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Of Wonders and Wise Men
In the tumultuous decades following Mexico's independence from Spain, religion provided a unifying force among the Mexican people, who otherwise varied greatly in ethnicity and socioeconomic status. Accordingly, religion and the popular cultures surrounding it form the lens through which Terry Rugeley focuses this cultural history of southeast Mexico from independence (1821) to the rise of the dictator Porfirio Díaz in 1876. Drawing on a wealth of previously unused archival material, Rugeley vividly reconstructs the folklore, beliefs, attitudes, and cultural practices of the Maya and Hispanic peoples of the Yucatán. In engagingly written chapters, he explores folklore and folk wisdom, urban piety, iconography, and anticlericalism. Interspersed among the chapters are detailed portraits of individual people, places, and institutions, that, with the archival evidence, offer a full and fascinating history of the outlooks, entertainments, and daily lives of the inhabitants of southeast Mexico in the nineteenth century. Rugeley also links this rich local history with larger events to show how macro changes in Mexico affected ordinary people.
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Crossing Colonial Historiographies
This book offers an innovative engagement with the diverse histories of colonial and indigenous medicines. Engagement with different kinds of colonialism and varied indigenous socio-political cultures has led to a wide range of approaches and increasingly distinct traditions of historical writing about colonial and indigenous modes of healing have emerged in the various regions formerly ruled by different colonial powers. The volume offers a much-needed opportunity to explore new conceptual perspectives and encourages critical reflection on how scholars’ research specialisms have influenced their approaches to the history of medicine and healing. The book includes contributions on differen...
Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest
Here is an intriguing exploration of the ways in which the history of the Spanish Conquest has been misread and passed down to become popular knowledge of these events. The book offers a fresh account of the activities of the best-known conquistadors and explorers, including Columbus, Cortés, and Pizarro. Using a wide array of sources, historian Matthew Restall highlights seven key myths, uncovering the source of the inaccuracies and exploding the fallacies and misconceptions behind each myth. This vividly written and authoritative book shows, for instance, that native Americans did not take the conquistadors for gods and that small numbers of vastly outnumbered Spaniards did not bring down...
Becoming Maya
In Mexico's Yucatán peninsula, it is commonly held that the population consists of two ethnic communities: Maya Indians and descendants of Spanish conquerors. As a result, the history of the region is usually seen in terms of conflict between conquerors and conquered that too often ignores the complexity of interaction between these groups and the complex nature of identity within them. Yet despite this prevailing view, most speakers of the Yucatec Maya language reject being considered Indian and refuse to identify themselves as Maya. Wolfgang Gabbert maintains that this situation can be understood only by examining the sweeping procession of history in the region. In Becoming Maya, he has ...
Humanities
"The one source that sets reference collections on Latin American studies apart from all other geographic areas of the world.... The Handbook has provided scholars interested in Latin America with a bibliographical source of a quality unavailable to scholars in most other branches of area studies." —Latin American Research Review 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 b...
One Nation, Uninsured
Every industrial nation in the world guarantees its citizens access to essential health care services--every country, that is, except the United States. In fact, one in eight Americans--a shocking 43 million people--do not have any health care insurance at all. One Nation, Uninsured offers a vividly written history of America's failed efforts to address the health care needs of its citizens. Covering the entire twentieth century, Jill Quadagno shows how each attempt to enact national health insurance was met with fierce attacks by powerful stakeholders, who mobilized their considerable resources to keep the financing of health care out of the government's hands. Quadagno describes how at fir...
El Fin Del Mundo Maya Y La Ex-República De Yucatán
Actualmente, hay varias de estas calaveras exhibindose en las vitrinas de distintos museos del mundo, y ya han sido descubiertas por lo menos ocho de las trece. Estn en distintas manos y cada una de ellas ha sido bautizada con un nombre propio, segn la especialista en la materia, Ellie Crystal. El misterio de las calaveras es enriquecido tambin por una leyenda que se remontara a los mayas.
Antropología política
La diversidad y profundidad de los cambios políticos que la sociedad mexicana ha manifestado en los últimos años requiere, para su mejor comprensión, de las aportaciones que la antropología política ha realizado en cuanto a la cultura como factor de transformación social.No obstante que la cultura política se ha convertido en punto de reflexión ineludible, en el debate acerca de los obstáculos y pasibilidades que nuestra sociedad mexicana para democratizarse, el término se emplea regularmente para referirse a principios, normas y actitudes relacionados con la convivencia política, o se asocia al conocimiento por parte de la ciudadanía, de la normatividad que rige los procesos el...
Entre textos e imágenes
"Entre textos e imágenes" es producto de un acuerdo de colaboración entre americanistas de España y Francia para el estudio de la representación narrativa e iconográfica de la alteridad amerindia por parte del humanismo y la ciencia occidentales, desde el s. XVI hasta la actualidad. El material examinado no habla tanto de la realidad externa representada como de la intención de sus usuarios y sus circunstancias. Hasta el inicio del s. XVIII, las imágenes tenían una función pretendidamente ilustrativa de los textos, pero a partir de esa fecha empezaron a adquirir otro estatuto que ofreciese incluso una función de documentación o certificación legitimadora de las condiciones sociopolíticas del momento.
