Bring Hispanic culture to life for students in grades K–5 using Celebrating Hispanic Culture! To best understand Hispanic culture, students learn about the culture's background and how everyday practices and celebrations originated. This 80-page book includes information about the history of Mexico and Central America, the Hispanic calendar and holidays, and information on celebrations and fiestas. Hands-on activities re-create artifacts, crafts, and symbols that are significant to Hispanic life.
Bring Hispanic culture to life for students in grades K–5 using Celebrating Hispanic Culture! To best understand Hispanic culture, students learn about the culture's background and how everyday practices and celebrations originated. This 80-page book includes information about the history of Mexico and Central America, the Hispanic calendar and holidays, and information on celebrations and fiestas. Hands-on activities re-create artifacts, crafts, and symbols that are significant to Hispanic life.
Warfare, ritual human sacrifice, and the rubber ballgame have been the traditional categories through which scholars have examined organized violence in the artistic and material records of ancient Mesoamerica and Central America. This volume expands those traditional categories to include such concerns as gladiatorial-like boxing combats, investiture rites, trophy-head taking and display, dark shamanism, and the subjective pain inherent in acts of violence. Each author examines organized violence as a set of practices grounded in cultural understandings, even when the violence threatens the limits of those understandings. The authors scrutinize the representation of, and relationships between, different types of organized violence, as well as the implications of those activities, which can include the unexpected, such as violence as a means of determining and curing illness, and the use of violence in negotiation strategies.