Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture Publication Initiative, Mellon Foundation – serie
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12 produkter
Complete Codex Zouche-Nuttall
Mixtec Lineage Histories and Political Biographies
Inbunden, 2013
699 kr
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The pre-Hispanic Mixtec people of Mexico recorded political and religious history, including the biographies and genealogies of their rulers, in pictograms on hand-painted, screen-fold manuscripts known as codices. Functioning rather like movie production storyboards, the codices served as outlines …
Dancing the New World
Aztecs, Spaniards, and the Choreography of Conquest
Inbunden, 2013
641 kr
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Winner, Oscar G. Brockett Book Prize in Dance Research, 2014Honorable Mention, Sally Banes Publication Prize, American Society for Theatre Research, 2014de la Torre Bueno® Special Citation, Society of Dance History Scholars, 2013From Christopher Columbus to “first anthropologist” Friar Bernardino …
Maya Ideologies of the Sacred
The Transfiguration of Space in Colonial Yucatan
Av Amara Solari
Inbunden, 2013
623 kr
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As Spaniards built colonies in the New World, men of the cloth saw within ancient ruins and inhabited native towns great potential for easing the colonization effort. In the Yucatan, which is the locus of this study, Franciscan friars seized upon the opportunity to “conquer” Maya places for …
Art of Professing in Bourbon Mexico
Crowned-Nun Portraits and Reform in the Convent
Inbunden, 2014
641 kr
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In the eighteenth century, New Spaniards (colonial Mexicans) so lauded their nuns that they developed a local tradition of visually opulent portraits, called monjas coronadas or “crowned nuns,” that picture their subjects in regal trappings at the moment of their religious profession and in death. …
Architectural Vessels of the Moche
Ceramic Diagrams of Sacred Space in Ancient Peru
Inbunden, 2015
699 kr
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Elaborately decorated monumental architecture, royal tombs, and ritual human sacrifice have established the Moche of ancient Peru (AD 200–800) as a culturally rich and ideologically complex civilization. Because the Moche did not have a text-based writing system, their sophisticated works of art, …
Maya Figurines
Intersections Between State and Household
Inbunden, 2014
641 kr
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Rather than view the contours of Late Classic Maya social life solely from towering temple pyramids or elite sculptural forms, this book considers a suite of small anthropomorphic, zoomorphic, and supernatural figurative remains excavated from household refuse deposits. Maya Figurines examines …
Cuban Underground Hip Hop
Black Thoughts, Black Revolution, Black Modernity
Häftad, 2015
341 kr
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Honorable Mention, Barbara T. Christian Literary Award, Caribbean Studies Association, 2017In the wake of the 1959 Cuban Revolution, a key state ideology developed: racism was a systemic cultural issue that ceased to exist after the Revolution, and any racism that did persist was a result of …
Art Systems
Brazil and the 1970s
Häftad, 2016
338 kr
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From currency and maps to heavily censored newspapers and television programming, Art Systems explores visual forms of critique and subversion during the height of Brazilian dictatorship, drawing sometimes surprising connections between artistic production and broader processes of social exchange …
Rainforest Cowboys
The Rise of Ranching and Cattle Culture in Western Amazonia
Häftad, 2015
225 kr
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This ambitious interdisciplinary study is the first to examine the interlinked economic uses and cultural practices and beliefs surrounding cattle in Western Amazonia, where cattle raising is at the center of debates about economic development and environWinner, Brazil Section Book Award, Latin …
Portable Borders
Performance Art and Politics on the U.S. Frontera Since 1984
Häftad, 2015
254 kr
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After World War II, the concept of borders became unsettled, especially after the rise of subaltern and multicultural studies in the 1980s. Art at the U.S.-Mexico border came to a turning point at the beginning of that decade with the election of U.S. President Ronald Reagan. Beginning with a …
Urban Space As Heritage in Late Colonial Cuba
Classicism and Dissonance on the Plaza De Armas of Havana, 1754-1828
Av Paul Niell
Häftad, 2015
399 kr
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According to national legend, Havana, Cuba, was founded under the shade of a ceiba tree whose branches sheltered the island’s first Catholic mass and meeting of the town council (cabildo) in 1519. The founding site was first memorialized in 1754 by the erection of a baroque monument in Havana’s …
María Izquierdo and Frida Kahlo
Challenging Visions in Modern Mexican Art
Häftad, 2015
395 kr
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María Izquierdo (1902–1955) and Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) were the first two Mexican women artists to achieve international recognition. During the height of the Mexican muralist movement, they established successful careers as easel painters and created work that has become an integral part of …
