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.....
Rosario: Ediciones Prohistoria, (Tiempo presente, 9), 2017. First Edition. Paperback. 192p., wrps. "La tierna furia" examines the struggles assumed by the indigenous people of Chiapas in the last stage of their political movement, highlighting the antisystemic challenges that have enhanced their mobilization. This work provides a unique glimpse into Zapatismo...
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.....
México, D.F. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, Centro de Estudios Mayas, 2018. First Edition. Paperback. 212p., bibl., wrps. "Dialogismo y semiótica de cuentos míticos Mayas" is a study on the oral narrative of the contemporary Maya from a dialogical and semiotic perspective, inspired by the works.....
Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Comunidad de Historia Mapuche, 2017. First Edition. Paperback. 249p., photos, facsimiles, bibl., wrps. "Memoria y fotografía de la migración mapuche" is a collection of photos that chronicle the everyday lives of Mapuche migrants in Santiago. The work is divided into four main chapters: "Algunas palabras para.....
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.....
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.....
México, D.F. Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México, 2018. First Edition. Paperback. 254p., bibl., index, wrps. "Historia de la Iglesia en México" is a study on the history of the church in Mexico, dating back to the Pre-Hispanic era. Contents include: "Mesoamérica en el Preclásico (2500 AC--200 DC)", "El periodo Clásico.....
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.....
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...
Lima: La Siniestra Ensayos, 2018. First Edition. Paperback. 213p., illus., bibl., wrps. In Western culture, sex has been constantly persecuted, repressed, and stripped of pleasure by Christian dogmas of guilt about the body. "Sexualidades Amazónicas" examines how, in Amazon societies, sex is part of their cosmovision and rituals. It is.....
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.....
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.....
Zamora, Michoacán: El Colegio de Michoacán (Colección Investigaciones), 2018. First Edition. Paperback. 418p., bibl., index, wrps. "Educación rural, experimentos sociales y estado en México: 1910-1933" uses "social experiments" organized by the Secretariat of Public Education (SEP) in the 1920s and 1930s as a central axis to analyze the ways in.....
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.....
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.....
México, D.F. Secretaría de Cultura, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (Colección Historia. Serie Logos), 2018. First Edition. Paperback. 163p., maps, photos, bibl., wrps. "De Mérida a Taguzgalpa" explores how Franciscan and Dominican orders intervened in the socio-religious organization of the different indigenous populations and regions over the course of.....
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.....
Lima: Taurus, Cecosami, Pensamiento, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, 2018. First Edition. Paperback. 221p., maps, illus., bibl., wrps. "La Lima que encontró Pizarro" is a study on Lima before Pizarro arrived, emphasizing the fact that the rich pre-Hispanic cultural traditions he "discovered" had been in place since ancient times. The...
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.....
México, D.F. Editorial Porrúa, 2017. First Edition. Paperback. 158p., index, bibl., wrps. "La cocina en la ruta de las misiones de fray Junípero Serra" explores missionary Junípero Serra's route through New Spain in the eighteenth century through the study of gastronomy and history, specifically documenting his experiences with traditional forms.....
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.....
Chihuahua: Secretaría de Cultura de Chihuahua, Programa Editorial del Gobierno del Estado, 2018. First Edition. Paperback. 210p., photos, bibl., wrps. "Informe sobre un viaje de exploración en la Tarahumara" is Jesuit priest, philologist, and linguist Aquiles Gerste's ethnographic and linguistic study of indigenous peoples of Mexico, originally published in French.....
Rosario: Prohistoria Ediciones, 2018. First Edition. Paperback. 376p., wrps. "Luchas de clasificación" deconstructs and questions the taxonomy of indigenous societies throughout history. Contents include: "El arte colonial de clasificar", "El siglo XIX y la matriz taxonómica", "Atrapados en el orden del discurso patrimonial", and "Luchas de clasificación y reapropiaciones indígenas".....
Bogotá: Universidad Santo Tomás, Ediciones USTA, 2017. First Edition. Paperback. 192p., photos, bibl., wrps. "Hijas de Bachué" is a study on Muisca women in Bogotá, specifically analyzing their role in positions of power, as well as the conflicts they have faced over gender and sexuality issues. The work also explores.....
