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  • Where Did the Eastern Mayas Go?

    The Historical, Relational, and Contingent Interplay of Ch’orti’ Indigeneity

    by Brent E. Metz ...
    Series series IMS Culture and Society
    Copublished with the Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, University of AlbanyIn Where Did the Eastern Mayas Go? Brent E. Metz explores the complicated issue of who is Indigenous by focusing on the sociohistorical transformations over the past two millennia of the population currently known as the Ch’orti’ Maya. Epigraphers agree that the language of elite writers in Classic Maya civilization was ... Read more

    $82.99 CAD

  • Ch'orti'-Maya Survival in Eastern Guatemala

    Indigeneity in Transition

    by Brent E. Metz ...
    Scholars and Guatemalans have characterized eastern Guatemala as "Ladino" or non-Indian. The Ch'orti' do not exhibit the obvious indigenous markers found among the Mayas of western Guatemala, Chiapas, and the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico. Few still speak Ch'orti', most no longer wear distinctive dress, and most community organizations have long been abandoned.During the colonial period, the Ch'orti ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

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  • The Blood of Guatemala

    A History of Race and Nation

    by Greg Grandin, Walter D. Mignolo, Sonia Saldívar-Hull, Irene Silverblatt ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    Over the latter half of the twentieth century, the Guatemalan state slaughtered more than two hundred thousand of its citizens. In the wake of this violence, a vibrant pan-Mayan movement has emerged, one that is challenging Ladino (non-indigenous) notions of citizenship and national identity. In The Blood of Guatemala Greg Grandin locates the origins of this ethnic resurgence within the social ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Courage Tastes of Blood

    The Mapuche Community of Nicolás Ailío and the Chilean State, 1906-2001

    by Daniel J. Walkowitz, Florencia E. Mallon ...
    Series series Radical Perspectives
    Until now, very little about the recent history of the Mapuche, Chile’s largest indigenous group, has been available to English-language readers. Courage Tastes of Blood helps to rectify this situation. It tells the story of one Mapuche community—Nicolás Ailío, located in the south of the country—across the entire twentieth century, from its founding in the resettlement process that followed the ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • 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

    $43.99 CAD

  • A Companion to Mexican History and Culture

    Edited by William H. Beezley ...
    Series Book 15 - Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History
    A Companion to Mexican History and Culture features 40 essays contributed by international scholars that incorporate ethnic, gender, environmental, and cultural studies to reveal a richer portrait of the Mexican experience, from the earliest peoples to the present.Features the latest scholarship on Mexican history and culture by an array of international scholarsEssays are separated into sections ... Read more

    $251.99 CAD

  • The Legacy of Mesoamerica

    History and Culture of a Native American Civilization

    Edited by Robert M. Carmack, Janine L. Gasco, Gary H. Gossen ...
    The Legacy of Mesoamerica: History and Culture of a Native American Civilization summarizes and integrates information on the origins, historical development, and current situations of the indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica. It describes their contributions from the development of Mesoamerican Civilization through 20th century and their influence in the world community. For courses on Mesoamerica ... Read more

    $226.99 CAD

  • Contemporary Indigenous Movements in Latin America

    by Erick D. Langer ...
    Series series Jaguar Books on Latin America
    The efforts of Indians in Latin America have gained momentum and garnered increasing attention in the last decade as they claim rights to their land and demand full participation in the political process. This issue is of rising importance as ecological concerns and autochtonous movements gain a foothold in Latin America, transforming the political landscape into one in which multiethnic ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Materializing Poverty

    How the Poor Transform Their Lives

    by Erin B. Taylor ...
    Series series Anthropology of Daily Life
    Poverty is generally defined as a lack of material resources. However, the relationships that poor people have with their possessions are not just about deprivation. Material things play a positive role in the lives of poor people: they help people to build social relationships, address inequalities, and fulfill emotional needs. In Materializing Poverty, anthropologist Erin Taylor explores how ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

  • Intimate Enemies

    Landowners, Power, and Violence in Chiapas

    by Aaron Bobrow-Strain ...
    Intimate Enemies is the first book to explore conflicts in Chiapas from the perspective of the landed elites, crucial but almost entirely unexamined actors in the state’s violent history. Scholarly discussion of agrarian politics has typically cast landed elites as “bad guys” with predetermined interests and obvious motives. Aaron Bobrow-Strain takes the landowners of Chiapas seriously, asking why ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Independent Republic of Arequipa

    Making Regional Culture in the Andes

    by Thomas F. Love ...
    Arequipa, Peru’s second largest city, has the most intense regional culture in the central Andes. Arequipeños fiercely conceive of themselves as exceptional and distinctive, yet also broadly representative of the nation’s overall hybrid nature—a blending of coast (modern, “white”) and sierra (traditional, “indigenous”). The Independent Republic of Arequipa investigates why and how this regional ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Capoeira

    The History of an Afro-Brazilian Martial Art

    by Matthias Röhrig Assunção ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society
    Originally the preserve of Afro-Brazilian slaves, the marginalized and the underclasses in Brazilian society, capoeira is now a mainstream sport, taught in Brazilian schools and practised by a range of social classes around the world. Some advocates now seek Olympic recognition for Capoeira. This apparent change in the meaning and purpose of Capeoira has led to conflicts between traditionalists, ... Read more

    $182.99 CAD