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  • Catechizing Culture

    Missionaries, Aymara, and the "New Evangelization"

    by Andrew Orta ...
    Nearly five centuries after the first wave of Catholic missionaries arrived in the New World to spread their Christian message, contemporary religious workers in the Bolivian highlands have begun to encourage Aymara Indians to return to traditional ritual practices. All but eradicated after hundreds of years of missionization, the "old ways" are now viewed as local cultural expressions of ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Liberation Theology and the Others

    Contextualizing Catholic Activism in 20th Century Latin America

    by Andrea Müller, Noah Oehri, Juan Miguel Espinoza Portocarrero, Josef Estermann, Américo Freire, Lorena García Mourelle, Aline Helg, Rolando Iberico Ruiz, Betsy Konefal0, Eben Levey1, Andrew Orta2, Brad H. Wright3, Christian Büschges4 ...
    Looking beyond prominent figures or major ecclesial events, Liberation Theology and the Others offers a fresh historical perspective on Latin American liberation theology. Thirteen case studies, from Mexico to Uruguay, depict a vivid picture of religious and lay activism that shaped the profile of the Latin American Catholic Church in the second half of the 20th century. Stressing the ... Read more

    $107.79 USD

  • Making Global MBAs

    The Culture of Business and the Business of Culture

    by Andrew Orta ...
    Series Book 47 - California Series in Public Anthropology
    A generation of aspiring business managers has been taught to see a world of difference as a world of opportunity. In Making Global MBAs, Andrew Orta examines the culture of contemporary business education, and the ways MBA programs participate in the production of global capitalism through the education of the business subjects who will be managing it.Based on extensive field research in several ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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    The Rifle 2

    Back to the Battlefield

    by Andrew Biggio ...
    Narrated by Shawn Compton ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 4 min

    They are called the Greatest Generation, but they were also ordinary men, responding to the call of duty. These are their unforgettable stories—first-person accounts from the last of the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines who fought the most dreadful war in history, all collected by a veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.The idea was simple: travel across the country with a 1945 M1 ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Fierce Valor

    The True Story of Ronald Speirs and His Band of Brothers

    by Jared Frederick, Erik Dorr ...
    Narrated by Chris Abell ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 39 min

    Fans of Stephen E. Ambrose’s Band of Brothers will be drawn to this complex portrait of the controversial Ronald Speirs, an iconic commander of celebrated Easy Company during D-Day and beyond, whose ferocious courage and drive across three wars were matched by a devotion to duty and a hidden heart shadowed by lost love.Fight Like You Mean to WinHis comrades called him “Killer.” Of the elite ... Read more

    $19.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: eBook

  • Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City"

    Reshaping Justice, Social Hierarchy, and Political Culture in Colonial Peru

    by Alcira Duenas ...
    Through newly unearthed texts virtually unknown in Andean studies, Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City" highlights the Andean intellectual tradition of writing in their long-term struggle for social empowerment and questions the previous understanding of the "lettered city" as a privileged space populated solely by colonial elites. Rarely acknowledged in studies of resistance to colonial ... Read more

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  • The Darker Side of Western Modernity

    Global Futures, Decolonial Options

    by Walter D. Mignolo ...
    Series series Latin america otherwise: languages, empires, nations
    During the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, coloniality emerged as a new structure of power as Europeans colonized the Americas and built on the ideas of Western civilization and modernity as the endpoints of historical time and Europe as the center of the world. Walter D. Mignolo argues that coloniality is the darker side of Western modernity, a complex matrix of power that has been created and ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • México Profundo

    Reclaiming a Civilization

    by Guillermo Bonfil Batalla ...
    Translated by Philip A. Dennis ...
    Series series LLILAS Translations from Latin America Series
    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 urban population constitute the México profundo. Their lives and ways of understanding the world ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Handbook of Latina/o Theologies

    Edited by Dr. Miguel A. De La Torre, Dr. Edwin David Aponte ...
    Handbook of Latino/a Theologies explores the varied theological, ecclesiastical, spiritual, and cultural expressions associated with the term 'Latino/a or Hispanic theology.' There is no single definition of Hispanic/Latino theology, but rather a multiplicity of perspectives within the diverse Latino/a communities that articulate a distinctive and relevant Hispanic viewpoint. This collection of ... Read more

    $26.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Black Atlantic Religion

    Tradition, Transnationalism, and Matriarchy in the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé

    by J. Lorand Matory ...
    Black Atlantic Religion illuminates the mutual transformation of African and African-American cultures, highlighting the example of the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé religion. This book contests both the recent conviction that transnationalism is new and the long-held supposition that African culture endures in the Americas only among the poorest and most isolated of black populations. In fact, African ... Read more

    $38.19 USD

  • Streetwalking

    LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic

    by Ana-Maurine Lara ...
    Series series Critical Caribbean Studies
    Honorable Mention, Isis Duarte Book Prize (Latin American Studies Association)Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic is an exploration of the ways that lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer persons exercise power in a Catholic Hispanic heteropatriarchal nation-state, namely the Dominican Republic. Lara presents the specific strategies employed by LGBTQ community leaders ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Invaders as Ancestors

    On the Intercultural Making and Unmaking of Spanish Colonialism in the Andes

    by Peter Gose ...
    Series series Anthropological Horizons
    Since pre-Incan times, native Andean people had worshipped their ancestors, and the custom continued even after the arrival of the Spaniards in the sixteenth century. Ancestor-worship however, did not exclude members of other cultures: in fact, the Andeans welcomed outsiders as ancestors. Invaders as Ancestors examines how this unique cultural practice first facilitated Spanish colonization and ... Read more

    $38.99 USD