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  • Moon, Sun, and Witches

    Gender Ideologies and Class in Inca and Colonial Peru

    by Irene Marsha Silverblatt ...
    When the Spanish arrived in Peru in 1532, men of the Inca Empire worshipped the Sun as Father and their dead kings as ancestor heroes, while women venerated the Moon and her daughters, the Inca queens, as founders of female dynasties. In the pre-Inca period, such notions of parallel descent were expressions of complementarity between men and women. Examining the interplay between gender ideologies ... Read more

    $60.49 CAD

  • Modern Inquisitions

    Peru and the Colonial Origins of the Civilized World

    by Irene Silverblatt, Walter D. Mignolo, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    Trying to understand how “civilized” people could embrace fascism, Hannah Arendt searched for a precedent in modern Western history. She found it in nineteenth-century colonialism, with its mix of bureaucratic rule, racial superiority, and appeals to rationality. Modern Inquisitions takes Arendt’s insights into the barbaric underside of Western civilization and moves them back to the sixteenth ... Read more

    $31.89 CAD

  • Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies

    Chicana Literature and the Urgency of Space

    by Mary Pat Brady, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    A train station becomes a police station; lands held sacred by Apaches and Mexicanos are turned into commercial and residential zones; freeway construction hollows out a community; a rancho becomes a retirement community—these are the kinds of spatial transformations that concern Mary Pat Brady in Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies, a book bringing together Chicana feminism, cultural geography, ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Remembering Pinochet's Chile

    On the Eve of London 1998

    by Steve J. Stern, Walter D. Mignolo, Sonia Saldívar-Hull, Irene Silverblatt ...
    Series Book 1 - Latin America Otherwise
    During the two years just before the 1998 arrest in London of General Augusto Pinochet, the historian Steve J. Stern had been in Chile collecting oral histories of life under Pinochet as part of an investigation into the form and meaning of memories of state-sponsored atrocities. In this compelling work, Stern shares the recollections of individual Chileans and draws on their stories to provide a ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • The Circulation of Children

    Kinship, Adoption, and Morality in Andean Peru

    by Jessaca B. Leinaweaver, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    In this vivid ethnography, Jessaca B. Leinaweaver explores “child circulation,” informal arrangements in which indigenous Andean children are sent by their parents to live in other households. At first glance, child circulation appears tantamount to child abandonment. When seen in that light, the practice is a violation of international norms regarding children’s rights, guidelines that the ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Against War

    Views from the Underside of Modernity

    by Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    Nelson Maldonado-Torres argues that European modernity has become inextricable from the experience of the warrior and conqueror. In Against War, he develops a powerful critique of modernity, and he offers a critical response combining ethics, political theory, and ideas rooted in Christian and Jewish thought. Maldonado-Torres focuses on the perspectives of those who inhabit the underside of ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • What’s Love Got to Do with It?

    Transnational Desires and Sex Tourism in the Dominican Republic

    by Denise Brennan, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    In locations around the world, sex tourism is a booming business. What's Love Got to Do with It? is an in-depth examination of the motivations of workers, clients, and others connected to the sex tourism business in Sosúa, a town on the northern coast of the Dominican Republic. Denise Brennan considers why Dominican and Haitian women move to Sosúa to pursue sex work and describes how sex tourists, ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • The Blood of Guatemala

    A History of Race and Nation

    by Greg Grandin, Walter D. Mignolo, Sonia Saldívar-Hull, Irene Silverblatt ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    Over the latter half of the twentieth century, the Guatemalan state slaughtered more than two hundred thousand of its citizens. In the wake of this violence, a vibrant pan-Mayan movement has emerged, one that is challenging Ladino (non-indigenous) notions of citizenship and national identity. In The Blood of Guatemala Greg Grandin locates the origins of this ethnic resurgence within the social ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Hall of Mirrors

    Power, Witchcraft, and Caste in Colonial Mexico

    by Laura A. Lewis, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    Through an examination of caste in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Mexico, Hall of Mirrors explores the construction of hierarchy and difference in a Spanish colonial setting. Laura A. Lewis describes how the meanings attached to the categories of Spanish, Indian, black, mulatto, and mestizo were generated within that setting, as she shows how the cultural politics of caste produced a system of ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • From the Margins

    Historical Anthropology and Its Futures

    by Nicholas B. Dirks, Talal Asad, Irene Silverblatt, Paul A. Silverstein, Brian Keith Axel ...
    Historical anthropology: critical exchange between two decidedly distinct disciplines or innovative mode of knowledge production? As this volume’s title suggests, the essays Brian Keith Axel has gathered in From the Margins seek to challenge the limits of discrete disciplinary epistemologies and conventions, gesturing instead toward a transdisciplinary understanding of the emerging relations ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • After Spanish Rule

    Postcolonial Predicaments of the Americas

    by Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull, Shahid Amin ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    Insisting on the critical value of Latin American histories for recasting theories of postcolonialism, After Spanish Rule is the first collection of essays by Latin Americanist historians and anthropologists to engage postcolonial debates from the perspective of the Americas. These essays extend and revise the insights of postcolonial studies in diverse Latin American contexts, ranging from the ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • In the Name of El Pueblo

    Place, Community, and the Politics of History in Yucatán

    by Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull, Paul Eiss, PhD ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    The term “el pueblo” is used throughout Latin America, referring alternately to small towns, to community, or to “the people” as a political entity. In this vivid anthropological and historical analysis of Mexico’s Yucatán peninsula, Paul K. Eiss explores the multiple meanings of el pueblo and the power of the concept to unite the diverse claims made in its name. Eiss focuses on working-class ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD