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Page 38
... social structure and social organization — exhibit similarities that cannot possibly be attributed to mere coincidence . It probably would be more accurate ( though stylistically unwieldy ) to refer to the Caribbean as a " societal area ...
... social structure and social organization — exhibit similarities that cannot possibly be attributed to mere coincidence . It probably would be more accurate ( though stylistically unwieldy ) to refer to the Caribbean as a " societal area ...
Page 72
... social , and cultural spheres of the country that nourishes it until that country is changed into a sugar island . Of this subject , Gilberto Freyre and Darcy Ribeiro , respectively , referring to the case of the plantation of the ...
... social , and cultural spheres of the country that nourishes it until that country is changed into a sugar island . Of this subject , Gilberto Freyre and Darcy Ribeiro , respectively , referring to the case of the plantation of the ...
Page 156
... social sense , a metaphor for the Plantation's impossible origins . Such a demythifying strategy , analogous to what Guillén would follow later in El diario que a diario , not only makes one think about a possible " proto ...
... social sense , a metaphor for the Plantation's impossible origins . Such a demythifying strategy , analogous to what Guillén would follow later in El diario que a diario , not only makes one think about a possible " proto ...
Contents
PART SOCIETY | 33 |
the first plantations | 39 |
Contraband repression and consequences | 47 |
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