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  • Pilgrimage to Broken Mountain

    Nahua Sacred Journeys in Mexico's Huasteca Veracruzana

    An ethnographic study based on decades of field research, Pilgrimage to Broken Mountain explores five sacred journeys to the peaks of venerated mountains undertaken by Nahua people living in northern Veracruz, Mexico. Punctuated with elaborate ritual offerings dedicated to the forces responsible for rain, seeds, crop fertility, and the well-being of all people, these pilgrimages are the highest ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Mesoamerican Healers

    Healing practices in Mesoamerica span a wide range, from traditional folk medicine with roots reaching back into the prehispanic era to westernized biomedicine. These sometimes cooperating, sometimes competing practices have attracted attention from researchers and the public alike, as interest in alternative medicine and holistic healing continues to grow.Responding to this interest, the essays ... Read more

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  • Growing Up in a Culture of Respect

    Child Rearing in Highland Peru

    by Inge Bolin ...
    Far from the mainstream of society, the pastoral community of Chillihuani in the high Peruvian Andes rears children who are well-adjusted, creative, and curious. They exhibit superior social and cognitive skills and maintain an attitude of respect for all life as they progress smoothly from childhood to adulthood without a troubled adolescence. What makes such child-rearing success even more ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Shamans of the Foye Tree

    Gender, Power, and Healing among Chilean Mapuche

    Drawing on anthropologist Ana Mariella Bacigalupo's fifteen years of field research, Shamans of the Foye Tree: Gender, Power, and Healing among Chilean Mapuche is the first study to follow shamans' gender identities and performance in a variety of ritual, social, sexual, and political contexts.To Mapuche shamans, or machi, the foye tree is of special importance, not only for its medicinal ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Red Medicine

    Traditional Indigenous Rites of Birthing and Healing

    Series series First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
    Patrisia Gonzales addresses "Red Medicine" as a system of healing that includes birthing practices, dreaming, and purification rites to re-establish personal and social equilibrium. The book explores Indigenous medicine across North America, with a special emphasis on how Indigenous knowledge has endured and persisted among peoples with a legacy to Mexico. Gonzales combines her lived experience in ... Read more

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  • Maya or Mestizo?

    Nationalism, Modernity, and its Discontents

    by Ronald Loewe ...
    Series series Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
    The Maya of the Yucatán have long been drawn into the Mexican state's attempt to create modern Mexican citizens (mestizos). At the same time, they have contended with globalization pressures, first with hemp production and more recently with increased tourism and the fast-growing influence of American-based evangelical Protestantism. Despite these pressures to turn Maya into mestizo, the citizens ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Spirit Song

    Afro-Brazilian Religious Music and Boundaries

    by Marc Gidal ...
    In Spirit Song: Afro-Brazilian Religious Music and Boundaries, Marc Gidal investigates how and why a multi-faith community in southern Brazil utilizes music to combine and segregate three Afro-Brazilian religions: Umbanda, Quimbanda, and Batuque. Combining ethnomusicology and symbolic boundary studies, Gidal advances a theory of musical boundary-work: the ways music reinforces, bridges, or blurs ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Electric Santería

    Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational Religion

    Series series Gender, Theory, and Religion
    Santería is an African-inspired, Cuban diaspora religion long stigmatized as witchcraft and often dismissed as superstition, yet its spirit- and possession-based practices are rapidly winning adherents across the world. Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús introduces the term "copresence" to capture the current transnational experience of Santería, in which racialized and gendered spirits, deities, priests, ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Raramuri Souls

    Knowledge and Social Process in Northern Mexico

    Series series Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry
    In his sensitive portrayal of the Raramuri (or Tarahumara) Indians, Merrill examines the ways in which a society, lacking formal educational institutions, produces and transmits its basic knowledge about the world. ... Read more

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  • Thunder Shaman

    Making History with Mapuche Spirits in Chile and Patagonia

    As a “wild,” drumming thunder shaman, a warrior mounted on her spirit horse, Francisca Kolipi’s spirit traveled to other historical times and places, gaining the power and knowledge to conduct spiritual warfare against her community’s enemies, including forestry companies and settlers. As a “civilized” shaman, Francisca narrated the Mapuche people’s attachment to their local sacred landscapes, ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Our Sacred Maíz Is Our Mother

    Indigeneity and Belonging in the Americas

    “If you want to know who you are and where you come from, follow the maíz.” That was the advice given to author Roberto Cintli Rodriguez when he was investigating the origins and migrations of Mexican peoples in the Four Corners region of the United States.Follow it he did, and his book Our Sacred Maíz Is Our Mother changes the way we look at Mexican Americans. Not so much peoples created as a ... Read more

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  • Rituals of Respect

    The Secret of Survival in the High Peruvian Andes

    by Inge Bolin ...
    "In the remoteness of their mountain retreat, the herders of Chillihuani, Peru, recognize that respect for others is the central and most significant element of all thought and action," observes Inge Bolin. "Without respect, no society, no civilization, can flourish for long. Without respect, humanity is doomed and so is the earth, sustainer of all life."In this beautifully written ethnography, ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD