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  • Invaders as Ancestors

    On the Intercultural Making and Unmaking of Spanish Colonialism in the Andes

    par Peter Gose ...
    Collections series Anthropological Horizons
    Since pre-Incan times, native Andean people had worshipped their ancestors, and the custom continued even after the arrival of the Spaniards in the sixteenth century. Ancestor-worship however, did not exclude members of other cultures: in fact, the Andeans welcomed outsiders as ancestors. Invaders as Ancestors examines how this unique cultural practice first facilitated Spanish colonization and ... En savoir plus

    $42.99 CAD

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  • Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City"

    Reshaping Justice, Social Hierarchy, and Political Culture in Colonial Peru

    par Alcira Duenas ...
    Through newly unearthed texts virtually unknown in Andean studies, Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City" highlights the Andean intellectual tradition of writing in their long-term struggle for social empowerment and questions the previous understanding of the "lettered city" as a privileged space populated solely by colonial elites. Rarely acknowledged in studies of resistance to colonial ... En savoir plus

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  • Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest

    par Matthew Restall ...
    Here is an intriguing exploration of the ways in which the history of the Spanish Conquest has been misread and passed down to become popular knowledge of these events. The book offers a fresh account of the activities of the best-known conquistadors and explorers, including Columbus, Cortes, and Pizarro. Using a wide array of sources, historian Matthew Restall highlights seven key myths, ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

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  • The Aztecs

    A Very Short Introduction

    par David Carrasco ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

    $7.19 CAD

  • The Conquistadors: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Matthew Restall, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    With startling speed, Spanish conquistadors invaded hundreds of Native American kingdoms, took over the mighty empires of the Aztecs and Incas, and initiated an unprecedented redistribution of the world's resources and balance of power. They changed the course of history, but the myth they established was even stranger than their real achievements. This Very Short Introduction deploys the latest ... En savoir plus

    $7.19 CAD

  • Colonial Latin American Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Rolena Adorno ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    A vivid account of the literary culture of the Spanish-speaking Americas from the time of Columbus to Latin American Independence, this Very Short Introduction explores the origins of Latin American literature in Spanish and tells the story of how Spanish literary language developed and flourished in the New World. A leading scholar of colonial Latin American literature, Rolena Adorno examines the ... En savoir plus

    $7.19 CAD

  • Ambivalent Conquests

    Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517–1570

    par Inga Clendinnen ...
    Collections Livre 61 - Cambridge Latin American Studies
    This is both a specific study of conversion in a corner of the Spanish Empire, and a work with implications for the understanding of European domination and native resistance throughout the colonial world. Dr Clendinnen explores the intensifying conflict between competing and increasingly divergent Spanish visions of Yucatan and its destructive outcomes. She seeks to penetrate the ways of thinking ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • Roots of Brazil

    par Sérgio Buarque de Holanda ...
    Traduit par G. Harvey Summ ...
    Collections series Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development
    Sérgio Buarque de Holanda's Roots of Brazil is one of the iconic books on Brazilian history, society, and culture. Originally published in 1936, it appears here for the first time in an English language translation with a foreword, "Why Read Roots of Brazil Today?" by Pedro Meira Monteiro, one of the world's leading experts on Buarque de Holanda.Roots of Brazil focuses on the multiple cultural ... En savoir plus

    $28.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • México Profundo

    Reclaiming a Civilization

    par Guillermo Bonfil Batalla ...
    Traduit par Philip A. Dennis ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

    $24.99 CAD

  • The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City

    par Barbara E. Mundy ...
    Collections series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
    Winner, Book Prize in Latin American Studies, Colonial Section of Latin American Studies Association (LASA), 2016ALAA Book Award, Association for Latin American Art/Arvey Foundation, 2016The capital of the Aztec empire, Tenochtitlan, was, in its era, one of the largest cities in the world. Built on an island in the middle of a shallow lake, its population numbered perhaps 150,000, with another 350 ... En savoir plus

    $50.39 CAD

  • The Formation of Candomblé

    Vodun History and Ritual in Brazil

    Traduit par Richard Vernon ...
    par Luis Nicolau Parés ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

    $34.39 CAD

  • Colonial Latin America

    A Documentary History

    Modifié par Kenneth Mills, William B. Taylor, Sandra Lauderdale Graham ...
    Colonial Latin America: A Documentary History is a sourcebook of primary texts and images intended for students and teachers as well as for scholars and general readers. The book centers upon people-people from different parts of the world who came together to form societies by chance and by design in the years after 1492. This text is designed to encourage a detailed exploration of the cultural ... En savoir plus

    $84.99 CAD