LLILAS Translations from Latin America Series – serie
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Devil and the Land of the Holy Cross
Witchcraft, Slavery, and Popular Religion in Colonial Brazil
Häftad, 2004
399 kr
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Originally published in Brazil as O Diabo e a Terra de Santa Cruz, this translation from the Portuguese analyzes the nature of popular religion and the ways it was transferred to the New World in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Using richly detailed transcripts from Inquisition trials, …
Stories, Myths, Chants, and Songs of the Kuna Indians
Av Joel Sherzer
Häftad, 2004
275 kr
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The Kuna Indians of Panama, probably best known for molas, their colorful appliquÉ blouses, also have a rich literary tradition of oral stories and performances. One of the largest indigenous groups in the South American tropics, the majority of them (about 70,000) reside in Kuna Yala, a string of …
In the Shadow of the Mexican Revolution
Contemporary Mexican History, 1910–1989
Av Héctor Aguilar Camín, Lorenzo Meyer
Häftad, 1993
327 kr
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HÉctor Aguilar CamÍn and Lorenzo Meyer, two of Mexico's leading intellectuals, set out to fill a void in the literature on Mexican history: the lack of a single text to cover the history of contemporary Mexico during the twentieth century. A la sombra de la RevoluciÓn Mexicana, now available in …
México Profundo
Reclaiming a Civilization
Häftad, 1996
273 kr
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This translation of a major work in Mexican anthropology argues that Mesoamerican civilization is an ongoing and undeniable force in contemporary Mexican life.For Guillermo Bonfil Batalla, the remaining Indian communities, the "de-Indianized" rural mestizo communities, and vast sectors of the poor …
Play of Mirrors
The Representation of Self Mirrored in the Other
Häftad, 1997
219 kr
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Focusing on the Bororo people of west-central Brazil, this book addresses the construction of self-identity through interethnic interaction. By presenting the images the Bororo have of themselves as well as the images of others who have interacted with them, Brazilian anthropologist Sylvia Caiuby …
In the Eyes of God
A Study on the Culture of Suffering
Av Fernando Escalante Gonzalbo
Häftad, 2006
304 kr
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"Every culture needs to appropriate the universal truth of human suffering," says Fernando Escalante, ". . . to give its own meaning to this suffering, so that human existence is bearable." Originally published in Spanish as La mirada de Dios: Estudios sobre la cultura del sufrimiento, this book is …
Latin American Politics
A Theoretical Approach
Häftad, 2001
275 kr
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First published in English in 1990 as Latin American Politics: A Theoretical Framework, a translation of Torcuato S. Di Tella's original SociologÍa de los procesos polÍticos, this new edition also focuses on the prerequisites for democracy in any society and on the role of the popular classes in …
Seduction of Brazil
The Americanization of Brazil During World War II
Häftad, 2009
284 kr
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Following completion of the U.S. air base in Natal, Brazil, in 1942, U.S. airmen departing for North Africa during World War II communicated with Brazilian mechanics with a thumbs-up before starting their engines. This sign soon replaced the Brazilian tradition of touching the earlobe to indicate …
Glories of the Republic of Tlaxcala
Art and Life in Viceregal Mexico
Inbunden, 2011
653 kr
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In 1996 Mexico's Museo Nacional de Arte acquired a remarkable dossier of text and images that included an eighteenth-century document requesting permission to carry out a specific iconographic program in Tlaxcala. This discovery planted a seed that grew into Jaime Cuadriello's landmark work Las …
Memory, Myth, and Time in Mexico
From the Aztecs to Independence
Av Enrique Florescano, Kathryn R. Bork
Häftad, 1994
327 kr
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In Memory, Myth, and Time in Mexico, noted Mexican scholar Enrique Florescano’s Memoria mexicana becomes available for the first time in English. A collection of essays tracing the many memories of the past created by different individuals and groups in Mexico, the book addresses the problem of …
Quiché Rebelde
Religious Conversion, Politics, and Ethnic Identity in Guatemala
Häftad, 2001
318 kr
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Since the arrival of the Spanish in the sixteenth century, the Maya population of Guatemala has been forced to adapt to extraordinary challenges. Under colonial rule, the Indians had to adapt enough to satisfy the Spanish while resisting those changes not necessary for survival, applying their …
El Lector
A History of the Cigar Factory Reader
Häftad, 2010
342 kr
