Stimulating study examines cultural, linguistic, political, psychological, and philosophical dimensions of initial communications between native Americans and the Spanish. Considers physical gestures as well as the work of interpreters, the dictates of government, and Church policy. No footnotes, but end-of-chapter bibliographies indicate sources –Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Realismo Magico, Vallenato Y Violencia Politica En El Caribe Colombiano By reading Caribbean novels and ethnographies I trace the conformation of a critical tradition which influences aesthetics and social thought, and makes public the relation between cultural myths and social inequalities. In contrast to Alejo Carpentiers image of the Caribbean as a sanctuary where intellectuals escape from western rationalism, Garcia…
Colección De Documentos Inéditos Para La Historia De Chile Desde El… Excerpt from Colección de Documentos Inéditos para la Historia de Chile Desde el Viaje de Magallanes Hasta la Batalla de Maipo, 1518-1818, Vol. 18: Valdivia y Sus Compañeros, XI E después de lo susodicho, en este dicho día, mes e' año dicho, yo, el dicho escribano, hice la dicha citación…
No Juegues De Noche! It may seem to be an amusing game but behind the Ouija exists a frightening and not-so-amusing mystery.
Memorias En Conflicto Para contribuir a este esfuerzo de polemología comparada, el presente volumen reúne una selección de trabajos presentados en varios eventos académicos, organizados conjuntamente por el Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos (IFEA), el Instituto de Estudios Peruanos (IEP), la Red para el Desarrollo de las Ciencias Sociales en el Perú, el…
Croniñón Little Croniñón helps his clan hunt and kill a mammoth and at the same time learns to paint the walls of the cave he lives in.
La Biblia Envenenada The drama of a U.S. missionary family in Africa during a war of decolonization. At its center is Nathan Price, a self-righteous Baptist minister who establishes a mission in a village in 1959 Belgian Congo. The resulting clash of cultures is seen through the eyes of his wife and his…
