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Mesquite Pods to Mezcal
New case studies documenting ten thousand years of cuisines across the cultures of Oaxaca, Mexico, from the earliest gathered plants, such as guajes, to the contemporary production of tejate and its health implications. Among the richest culinary traditions in Mexico are those of the “eight regions” of the state of Oaxaca. Mesquite Pods to Mezcal brings together some of the most prominent scholars in Oaxacan archaeology and related fields to explore the evolution of the area’s world-renowned cuisines. This volume, the first to address food practices across Oaxaca through a long-term historical lens, covers the full spectrum of human occupation in Oaxaca, from the early Holocene to cont...
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...
Aztec Goddesses and Christian Madonnas
The face of the divine feminine can be found everywhere in Mexico. One of the most striking features of Mexican religious life is the prevalence of images of the Virgin Mother of God. This is partly because the divine feminine played such a prominent role in pre-Hispanic Mexican religion. Goddess images were central to the devotional life of the Aztecs, especially peasants and those living in villages outside the central city of Tenochtitlan (present day Mexico City). In these rural communities fertility and fecundity, more than war rituals and sacrificial tribute, were the main focus of cultic activity. Both Aztec goddesses and the Christian Madonnas who replaced them were associated, and sometimes identified, with nature and the environment: the earth, water, trees and other sources of creativity and vitality. This book uncovers the myths and images of 22 Aztec Goddesses and 28 Christian Madonnas of Mexico. Their rich and symbolic meaning is revealed by placing them in the context of the religious worldviews in which they appear and by situating them within the devotional life of the faithful for whom they function as powerful mediators of divine grace and terror.
Vida ritual del pueblo maya de Tihosuco
Tihosuco es un pueblo maya muy antiguo, en 2019 fue declarado Zona de Monumentos Históricos. En esta obra se describe su vida ritual a lo largo del año y su relación con el calendario agrícola de la milpa, con la intención de difundir parte del patrimonio cultural vivo que poseen mujeres y hombres mayas de la localidad, para así contribuir a su reconocimiento y valoración, y también para mostrar la diversidad cultural del México actual.
Medicine on the Periphery
Medicine on the Periphery examines the history of the public health of Yucatán, Mexico, from the 1870s through 1960. This book includes chapters on institutions, healers, changing patterns of disease, the biomedicalization of Yucatán, and the relationship between Yucatán and the Mexican Revolutionary government. Sowell analyzes Yucatec officials’ establishment of public health programs as a strategy for the modernization of the region, using wealth from the production of henequen to create Mexico’s most extensive public health system and subsequent tensions with the Revolutionary government. Public health programs situated the Yucatán into a complex position in the nexus of knowledge, power, and technologies of the Atlantic medical community. Medicine on the Periphery provides a comprehensive look at how Yucatán became a medical periphery, a status that made it increasingly dependent upon knowledge and technologies produced in the productive core of the North Atlantic and subject to the authority of the Mexican state. This book will be of interest to scholars in Mexican studies, history of medicine and public health in Latin America and in the Atlantic world.
Develando la tradición
Los textos que integran esta obra sobre los procesos rituales, constituyen una verdadera develación de la tradición ya que posee una de las mayores virtudes: la posibilidad de observar aspectos que no siempre están al alcance de la mirada del antropólogo y abre la posibilidad de ser examinada por otros estudiosos con otra interpretación.
The Oxford Handbook of Mary
The Oxford Handbook of Mary offers an interdisciplinary guide to Marian Studies, including chapters on textual, literary, and media analysis; theology; Church history; art history; studies on devotion in a variety of forms; cultural history; folk tradition; gender analysis; apparitions and apocalypticism. Featuring contributions from a distinguished group of international scholars, the Handbook looks at both Eastern and Western perspectives and attempts to correct imbalance in previous books on Mary towards the West. The volume also considers Mary in Islam and pilgrimages shared by Christian, Muslim, and Jewish adherents. While Mary can be a source of theological disagreement, this authorita...
Los sueños y los días
En las tradiciones indígenas de México el sueño coexiste con el trance, o es equivalente al mismo, y los chamanes locales lo utilizan para acceder a un espacio-tiempo alterno, caracterizado con distintas representaciones y denominaciones. Los V tomos de la obra “Los sueños y los días. Chamanismo y nahualismo en el México actual”, intentan conciliar el chamanismo, el nahualismo y el viaje onírico. En este tomo II, conoceremos la prácticas de los pueblos mayas en cuanto a estas tradiciones.
