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  • Remembering the Hacienda

    Religion, Authority, and Social Change in Highland Ecuador

    by Barry J. Lyons ...
    Series series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
    From the colonial period through the mid-twentieth century, haciendas dominated the Latin American countryside. In the Ecuadorian Andes, Runa—Quichua-speaking indigenous people—worked on these large agrarian estates as virtual serfs. In Remembering the Hacienda: Religion, Authority, and Social Change in Highland Ecuador, Barry Lyons probes the workings of power on haciendas and explores the ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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  • Capoeira

    Roots of the Dance-Fight-Game

    by Nestor Capoeira ...
    Capoeira is simultaneously a dance, a fight, and a game. Created by the Africans brought to Brazil as slaves beginning in 1500, capoeira was forbidden by law but survived underground. When open practice was allowed in the 1930s it soon became very popular. Capoeira came to America around 1975, and has become widely recognized by dancers and martial artists. The author discusses capoeira's ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Incas

    by Hiram Bingham, Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, William Prescott ...
    This volume contains three complete works by Hiram Bingham, Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, and William Prescott.Bingham’s “Inca Land” provides fascinating insights into the ancient and more modern cultures of the Incas and Peru, all in the context of his discovery of Machu Picchu.Sarpiento de Gamboa’s “History of the Incas” describes the history of this interesting civilization.Prescott’s “The History ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Latin America

    by Carlos Fuentes ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    A passionate argument for the geopolitical autonomy of Latin America, Carlos Fuentes's 1984 CBC Massey lectures trace the region's unique historical and cultural tensions and call upon foreign powers to cease interference in a sphere of influence they rarely fully understand.Fuentes sees the turbulence in Latin America ending not with political solutions, but economic ones. Foreshadowing the end ... Read more

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  • The Circulation of Children

    Kinship, Adoption, and Morality in Andean Peru

    by Jessaca B. Leinaweaver, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    In this vivid ethnography, Jessaca B. Leinaweaver explores “child circulation,” informal arrangements in which indigenous Andean children are sent by their parents to live in other households. At first glance, child circulation appears tantamount to child abandonment. When seen in that light, the practice is a violation of international norms regarding children’s rights, guidelines that the ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Earth Beings

    Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds

    by Marisol de la Cadena ...
    Series Book 2011 - The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
    Earth Beings is the fruit of Marisol de la Cadena's decade-long conversations with Mariano and Nazario Turpo, father and son, runakuna or Quechua people. Concerned with the mutual entanglements of indigenous and nonindigenous worlds, and the partial connections between them, de la Cadena presents how the Turpos' indigenous ways of knowing and being include and exceed modern and nonmodern practices ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Beyond Bogotá

    Diary of a Drug War Journalist in Colombia

    by Garry Leech ...
    Independent journalist Garry Leech has spent the last eight years working in the most remote and dangerous regions of Colombia, uncovering the unofficial stories of people living in conflict zones. Beyond Bogotá is framed around the eleven hours that Leech was held captive by the FARC, Colombia's largest leftist guerrilla group, in August of 2006. He recalls nearly thirty years of travel and work ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Formation of Candomblé

    Vodun History and Ritual in Brazil

    Translated by Richard Vernon ...
    by Luis Nicolau Parés ...
    Series series Latin America in Translation/en Traducción/em Tradução
    Interweaving three centuries of transatlantic religious and social history with historical and present-day ethnography, Luis Nicolau Parés traces the formation of Candomblé, one of the most influential African-derived religious forms in the African diaspora, with practitioners today centered in Brazil but also living in Europe and elsewhere in the Americas. Originally published in Brazil and not ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Conflict in the Early Americas

    An Encyclopedia of the Spanish Empire's Aztec, Incan, and Mayan Conquests

    Edited by Rebecca M. Seaman ...
    This detailed study is the only reference work of its kind to address Spain's conquest of Central and South America, providing in-depth coverage of native and European ideologies, political motivations, and cultural practices of the region.As the study of world history evolves from a Eurocentric perspective to a more global viewpoint, formerly marginalized groups are now the focus of discussion, ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • The Catholic Church and Argentina's Dirty War

    by Gustavo Morello, SJ ...
    On August 3rd, 1976, in Córdoba, Argentina's second largest city, Fr. James Week and five seminarians from the Missionaries of La Salette were kidnapped. A mob burst into the house they shared, claiming to be police looking for "subversive fighters." The seminarians were jailed and tortured for two months before eventually being exiled to the United States. The perpetrators were part of the ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Tracks in the Amazon

    The Day-to-Day Life of the Workers on the Madeira-Mamoré Railroad

    by Gary Neeleman, Rose Neeleman ...
    When construction of the Madeira-Mamoré Railroad began in 1867, Bolivia had lost its war with Chile, causing it to become landlocked and unable to ship its minerals and other products from the Pacific Coast. Since Bolivia needed to find a way to move products from the Atlantic Coast, the government decided a railroad should be built around the Madeira River—which originates in Bolivia and travels ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The Construction of Muslim Identities in Contemporary Brazil

    by Cristina Maria de Castro ...
    This book shows the results of my doctoral thesis in Social Sciences about the construction of Muslim identities in São Paulo, the state which receives more Muslim immigrants in Brazil. The issue of construction of identities of this religious minority was undertaken in relation to: a) the pressures of Brazilian society, characterized by the strong presence of Catholicism, the growth of ... Read more

    $76.99 USD