The ancient Mayan civilization of southern Mexico and northern Central America has long been described as "mysterious," even though scholars have been studying this culture for hundreds of years. Our...

Book by Garcia Marquez, Gabriel

Urania Cabral, figlia dell'ex presidente del Senato di Trujillo, torna in patria dopo trentacinque anni e, dalla sua stanza dell'Hotel Jaragua parte per un viaggio nella memoria, per una non...

"The essays in this book make it elegantly clear that there is a vigorous and rigorous Latin American philosophy . . . and that others dismiss it at their peril." --Mario Sáenz The ten essays in...

Elilal, exile, is the condition of thousands of Mayas who have fled their homelands in Guatemala to escape repression and even death at the hands of their government. In this book, Victor Montejo,...

While the growth in numbers and influence of the Hispanic community in the United States has been commented on widely, there has been no systematic attempt to define what a Hispanic/Latino theology...

Nearly five centuries after the first wave of Catholic missionaries arrived in the New World to spread their Christian message, contemporary religious workers in the Bolivian highlands have begun to...

Book by Carmack, Robert M.

Mexican Protestantism was born in the encounter between Mexican Catholics and Anglo American Protestants, after the United States ventured into the Southwest and wrested territory from Mexico in the...

David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896-1974), es uno de los artistas pl sticos m s significativos de la cultura de nuestro siglo al formar parte del movimiento muralista mexicano, pero adem s se distingui por...

Since the late 1970s, Protestantism has emerged as a major force in the political and economic life of rural Guatemala. Indeed, as Sheldon Annis argues in this book, Protestantism may have helped tip...

From the author of L.A. Weather comes a magical, humorous, and passion-filled odyssey about a beautiful young widow's search for her missing child--a mission that takes her from a humble Mexican...

Good Hardcover Austin, TX, University of Texas Press, 1978. First edition (1978), worn but sound copy. Scholarly study of San Andres, a bi-ethnic community in Guatemala where Cakchiquel Indians have...

Bilingual chicano poetry.(Black & White VERSION) This is an experimental Chicano poetry codex. This work explores border politics and linguistic borders through the use of a multitude of poetic...

South of the Border is richly illustrated with works of both high culture and commercial kitsch, featuring works by dozens of U.S. painters and photographers, including Edward Weston, Paul Strand,...

In 1886 Elisabeth Nietzsche, sister of the famous philosopher, and friend of Richard Wagner, traveled with her husband, Bernhard Forster, and a select group of blond-haired, blue-eyed Germans to the...

This is the first critical comparison of two strands of liberation theology: Black theology (USA) and Latin American liberation theology. While Black theology has emphasized liberation in cultural...

More than 600 women and girls have been murdered and more than 1,000 have disappeared in the Mexican state of Chihuahua since 1993. Violence against women has increased throughout Mexico and in other...