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The Poetics of Fire
In The Poetics of Fire, Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and Chicano author Victor M. Valle posits the chile as a metaphor for understanding the shared cultural histories of ChicanX and LatinX peoples from preconquest Mesoamerica to twentieth-century New Mexico. Valle uses the chile as a decolonizing lens through which to analyze preconquest Mesoamerican cosmology, early European exploration, and the forced conversion of Native peoples to Catholicism as well as European and Mesoamerican perspectives on food and place. Assembling a rich collection of source material, Valle highlights the fiery fruit's overarching importance as evidenced by the ubiquity of references to the plant over several centuries in literature, art, official documents, and more to offer a new eco-aesthetic reading--a reframing of culinary history from a pluralistic, non-Western perspective.
Painting the Skin
Mesoamerican communities past and present are characterized by their strong inclination toward color and their expert use of the natural environment to create dyes and paints. In pre-Hispanic times, skin was among the preferred surfaces on which to apply coloring materials. Archaeological research and historical and iconographic evidence show that, in Mesoamerica, the human body—alive or dead—received various treatments and procedures for coloring it. Painting the Skin brings together exciting research on painted skins in Mesoamerica. Chapters explore the materiality, uses, and cultural meanings of the colors applied to a multitude of skins, including bodies, codices made of hide and veg...
Birds and Beasts of Ancient Mesoamerica
Birds and Beasts of Ancient Mesoamerica links Precolumbian animal imagery with scientific data related to animal morphology and behavior, providing in-depth studies of the symbolic importance of animals and birds in Postclassic period Mesoamerica. Representations of animal deities in Mesoamerica can be traced back at least to Middle Preclassic Olmec murals, stone carvings, and portable art such as lapidary work and ceramics. Throughout the history of Mesoamerica real animals were merged with fantastical creatures, creating zoological oddities not unlike medieval European bestiaries. According to Spanish chroniclers, the Aztec emperor was known to keep exotic animals in royal aviaries and zoo...
Beyond Cortés and Montezuma
Beyond Cortés and Montezuma examines both European and Nahuatl texts and images that shed light on the complex narrative of contact and the ensuing conflict, negotiation, and cooperation that continued well after the colonial period. A diverse group of scholars from Europe, Mexico, and the US with varied methodological backgrounds—linguistics, history, art history, and cultural studies—query the “conquest,” or rather conquista, of Mexico through a series of case studies that interrogate how historians, especially in Europe, Mexico, and the US, understand and interact with this concept. They consider the language used to encapsulate the event in Nahuatl documents from the colonial period, how the Spanish veterans led the transition to settlement in taking land for themselves, and the legacy of the conquista in discrimination against Tlaxcallans in modern Mexico. Beyond Cortés and Montezuma is a compilation of nuanced reflections on the language, narratives, and memories of the conquista that balances the crimes of Spanish colonialism and asymmetries of power that existed within early New Spain with the abilities of Native peoples to resist, negotiate, and survive.
Early Islam
In recent decades, new paradigms have radically altered the historical understanding of the Qur'ān and Early Islam, causing much debate and controversy. This volume gathers select proceedings from the first conference of the Early Islamic Studies Seminar. These studies explore the history of the Qur'ān and of formative Islam, with the methodological tools set forth in Biblical, New Testament and Apocryphal studies, as well as the approaches used in the study of Second Temple Judaism, Christian and Rabbinic origins. It thereby contributes to the interdisciplinary study of formative Islam as part and parcel of the religious landscape of Late Antiquity.
