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  • - Volume 1: Performing Beliefs: Indigenous Peoples of South America, Central America, and Mexico
     
    730,-

    Taking a sociocultural and human-centered approach, Music in Latin America and the Caribbean gathers the best scholarship from writers all over the world to cover in depth the musical legacies of indigenous peoples, creoles, African descendants, Iberian c

  • av Jim Peyton
    310,-

    ';Valuable to anyone who loves cooking and eating south-of-the-border food and doesn't want to sacrifice taste for healthy choices or vice versa.' Foreword Just about everyone loves Mexican food, but should you eat it if you want to manage your weight or diabetes? Absolutely! There are countless authentic Mexican dishes that are naturally healthymoderate in calories, fat, and sugarand completely delectable. Naturally Healthy Mexican Cooking presents some two hundred easy recipes with exceptional nutrition profiles. Substitutions that alter the taste and pleasure of food have no place here. Instead you'll find flavorful low-calorie dishes from the various schools of Mexican and Mexican American cooking in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California. From traditional meat, seafood, and vegetarian entrees andm antojitos mexicanos, including tacos, enchiladas, and tamales, to upscale alta cocina Mexicana such as shrimp ceviche and mango salsa, these recipes are authentic, simple to prepare with supermarket ingredients, and fully satisfying in moderate portions. Every recipe includes nutritional analysis: calories, protein, carbs, fat, cholesterol, fiber, sugar, and sodium. You'll also find information on Mexican cooking and nutrition, ingredients, techniques, and equipment. Try the recipes in Naturally Healthy Mexican Cooking, and you'll discover that comfort food can be both delicious and good for you. Buen provecho!

  • - From Street Market to Liberal Reform in Salvador, Brazil, 1780-1860
    av Richard Graham
    390,-

    This social and cultural history of the provisioning of Salvador, Brazil, as it moved from colony to independent city encompasses a whole society by looking at a broadly defined occupation-the food trade-and showing the connections between and among social categories.

  • - El Sueno del Retorno
    av Nicolas Kanellos
    336,-

    The first comprehensive study of literary works created both orally and in writing by immigrants to the United States from the Hispanic world since the early nineteenth century.

  • - The True Adventures of a Spanish American with 17th-Century Pirates
    av Fabio Lopez Lazaro
    306,-

    A critical translation and commentary on a work long regarded as Latin America's first novel, which proves that this famous tale of piracy is actually a historical account that sheds new light on Spain's worldwide struggle against the ambitions of France and other European powers.

  • - Themes and Variations from Prehistory to the Present
    av Mary Strong
    540,-

    Taking a new approach to traditional Andean art that links prehistory with the present, this book illustrates the ongoing legacy of the past in contemporary art and the importance of art not only as a way of expressing religious ideas rooted in nature, bu

  • - Accounting and Recounting in Andean Khipu
     
    540,-

    In this benchmark book, twelve international scholars tackle the most vexed question in khipu studies: how did the Inkas record and transmit narrative records by means of knotted strings?

  • - Myth, Memory, and Mexico's Twentieth Century
    av Samuel Brunk
    420,-

    A vivid, comprehensive examination of the monumental Zapata legacy, incorporating new archival research and wide-ranging cultural issues.

  • - Folk Theology and Folk Performance
    av Max Harris
    350,-

    In this book, Max Harris explores and develops principles for understanding the folk theology underlying patronal saints' day festivals, feasts of Corpus Christi, and Carnivals through a series of vivid, first-hand accounts of these festivities throughout

  • - Otavalo Merchants and Musicians in the Global Arena
    av Lynn A. Meisch
    350,-

    How participation in the global economy has affected a South American indigenous group.

  • - Heartland of the Inca
    av Brian S. Bauer
    420,-

    This landmark book undertakes the first general overview of the prehistory of the Cuzco region from the arrival of the first hunter-gatherers (ca. 7000 B.C.) to the fall of the Inca Empire in A.D. 1532.

  • - Religion, Authority, and Social Change in Highland Ecuador
    av Barry J. Lyons
    390,-

    A pathfinding study of how indigenous peasants experienced, responded to, and remember the often-harsh conditions of servitude in Ecuador's haciendas.

  • av Stephanie Merrim
    396,-

    Stephanie Merrim offers a dynamic interdisciplinary approach to colonial Hispanic writing based on the spectacular city, a model that encompasses three driving forces of New World literary culture: cities, festivals, and wonder.

