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Maya Political Science
Time, Astronomy, and the Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
How did the ancient Maya rule their world? Despite more than a century of archaeological investigation and glyphic decipherment, the nature of Maya political organization and political geography has remained an open question. Many debates have raged over models of centralization versus decentralization,...
Portable Borders
Performance Art and Politics on the U.S. Frontera since 1984
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
After World War II, the concept of borders became unsettled, especially after the rise of subaltern and multicultural studies in the 1980s. Art at the U.S.-Mexico border came to a turning point at the beginning of that decade with the election of U.S. President Ronald Reagan. Beginning with a political...
Transforming Modernity
Popular Culture in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Is popular culture merely a process of creating, marketing, and consuming a final product, or is it an expression of the artist's surroundings and an attempt to alter them? Noted Argentine/Mexican anthropologist Néstor García Canclini addresses these questions and more in Transforming Modernity, a...
by Luis Camnitzer
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Artist, educator, curator, and critic Luis Camnitzer has been writing about contemporary art ever since he left his native Uruguay in 1964 for a fellowship in New York City. As a transplant from the "periphery" to the "center," Camnitzer has had to confront fundamental questions about making art in...
The Vanishing Frame
Latin American Culture and Theory in the Postdictatorial Era
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2018
In the postdictatorial era, Latin American cultural production and criticism has been defined by a series of assumptions about politics and art—expecially the claim that political freedom can be achieved by promoting a more direct experience between the textual subject (often a victim) and the reader...
The Ages of Homer
A Tribute to Emily Townsend Vermeule
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey have fascinated listeners and readers for over twenty-five centuries. In this volume of original essays, collected to honor the distinguished career of Emily T. Vermeule, thirty-four leading experts in Homeric studies and related fields provide up-to-date, multidisciplinary...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
In Vergil's Aeneid, the poet implies that those who have been initiated into mystery cults enjoy a blessed situation both in life and after death. This collection of essays brings new insight to the study of mystic cults in the ancient world, particularly those that flourished in Magna Graecia (essentially...
Lord Eight Wind of Suchixtlan and the Heroes of Ancient Oaxaca
Reading History in the Codex Zouche-Nuttall
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
In the pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican world, histories and collections of ritual knowledge were often presented in the form of painted and folded books now known as codices, and the knowledge itself was encoded into pictographs. Eight codices have survived from the Mixtec peoples of ancient Oaxaca, Mexico;...
Medicine and the Saints
Science, Islam, and the Colonial Encounter in Morocco, 1877-1956
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
The colonial encounter between France and Morocco took place not only in the political realm but also in the realm of medicine. Because the body politic and the physical body are intimately linked, French efforts to colonize Morocco took place in and through the body. Starting from this original premise,...
Eugenics in the Garden
Transatlantic Architecture and the Crafting of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
As Latin American elites strove to modernize their cities at the turn of the twentieth century, they eagerly adopted the eugenic theory that improvements to the physical environment would lead to improvements in the human race. Based on Jean-Baptiste Lamarck’s theory of the “inheritance of acquired...
Imagining Identity in New Spain
Race, Lineage, and the Colonial Body in Portraiture and Casta Paintings
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Reacting to the rising numbers of mixed-blood (Spanish-Indian-Black African) people in its New Spain colony, the eighteenth-century Bourbon government of Spain attempted to categorize and control its colonial subjects through increasing social regulation of their bodies and the spaces they inhabited....
The Los Angeles Plaza
Sacred and Contested Space
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
City plazas worldwide are centers of cultural expression and artistic display. They are settings for everyday urban life where daily interactions, economic exchanges, and informal conversations occur, thereby creating a socially meaningful place at the core of a city.At the heart of historic Los Angeles,...
by Frederick Luis Aldama
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Robert Rodriguez stands alone as the most successful U.S. Latino filmmaker today, whose work has single-handedly brought U.S. Latino filmmaking into the mainstream of twenty-first-century global cinema. Rodriguez is a prolific (eighteen films in twenty-one years) and all-encompassing filmmaker who has...
Growing Up in a Culture of Respect
Child Rearing in Highland Peru
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Far from the mainstream of society, the pastoral community of Chillihuani in the high Peruvian Andes rears children who are well-adjusted, creative, and curious. They exhibit superior social and cognitive skills and maintain an attitude of respect for all life as they progress smoothly from childhood...