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  • Ch'ul Mut

    Sacred Bird Messengers of the Chamula Maya

    by Maruch Méndez Pérez, Diane Rus ...
    Tsotsil-Maya elder, curer, singer, and artist Maruch Méndez Pérez began learning about birds as a young shepherdess climbing trees and raiding nests for eggs to satisfy her endless hunger. As she grew into womanhood and apprenticed herself to older women as a curer and seer, the natural history of birds she learned so roughly as a child expanded to include ancestral Maya beliefs about birds as ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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  • Maya Gods of War

    by Karen Bassie-Sweet ...
    Numerous archaeological projects have found substantial evidence of the military nature of Maya society, and warfare is a frequent theme of Maya art. Maya Gods of War investigates the Classic period Maya gods who were associated with weapons of war and the flint and obsidian from which those weapons were made.Author Karen Bassie-Sweet traces the semantic markers used to distinguish flint from ... Read more

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  • Popol Vuh: The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life

    by Dennis Tedlock ...
    Popol Vuh, the Quiché Mayan book of creation is not only the most important text in the native language of the Americas, it is also an extraordinary document of the human imagination. It begins with the deeds of Mayan Gods in the darkness of a primeval sea and ends with the radiant splendor of the Mayan Lords who founded the Quiché Kingdom in the Guatemalan highlands. Originally written in Mayan ... Read more

    $8.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Sea-Ringed World

    Sacred Stories of the Americas

    by María García Esperón ...
    Illustrated by Amanda Mijangos ...
    Fifteen thousand years before Europeans stepped foot in the Americas, people had already spread from tip to tip and coast to coast. Like all humans, these Native Americans sought to understand their place in the universe, the nature of their relationship with the divine, and the origin of the world into which their ancestors had emerged.The answers lay in their sacred stories.Author María García ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Falling Sky

    Words of a Yanomami Shaman

    by Davi Kopenawa, Bruce Albert ...
    Translated by Nicholas Elliott, Alison Dundy ...
    The Falling Sky is a remarkable first-person account of the life story and cosmo-ecological thought of Davi Kopenawa, shaman and spokesman for the Yanomami of the Brazilian Amazon. Representing a people whose very existence is in jeopardy, Davi Kopenawa paints an unforgettable picture of Yanomami culture, past and present, in the heart of the rainforest--a world where ancient indigenous knowledge ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Popol Vuh: The Sacred Book of the Maya

    The Sacred Book of the Maya

    The Popol Vuh is the most important example of Maya literature to have survived the Spanish conquest. It is also one of the world’s great creation accounts, comparable to the beauty and power of Genesis.Most previous translations have relied on Spanish versions rather than the original K’iche’-Maya text. Based on ten years of research by a leading scholar of Maya literature, this translation with ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Falling Sky

    Words of a Yanomami Shaman

    by Davi Kopenawa, Bruce Albert ...
    Translated by Nicholas Elliott, Alison Dundy ...
    The 10th anniversary editionA Guardian Best Book about DeforestationA New Scientist Best Book of the YearA Taipei Times Best Book of the Year“A perfectly grounded account of what it is like to live an indigenous life in communion with one’s personal spirits. We are losing worlds upon worlds.”—Louise Erdrich, New York Times Book Review“The Yanomami of the Amazon, like all the i... ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Popol Vuh

    by Michael Bazzett ...
    Series series Seedbank
    One of the New York Times's Ten Best Poetry Books of the Year: A "superb" translation into verse of the Mayan epic ( Literary Review).A World Literature Today Notable TranslationIn the beginning, the world is spoken into existence with one word: "Earth." There are no inhabitants, and no sun—only the broad sky, silent sea, and sovereign Framer and Shaper. Then come the twin heroes Hunahpu and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Macunaíma

    The Hero with No Character

    Translated by Katrina Dodson ...
    by Mário de Andrade ...
    A brilliant new translation of the Brazilian modernist epic that aims to capture the country’s complex identityHere at last is an exciting new edition of the Brazilian modernist epic Macunaíma: The Hero with No Character, by Mário de Andrade. This landmark 1928 novel follows the adventures of the shapeshifting Macunaíma and his brothers as they leave their Amazon home for a whirlwind tour of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Jaguar that Roams the Mind

    An Amazonian Plant Spirit Odyssey

    by Robert Tindall ...
    A journey into the deeper workings of indigenous healing in the Amazon• Explores the three pillars of Amazonian shamanism: purging, psychoactive plants, and diet• Shares the experiences of apprenticing with an Ashaninca master shaman• Reveals the intimate relationship between shamans and plant spiritsThe Jaguar that Roams the Mind is a journey into the vanishing world of Amazonian shamanism--an ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Ayahuasca Reader

    Encounters with the Amazon's Sacred Vine

    Edited by Luis Eduardo Luna, PhD, Professor Steven F. White, PhD ...
    The Ayahuasca Reader: Encounters with the Amazon’s Sacred Vine, is a panorama of texts translated from nearly a dozen languages on the ayahuasca experience. These include indigenous mythic narratives, testimonies, and religious hymns, as well as stories related by Western travelers, scientists, and writers who have had contact with ayahuasca in different contexts.In addition to contributions from ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Rainforest Medicine

    Preserving Indigenous Science and Biodiversity in the Upper Amazon

    by Jonathon Miller Weisberger ...
    Chronicling the practices, legends, and wisdom of the vanishing traditions of the upper Amazon, this book reveals the area's indigenous peoples' approach to living in harmony with the natural world. Rainforest Medicine features in-depth essays on plant-based medicine and indigenous science from four distinct Amazonian societies: deep forest and urban, lowland rainforest and mountain.The book is ... Read more

    $9.99 USD