Los gringos; or, an inside view of Mexico and California, with wanderings in Peru, Chili and Polynesia
Author: Henry Augustus Wise
Publisher:
Published: 1850
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13:
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Gringos in Paradise
Author: Barry Golson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0743276353
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a lighthearted, uplifting, yet practical account, Golson details the year he and his wife spent building their dream house in Mexico for this first fun and informative chronicle of the new trend of retiring south of the border. Photos.
Drugs, Violence and Latin America
Author: Joseph Patteson
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-12-01
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 3030689247
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book undertakes a psychotropic analysis of texts that deal with the violence of drug trafficking and interdiction, especially in Mexico. While most critics of so-called narcoculture have either focused on an aesthetic “sobriety” in these works or discounted them altogether as exploitative and unworthy of serious attention, Drugs, Violence, and Latin America illuminates how such work may reflect and intervene in global networks of intoxication. Theorizing a “dialectics of intoxication” that illustrates how psychotropy may either solidify or destabilize the self and its relationship to the other, it proposes that these tendencies influence human behavior in distinct ways and are leveraged for social control within both licit and illicit economies. A consideration of a countercultural genealogy in Latin America provides a contrastive psychotropic context for contemporary novels that exposes links between narcoviolence and consumerism, challenging our addictions of thought and feeling about ourselves and our relationships to drugs and narco-violence.
Beyond Human
Author: Tara Daly
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2019-02-15
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 1684480698
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the Andes, indigenous knowledge systems based on the relationships between different beings, both earthly and heavenly, animal and plant, have been central to the organization of knowledge since precolonial times. The legacies of colonialism and the continuance of indigenous cultures make the Andes a unique place from which to think about art and social change as ongoing, and as encompassing more than an exclusively human perspective. Beyond Human revises established readings of the avant-gardes in Peru and Bolivia as humanizing and historical. By presenting fresh readings of canonical authors like César Vallejo, José María Arguedas, and Magda Portal, and through analysis of newer artist-activists like Julieta Paredes, Mujeres Creando Comunidad, and Alejandra Dorado, Daly argues instead that avant-gardes complicate questions of agency and contribute to theoretical discussions on vital materialisms: the idea that life happens between animate and inanimate beings—human and non-human—and is made sensible through art. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Un Paso MáS Allá De Interpol
Author: Edward Chism
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2009-05-20
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 1462807054
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Latin American Road Movie
Author: Verónica Garibotto
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-07-28
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1137580933
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume explores the ways films made by Latin American directors and/or co-produced in Latin American countries have employed the road movie genre to address the reconfiguration of the geographical, sociopolitical, economic, and cultural landscape of Latin America.
This Is Mexico
Author: Carol M. Merchasin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2015-03-03
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 1631529633
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Is Mexico is a collection of essays on the often magical and mysterious—and sometimes heartrending—workings of everyday life in Mexico, written from the perspective of an American expatriate. By turns humorous and poignant, Merchasin provides an informed look at Mexican culture and history, exploring everything from healthcare, Mexican-style, to religious rituals; from the educational role of the telenovela to the cultural subtleties of the Spanish language. Written with a clear eye for details, a warm heart for Mexico, and a lively sense of humor, This Is Mexico is an insider's look at the joys, sorrows, and challenges of life in this complex country.
Homegirls
Author: Norma Mendoza-Denton
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2014-01-21
Total Pages: 379
ISBN-13: 1118910877
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this ground-breaking new book on the Norteña and Sureña (North/South) youth gang dynamic, cultural anthropologist and linguist Norma Mendoza-Denton looks at the daily lives of young Latinas and their innovative use of speech, bodily practices, and symbolic exchanges that signal their gang affiliations and ideologies. Her engrossing ethnographic and sociolinguistic study reveals the connection of language behavior and other symbolic practices among Latina gang girls in California, and their connections to larger social processes of nationalism, racial/ethnic consciousness, and gender identity. An engrossing account of the Norte and Sur girl gangs - the largest Latino gangs in California Traces how elements of speech, bodily practices, and symbolic exchanges are used to signal social affiliation and come together to form youth gang styles Explores the relationship between language and the body: one of the most striking aspects of the tattoos, make-up, and clothing of the gang members Unlike other studies – which focus on violence, fighting and drugs – Mendoza-Denton delves into the commonly-overlooked cultural and linguistic aspects of youth gangs
Un Asesinato Inconsecuente
Author: Rodolfo Peña
Publisher: Untreed Reads
Published: 2011-12-21
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 1611872405
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCuando aparece el cuerpo decapitado de un joven ingeniero en computacion en las vias del ferrocarril en Monterrey, Mexico, el Capitan Guillermo Lombardo encuentra que su investigacion le conduce al mundo de los carteles de las drogas mexicanos. Ya que todo el mundo, desde el rector de la universidad hasta el gobernador del estado, rehusa cooperar con la investigacion, Lombardo pronto descubre que el cuerpo es solamente la punta de un enorme tempano de hielo que apunta a una situacion mucho mas importante.
