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CLACS Newsletter 2008
Director Nils Jacobsen returns after a year sabbatical at Harvard, among other places, certain of the outstanding work on Latin America and the Caribbean here at Illinois. To find out more about his observations, catch up with alumnae Eric O'Rourke at University of Pittsburgh and professor emeritus in anthropology Norman E. Whitten, and read articles on second-generation Evangelicals in the Andes and the state of Hugo Chávez's Bolivarian revolution, click here.
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Latin American Film Festival to feature award-winning movies
SECOND ANNUAL LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL
April 4-10, 2008
Boardman’s Art Theatre, Champaign
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Some of the best new films from Latin America will be screened locally during the second annual Latin American Film Festival April 4-10.. The film festival is organized by the U. of I.’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies with the generous support and collaboration of the Boardman’s Art Theatre in Champaign and several departments in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Parkland College. Find out more!
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CLACS TA wins award for excellence in teaching
Luis Eduardo Herrera has won the LAS Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching for Graduate Teaching Assistants. He will also be forwarded to campus for competition at that level. This year Eduardo came out on top of our very strong team of Teaching Assistants for Latin American Studies 170. Over the past two years, he has contributed much to improve the instructional quality of our important introductory course. The Award is well deserved. It shows what good work we do at CLACS! Congratulations Eduardo! ¡Que viva la música electrónica!
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'puyo runa' rooted in Nearly 40 years of ethnography in ecuador
The Andean nation of Ecuador derives much of its revenue from petroleum that is extracted from its vast Upper Amazonian rain forest, which is home to ten indigenous nationalities. Professors Norman E. Whitten Jr. and Dorothea Scott Whitten have lived among and studied one such people, the Canelos Quichua, for nearly forty years. In Puyo Runa- Imagery and Power in Modern Amazonia, they present a trenchant ethnography of history, ecology, imagery, and cosmology to focus on shamans, ceramic artists, myth, ritual, and political engagements. Canelos Quichua are active participants in national politics, including large-scale movements for social justice for Andean and Amazonian people. Puyo Runa offers readers exceptional insight into this cultural world, revealing its intricacies and embedded humanisms. For more details or to order Puyo Runa, go to
http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/76nxe3hd9780252032394.html
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Quechua Manual Available at CLACS
The third edition of Quechua - Manual de Enseñanza, revised and adapted to the official Quechua alphabet established in 1985, can be now purchased online. The manual was written by our own Prof. Clodoaldo Soto with the goal of promoting and strengthening Quechuan language and the Quechua people.
Editor: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos
Autor: Clodoaldo Soto Ruiz
ISBN: 9972-51-161-8
Pages: 442
Price: $25 (or $27 to include shipping)
For more information or if you would like to order a copy, send us a check made to "University of Illinois" or contact Gloria Ribble at ribble@uiuc.edu or (217) 333-3182.
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CLACS MUGS are available now
Show your pride of being a Latin Americanist and support the Center by purchasing our new mug! The mug costs $8, and the money raised will go toward CLACS activities.
To order it now, please contact Secretary Gloria Ribble at ribble@uiuc.edu or (217) 333-3182, or talk with any CLACS staff.
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