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Crafting Tradition
The Making and Marketing of Oaxacan Wood Carvings
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Since the mid-1980s, whimsical, brightly colored wood carvings from the Mexican state of Oaxaca have found their way into gift shops and private homes across the United States and Europe, as Western consumers seek to connect with the authenticity and tradition represented by indigenous folk arts....
Cultural Logics and Global Economies
Maya Identity in Thought and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
As ideas, goods, and people move with increasing ease and speed across national boundaries and geographic distances, the economic changes and technological advances that enable this globalization are also paradoxically contributing to the balkanization of states, ethnic groups, and special interest...
by Sheldon Annis
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
Since the late 1970s, Protestantism has emerged as a major force in the political and economic life of rural Guatemala. Indeed, as Sheldon Annis argues in this book, Protestantism may have helped tip Guatemala's guerrilla war in behalf of the army during the early 1980s.But what is it about Protestantism—and...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Maya Cultural Activism in Guatemala marks a new era in Guatemalan studies by offering an up-to-the-minute look at the pan-Maya movement and the future of the Maya people as they struggle to regain control over their cultural destiny. The successful emergence of what is in some senses a nationalism grounded...
Thunder Shaman
Making History with Mapuche Spirits in Chile and Patagonia
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
As a "wild," drumming thunder shaman, a warrior mounted on her spirit horse, Francisca Kolipi's spirit traveled to other historical times and places, gaining the power and knowledge to conduct spiritual warfare against her community's enemies, including forestry companies and settlers. As a "civilized"...
by John Hoyt Williams
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Paraguay plays a very small role in the modern world, but for part of the nineteenth century it was a significant regional force. Between 1800 and 1865 it changed from an imperial backwater into a dynamic, dictator-led, financially sound nation. Then came the terrible War of the Triple Alliance, and...
Vietnam
The Early Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Haunting questions remain about our involvement in Vietnam. Perhaps the most persistent of these is whether President Kennedy would have ended American involvement in Vietnam if he had lived.For many Americans, Oliver Stone's film JFK left no doubt that before his assassination Kennedy had determined...
The Mexican Outsiders
A Community History of Marginalization and Discrimination in California
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
People of Mexican descent and Anglo Americans have lived together in the U.S. Southwest for over a hundred years, yet relations between them remain strained, as shown by recent controversies over social services for undocumented aliens in California. In this study, covering the Spanish colonial period...
Outsider in the Promised Land
An Iraqi Jew in Israel
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2009
In 1951, Israel was a young nation surrounded by hostile neighbors. Its tenuous grip on nationhood was made slipperier still by internal tensions among the various communities that had immigrated to the new Jewish state, particularly those between the politically and socially dominant Jewish leadership...
Palestinians Born in Exile
Diaspora and the Search for a Homeland
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2009
In the decade following the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords, some 100,000 diasporic Palestinians returned to the West Bank and Gaza. Among them were children and young adults who were born in exile and whose sense of Palestinian identity was shaped not by lived experience but rather through the transmission...
Blacks in Colonial Veracruz
Race, Ethnicity, and Regional Development
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Beginning with the Spanish conquest, Mexico has become a racially complex society intermixing Indian, Spanish, and African populations. Questions of race and ethnicity have fueled much political and scholarly debate, sometimes obscuring the experiences of particular groups, especially blacks. Blacks...
Domestic Intelligence
Monitoring Dissent in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
The 1970s revealed a number of infamous and sometimes illegal practices used by federal law enforcement agencies to monitor political dissent in the United States. In the aftermath of Watergate the revelation of serious abuses created distrust of virtually all domestic intelligence operations and...
Católicos
Resistance and Affirmation in Chicano Catholic History
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Chicano Catholicism—both as a popular religion and a foundation for community organizing—has, over the past century, inspired Chicano resistance to external forces of oppression and discrimination including from other non-Mexican Catholics and even the institutionalized church. Chicano Catholics...
Rebellious Bodies
Stardom, Citizenship, and the New Body Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Celebrity culture today teems with stars who challenge long-held ideas about a "normal" body. Plus-size and older actresses are rebelling against the cultural obsession with slender bodies and youth. Physically disabled actors and actresses are moving beyond the stock roles and stereotypes that once...