  • - The Making and Marketing of Oaxacan Wood Carvings
    av Michael Chibnik
    476,-

    The first in-depth look at the international trade in Oaxacan wood carvings, including their history, production, marketing, and cultural representations.

  • - Print and Oral Skills for All Students, K-College
    av Rita Portales
    400,-

    A proven method for enhancing the teacher-student relationship and increasing student skills.

  • av Christopher B. Donnan
    496,-

    The first wide-ranging, systematic study of the Moche portraits, three-dimensional ceramic vessels formed in the likeness of people's heads.

  • - Elsewheres and Ethnosuicide in the Colonial Mesoamerican World
    av Jose Rabasa
    332,-

    This pathfinding book presents a new understanding of the pictorial vocabulary presented in Codex Telleriano-Remensis, which reveals a native painter's perspective on the tandem of ethnosuicide and ethnogenesis, and the topology of conquest.

  • - Drawing a Cosmopolitan Line
    av Alicia Inez Guzman
    616,-

    This catalogue of an exhibition at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum broadens our understanding of twentieth-century modernism by exploring the prolific Mexican artist Miguel Covarrubias's substantial contributions to a cosmopolitan sensibility in modernist art

  • av Elizabeth Hill Boone
    736,-

    A major new analysis and interpretation of the surviving body of ancient Mexican divinatory codices.

  • - Migrating Collections and Recollections in Europe and the Americas
    av Silvia Spitta
    560,-

    From sixteenth-century European Wunderkammern to the veneration of the Virgin of Guadalupe to the Latinization of the United States, this dynamic and innovative book explores how the circulation of objects between Europe and the Americas has profoundly re

  • - Race, Lineage, and the Colonial Body in Portraiture and Casta Paintings
    av Magali M. Carrera
    306,-

    Using an interdisciplinary approach that also considers legal, literary, and religious documents of the period, Magali Carrera focuses on eighteenth-century portraiture and casta paintings to understand how the people and spaces of New Spain were conceptu

  • - Talking About Immigration and the Latinoization of the United States
    av Louis G. Mendoza
    310,-

    This collection of interviews conducted while the author traveled across the country demonstrates the complexity of Latino immigration by foregrounding the myriad voices of immigrants themselves.

  • av Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa
    390,-

    A new translation and introduction to an invaluable account of Inca history and mythology.

  • - The Politics of Heritage
    av Lisa C. Breglia
    306,-

    A masterful examination of the "monumental ambivalence" that results when private and public interests compete to control and benefit from archaeological and historical sites.

  • - From Black Madonna to Queen of the Americas
    av Jeanette Favrot Peterson
    740,-

    Spanning some three hundred years, this masterful study of the transmission of the Virgin of Guadalupe from Spain to the Americas and back again explores the subjectivity of seeing and the power of an image at the intersection of religion and politics.

  • av Gabriela Mistral
    336,-

    This Spanish-English bilingual volume gathers the most famous and representative prose writings of Gabriela Mistral, which have not been as readily available to English-only readers as her poetry.

  • - Body, Being, and Experience among the Classic Maya
    av Stephen D. Houston
    566,-

    Three leading experts offer a new, standard-setting interpretation of how the Classic Maya experienced and thought about the human body.

  • - Spanish-Quechua Penitential Texts, 1560-1650
    av Regina Harrison
    510,-

    A study of the semantic changes evident in translations of Catholic catechisms, sermons, and manuals. It demonstrates how the translated texts often retained traces of ancient Andean modes of thought, despite the didactic lessons they contained.

  • - Oaxaca Valley Communities in History
    av Scott Cook
    586 - 846,-

    Draws on thirty-five years of fieldwork (1965-1990) in the region to present a masterful ethnographic historical account of how nine communities in the Oaxaca Valley have striven to maintain land, livelihood, and civility in the face of transformational and cumulative change across five centuries.

  • - Elena Garro, Octavio Paz, and the Battle for Cultural Memory
    av Sandra Messinger Cypess
    306,-

    Blending biography, literary analysis, and cultural history, Uncivil Wars reveals a new understanding of the works of Elena Garro and Octavio Paz, placing these iconic writers in the context of the revolutions-military, social, and feminist-that shaped th

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