Vegolosi MAG #4
Numero di settembre 2020 di Vegolosi MAG, Mangiare, Approfondire, Gustare, il mensile digitale di cucina e cultura 100% vegetale per chi si vuole bene, ama gli animali e il pianeta 20 RICETTE nuove e originali per riprendere il ritmo dopo l’estate. SPECIALE BURGER: la nostra inchiesta sulla “fake meat” con l’intervista alla dottoressa Silvia Goggi. L’INTERVISTA al giovane scrittore finalista del Premio Strega, Jonathan Bazzi che ci racconta la sua scelta vegana e i piani artistici per il futuro L’INGREDIENTE del mese spiegato dalla dott.ssa Denise Filippin, biologa nutrizionista esperta in alimentazione a base vegetale L’intervista ESCLUSIVA a chef Cola, che nella sua cucina in Zimbabwe porta in Africa la cultura veg. L’APPROFONDIMENTO sull’ecofemminismo vegano: perché la lotta per i diritti vale sempre e per tutti con un focus sul libro di Carol Adams, “Carne da macello”. La rubrica ZERO WASTE: puntata dedicata all‘acqua del rubinetto e non solo Il meglio delle NOTIZIE dall’Italia e dal mondo su animali, ambiente e alimentazione Un numero davvero da non perdere con più di 80 pagine da sfogliare!
Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art
An introduction to the complex stories of Mesoamerican divinity through the carvings, ceramics, and metalwork of the Maya Classic period Lives of the Gods reveals how ancient Maya artists evoked a pantheon as rich and complex as the more familiar Greco-Roman, Hindu-Buddhist, and Egyptian deities. Focusing on the period between A.D. 250 and 900, the authors show how this powerful cosmology informed some of the greatest creative achievements of Maya civilization.
Mujeres en la guerra y en los ejércitos
Las mujeres han intervenido en las guerras desde que estas se libran. Y lo han hecho de forma activa, mostrándose a favor mediante su participación en el combate, la resistencia o la instigación, u oponiéndose con la denuncia, la protesta o el boicot. Sin embargo, los relatos históricos suelen omitir la presencia femenina en conflictos y ejércitos, porque a menudo quedaron relegadas a funciones y puestos subalternos. Incluso cuando fueron protagonistas se las condenó deliberadamente al olvido. Este libro comienza trasladándonos a la Grecia Antigua y finaliza en el presente, donde las mujeres ya participan de forma plena y directa en las contiendas. Apoyando a los hombres u oponiéndose a ellos, en el combate o en la retaguardia, en estas páginas se reintegra la importancia de las reinas guerreras, organizadoras, consejeras, líderes espirituales, diplomáticas o comandantes guerrilleras, aunque también devuelve a la escena histórica a las mujeres anónimas: campesinas, obreras o víctimas. Porque no se construirá una historia útil para la humanidad sin restituirle su sitio a la mitad de ella.
Vegolosi MAG #5
80 pagine, ricette testate e fotografate, contenuti originali e inediti che non torverai sul magazine online: è il numero di ottobre 2020 di Vegolosi MAG, Mangiare, Approfondire, Gustare, il mensile digitale di cucina e cultura 100% vegetale per chi si vuole bene, ama gli animali e il pianeta. Cosa c'è in questo numero? 20 RICETTE nuove e originali: dalla crostata ricotta e cioccolato alle frittelle di patate e tofu fino alla parmigiana di zucca. Facili e goduriose! SPECIALE FORMAGGI VEGETALI: la nostra inchiesta, con l’intervista alla dottoressa Silvia Goggi. Fanno bene o fanno male? Quali tipi sono i migliori da mangiare? Si può dire "formaggio" vegetale? IL LIBRO: se le piante avrann...
The Fifteenth Month
The Mexica (Aztecs) used a solar calendar made up of eighteen months, with each month dedicated to a specific god in their pantheon and celebrated with a different set of rituals. Panquetzaliztli, the fifteenth month, dedicated to the national god Huitzilopochtli (Hummingbird on the Left), was significant for its proximity to the winter solstice, and for the fact that it marked the beginning of the season of warfare. In The Fifteenth Month, John F. Schwaller offers a detailed look at how the celebrations of Panquetzaliztli changed over time and what these changes reveal about the history of the Aztecs. Drawing on a variety of sources, Schwaller deduces that prior to the rise of the Mexica in...
