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  • The Aztecs

    A Very Short Introduction

    by David Carrasco ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This book presents a very short introduction to the Aztecs using interpretive tools from religious studies and anthropology to uncover the paradox of Aztec life; on the one hand a people highly skilled in sculpture, astronomy, city planning, poetry and philosophic rhetoric while on the other hand a people profoundly committed to cosmic regeneration through the thrust of the ceremonial knife and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Breaking Through Mexico's Past

    by Davíd Carrasco, Leonardo Luján, Eduardo Moctezuma ...
    The life of celebrated Mexican archaeologist Moctezuma tells of a man rising to the challenges of life and a man who has eloquently spoken to the the importance of understanding the roots of civilization.This biography of Mexico's award-winning archaeologist, Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, is based on a series of interviews conducted by Davíd Carrasco and Leonardo López Luján, respected Mesoamericanists ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • The War for the Heart and Soul of a Highland Maya Town

    Revised Edition

    by Robert S. Carlsen, Martín Prechtel ...
    This compelling ethnography explores the issue of cultural continuity and change as it has unfolded in the representative Guatemala Mayan town Santiago Atitlán. Drawing on multiple sources, Robert S. Carlsen argues that local Mayan culture survived the Spanish Conquest remarkably intact and continued to play a defining role for much of the following five centuries. He also shows how the twentieth ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Myth of Quetzalcoatl

    Religion, Rulership, and History in the Nahua World

    by Alfredo López Austin ...
    Translated by 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 ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Daily Life of the Aztecs

    by Davíd Carrasco, Scott Sessions ...
    Series series The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series
    Examine the fascinating details of the daily lives of the ancient Aztecs through this innovative study of their social history, culture, and continuing influence, written from the perspective of the history of religions.Utilizing insights from the discipline known as the history of religions, as well as new discoveries in archaeology, pictorial manuscripts, and ritual practices, Daily Life of the ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • Say the Name

    A Survivor's Tale in Prose and Poetry

    by Judith H. Sherman ...
    Say the Name vividly describes in the voice of a fourteen-year-old the experiences of a Jewish girl who was imprisoned in Ravensbruck Concentration Camp during World War II. Miraculously, Judita Sternova of Kurima, Czechoslovakia, survives persecutions, hiding, flight, capture, deportation, and the Camp. Like the few other surviving Jews, she could not bear to remain in her village emptied of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The History of the Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

    Edited by Davíd Carrasco ...
    The History of the Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz del Castillo, a new abridgement of Diaz del Castillo's classic Historia verdadera de la conquista de Nueva España, offers a unique contribution to our understanding of the political and religious forces that drove the great cultural encounter between Spain and the Americas known as the "conquest of Mexico." Besides containing important ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Goodness and the Literary Imagination

    Harvard's 95th Ingersoll Lecture with Essays on Morrison's Moral and Religious Vision

    by Toni Morrison, Donald R. Cutler ...
    What exactly is goodness? Where is it found in the literary imagination? Toni Morrison, one of American letters’ greatest voices, pondered these perplexing questions in her celebrated Ingersoll Lecture, delivered at Harvard University in 2012 and published now for the first time in book form.Perhaps because it is overshadowed by the more easily defined evil, goodness often escapes our attention. ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Yoruba Traditions and African American Religious Nationalism

    by Tracey E. Hucks ...
    Series series Religions of the Americas Series
    Exploring the Yoruba tradition in the United States, Hucks begins with the story of Nana Oseijeman Adefunmi’s personal search for identity and meaning as a young man in Detroit in the 1930s and 1940s. She traces his development as an artist, religious leader, and founder of several African-influenced religio-cultural projects in Harlem and later in the South. Adefunmi was part of a generation of ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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    The Practice of Wisdom

    Five Quests

    by Davíd Carrasco, Arthur Kleinman, Stephanie Paulsell, Michael Puett ...
    Narrated by Sandra Churchill, Matt Godfrey ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 15 min

    In moments of uncertainty, to whom do we turn for solace and insight? How can we endure and overcome our own suffering? Harvard University professors Davíd Carrasco, Arthur Kleinman, Stephanie Paulsell, and Michael Puett turn to great thinkers, artists, and religious traditions not for definitive answers, but for lessons we can bring to our own quests for wisdom. Wisdom, they find, is not an ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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