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Author: Javier Herce Medel
Publisher: Odisea Editorial
Published: 2011-04-15
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 8415294034
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Author: Javier Herce Medel
Publisher: Odisea Editorial
Published: 2011-04-15
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 8415294034
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Aurelio Macedonio Espinosa
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Published: 1907
Total Pages: 362
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Nathan Wachtel
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2013-02-21
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 0812244559
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a series of intimate and searing portraits, Nathan Wachtel traces the journeys of the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Marranos—Spanish and Portuguese Jews who were forcibly converted to Catholicism but secretly retained their own faith. Fleeing persecution in their Iberian homeland, some sought refuge in the Americas, where they established transcontinental networks linking the New World to the Old. The Marranos—at once Jewish and Christian, outsiders and insiders—nurtured their hidden beliefs within their new communities, participating in the economic development of the early Americas while still adhering to some of the rituals and customs of their ancestors. In a testament to the partial assimilation of these new arrivals, their faith became ever more syncretic, mixing elements of Judaism with Christian practice and theology. In many cases, the combination was fatal. Wachtel relies on inquisitorial archives of trials and executions to chronicle legal and religious prosecutions for heresy. From the humble Jean Vicente to the fabulously wealthy slave trafficker Manuel Bautista Perez, from the untutored Theresa Paes de Jesus to the learned Francisco Maldonado de Silva, each unforgettable figure offers a chilling reminder of the reach of the Inquisition. Sensitive to the lingering tensions within the Marrano communities, Wachtel joins the concerns of an anthropologist to his skills as a historian, and in a stunning authorial move, he demonstrates that the faith of remembrance remains alive today in the towns of rural Brazil.
Author: Aurelio Macedonio Espinosa
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Published: 1909
Total Pages: 124
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: University of New Mexico
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Published: 1909
Total Pages: 124
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James D. Sexton
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2014-10-22
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 0806186402
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the delightful Mayan folktale The Dog Who Spoke, we learn what happens when a dog’s master magically transforms into a dog-man who reasons like a man but acts like a dog. This and the other Mayan folktales in this bilingual collection brim with the enchanting creativity of rural Guatemala’s oral culture. In addition to stories about ghosts and humans turning into animals, the volume also offers humorous yarns. Hailing from the Lake Atitlán region in the Guatemalan highlands, these tales reflect the dynamics of, and conflicts between, Guatemala’s Indian, Ladino, and white cultures. The animals, humans, and supernatural forces that figure in these stories represent Mayan cultural values, social mores, and history. James D. Sexton and Fredy Rodríguez-Mejía allow the thirty-three stories to speak for themselves—first in the original Spanish and then in English translations that maintain the meaning and rural inflection of the originals. Available in print for the first time, with a glossary of Indian and Spanish terms, these Guatemalan folktales represent generations of transmitted oral culture that is fast disappearing and deserves a wider audience.
Author: Ramón Martínez Rodríguez
Publisher: Odisea Editorial
Published: 2012-02-15
Total Pages: 149
ISBN-13: 8415294603
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Carmen Tafolla
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780961694166
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