México, D.F. Editorial Fontamara (Colección Argumentos; 429), 2017. First Edition. Paperback. 199p., wrps. "El Mexicano. Alquimia y mito de una raza" is a study on the identity and collective unconscious of Mexicans from a Jungian approach, exploring the influence of both pre-Columbian and European history. Contents include: "El Mexicano", "Arcana... More
La Paz, Bolivia: Fundación Xavier Albó, Centro de Investigación y Promoción del Campesinado (CIPCA), 2018. First Edition. Paperback. xiv, 766p., maps, graphs, illus., tables, wrps. "Xavier Albó: Obras Selectas. Tomo VI" is the sixth part of a comprehensive anthology of work by Jesuit priest, linguist, and anthropologist Xavier Albó... More
México, D.F. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, Dirección General de Publicaciones y Fomento Editorial (Odisea; 1), 2016. First Edition. Paperback. 47p., illus., wrps. "El conejo y el coyote" is a traditional story from Mexico that centers around a rabbit and coyote, two opposing characters who, however... More
Lima: Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos, Centro de Estudios Regionales Andinos Bartolomé de las Casas, Mondes Américains Sociétes, Centre d'Antropologie Sociale (Actes&Memoires 26), 2009. First Edition. Paperback. 292p., bibl., wrps. "El regreso de lo indígena" is a collection of essays on indigenous issues in Peru, particularly examining topics related to... More
Bogota: Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia--ICANH (Colección: Cuadernos de Historia Colonial Título VI), 2000. First Edition. Paperback. 246p., maps, illus., tables, bibl., wrps. "Mestizaje, comercio y resistencia" is a study on the entrenched conflicts that took place in Guajira during the second half of the eighteenth century from an... More
México, D.F. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Centro de Investigaciones sobre América Latina y el Caribe (Colección historia de América Latina e el Caribe; 22), 2018. First Edition. Paperback. 160p., tables, bibl., wrps. "La guerra entre incas y chancas" is a study on the war between the Incas and Chancas... More
Santiago de Chile: LOM Ediciones (Ciencias Sociales y Humanas), 2016. First Edition. Paperback. 113p., maps, photos, tables, graphics, bibl., wrps. Today, more than seventy countries around the world grow quinoa. The expansion of this crop's cultivation in all continents defies the established belief that it only grows in high altitudes... More
México, D.F. Editorial Resistencia, 2014. First Edition. Paperback. 46p., illus., wrps. "El dios viejo y el conejo" tells of the mythical adventures of the rabbit T'ul, as dictated by Mayan hieroglyphic texts and scenes that adorned ceramic cups. This mischievous rabbit was an accomplice to the gods that sought to... More
Cusco: Centro de Estudios Regionales Andinos Bartolomé de las Casas, Programa Democracia y Transformación Global (Estudios y debates regionales andinos, 19. Diálogo y movimientos), 2017. Third Edition. Paperback. 372p., photos, illus., bibl., wrps. "Nosotros los Indios" contains historical and previously unpublished texts by Hugo Blanco Galdos, a Peruvian political figure... More
Quito: Centro de Publicaciones PUCE, Fundación Alejandro Labaka, 2016. Third Edition. Paperback. 640p., photos, illus., tables, graphics, facsimiles, bibl., wrps. "Los Huaorani en la historia de los pueblos del Oriente" is an anthropological study on the Huaorani, who are native Amerindians from the Amazonian Region of Ecuador. The study featues... More
México, D.F. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2016. First edition. Paperback. 204p., photos, illus., tables, facsimiles, bibl., boards. "Doña Rosita Asencio" is a biography on and an homage to the Purepécha healer Rosita Ascencio, who fought for the use and institutionalization of traditional medicine... More
Buenos Aires: Editorial Dunken, 2017. First Edition. Paperback. 211p., bibl., maps, photos, facsimiles, graphics, bibl., wrps. "Aborígenes Argentinos" is a descriptive analysis of the different indigenous people that have occupied Argentina, particularly examining their integration processes, or resistance to integration during the colonial period, as well as the modern era... More
