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Este libro está dedicado en honor a todos los indígenas kichwas del Oriente Ecuatoriano que derramaron su sangre por defender sus territorios y sus derechos durante la conquista blanca, que con el pretexto de encontrar la ciudad perdida de la canela y el dorado arrasaron con todo lo que se encontraron a su paso. En este encuentro los nativos kichwas fueron esclavizados, torturados, sus mujeres violadas, muchos asesinados y finalmente expulsados...
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Following their first contact in 1519, accounts of Aztecs identifying Spaniards as gods proliferated. But what exactly did the Aztecs mean by a "god" (teotl), and how could human beings become gods or take on godlike properties? This sophisticated, interdisciplinary study analyzes three concepts that are foundational to Aztec religion-teotl (god), teixiptla (localized embodiment of a god), and tlaquimilolli (sacred bundles containing precious objects)-to...
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Al borde del golfo de México, hace varios miles de años, surgió una civilización de entre los pantanos, ríos, lagunas, ciénagas y selva. Las culturas que se formaron en este entorno denominado Mesoamérica, se dispersaron por el territorio que ahora conocemos como centro y sur de México, Belice, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua y parte de Costa Rica. Si en su origen, Mesoamérica nace de la cultura olmeca, de ésta se derivan otras...
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The History of the Maya definitively traces the cultural evolution of the Maya civilization from the arrival of migrating 'first peoples' to the end of the Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican World with the Spanish Conquest in the 16th century. A span of some thousands of years are concisely, covered in one volume in a thorough study of the history of a complex Maya society. A new world of understanding about the ancient Maya civilization has been, opened...
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Indigenous women migrants from Central America and Mexico face harrowing experiences of violence before, during, and after their migration to the United States, like all asylum seekers. But as Shannon Speed argues, the circumstances for Indigenous women are especially devastating, given their disproportionate vulnerability to neoliberal economic and political policies and practices in Latin America and the United States, including policing, detention,...
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Exploring the cultural lives of African slaves in the early colonial Portuguese world, with an emphasis on the more than one million Central Africans who survived the journey to Brazil, James Sweet lifts a curtain on their lives as Africans rather than as incipient Brazilians. Focusing first on the cultures of Central Africa from which the slaves came--Ndembu, Imbangala, Kongo, and others--Sweet identifies specific cultural rites and beliefs that...
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Estudio que repasa las condiciones que hicieron posible el desarrollo de la civilización inca y aborda la exposición de sus orígenes, economía, organización social, religión, arte y cultura a través de una prosa clara y precisa. En todo momento el autor realiza deslindes con las versiones de los cronistas españoles, quienes impusieron modos de interpretación occidentales a una realidad radicalmente distinta.
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Caviasca propone un debate indispensable. En Los pueblos indígenas y la cuestión nacional, afronta en clave polémica una tensión constitutiva en la conformación de Argentina como Nación. Las tradiciones nacionalista-liberal, nacionalista-revisionista no menos que las que se desarrollaron con base en el legado que suele denominarse de "izquierda", y aun indigenista, se ven aquí interpeladas por un abordaje que no solo incorpora las nuevas conquistas...
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"In the ebullient spirit of Ocean's 8, The Heist, and Thelma & Louise, a sensational and entertaining memoir of the world's most notorious jewel thief--a woman who defied society's prejudices and norms to carve her own path, stealing from elite jewelers to live her dreams." --Publisher.
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The History of the Incas may be the best description of Inca life and mythology to survive Spanish colonization of Peru. Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, a well-educated sea captain and cosmographer of the viceroyalty, wrote the document in Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire, just forty years after the arrival of the first Spaniards. The royal sponsorship of the work guaranteed Sarmiento direct access to the highest Spanish officials in Cuzco. It allowed...
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Este libro es un escalón importante para el debate que nos debemos los argentinos. Aquí están las pruebas históricas para llegar a conclusiones definitivas. Las citas de los llamados pensadores, que aparecen aquí, una a una, son imperdibles. Penetrar en esta profunda investigación de Marcelo Valko es ganar las armas de la información para buscar la respuesta a la pregunta: ¿qué nos pasó a los argentinos? El autor se propone todo eso: remover...
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Un jueves de manana en 1981, cuatro mil campesinos, huyendo un escuadron de la muerte salvadoreno patrocinado por los Estados Unidos, trastabillo bajando una ladera por un monte cubierto de follaje, hacia el Rio Lempa. Algunos fueron indiscriminadamente fusilados por las ametralladoras de soldados y helicopteros; otros se ahogaron mientras la corriente los arrastraba por el rio. Los demas escaparon para vivir los proximos ocho anos en campamentos...
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Around the year 1800, independent Native groups still effectively controlled about half the territory of the Americas. How did they maintain their political autonomy and territorial sovereignty, hundreds of years after the arrival of Europeans? In a study that spans the eighteenth to twentieth centuries and ranges across the vast interior of South America, Heather F. Roller examines this history of power and persistence from the vantage point of autonomous...
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El partidismo de la Fuerza Armada ha sido refrendado desde el Tribunal Supremo de Justicia por la Sentencia 651 del 11 de junio de 2014, la cual
valida la intervención de sus integrantes en actos políticos del PSUV: "la participación de los integrantes de la Fuerza Armada Nacional Bolivariana en actos con fines políticos no constituye un menoscabo a su profesionalidad, sino un baluarte de participación democrática y protagónica".
La participación...
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Spanning three hundred years and the colonial regimes of Spain, Mexico, and the United States, Maurice S. Crandall's sweeping history of Native American political rights in what is now New Mexico, Arizona, and Sonora demonstrates how Indigenous communities implemented, subverted, rejected, and indigenized colonial ideologies of democracy, both to accommodate and to oppose colonial power.
Focusing on four groups--Pueblos in New Mexico, Hopis in northern...
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Over the last decade, Peru has experienced a spectacular mining boom and astronomical economic growth. Yet, for villagers in Peru's southern Andes, few have felt the material benefits. With this book, Eric Hirsch considers what growth means-and importantly how it feels. Hirsch proposes an analysis of boom-time capitalism that starts not from considerations of poverty, but from the premise that Peru is wealthy. He situates his work in a network of...
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Throughout the seventeenth century Dutch, French, and English freebooters launched numerous assaults on Spanish targets all over Central America. Many people have heard of Henry Morgan and François L'Olonnais, who led a series of successful raids, but few know that the famous buccaneers often operated in regions inhabited and controlled by Native Americans rather than Spaniards.
Arne Bialuschewski explores the cross-cultural relations that emerged...
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Oaxaca Resurgent examines how Indigenous people in one of Mexico's most rebellious states shaped local and national politics during the twentieth century. Drawing on declassified surveillance documents and original ethnographic research, A. S. Dillingham traces the contested history of indigenous development and the trajectory of the Mexican government's Instituto Nacional Indigenista, the most ambitious agency of its kind in the Americas. This book...
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"Two hundred years after the last Inca ruler (Tupac Amaru) died, a rebellion began to bubble away in Peru"...
Micaela Bastidas Puyucawa and her husband, known as Tupac Amaru II, led a huge uprising against the Spanish.
Who was Micaela exactly? What was she like? How did the movement end? And what legacy did the couple leave behind?
All this and more in 'Andean Storm'.
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