the Institute of Andean Biology, of which Dr. Monge is director; (2) the evidence in the chronicles of early Peru that the fair treatment of natives was one of the earliest policy conceptions of Inca government; and (3) successive colonial and republican governments of Peru, over a long period of time, have largely neglected problems of human conservation that arise among the highland population.

O Mundo que o Português Criou

Freyre, Gilberto, O Mundo que o Português Criou, 1941?. [Este livro foi composto e impresso nas oficinas da Empresa Graphica da “Revista dos Tribunaes”, á rua Conde de Sarzedas, 38, São Paulo, para Livraria José Olympio Editora, Rio, em dezembro de 1940. ]

Minha nota:

Este livro é velho e decrépito, sem uma tampa frontal. Tem rabiscos em Português, mas eu achei inserido nele um artigo de jornal escrito por Cyro T. de Pádua que analisa o livro (página 4 de O Estado de S. Paulo, 23/1/41).

This book is old and decrepit, lacking a front cover. It has scribblings in Portuguese, but I found inserted in it a newspaper article which reviews the book by Cyro T. de Padua (page 4 of O Estado de S. Paulo, 23/1/41)

Página 4 de O Estado de S. Paulo (23/1/41):

Gilberto Freyre é incansavel. Considerado o maior sociologo brasileiro, tendo produzido tres livros dos mais sérios da nossa reduzida literatura de pesquisas sociologicas “Casa Grande e Senzala”, “Nordeste”, e “Sobrados e Mocambos”, prosegue, entretanto, infatigavelmente, nos seus trabalhos. Agora acaba de nos dar “O Mundo que o Português Criou” editado pela Livraria José Olympio, do Rio, como o volumen 28 da “Coleção Documentos Brasileiros", que inicialmente elle mesmo dirigiu e presentemente orientada por Octavio Tarquinio de Souza.
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O prefacio de Antonio Sergio, que ocupa cerca de 20 paginas me mostrou novas perspectivas sobre certos aspectos da historia economica de Portugal e nos auxilia muito na comprehensão do que escreve Gilberto Freyre. E’ um prefacio cheio de idéias novas e algumas verdadeiramente ineditas para mim. Vou transcrever apenas um pequeno trecho, por signal que annotação no pé das paginas 28 e 29, em que o ensaista portugués se refere ao fado, musica e canto que sempre detestei en com razão como veremos: “As origens do fado deverão buscar-se ao que, ao que nos dizem os doutos, entre os escravos do Brasil. Do fado-musica o antecesor directo é o lundum – afro-brasileiro – importado em Portugal pelos fins do seculo XVIII; o fado-dança surgiu no Brasil nos principios do XIX, e veiu para Lisboa quando a corte regressou do Rio, em 1821. ..."...
Cyro T. de Padua

Veja também As origens brasileiras do fado .

Centenary History of the East Indians in British Guiana: 1838-1938

Ruhomon, Peter, Centenary History of the East Indians in British Guiana: 1838-1938, Georgetown Demerara: Daily Chronicle, 1947.

The Ruhomons were born at Plantation Albion. Peter, born on August 2, 1873, is considered the first Indian intellectual in British Guiana. (…) Joseph’s brother, Peter Ruhomon, born in 1880, was a journalist. He wrote under the pseudonym “the Pandit” and he was a leading light in the Susamachar [Wesleyan] East Indian Young Men’s Society in the 1920s and 1930s. Peter Ruhomon was an intellectual in his own right and his book the Centenary History of the East Indian in British Guiana (1947), reprinted by the East Indians 150th Anniversary Committee, offers a wealth of information about the progress of Indians in colonial Guiana.

[Peter] Ruhomon grew up in, and became an integral part of, that period in our history that saw the flowering of East Indian intellectualism. He witnessed the formation of a number of organisations to oversee the welfare of East Indians, such as the British Guiana East Indian Association in1916, initiated by his elder brother Joseph; The East Indian Young Men,s Society (EIYMS) in 1919; and The Balak Sahaita Mandalee (child welfare society) in 1936. Just as important were the East Indian Cricket Club (1914); The Corentyne Literary and Debating Society (1937); and The British Guiana Dramatic Society. INDIAN OPINION, the official organ of The British Guiana East Indians Association, became the main tool of Indian intellectualism. And Ruhomon made good use of this outlet for his opinions.

Indian Notes, Vol. 5, No. 2, 1928 (journal)

Museum of the American Indian, Indian Notes, Volume Five, Number Two, April 1928. (fragile)

Contents:

Some Indian Ideas of Property, by Melvin R. Gilmore.

Fraudulent Black-ware Pottery of Colombia, by Marshall H. Saville.

A Porto Rican Three-pointed Stone, by S. K. Lothrop.

An Historic Iroquois Warclub, by Louis Schellbach.

Divination by Scapulimancy among the Algonquin of River Desert, Quebec, by Frank G. Speck.

The Algonquin at Golden Lake, Ontario, by Frederick Johnson.

An Immense Pomo Basket, by Arthur Woodward.

Ruins in Southwestern Colorado, by Ernest Ingersoll.

Some Portraits of Thayendanegea, by F. W. Hodge.

A Matinecoc Site on Long Island, by F. P. Orchard.

Old Cradle from Taos, New Mexico, by F. W. Hodge.

Tracing the Pueblo Boundary in Nevada, by M. R. Harrington.

Recent Accessions by Gift.

Recent Library Accessions.

Notes.

Indian Notes, Vol. 3, No. 3, 1926 (journal)

Museum of the American Indian, Indian Notes, Volume Three, Number Three, July 1926. (fragile)

Contents:

Stone Sculptures from the Finca Arevalo, Guatemala, by S. K. Lothrop.

Primitive Pueblo Ruin in Northwestern Arizona, by M. R. Harrington.

The Stone “Collars” of Porto Rico, by Marshall H. Saville.

Arikara Genesis and its Teachings, by Melvin R. Gilmore.

Chumash Objects from a California Cave, by George G. Heye.

Dakota Offering Sticks, by James R. Walker (presented by Melvin R. Gilmore).

Moccasin-bundle of the Crows, by William Wildschut.

An “Iroquois Sash”, by William C. Orchard.

The Indian Garden, by Melvin R. Gilmore.

Recent Accessions by Gift.

Recent Library Accessions.

Notes.

La Reforma Electoral en Nuestras Antillas

Andrés. S., La reforma electoral en nuestras Antillas, Madrid: Imp. de la "Revista de España" a cargo de Ramón Mellado, 1889. (muy frágil)

Disponible en línea.

Índice:

La Ley Electoral Vigente en las Antillas.

El Proyecto de Ley del Sr. Becerra.

Los Antecedentes de la Reforma en Puerto Rico.

El Régimen Electoral en las Colonias Extranjeras.

The Crime Against Cuba

Lamont, Corliss, The Crime Against Cuba, New York: Basic Pamphlets, 1961.

Corliss Lamont (March 28, 1902 – April 26, 1995; aged 93) was an American socialist philosopher, and advocate of various left-wing and civil liberties causes. As a part of his political activities he was the Chairman of National Council of American-Soviet Friendship starting from the early 1940s.

Basic Pamphlet 14, The Crime Against Cuba, is of special interest even today due to the fact that Lee Harvey Oswald, suspected assassin of U.S. president John F. Kennedy, distributed copies of it on the streets of New Orleans, Louisiana, during the summer of 1963, and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) purchased 45 copies of the pamphlet in June 1961. The Crime Against Cuba was Exhibit No. 3120 in the Warren Commission Report.