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
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... 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
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..... 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
Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico D.F. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Juan Pablos Editor (Estudios socioambientales), 2018. First Edition. Paperback. 301p., photos, tables, graphics, bibl., wrps. "Los P'urhepecha. Un pueblo renaciente" raises the questions: are indigenous peoples "remnants" or "survivors" of the past? Or are they inhabitants of the present that show..... 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
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..... More
México, D.F. Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Miguel Ángel Porrúa (Colección: Científica, Serie: Las Ciencias Sociales. Tercera Década), 2017. Second Edition. Paperback. 325p., bibl., wrps. "Dones, dueños y santos: ensayos sobre religiones en Oaxaca" is a collection of essays on religion and cosmovision in Oaxaca. Contents include: "Cosmovisión y...... 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
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. Instituto Nacional de Antropología, Secretaría de Cultura (Colección Francisco Belmar; 11), 2017. First Edition. Paperback. 374p., bibl., wrps. "Familia mixteco-zapoteca" is an in-depth study of the Mixteco-Zapotec people in Mexico and their languages. Author Francisco Belmar is renowned for undertaking the first study of several of the languages..... 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
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
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..... 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. El Colegio de Mexico, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores, 2018. First Edition. Paperback. 386p., maps, bibl., index, wrps. "Sementeras de papel" is a study on the regularization of rural property in the Huasteca serrana from 1550 to 1720. The legal recognition of the indigenous people's lands during... More
Santo Domingo: Ediciones Cielonaranja, 2018. First Edition. Paperback. 211p., maps, photos, facsimiles, illus., graphics, bibl., wrps. "Indios y negros" is an anthology and study on Dominican writer Aída Cartagena Portalatín's anthropological work, including her classic study on the community of the Holy Spirit in Villa Mella. Contents include: "Dos técnicas..... More
Mexico, D.F. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas, Universidad Intercultural del Estado de Hidalgo, El Colegio Mexiquense, 2017. First Edition. Paperback. 426p., maps, facsimiles, illus., tables, graphics, index, wrps. In the middle of the sixteenth century, cacique Don Diego de Mendoza ruled in Tlatelolco. His grand-granddaughter was..... More
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..... 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
México, D.F. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Cuadernos del Centro de Estudios Mayas; 38), 2017. First Re-Print. Paperback. 285p., bibl., wrps. "Contadores de historias, arquitectos del cosmos" analyzes the system of symbols in Popol Vuh, a cultural narrative that recounts the mythology and history of the K'iche' people. The work..... More
México, D.F: El Colegio de México, Centro de Estudios Lingüísticos y Literarios, (Biblioteca Novohispana, 14), 2018. First Edition. Paperback. 487p., wrps. This work is a critical edition of Dominican Friar Diego Durán's "Libro de los ritos", originally published around 1574. Durán was known for his books on the history and..... More
México, D.F. Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 2017. First Edition. Paperback. 283p., tables, wrps. "Vivir para el surco" collects the testimonies of indigenous day laborers, particularly women, in the San Quintín agricultural valley, examining their daily lives and human rights within the context of the area's history and economic growth trajectory. Contents..... More