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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

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  • Aztecs: A History From Beginning to End

    by Henry Freeman ...
    The Aztec Empire did not recoil from the face of an impending doom, they struggled faithfully. Destined to emerge from their humble beginnings, it grew into a highly-complex devoted civilization refusing to live at the mercy of more neighboring powerful rulers. Their powerful pocheca combed the valley for luxury items while markets dotted their lands.Inside you will find...✓ Introduction✓ How the ... Read more

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  • 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

  • The Hidden History of Capoeira

    A Collision of Cultures in the Brazilian Battle Dance

    by Maya Talmon-Chvaicer ...
    Capoeira, a Brazilian battle dance and national sport, has become popular all over the world. First brought to Brazil by African slaves and first documented in the late eighteenth century, capoeira has undergone many transformations as it has diffused throughout Brazilian society and beyond, taking on a multiplicity of meanings for those who participate in it and for the societies in which it is ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Aztecs

    Edited by Deborah L. Nichols, Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of the Aztecs, the first of its kind, provides a current overview of recent research on the Aztec empire, the best documented prehispanic society in the Americas. Chapters span from the establishment of Aztec city-states to the encounter with the Spanish empire and the Colonial period that shaped the modern world. Articles in the Handbook take up new research trends and ... Read more

    $46.79 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

  • Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World

    by James H. Sweet ...
    Between 1730 and 1750, powerful healer and vodun priest Domingos Álvares traversed the colonial Atlantic world like few Africans of his time — from Africa to South America to Europe — addressing the profound alienation of warfare, capitalism, and the African slave trade through the language of health and healing. In Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • 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

    $39.59 USD

  • The Mixtecs of Oaxaca

    Ancient Times to the Present

    by Andrew K. Balkansky, Prof. Ronald Spores Sr. ...
    Series series The Civilization of the American Indian Series
    The Mixtec peoples were among the major original developers of Mesoamerican civilization. Centuries before the Spanish Conquest, they formed literate urban states and maintained a uniquely innovative technology and a flourishing economy. Today, thousands of Mixtecs still live in Oaxaca, in present-day southern Mexico, and thousands more have migrated to locations throughout Mexico, the United ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Our Sacred Maíz Is Our Mother

    Indigeneity and Belonging in the Americas

    by Roberto Cintli Rodríguez ...
    “If you want to know who you are and where you come from, follow the maíz.” That was the advice given to author Roberto Cintli Rodriguez when he was investigating the origins and migrations of Mexican peoples in the Four Corners region of the United States.Follow it he did, and his book Our Sacred Maíz Is Our Mother changes the way we look at Mexican Americans. Not so much peoples created as a ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Chocolate and Corn Flour

    History, Race, and Place in the Making of "Black" Mexico

    by Laura A. Lewis ...
    Located on Mexico's Pacific coast in a historically black part of the Costa Chica region, the town of San Nicolás has been identified as a center of Afromexican culture by Mexican cultural authorities, journalists, activists, and foreign anthropologists. The majority of the town's residents, however, call themselves morenos (black Indians). In Chocolate and Corn Flour, Laura A. Lewis explores the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Recreating Africa

    Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441-1770

    by James H. Sweet ...
    Exploring the cultural lives of African slaves in the early colonial Portuguese world, with an emphasis on the more than one million Central Africans who survived the journey to Brazil, James Sweet lifts a curtain on their lives as Africans rather than as incipient Brazilians. Focusing first on the cultures of Central Africa from which the slaves came--Ndembu, Imbangala, Kongo, and others--Sweet ... Read more

    $28.49 USD