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The Life and Writings of Julio C. Tello
The father of Peruvian archaeology, Julio Tello was the most distinguished Native American scholar ever to focus on archaeology. A Quechua speaker born in a small highland village in 1880, Tello did the impossible: he received a medical degree and convinced the Peruvian government to send him to Harvard and European universities to master archaeology and anthropology. He then returned home to shape modern Peruvian archaeology and the institutions through which it was carried out. Tello’s vision remains unique, and his work has taken on additional interest as contemporary scholars have turned their attention to the relationship among nationalism, ethnicity, and archaeology. Unfortunately, m...
The Dive
An artifact to transform you into whatever you want, a CD with which everyone will obey you, a sniper ready to kill the star soccer player or a Peruvian who takes a rock legend in his taxi. What are the boundaries between reality and fiction?The immersion stories are divided into two parts. In the first part we have futuristic stories, closer to parody in a sci - fi key than scientific fiction, full of black humor in a tragic future, or perhaps apocalyptic, but with characters that are close to us, even recognizable in that utopian future; In the second part, on the contrary, we have realistic, contemporary stories, where man is situated in a cruel and crushing society. Narrated with ease, precision and poetic imagery, the narrator Pedro Felix Novoa, without losing the bitter humor places us in the present, or the hypothetical future, to challenge our human condition.
Maestra vida
Historias de cacería urbana que se cruzan y entrecruzan en esa especie de laberinto que es Lima, la ciudad del vértigo, la ciudadela maestra, la cual en definitiva, no es apta para aprendices. Maestra vida presenta las historias de Fando, un escritor en busca de consagración, y de Zeta, su esposa; las del profe Orlando, del director Aquiles, un hombre obsesivo, y de la voluptuosa Pamela, su amante. Historias que nos muestran, en una acumulación temporal de eventos trepidantes que las clases en esta vida son sin atenuantes y recias. A través de ellas, se recorre los vericuetos más sabrosos y bravos de las calles, sin concesión alguna, sin tregua ni banderita blanca que valga. Nos muestran que en esta vida el que pestañea, no solo pierde aquí, sino que muere y mal, sin el somero artilugio de la esperanza. La narración apela a conductas arquetípicas (el egocentrismo, la venganza, el sexo, los celos, etc.) y a sus desgarradoras consecuencias en una sociedad profundamente machista, recubierta solo superficialmente por criterios de la modernidad.
Image Encounters
Moche murals of northern Peru represent one of the great, yet still largely unknown, artistic traditions of the ancient Americas. Created in an era without written scripts, these murals are key to understandings of Moche history, society, and culture. In this first comprehensive study on the subject, Lisa Trever develops an interdisciplinary methodology of “archaeo art history” to examine how ancient histories of art can be written without texts, boldly inverting the typical relationship of art to archaeology. Trever argues that early coastal artistic traditions cannot be reduced uncritically to interpretations based in much later Inca histories of the Andean highlands. Instead, the auth...
Disobedience, Slander, Seduction, and Assault
Though the law and courts of nineteenth-century Peru were institutions created by and for the ruling elite, women of all classes used the system to negotiate the complexities of property rights, childrearing, and marriage, and often to defend their very definitions of honor. Drawing on the trial transcripts of Cajamarca, a northern Peruvian province, from more than a century ago, this book shares eye-opening details about life among this community, in which reputation could determine a woman's chances of survival. Exploring the processes of courtship, seduction, and familial duties revealed in these court records, historian Tanja Christiansen has unearthed a compelling panorama that includes...
The Evolution of Human Co-operation
This book explains the evolution of human cooperation in tribal societies using insights from game theory, ethnography and archaeology.
The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel
The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel provides an accessible introduction to an important World literature. While many of the authors covered—Aira, Bolaño, Castellanos Moya, Vásquez—are gaining an increasing readership in English and are frequently taught, there is sparse criticism in English beyond book reviews. This book provides the guidance necessary for a more sophisticated and contextualized understanding of these authors and their works. Underestimated or unfamiliar Spanish American novels and novelists are introduced through conceptually rigorous essays. Sections on each writer include: *the author's reception in their native country, Spanish America, and Spain *biographical history *a critical examination of their work, including key themes and conceptual concerns *translation history *scholarly reception The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel offers an authoritative guide to a rich and varied novelistic tradition. It covers all demographic areas, including United States Latino authors, in exploring the diversity of this literature and its major themes, such as exile, migration, and gender representation.
Being the Nação in the Eternal City
James William Nelson Novoa's new book Being the Nação in the Eternal City explores, in a set of case studies focusing on seven carefully chosen figures, the presence of Portuguese individuals of Jewish origin in Rome after the initial creation of a tribunal of the Portuguese Inquisition in 1531. The book delves into the varied ways in which the protagonists, representing a cross-section of Portuguese society, went about grappling with the complexities of a New Christian identity, and tracks them through their interactions with Roman society and its institutions. Some chose to flaunt Jewish origins. They espoused a sense of being part of a distinctive group, the Portuguese New Christian na...
Line Of Fire
Thrower’s in New York for a personal situation, but soon discovers he’d rather be just about anywhere else. Thankfully for him, a job comes calling. But not just any job. This might be the biggest one he’s ever had. Protecting the President of Chile. President Carla Suaza is dealing with an imminent threat, though no one is sure whether it’s coming from inside or outside her own administration. Nobody can be trusted. That’s where Thrower comes in. He’s to keep her safe until the threat is identified and eliminated… at any cost.
Authoritarian El Salvador
In December 1931, El Salvador’s civilian president, Arturo Araujo, was overthrown in a military coup. Such an event was hardly unique in Salvadoran history, but the 1931 coup proved to be a watershed. Araujo had been the nation’s first democratically elected president, and although no one could have foreseen the result, the coup led to five decades of uninterrupted military rule, the longest run in modern Latin American history. Furthermore, six weeks after coming to power, the new military regime oversaw the crackdown on a peasant rebellion in western El Salvador that is one of the worst episodes of state-sponsored repression in modern Latin American history. Democracy would not return ...