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The practice of reading aloud has a long history, and the tradition still survives in Cuba as a hard-won right deeply embedded in cigar factory workers' culture. In El Lector, Araceli Tinajero deftly traces the evolution of the reader from nineteenth-century Cuba to the present and its eventual …
Transforming Modernity
Popular Culture in Mexico
Häftad, 1993
219 kr
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Is popular culture merely a process of creating, marketing, and consuming a final product, or is it an expression of the artist's surroundings and an attempt to alter them? Noted Argentine/Mexican anthropologist NÉstor GarcÍa Canclini addresses these questions and more in Transforming Modernity, a …
Broadcasting the Civil War in El Salvador
A Memoir of Guerrilla Radio
Häftad, 2010
327 kr
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During the 1980s war in El Salvador, Radio Venceremos was the main news outlet for the Frente Farabundo MartÍ para la LiberaciÓn Nacional (FMLN), the guerrilla organization that challenged the government. The broadcast provided a vital link between combatants in the mountains and the outside world, …
Cultural Life of the Automobile
Roads to Modernity
Häftad, 2012
275 kr
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From its invention in Europe at the end of the nineteenth century, the automobile crisscrossed the world, completely took over the cities, and became a feature of daily life. Considered basic to the American lifestyle, the car reflected individualism, pragmatism, comfort, and above all modernity. …
Beautiful Flowers of the Maquiladora
Life Histories of Women Workers in Tijuana
Häftad, 1997
219 kr
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Published originally as La flor mas bella de la maquiladora, this beautifully written book is based on interviews the author conducted with more than fifty Mexican women who work in the assembly plants along the U.S.-Mexico border. A descriptive analytic study conducted in the late 1970s, the book …
Contemporary Short Stories from Central America
Av Enrique Jaramillo Levi, Leland H. Chambers
Häftad, 1994
378 kr
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This volume collects some of the best short fiction from the six Spanish-speaking countries of Central America-Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. Selected from stories written between 1963 and 1988, it is a broad representation of active Central American …
Colonization of the Amazon
Av Anna Luiza Ozorio de Almeida
Häftad, 1992
400 kr
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Deforestation in the Amazon, one of today's top environmental concerns, began during a period of rapid colonization in the 1970s. Throughout that decade, Anna Luiza Ozorio de Almeida, a Stanford-trained economist, conducted a complex and massive economic study of what was going on in the Amazon, …
History of Capitalism in Mexico
Its Origins, 1521–1763
Av Enrique Semo
Häftad, 1993
284 kr
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What lies at the center of the Mexican colonial experience? Should Mexican colonial society be construed as a theoretical monolith, capitalist from its inception, or was it essentially feudal, as traditional historiography viewed it? In this pathfinding study, Enrique Semo offers a fresh vision: …
Bandits, Peasants, and Politics
The Case of "La Violencia" in Colombia
Av Gonzalo Sánchez, Donny Meertens
Häftad, 2001
284 kr
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The years 1945-1965 saw heavy partisan conflict in the rural areas of Colombia, with at least 200,000 people killed. This virtual civil war began as a sectarian conflict between the Liberal and Conservative parties, with rural workers (campesinos) constituting the majority of combatants and …
History and Society in Central America
Häftad, 1993
275 kr
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First published in Chile in 1969 as InterpretaciÓn del desarrollo social centroamericano, this classic is now available in English. The first attempt at an integrated analysis of modern Central America's socioeconomic structure, Torres Rivas's work traces the social development of Central America …
Women in Mexico
A Past Unveiled
Häftad, 1999
223 kr
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Throughout Mexico's history, women have been subjected to a dual standard: exalted in myth, they remain subordinated in their social role by their biology. But this dualism is not so much a battle between the sexes as the product of a social system. The injustices of this system have led Mexican …
Plants and Animals in the Life of the Kuna
Av Jorge Ventocilla, Heraclio Herrera m. fl.
Häftad, 1995
217 kr
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"The earth is the mother of all things"; thus begins this original and accessible book on how the Kuna of Panama relate to the natural world. An integrative project involving Kuna traditional leaders and trained scholars, and fully illustrated by a Kuna artist, this translation of Plantas y …
