University of New Mexico Press, 2019. — 288 p. Swashbuckling tales of valiant gauchos roaming Argentina and Uruguay were nineteenth-century Latin American best sellers. But when these stories jumped from the page to the circus stage and beyond, their cultural, economic, and political influence revolutionized popular culture and daily life. In this expansive and engaging...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2021. — 608 p. In-depth scholarship on the central artists, movements, and themes of Latin American art, from the Mexican revolution to the present. A Companion to Modern and Contemporary Latin American and Latinx Art consists of over 30 never-before-published essays on the crucial historical and theoretical issues that have framed our understanding of art in...
Northwestern University Press, 2016. — 208 p. In this innovative study, Leo Cabranes-Grant analyzes four intercultural events in the Viceroyalty of New Spain that took place between 1566 and 1690. Rather than relying on racial labels to describe alterations of identity, Cabranes-Grant focuses on experimentation, rehearsal, and the interaction between bodies and objects. His...
University of Florida Press, 2021. — 212 p. In Writing the New World , Mauro Caraccioli examines the natural history writings of early Spanish missionaries, using these texts to argue that colonial Latin America was fundamental in the development of modern political thought. Revealing their narrative context, religious ideals, and political implications, Caraccioli shows how...
University of Chicago Press, 2022. — 248 p. Following conflicting desires for an Aztec crown, this book explores the possibilities of repatriation. In The Contested Crown, Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll meditates on the case of a spectacular feather headdress believed to have belonged to Montezuma, the last emperor of the Aztecs. This crown has long been the center of political...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 276 p. In the first book on Aztec dance in the United States, Ernesto Colín combines cultural anthropology, educational theory, and postcolonial theory to create an innovative, interdisciplinary, long-term ethnography of an Aztec dance circle and makes a case for the use of the metaphor of palimpsest as an ethnographic research tool. Ernesto Colín is...
Duke University Press, 2020. — 264 p. In Latinx Art Arlene Dávila draws on numerous interviews with artists, dealers, and curators to explore the problem of visualizing Latinx art and artists. Providing an inside and critical look of the global contemporary art market, Dávila's book is at once an introduction to contemporary Latinx art and a call to decolonize the art worlds...
BAR Publishing, 2022. — 188 p. — (BAR International Series 3085). Religious manuscripts from ancient and early colonial Mexico offer a direct pathway into indigenous worldviews through the uniquely Mesoamerican medium of pictography. During the thousands of years preceding Spanish invasion, a complex calendrical system developed in the region, forming the basic organizing...
Liverpool University Press, 2015. — 320 p. On the Edge: Writing the Border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic is a literary and cultural history which brings to the fore a compelling but, so far, largely neglected body of work which has the politics of borderline-crossing as well as the poetics of borderland-dwelling on Hispaniola at its core. Over thirty fictional and...
University Press of Florida, 2018. — 353 p. — (Cultural Heritage Studies). — ISBN10: 0813056632, 13 978-0813056630. During Fidel Castro's rule, Cuban revolutionaries coopted and reinterpreted the previous bourgeois national narrative of Cuba, aligning it with revolutionary ideology through the use of heritage and public symbols. By changing uses of the past in the present, they...
University of Toronto Press, 2008. — 404 p. 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...
Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1974. — 319 p. — (Sección de obras de antropología). Esta obra es un resumen, profusamente ilustrado, de la historia cultural del ámbito mesoamericano. Se inicia con un estudio de los primeros habitantes del Continente, y culmina con la descripción de la civilización azteca, de la que, naturalmente, se cuenta con muchísimos datos. En el curso de su...
University of Texas Press, 2019. — 184 p. Trail of Footprints offers an intimate glimpse into the commission, circulation, and use of indigenous maps from colonial Mexico. A collection of sixty largely unpublished maps from the late sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries and made in the southern region of Oaxaca anchors an analysis of the way ethnically diverse societies produced...
Routledge, 2012. — 370 p. The face of the divine feminine can be found everywhere in Mexico. One of the most striking features of Mexican religious life is the prevalence of images of the Virgin Mother of God. This is partly because the divine feminine played such a prominent role in pre-Hispanic Mexican religion. Goddess images were central to the devotional life of the...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 504 p. - Shows how the innovations of Renaissance humanism were not confined to Europe or to Europeans - Calls attention to Latin writing by native authors, explaining its historical significance - Demonstrates the scholarly accomplishment of the first texts in the Nahuatl language In 1536, only fifteen years after the fall of the Aztec empire,...
Translated by Mauricio J. Mixco. — University of Oklahoma Press, 2012. — 340 p. He was sent from Spain on a religious crusade to Mexico to "detect the sickness of idolatry", but Bernardino de Sahagún (c. 1499-1590) instead became the first anthropologist of the New World. The Franciscan monk developed a deep appreciation for Aztec culture and the Nahuatl language. In this...
University of Texas Press, 2021. — 232 p. One of the outstanding painters of the nineteenth century, Francisco Laso (1823–1869) set out to give visual form to modern Peru. His solemn and still paintings of indigenous subjects were part of a larger project, spurred by writers and intellectuals actively crafting a nation in the aftermath of independence from Spain. In this book,...
