Brian Owensby
Biographic Data
| ID | 275374 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Owensby |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | Owensby |
| SIGNATURE | OWENSBY B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Since Time Immemorial
Over the last decade, one of the most striking developments in scholarship on colonial Latin America has been the study of what might be called Indigenous legality. Yanna Yannakakis's rigorous, imaginative, and well-written new book testifies to the vibrancy of this trend and shows how much remains to be done.Yannakakis builds on recent archival work demonstrating the centrality of law, litigation, and legal consciousness to Indigenous people dur…
Stanley J. Stein (1920–2019)
Stanley J. Stein was born in June 1920. He died 99 years later in December 2019, just months from his 100th birthday. At the time of his death, Stein was emeritus at Princeton University, where he had been the Walter Samuel Carpenter III Professor of Spanish Civilization and Culture since joining the Princeton faculty in 1953.Stein was born in New York to eastern European immigrants who arrived at the United States shortly after the twentieth cen…
Toward a History of Brazil's 'Cordial Racism
As anyone who has tried knows, the central problem in thinking about race in Brazil is how to. The almost quantum-theory-like indeterminacy of the ways Brazilians of different skin colors interact has exercised imaginations for decades, fromfin-de-sièclescientific racists, to the eugenists of the 1920s, to interwar modernists who promoted the idea of racial democracy, to the Brazilian and later North American revisionists of the 1950s and beyond.…
Consumption Intensified
Twenty years ago Marshall Berman noted that the experience of the modern in “underdeveloped places was built on the fantasies and dreams of modernity.” Though Berman did not say so explicitly, this formulation implied that under certain circumstances modern lives in such places could become the nightmare of Tantalus from whom the object of his desire was ceaselessly fugitive. This is the experience at the core of anthropologist Maureen O’Doughert…
Domesticating Modernity
Toward a History of Brazil's 'Cordial Racism
As anyone who has tried knows, the central problem in thinking about race in Brazil is how to. The almost quantum-theory-like indeterminacy of the ways Brazilians of different skin colors interact has exercised imaginations for decades, fromfin-de-sièclescientific racists, to the eugenists of the 1920s, to interwar modernists who promoted the idea of racial democracy, to the Brazilian and later North American revisionists of the 1950s and beyond.…
Domesticating Modernity
Domesticating Modernity
Consumption Intensified
Twenty years ago Marshall Berman noted that the experience of the modern in “underdeveloped places was built on the fantasies and dreams of modernity.” Though Berman did not say so explicitly, this formulation implied that under certain circumstances modern lives in such places could become the nightmare of Tantalus from whom the object of his desire was ceaselessly fugitive. This is the experience at the core of anthropologist Maureen O’Doughert…
Toward a History of Brazil's 'Cordial Racism
As anyone who has tried knows, the central problem in thinking about race in Brazil is how to. The almost quantum-theory-like indeterminacy of the ways Brazilians of different skin colors interact has exercised imaginations for decades, fromfin-de-sièclescientific racists, to the eugenists of the 1920s, to interwar modernists who promoted the idea of racial democracy, to the Brazilian and later North American revisionists of the 1950s and beyond.…
Stanley J. Stein (1920–2019)
Stanley J. Stein was born in June 1920. He died 99 years later in December 2019, just months from his 100th birthday. At the time of his death, Stein was emeritus at Princeton University, where he had been the Walter Samuel Carpenter III Professor of Spanish Civilization and Culture since joining the Princeton faculty in 1953.Stein was born in New York to eastern European immigrants who arrived at the United States shortly after the twentieth cen…
Since Time Immemorial
Over the last decade, one of the most striking developments in scholarship on colonial Latin America has been the study of what might be called Indigenous legality. Yanna Yannakakis's rigorous, imaginative, and well-written new book testifies to the vibrancy of this trend and shows how much remains to be done.Yannakakis builds on recent archival work demonstrating the centrality of law, litigation, and legal consciousness to Indigenous people dur…
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