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A collection of Latina plays, performance pieces, and "testimonios" focus on race, gender, class, sexual identity, and the empowerment of an educated class of women.
Until recently, Guerrero's past has suffered from relative neglect by archaeologists and historians. While a number of excellent studies have expanded our knowledge of certain aspects of the region's history or of particular areas or topics, the absence of a thorough scholarly overview has left Guerrero's significant contributions to the history of Mesoamerica and colonial Mexico greatly underestimated. With Indigenous Culture and Change in Guerrero, Mexico, 7000 BCE to 1600 CE Ian Jacobs at last puts Guerrero's history firmly on the map of Mexican archaeology and history. The book brings together a vast amount of cross-disciplinary information to understand the deep roots of the Indigenous cultures of a complex region of Mexico and the forces that shaped the foundations of colonial Mexico in the sixteenth century and beyond. This book is particularly significant for its exploration of archaeological, Indigenous, and historical sources.
This edited volume analyzes the belief in supernatural gamekeepers and/or animal masters of wildlife from a cross-cultural perspective. It documents the antiquity and widespread occurrence of the belief in supernatural gamekeepers at the global level. This interdisciplinary volume documents both the antiquity and the widespread geographical distribution of this belief along with surveying the various manifestations of this cosmology by way of studies from Europe, Asia, Africa, and North and South America. Some chapters explore the manifestations of this belief as they appear in petroglyphs/pictographs and other forms of material culture. Others focus on the environmental impacts of these bel...
Usted encontrará en este libro los lugares y temas más emblemáticos en la trayectoria de más de 50 años del profesor Ángel García Cook, pues se resaltan las aportaciones de un amplio espectro que logró como investigador, funcionario y maestro de grupo en los que dejó su huella.
Esta obra explica la historia del monumento desde que se fundó hasta nuestros días y presenta un panorama de los lugares de enterramiento existentes en la Ciudad de México en la época virreinal, nos muestra los primeros panteones que se formaron en la primera mitad del siglo XIX. En él también se podrán conocer las costumbres funerarias que existían en ese siglo y continuaron en los primeros años del XX, finalmente el catálogo se revelan algunos nombres de las personalidades que ahí yacen, entre los que destaca el Benemérito de las Américas, Benito Juárez.
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