Liverpool University Press, 2019. — 288 p. Intimate Frontiers: A Literary Geography of the Amazon analyzes the ways in which the Amazon has been represented in twentieth century cultural production. With contributions by scholars working in Latin America, the US and Europe, Intimate Frontiers reads against the grain commonly held notions about the region - its gigantism, its...
Routledge, 2004. — 224 p. — ISBN10: 0415948134; ISBN13: 9780415948135. Time-Warping in Tenochtitlan Anthropologists and Alcoholics After Fifteen of Twenty Drinks Bodies and Memories Alla en el Rancho Grande Death-Wish Aesthetics Spousal Assault Rituals, Then and Now The Pedro Infante Generation Thirsty Urban normads
Heredia: EUNA, 2004. — 416 p. — ISBN: 9977-65-251-1. Los estudios incluidos en este libro examinan la alfabetización popular, la expansión del comercio de la producción de libros y folletos y la dinámica de los círculos intelectuales en la Centroamérica de los siglos XIX y XX. La obra, al concentrarse en algunos de los principales cambios culturales que experimentó el istmo...
Britannica Educational Publishing, 2017. — 52 p. Latin America's population is estimated to be well over half a billion people—almost one-tenth of the world's population—living in thirty-three different countries and territories. This engrossing title explores the people of South America, Central America, Mexico, and the West Indies and provides extensive detail on their...
Routledge, 2020. — 514 p. Exploring the culture and media of the Americas, this handbook places particular emphasis on collective and intertwined experiences and focuses on the transnational or hemispheric dimensions of cultural flows and geocultural imaginaries that shape the literature, arts, media and other cultural expressions in the Americas. The Routledge Handbook to the...
University of Nebraska Press, 2019. — 198 p. Caught between the Lines examines how the figure of the captive and the notion of borders have been used in Argentine literature and painting to reflect competing notions of national identity from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Challenging the conventional approach to the nineteenth-century trope of "civilization...
University of California Press, 2023. — 394 p. Like coffee or tea, yerba mate is one of the world's most beloved caffeinated beverages. Once dubbed a "devil's drink" by Spanish missionaries in South America only to be later hailed by capitalists and politicians as "green gold," it has a long and storied history. And no country consumes and celebrates yerba mate quite like...
University of California Press, 2023. — 394 p. Like coffee or tea, yerba mate is one of the world's most beloved caffeinated beverages. Once dubbed a "devil's drink" by Spanish missionaries in South America only to be later hailed by capitalists and politicians as "green gold," it has a long and storied history. And no country consumes and celebrates yerba mate quite like...
University of Chicago Press, 2022. — 248 p. In The Contested Crown , Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll meditates on the case of a spectacular feather headdress believed to have belonged to Montezuma, the last emperor of the Aztecs. This crown has long been the center of political and cultural power struggles, and it is one of the most contested museum claims between Europe and the...
Penguin Canada, 2015. — 304 p. Traveling through Peru, tracing the history of the Incas from their royal cities of Cusco and Machu Picchu to their mythic origin in Lake Titicaca, Ronald Wright explores a country of contrasts—between Spanish and Indian, past and present, coastal desert and mountainous interior. In his highly entertaining and perceptive account, Wright brings to...
Toronto: Grove Press, 2000. — 464 p. — ISBN10: 0802137288; ISBN13: 978-0802137289 The Maya of Central America have been called the Greeks of the New World. In the first millennium AD, they created the most intellectually and artistically advanced civilization of the Americas. Throughout the ensuing centuries, as neighbouring empires fell in warfare and to the Spanish invasion,...
Scarecrow Press, 2010. — 719 p. The Historical A-Z Dictionary of Latin American Literature and Theater provides users with an accessible single-volume reference tool covering Portuguese-speaking Brazil and the 16 Spanish-speaking countries of continental Latin America (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua,...
М.: ИЛА РАН, 2006. — 52 с. — ISBN: 5-201-05423-4. Традиционный цивилизационный подход к изучению латиноамериканского региона пренебрегает существенными различиями в исходных цивилизационных матрицах, ставших основой формирования современных социумов региона и повлиявших на расхождение траекторий социально-экономического развития латиноамериканских стран. Впервые в отечественной...
М.: ИЛА РАН, 2006. — 52 с. — ISBN: 5-201-05423-4. Традиционный цивилизационный подход к изучению латиноамериканского региона пренебрегает существенными различиями в исходных цивилизационных матрицах, ставших основой формирования современных социумов региона и повлиявших на расхождение траекторий социально-экономического развития латиноамериканских стран. Впервые в отечественной...
М.: ИМЛИ РАН, 2002. — 400 с. — (Iberica Americans). В очередной выпуск междисциплинарного сборника серии "Iberica Americans" входят статьи, подготовленные на основе дискуссии "за круглым столом" на тему "Феномен праздника в ибероамериканской культуре", проведенной в 1997 г. Комиссией по комплексному изучению культуры народов Пиренейского полуострова и Латинской Америки Научного...
М.: Высшая школа, 2005. — 495 с. В учебном пособии освещены важнейшие этапы латиноамериканской истории от I тысячелетия до н.э. до начала XX в. Большое внимание уделено цивилизациям ольмеков, майя, ацтеков, инков и чибча-муисков, культуре и религии Нового Света. Широко представлена панорама «встречи двух миров», завоевание Испанией и Португалией большей части западного полушария....
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