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No Mere Shadows
Three generations of women in one family are the characters in this intimate historical study of what it meant to be a widow in sixteenth-century Mexico City. Shirley Cushing Flint has used archival research to tell the stories of five women in the Estrada family—a mother, three daughters, and a granddaughter—from the time of the Spanish conquest of Mexico in 1520 until the 1580s. Each was once married and when widowed chose not to remarry. Their stories illustrate the constraints placed upon them both as women and as widows by the religious, secular, and legal cultures of the time and how each refused to be bound by those constraints. Money, influence, knowledge, and connections all come into play as the widows maneuver to hold onto property. Each of their stories illustrates an aspect of Spanish life in the New World that has heretofore been largely overlooked.
From Colonies to Countries in the North Caribbean
This volume brings together eight essays that address the result of a research project involving a group of international scholars. It explores a little-discussed, yet interesting phenomenon in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico region – how military engineers reshaped the physical landscape for imperial reasons and, in doing so, laid the foundations for broader colonial development. Moreover, this transnational scenario reveals how military construction reached beyond cross-borders themes and histories from the age of imperialism. As such, this book provides valuable insights into the role of military engineers in the process of articulating new American countries from the late 18th to 19th...
Cerámica Y Cultura
By examining both historic and contemporary examples, the editors move discussion of the enameled earthenware known as mayolica beyond its stylistic merits in order to understand it in historic and cultural context. It places the ceramics in history and daily life, illustrating their place in trade and economics.
Handbook of Latin American Studies
Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and...
Xochimilco
Esta obra, a manera de diccionario, permite que el lector encuentre de manera fácil, rápida y puntual información acerca del patrimonio natural, arqueológico, histórico, arquitectónico e intangible -como fiestas religiosas y leyendas- de esta alcaldía. Gran parte de tales valores patrimoniales conforman la memoria viva de Xochimilco, pueblo originario de la Ciudad de México, que se resiste a perder su identidad y territorialidad.
Retos y perspectivas en el estudio del arte rupestre en México
En este volumen se muestra el quehacer actual sobre la gráfica rupestre. El análisis y la óptica personal, en cada caso, son el cimiento para establecer líneas de investigación y tomar iniciativas en proyectos como los realizalos en 1990 y 2005 sobre el mismo tema y que sigan dinamizando estos estudios. Los conceptos vertidos permitirán tener datos sobre su desarrollo, establecer un diagnóstico y, con base en ellos, proponer futuras líneas de investigación.
Time and the Ancestors
Time and the Ancestors: Aztec and Mixtec Ritual Art combines iconographical analysis with archaeological, historical and ethnographic studies and offers new interpretations of enigmatic masterpieces from ancient Mexico, focusing specifically on the symbols and values of the religious heritage of indigenous peoples.
Iconografía mexicana
"Sta es una más de las publicaciones del Seminario Permanente de Iconografía, caracterizadas por la alta calidad de los artículos que la forman y la especialización de los investigadores que presentan trabajos. Se trata ahora de un tema apasionante, el análisis de los signos con los que se representan los cuerpos celestes en la época prehispánica y en la Colonia. Angulo, Barba, Piña Chán, González Torres, Sepúlveda, Rivas, Lechuga, Castillo, Blanco, Cedillo, Durán, Treviño, Zimbrón, Torres Rodriguez, Haupt, Baños, Guzman Matadamas, Tinajero, Ochenterena, Herrera Moreno y Peralta son los que aquí presentan estudios, trabajaron sobre códices, bajorrelieves, esculturas y pinturas de aproximadamente 21 siglos de la historia de México. Venus, el Sol, las estrellas, constelaciones especiales y la Luna son observados y analizados en las diferentes formas en que fueron representados. Su valor estético, su importancia cultural y su proyección histórica también se encuentran discutidos y analizados en las paginas de este libro."--
Bakers and Basques
Mexico City’s colorful panaderías (bakeries) have long been vital neighborhood institutions. They were also crucial sites where labor, subsistence, and politics collided. From the 1880s well into the twentieth century, Basque immigrants dominated the bread trade, to the detriment of small Mexican bakers. By taking us inside the panadería, into the heart of bread strikes, and through government halls, Robert Weis reveals why authorities and organized workers supported the so-called Spanish monopoly in ways that countered the promises of law and ideology. He tells the gritty story of how class struggle and the politics of food shaped the state and the market. More than a book about bread, Bakers and Basques places food and labor at the center of the upheavals in Mexican history from independence to the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution.
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