México, D.F. Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de Mexico (Reflexiones), 2017. First Edition. Paperback. 412p., maps, photos, tables, graphics, bibl., index, wrps. "Cosmovisión y territorialidad en Mesoamérica" is a study on how cosmovision and territory shaped the collective identities of indigenous people in Mesoamerica, and created a framework that defined... More
Lima: Lluvia Editores, Centro Amazónico de Antropología y Aplicación Práctica (CAAAP), Grupo Internacional de Trabajo sobre Asuntos Indígenas (IWGIA), Instituto del Bien Común (IBC), 2017. First Edition. Paperback. 452p., maps, bibl., wrps. In "Después del Caucho" Peruvian anthropologist Alberto Chirif studies the global and national contexts in which the rubber... More
Castellano de la Plana, Michoacán: Publicaciones de la Universitat Jaume I, El Colegio de Michoacán (América; 37), 2017. First Edition. Paperback. 345p., tables, graphics, bibl., wrps. "El Perú en Revolución" is a multi-authored study on Peruvian revolution and independence processes throughout history, examining its advances and setbacks from 1780 to... More
Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Fondo Editorial, Tarea Asociación Gráfica Educativa, 2018. First Edition. Paperback. 209p., photos, bibl., wrps. "Género y conflicto armado interno en el Perú" is an analysis of the internal armed conflict dynamics in Peru from a gendered perspective, particularly examining the testimonies and memories of... More
La Paz, Bolivia: Laboratorio del Pensamiento Indianista-Katarista, (Colección pensamiento aymara y descolonización, 2), 2017. First Edition. Paperback. 289p., photos, facsimiles, bibl., wrps. "Pensamiento político aymara" is a study on Aymara political thought and the de-colonization of memory from 1960 to 2017. Contents include: "El pensamiento político Aymara: 1960-2017", "Constitución del... More
México, D.F. Distribuciones Fontamara (Colección Argumentos; 403), 2017. First Edition. Paperback. 77p., bibl., wrps. "Simbiosis Guadalupana" is a study on the Chichimeca Jonaz's belief in the Virgin of Guadalupe, examining her role as a cultural symbol, and her importance in their collective sense of identity. Contents include: "La noble fuerza... More
Managua: Universidad Centroamericana (UCA), Nitalpan Instituto de Investigación y Desarrollo, 2017. First Edition. Paperback. 56p., maps, tables, bibl., wrps. An investigation of adolescents access to public spaces in the Wanky Twi Tasba Raya indigenous territory. More
Santiago de Chile: LOM Ediciones (Colección Cultura y sociedad | Ciencias Sociales y Humanas), 2017. First Edition. Paperback. 275p., wrps. "Zomo newen" is a collection of eight stories about the experience of "triple discrimination" -- that is, being a woman, poor, and indigenous. From different generations and varied perspectives, these... More
México, D.F. Secretaría de Cultura, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 2017. First Edition. Paperback. 160p., color plates, photos, bibl., wrps. "Fiestas y danzas en la montaña de Guerrero" is a collection of photographs and essays that explore the cultural traditions, especially dances and celebratory events, of the Me'phaa people... More
México, D.F: Fondo de Cultura Economica, 2016. First Edition. Paperback. 477p., tables, bibl., wrps. "El sacrificio humano entre los aztecas" is an exhaustive, erudite and interdisciplinary study on Aztec human sacrifice, written by Michel Graulich, an internationally-renowned authority on Aztec anthropology. The study delves into the mythology behind Aztec sacrifice... More
La Habana: Ediciones Cubanas Artex, 2015. First Edition. Paperback. 243p., index, wrps. "Los meyi. Leyendas y refranes" is a collection of stories from the Yoruba tradition that were passed down orally, revealing traditions, principles and rituals that defined their culture and everyday lives. More
Madrid: Alianza Editorial, (Humanidades, 78), 2017. First Edition. Paperback. 170p., graphics, wrps. "Relación de las cosas de Yucatán" is an updated edition of a catalogue of Mayan words, phrases, and hieroglyphs originally compiled by Spanish bishop Diego de Landa in 1566, with the help of Maya princes. These hieroglyphic symbols... More
México, D.F. Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 2016. First Edition. Paperback. 184p., illus., wrps. "Sp'ijil smantal jtotik jme'tik ta sots'leb, Chiapas" is a children's book that offers wisdom, teachings, and advice from the Mayan elders of Zinacantán, Chiapas. This is a bilingual edition, featuring both Spanish... More