Bücher der Reihe Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture

A deep exploration of the ways in which postcolonial narrative fiction both acts on and is acted upon by the modern world.

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.

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.

The third and final book in a major three-volume trilingual anthology of Mexican indigenous writing.

The second book in a major three-volume trilingual anthology of Mexican indigenous writing.

This groundbreaking anthology gathers works by the leading generation of writers in thirteen Mexican indigenous languages.

This exceptional study examines the experience of Mexican workers in the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP), widely considered a model program by the World Bank and other international institutions despite the significant violations of l

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

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

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

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.

Presenting an authoritative translation and analysis of the only surviving original document from the first months of the Spanish conquest, this book brings to life a decisive moment in the history of Mexico and offers an enlarged understanding of the con

This pioneering study examines television's impact on an Amazonian river town from the first broadcasts in Gurupa, in 1983, to the present.

This study of the most fully developed and intensive use of "soft power" diplomacy in U.S. history explores how the U.S. government enlisted Walt Disney, Orson Welles, John Ford, and other cultural leaders and institutions to bolster inter-American cultur

A pioneering ethnography of a crucial, yet often undervalued, site of family and community building-the kitchen.

How community organizing and activism in support of public schools in one of America's most economically disadvantaged regions has engendered impressive academic results.

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

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?

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.