Marty always believed the lab-grown foods he helped produce were miraculous. But in his childhood home of Lucban, real miracles are occurring: artificial food is being transformed into delicious, sustaining produce. As he visits the home he left behind, the vibrant and colorful festival jerks him into a past he both hungers for and wants to forget. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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Despite recent developments in epigraphy, ethnopoetics, and the literary investigation of colonial and modern materials, few studies have compared glyphic texts and historic Maya literatures. Parallel Worlds examines Maya writing and literary traditions from the Classic period until today, revealing remarkable continuities across time. In this volume, contributions from leading scholars in Maya literary studies examine Maya discourse from Classic period hieroglyphic inscriptions to contemporary spoken narratives, focusing on parallelism to unite the literature historically. Contributors take an ethnopoetic approach, examining literary and verbal arts from a historical perspective, acknowledging that poetic form is as important as narrative content in deciphering what these writings reveal about ancient and contemporary worldviews. Encompassing a variety of literary motifs, including humor, folklore, incantation, mythology, and more specific forms of parallelism such as couplets, chiasms, kennings, and hyperbatons, Parallel Worlds is a rich journey through Maya culture and pre-Columbian literature that will be of interest to students and scholars of anthropology, ethnography, Latin American history, epigraphy, comparative literature, language studies, indigenous studies, and mythology.
Three friends of different social classes grow up in the harsh realities of the " upper class" Peruvian society during the 1920 ́s trough out the 1970 ̈s. Their experiences with sexual abuse, family problems, social injustices and the discriminating world challenge their innocents an friendship. Cruel realities and mysterious situations under the Peruvian landscape, create a world of constant adventures and siritual awakenings.
"Cuando está adolorido, lo que usted desea es alivio rápido. La verdad es que existen Milagrosos Alimentos Curativos--alimentos comunes que están disponibles en cualquier lugar--que pueden brindarle alivio ¡inmediato a los dolores más horribles que pueda tener!", afirma el autor Rex Adams. "En minutos--inclusos en segundos--estos alimentos han aliviado dolores, evitado la cirugía y curado lo incurable en muchísimos casos", según el. "Los Milagrosos Alimentos Curativos, disponibles sin receta médica, pueden aliviar el tormento inimaginable que producen las úlceras, la artitis, los cálculos renales y biliares, los problemas urinarios, los dolores del corazón y de las arterias ¡de inmediato!", indica. ALIVIO INSTANTÁNEO DEL DELOR CAUSADO POR DECENAS DE ENFERMEDADES "Existen testimonios de personas que antes vivían en constante agonía a pesar de que tomaban medicamentos, y ahora se han liberado completamente del dolor, no toman medicamentos y llevan una vida activa desde que usan algunos de los Milagrosos Alimentos Curativos", afirma Adams.
Latino Americans have a powerful voice in society and a wealth of cultural traditions. Fundamental to those traditions are numerous folktales. Some are funny, some draw upon the supernatural, some look back on ancestral ways, and some capture the experience of Latinos in the United States. Written expressly for students and general readers, this book assembles and comments on a wide range of Latino American folktales. These are grouped in topical sections on origins; heroes, heroines, villains, and fools; society and conflict; and the supernatural. Each tale is introduced by a headnote, and the volume closes with a selected, general bibliography of print and electronic resources suitable for student research. Students of literature and language will value this book for its exploration of Latino American folktales, while students of history and society will welcome its illumination of the Latino American experience. The more than 30 tales are grouped in thematic sections on origins; heroes, heroines, villains, and fools; society and conflict; and the supernatural.
The legends and folktales, religious and medical texts, agricultural and domestic customs translated and presented in this volume are crucial not only to an understanding of Mayan culture as it exists today but stand as our only clue eventually to deciphering the inscription of the ancient Mayans.
