Ambivalent Conquests
Author: Inga Clendinnen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-04-28
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780521527316
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Author: Inga Clendinnen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-04-28
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780521527316
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Author: Inga Clendinnen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-04-28
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 1107511755
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is both a specific study of conversion in a corner of the Spanish Empire, and a work with implications for the understanding of European domination and native resistance throughout the colonial world. Dr Clendinnen explores the intensifying conflict between competing and increasingly divergent Spanish visions of Yucatan and its destructive outcomes. She seeks to penetrate the ways of thinking and feeling of the Mayan Indians in a detailed reconstruction of their assessment of the intruders.
Author: Brent E. Metz
Publisher: UNM Press
Published: 2006-05-01
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 082633881X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScholars and Guatemalans have characterized eastern Guatemala as "Ladino" or non-Indian. The Ch'orti' do not exhibit the obvious indigenous markers found among the Mayas of western Guatemala, Chiapas, and the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico. Few still speak Ch'orti', most no longer wear distinctive dress, and most community organizations have long been abandoned. During the colonial period, the Ch'orti' region was adjacent to relatively vibrant economic regions of Central America that included major trade routes, mines, and dye plantations. In the twentieth century Ch'orti's directly experienced U.S.-backed dictatorships, a 36-year civil war from start to finish, and Christian evangelization campaigns, all while their population has increased exponentially. These have had tremendous impacts on Ch'orti' identities and cultures. From 1991 to 1993, Brent Metz lived in three Ch'orti' Maya-speaking communities, learning the language, conducting household surveys, and interviewing informants. He found Ch'orti's to be ashamed of their indigeneity, and he was fortunate to be present and involved when many Ch'orti's joined the Maya Movement. He has continued to expand his ethnographic research of the Ch'orti' annually ever since and has witnessed how Ch'orti's are reformulating their history and identity.
Author: Inga Clendinnen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-05-02
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780521012690
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnd she considers how the Holocaust has been portrayed in poetry, fiction, and film.
Author: K. Candlin
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012-06-28
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 113703081X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Southern Caribbean was the last frontier in the Atlantic world and the most contested region in the Caribbean during the Age of Revolution. As well as illuminating this little-understood region, the book seeks to complicate our understanding of the Caribbean, the role of 'free people of colour' and the nature of slavery.
Author: Valerie L. Garver
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2012-05-08
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0801460174
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDespite the wealth of scholarship in recent decades on medieval women, we still know much less about the experiences of women in the early Middle Ages than we do about those in later centuries. In Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World, Valerie L. Garver offers a fresh appraisal of the cultural and social history of eighth- and ninth-century women. Examining changes in women's lives and in the ways others perceived women during the early Middle Ages, she shows that lay and religious women, despite their legal and social constrictions, played integral roles in Carolingian society. Garver's innovative book employs an especially wide range of sources, both textual and material, which she uses to construct a more complex and nuanced impression of aristocratic women than we've seen before. She looks at the importance of female beauty and adornment; the family and the construction of identities and collective memory; education and moral exemplarity; wealth, hospitality and domestic management; textile work, and the lifecycle of elite Carolingian women. Her interdisciplinary approach makes deft use of canons of church councils, chronicles, charters, polyptychs, capitularies, letters, poetry, exegesis, liturgy, inventories, hagiography, memorial books, artworks, archaeological remains, and textiles. Ultimately, Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World underlines the centrality of the Carolingian era to the reshaping of antique ideas and the development of lasting social norms.
Author: M. Butler
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-12-11
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 0230608809
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile Mexico's spiritual history after the 1910 Revolution is often essentialized as a church-state power struggle, this book reveals the complexity of interactions between revolution and religion. Looking at anticlericalism, indigenous cults and Catholic pilgrimage, these authors reveal that the Revolution was a period of genuine religious change, as well as social upheaval.
Author: John Beifuss
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 1998-08
Total Pages: 44
ISBN-13: 9780811821353
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCurious about the true nature of the moon, Armadillo Ray asks different animals for their opinion.
Author: Steve J. Stern
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780299141844
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis second edition of Peru's Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest includes Stern's 1992 reflections on the ten years of historical interpretation that have passed since the book's original publication--setting his analysis of Huamanga in a larger perspective. "This book is a monument to both scholarship and comprehension, comparable in its treatment of the indigenous peoples after the conquest only to that of Charles Gibson for the Aztecs, and perhaps the best volume read by this reviewer in several years."--Frederick P. Bowser, American Historical Review "Peru's Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest is clearly indispensable reading for Andeanists and highly recommended to ethnohistorians generally. In technical respects it is a job done right, and conceptually it stands out as a handsome example of anthropology and history woven into one tight fabric of inquiry."--Frank Salomon, Ethnohistory
Author: Charles R. Hale
Publisher: School for Advanced Research Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 312
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Maya movement in Guatemala through the eyes of its adversaries -- Provincial Ladinos, the Guatemalan state, and the crooked path to neoliberal multiculturalism -- Reclaiming the future of Chimaltenango's past : contentious memories of indigenous politics during the revolutionary years, 1976-1982 -- Ladino racial ambivalence and the discourse of reverse racism -- Exorcising the insurrectionary Indian : Maya ascendancy and the Ladino political imaginary -- Racial healing? : the limits of Ladino solidarity and the oblique promise of Mestizaje from below -- Racial ambivalence in transnational perspective