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  • Healing Like Our Ancestors

    The Nahua Tiçitl, Gender, and Settler Colonialism in Central Mexico, 1535–1660

    de Edward Anthony Polanco ...
    Offering a provocative new perspective, Healing Like Our Ancestors examines sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Nahua healers in central Mexico and how their practices have been misconstrued and misunderstood in colonial records.Early colonial Spanish settlers defined, assessed, and admonished Nahua titiçih (healing specialists) and tiçiyotl (healing knowledge) in the process of building a society ... Leer más

    $25.19 USD

  • Pan African Spaces

    Essays on Black Transnationalism

    de Msia Kibona Clark, Loy Azalia, Semien Abay, Afua Ansong, Yelena Bailey, Eugene Mikobi Bope, Nana Afua Yeboaa Brantuo, Sayuni Brown0, Courtney Cain1, Krista L. Cortes2, Ariana Curtis3, Mekdela Ejigu4, Shelvia English5, Zoë Gadegbeku6, Dayne Hutchinson7, Maurisa Li-A-Ping8, Ray Mann-Hamilton9, Shingi Mavima0, Tolulope F. Odunsi1, Gabriel Peoples2, Anthony Polanco3, Indhira Rosa Serrano Redondo4, Margaret E. Salifu5, Carolina Nve Diaz San Francisco6, Kat J. Stephens7, Keisha V. Thompson8, Nenelwa Tomi9, Jessica (Omilani) Alarcon0, Terza A. Silva Lima-Neves1 ...
    This book explores Black identity, from a global perspective. The historical and contemporary migrations of African peoples have brought up some interesting questions regarding identity. This text examines some of those questions, and will provide relevant essays on the identities created by those migrations. Following a regional contextualizing of migration trends, the personal essays with allow ... Leer más

    $97.99 USD

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  • The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City

    de Barbara E. Mundy ...
    Series series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
    Winner, Book Prize in Latin American Studies, Colonial Section of Latin American Studies Association (LASA), 2016ALAA Book Award, Association for Latin American Art/Arvey Foundation, 2016The capital of the Aztec empire, Tenochtitlan, was, in its era, one of the largest cities in the world. Built on an island in the middle of a shallow lake, its population numbered perhaps 150,000, with another 350 ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • Our Sacred Maíz Is Our Mother

    Indigeneity and Belonging in the Americas

    de Roberto Cintli Rodríguez ...
    “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 ... Leer más

    $26.69 USD

  • Maya or Mestizo?

    Nationalism, Modernity, and its Discontents

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • Myth of Quetzalcoatl

    Religion, Rulership, and History in the Nahua World

    de Alfredo López Austin ...
    Traducido por Russ Davidson ...
    The Myth of Quetzalcoatl is a translation of Alfredo López Austin’s 1973 book Hombre-Dios: Religión y politica en el mundo náhuatl. Despite its pervasive and lasting influence on the study of Mesoamerican history, religion in general, and the Quetzalcoatl myth in particular, this work has not been available in English until now.The importance of Hombre-Dios and its status as a classic arise from ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • The Experiential Caribbean

    Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic

    de Pablo F. Gómez ...
    Opening a window on a dynamic realm far beyond imperial courts, anatomical theaters, and learned societies, Pablo F. Gómez examines the strategies that Caribbean people used to create authoritative, experientially based knowledge about the human body and the natural world during the long seventeenth century. Gómez treats the early modern intellectual culture of these mostly black and free ... Leer más

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  • The Relación de Michoacán (1539-1541) and the Politics of Representation in Colonial Mexico

    de Angélica Jimena Afanador-Pujol ...
    Series series Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas
    Through close readings of the painted images in a major sixteenth-century illustrated manuscript, this book demonstrates the critical role that images played in ethnic identity formation and politics in colonial Mexico.The Relación de Michoacán (1539–1541) is one of the earliest surviving illustrated manuscripts from colonial Mexico. Commissioned by the Spanish viceroy Antonio de Mendoza, the ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Translation as Conquest

    Sahagún and Universal History of the Things of New Spain

    de Victoria Ríos Castaño ...
    Series Libro 13 - Parecos y Australes. Ensayos de Cultura de la Colonia
    Fray Bernardino de Sahagún (1499-1590) directed the composition of an encyclopaedic work on the world of the Nahuas, Universal History of the Things of New Spain (ca. 1577-1579), for which he has received the title of pioneering ethnographer and anthropologist of colonial Mexico. Contextualizing Sahagún and his work in sixteenth-century Spain and America, this study presents him as a cultural ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Women Who Live Evil Lives

    Gender, Religion, and the Politics of Power in Colonial Guatemala

    de Martha Few ...
    Women Who Live Evil Lives documents the lives and practices of mixed-race, Black, Spanish, and Maya women sorcerers, spell-casters, magical healers, and midwives in the social relations of power in Santiago de Guatemala, the capital of colonial Central America. Men and women from all sectors of society consulted them to intervene in sexual and familial relations and disputes between neighbors and ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Mary, Mother and Warrior

    The Virgin in Spain and the Americas

    de Linda B. Hall ...
    A Mother who nurtures, empathizes, and heals... a Warrior who defends, empowers, and resists oppression... the Virgin Mary plays many roles for the peoples of Spain and Spanish-speaking America. Devotion to the Virgin inspired and sustained medieval and Renaissance Spaniards as they liberated Spain from the Moors and set about the conquest of the New World. Devotion to the Virgin still inspires ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • El Niño Fidencio and the Fidencistas

    Folk Religion in the U.S.-Mexican Borderland

    de Antonio Noé Zavaleta Ph.D. ...
    El Nio Fidencio and the Fidencistas: Folk Religion on the U.S.-Mexican Borderland, is an biographical ethnography examining the life of Mexicos most famous folk healer as well as the folk religious healing cult that has followed him since his death in 1938. Dr. Zavaleta examines curanderismo, the transmigrational patterns of Mexicans in the United States as well as Latino/a social psychology and ... Leer más

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