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  • Moon, Sun, and Witches

    Gender Ideologies and Class in Inca and Colonial Peru

    by Irene Marsha Silverblatt ...
    When the Spanish arrived in Peru in 1532, men of the Inca Empire worshipped the Sun as Father and their dead kings as ancestor heroes, while women venerated the Moon and her daughters, the Inca queens, as founders of female dynasties. In the pre-Inca period, such notions of parallel descent were expressions of complementarity between men and women. Examining the interplay between gender ideologies ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies

    Chicana Literature and the Urgency of Space

    by Mary Pat Brady, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    A train station becomes a police station; lands held sacred by Apaches and Mexicanos are turned into commercial and residential zones; freeway construction hollows out a community; a rancho becomes a retirement community—these are the kinds of spatial transformations that concern Mary Pat Brady in Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies, a book bringing together Chicana feminism, cultural geography, ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Hall of Mirrors

    Power, Witchcraft, and Caste in Colonial Mexico

    by Laura A. Lewis, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    Through an examination of caste in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Mexico, Hall of Mirrors explores the construction of hierarchy and difference in a Spanish colonial setting. Laura A. Lewis describes how the meanings attached to the categories of Spanish, Indian, black, mulatto, and mestizo were generated within that setting, as she shows how the cultural politics of caste produced a system of ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • 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

  • Remembering Pinochet's Chile

    On the Eve of London 1998

    by Steve J. Stern, Walter D. Mignolo, Sonia Saldívar-Hull, Irene Silverblatt ...
    Series Book 1 - Latin America Otherwise
    During the two years just before the 1998 arrest in London of General Augusto Pinochet, the historian Steve J. Stern had been in Chile collecting oral histories of life under Pinochet as part of an investigation into the form and meaning of memories of state-sponsored atrocities. In this compelling work, Stern shares the recollections of individual Chileans and draws on their stories to provide a ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development

    by María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    In The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development, María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo boldly argues that crucial twentieth-century revolutionary challenges to colonialism and capitalism in the Americas have failed to resist—and in fact have been constitutively related to—the very developmentalist narratives that have justified and naturalized postwar capitalism. Saldaña ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Blood and Fire

    La Violencia in Antioquia, Colombia, 1946-1953

    by Mary Roldán, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    Between 1946 and 1966a surge of violence in Colombia left 200,000 dead in one of the worst conflicts the western hemisphere has ever experienced. the first seven years of this little-studied period of terror, known as la Violencia, is the subject of Blood and Fire. Scholars have traditionally assumed that partisan politics drove La Violencia, but Mary Roldán challenges earlier assessments by ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Indigenous and Popular Thinking in América

    by Rodolfo Kusch, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
    Translated by María Lugones, Joshua M. Price ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    Originally published in Mexico in 1970, Indigenous and Popular Thinking in América is the first book by the Argentine philosopher Rodolfo Kusch (1922–79) to be translated into English. At its core is a binary created by colonization and the devaluation of indigenous practices and cosmologies: an opposition between the technologies and rationalities of European modernity and the popular mode of ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Against War

    Views from the Underside of Modernity

    by Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    Nelson Maldonado-Torres argues that European modernity has become inextricable from the experience of the warrior and conqueror. In Against War, he develops a powerful critique of modernity, and he offers a critical response combining ethics, political theory, and ideas rooted in Christian and Jewish thought. Maldonado-Torres focuses on the perspectives of those who inhabit the underside of ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • What’s Love Got to Do with It?

    Transnational Desires and Sex Tourism in the Dominican Republic

    by Denise Brennan, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    In locations around the world, sex tourism is a booming business. What's Love Got to Do with It? is an in-depth examination of the motivations of workers, clients, and others connected to the sex tourism business in Sosúa, a town on the northern coast of the Dominican Republic. Denise Brennan considers why Dominican and Haitian women move to Sosúa to pursue sex work and describes how sex tourists, ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Images at War

    Mexico From Columbus to Blade Runner (1492–2019)

    by Serge Gruzinski, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
    Translated by Heather MacLean ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    “If colonial America was the melting pot of modernity, it was because it was also a fabulous laboratory of images. . . . Just as much as speech and writing, the image can be a vehicle for all sorts of power and resistance.” So writes Serge Gruzinski in the introduction to Images at War, hisstriking reinterpretation of the Spanish colonization of Mexico.Concentrating on the political meaning of the ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Modern Blackness

    Nationalism, Globalization, and the Politics of Culture in Jamaica

    by Deborah A. Thomas, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    Modern Blackness is a rich ethnographic exploration of Jamaican identity in the late twentieth century and early twenty-first. Analyzing nationalism, popular culture, and political economy in relation to one another, Deborah A. Thomas illuminates an ongoing struggle in Jamaica between the values associated with the postcolonial state and those generated in and through popular culture. Following ... Read more

    $28.79 USD