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...Arlene M. Kelly Anxious Pleasures: The Sexual Lives of an Amazonian People . By Gregor Thomas . Chicago : The University of Chicago Press , 1985 . Illustrations. Tables. References. Index . Pp. xii , 223 . Cloth. $19.95 . Copyright 1986 by Duke University Press 1986...

..., it is disappointing not to find this material included. The perspective of the book is clearly that of the younger men of the village, a group from which the author seems to have taken most of his consultants. Women’s roles and strategies, as well as those of the aged, do not appear in Gregor’s account; one...

...Walter V. Scholes Copyright 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 En la era de la mala vecindad . By Gregor Genaro Fernández Mac . México , 1960 . Ediciones Botas . Pp. 434 . Paper . ...

...., Greenfield, Miller, Gregor); others purport insights that simply are not adequately argued (e. g., Harris, Margolis, Gross, Brown). In sum, only a few of the contributions evince any effort to deal systematically with the respective areas of focus. The exceptions to this generally lackluster performance...

..., the conservative church in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries presented a searing critique of capitalist, bourgeois modernity that has undoubtedly contributed to today’s Christian Marxism. In the light of the historical background and the findings in recent studies by A. James Gregor, it might...

... of the British Eastern Coast of Central America Commercial and Agricultural Company in both its London and Guatemalan operations between 1834 and 1844. The study traces the origin of the company to the earlier Poyais project of Gregor MacGregor on the Mosquito Shore, skillfully unravels the company’s sporadic...

... by relating it to a globalized vision of biological determinism rooted in Gregor Mendel and in the racialized theories of nutrition commonly espoused in Mexico in the late nineteenth century by Francisco Bulnes. Others focus on the impact of international events on a single individual’s changing views...

... city, but the contemporary face of the city began to take shape at the end of the nineteenth century. Josefina Mac Gregor describes the origins of these changes in Porfirian modernization programs, particularly the development of real estate, Victorian and neoclassical colonias, and tree-lined parks...

... ruled in Germany, the United States, Great Britain, and Scandinavian countries, which applied the strict hereditarianism of Gregor Mendel and Charles Darwin to human beings. This version advocated “negative,” and sometimes radical, interventions by the state to accelerate the process of natural...

.... He seems to think the grant from the Musquetoe king to [Gregor] Macgregor, good. 16 Woodbine lives in St. Andres—a small Island 12 miles long on the Musquetoe shore belonging to Colombia. There are about 900 inhabitants who speak English & are governed by English laws & customs...

...!,” Voz Campesina (Lima), 19 Apr. 1980, p. 3. Some scholars incorrectly attribute these additional decrees, Decree-Laws 22926 and 22927, to the Fernando Belaúnde Terry regime. 17. “Cocaleros y traficantes,” Equis X (Lima), 18–24 June 1980, p. 25. 16. Mac Gregor, Coca and Cocaine , 124...

... as by Freedman. Although this period was generally peaceful on the isthmus, in 1819 a small skirmish occurred in Portobelo when the Scotsman Gregor McGregor attempted to seize the port. The story is told in McGregor’s An Account of the Late Expedition Against the Isthmus of Panama, 151 which serves...

... descendants, keenly conscious of their nobility. In Haiti, the 1802 revolutionary leader Jean-Jacques Dessalines called his troops the “Army of the Incas” and “Sons of the Sun.” The Scottish adventurer Gregor MacGregor, who was married to a cousin of Bolívar and campaigned for the Liberator in New Granada...

... the Mosquito Shore. After Central American independence, the infamous Scotchman Gregor MacGregor received a colonization grant from the Miskitu king for a huge tract of land along the northeastern coast of Honduras. The London agent for MacGregor’s Poyais enterprise, Thomas Strangeways, wrote...