South America category: 2208 books
by Autores varios
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Primeras constituciones nacionales y declaraciones de independencia. (Sancionado el 26 de octubre de 1812.)
En busca del orden perdido
La idea de la Historia en Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 30, 2014
La historia de la sociedad andina antes de la Conquista ha sido un reto para los investigadores, ya que no existen testimonios directos de la época. Juan Ossio, historiador y antropólogo peruano, aborda este tema en el libro En busca del orden perdido trabajo que fuera presentado por primera vez...
by Luis Benítez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
¿Quién era en verdad Jorge Luis Borges? ¿El referente cultural casi obligatorio en la Argentina durante la dictadura militar, el que aparecía fotografiado en las revistas de actualidad junto a otros famosos y mucho más ricos que él? ¿El admitido por los agentes de la divulgación masiva de...
Amores Patrios
Las más conmovedoras historias de amor de la Argentina
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
La larga novela de la historia también tiene páginas de amor. Abrumados por la cantidad de fechas, aniversarios, nombres de lugares célebres y de no menos célebres protagonistas que tuvieron parte en hechos memorables, nos olvidamos en múltiples ocasiones de que estos últimos eran hombres y...
Brazil's Dance with the Devil
The World Cup, The Olympics, and the Struggle for Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
The World is turning its eyes to Brazil as it plans to host the 2014 World Cup (June 13-July 14, 2014) and the 2016 Summer Olympics (August 5-August 21, 2016) while repressing some of the largest protests in the country's history.
The World Cup and the Olympics are the largest sporting events...
The Accidental President of Brazil
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
Fernando Henrique Cardoso received a phone call in the middle of the night asking him to be the new Finance Minister of Brazil. As he put the phone down and stared into the darkness of his hotel room, he feared he'd been handed a political death sentence. The year was 1993, and he would be responsible...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
These two unique guides produced by the Department of Defense provide comprehensive information about all aspects of life in Venezuela, with a special emphasis on geography, history, the economy, society, security and military matters, religion, traditions, urban and rural life, ethnic groups, crime,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2014
These two unique guides produced by the Department of Defense provide comprehensive information about all aspects of life in Brazil, with a special emphasis on geography, history, the economy, society, security and military matters, religion, traditions, urban and rural life, ethnic groups, crime,...
by Rodolfo Kusch, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
Originally published in Mexico in 1970, Indigenous and Popular Thinking in América is the first book by the Argentine philosopher Rodolfo Kusch (1922–79) to be translated into English. At its core is a binary created by colonization and the devaluation of indigenous practices and cosmologies: an...
A Culture of Stone
Inka Perspectives on Rock
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2010
A major contribution to both art history and Latin American studies, A Culture of Stone offers sophisticated new insights into Inka culture and the interpretation of non-Western art. Carolyn Dean focuses on rock outcrops masterfully integrated into Inka architecture, exquisitely worked masonry, and...
The Hold Life Has
Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
This second edition of Catherine J. Allen's distinctive ethnography of the Quechua-speaking people of the Andes brings their story into the present. She has added an extensive afterword based on her visits to Sonqo in 1995 and 2000 and has updated and revised parts of the original text. The book focuses...
Rubble
The Afterlife of Destruction
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
At the foot of the Argentine Andes, bulldozers are destroying forests and homes to create soy fields in an area already strewn with rubble from previous waves of destruction and violence. Based on ethnographic research in this region where the mountains give way to the Gran Chaco lowlands, Gastón...
Food, Power, and Resistance in the Andes
Exploring Quechua Verbal and Visual Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
Food, Power, and Resistance in the Andes is a dynamic, interdisciplinary study of how food's symbolic and pragmatic meanings influence access to power and the possibility of resistance in the Andes. In the Andes, cooking often provides Quechua women with a discursive space for achieving economic self-reliance,...
The Last of the Tribe
The Epic Quest to Save a Lone Man in the Amazon
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Throughout the centuries, the Amazon has yielded many of its secrets, but it still holds a few great mysteries. In 1996 experts got their first glimpse of one: a lone Indian, a tribe of one, hidden in the forests of southwestern Brazil. Previously uncontacted tribes are extremely rare, but a one-man...