Cuentos y Libros (Mil y una noche)

Personas africanas y afrodescendientes en España ayer y hoy

Autor: Julia Borst , Danae Gallo González

Número de Páginas: 466

This book aims at deconstructing the supposed "homogeneity" of the Iberian Peninsula in order to redefine this geographical area as a multiracial and multicultural space in continuous reconfiguration through the centuries. It examines how the presence of people racialized as black is negotiated in literature, art and other cultural practices – from their first historical appearances to the present day.

Trayectorias de vida de afrodescendientes en la historia de México

Autor: Alfredo Nava Sánchez , Maira Cristina Córdova Aguilar , Alfredo Delgado Calderón , María Irma López Razgado , María Elisa Velázquez Gutiérrez , José Luis Martínez Maldonado , Carlos Roberto Gutiérrez Peraza , Jorge Victoria Ojeda , Moisés Guzmán Pérez , María Teresa Pavía Miller , Melchor José Campos García

Número de Páginas: 321

Este volumen reúne diez artículos de estudiosos que reflexionan en torno a las trayectorias de vida de al menos 15 personas afrodescendientes. A través de la reconstrucción de momentos significativos de su vida, estos textos abren la posibilidad de conocer distintas experiencias y significaciones de ser afrodescendiente entre los siglos XVI y XIX en México.

Decolonizar los saberes mayas

Autor: Ana Rosa Duarte Duarte , Nancy Beatriz Villanueva Villanueva , Axel Michael Kholer , Aurelio Sánchez Suárez , Jorge Victoria Ojeda , Yolanda Oliva Peña

Número de Páginas: 236

En esta obra el lector encontrará las aportaciones de diversas disciplinas que analizan los saberes del pueblo maya, cuyas aportaciones desmitifican los discursos colonialistas que han puesto en riesgo los conocimientos y espacios territoriales, pero más allá de hablar de una opresión, se busca una comprensión hacia la cultura, su forma de vida y su cosmovisión, puestas en contraposición con los anteriores discursos institucionalizados que provienen de ideologías sociopolíticas y nacionalistas. De esta manera, las autoras y autores de esta obra nos presentan relatos que emanan de las voces del pueblo: los saberes mayas del K’aax, pasando por las prácticas autonómicas, constructivas, así como por la alimentación, el consumo y la salud, todo a través de la visión de niños, jóvenes, adultos y mujeres que comparten su propia visión del mundo, decolonizando así los saberes a través de diálogos que han quedado pendientes, de forma que se visibilizan otros modos de vida y visiones del futuro vigentes en la práctica cotidiana de los pueblos originarios.

El quinto sol

Autor: Camilla Townsend

Número de Páginas: 490

El quinto sol es el que iluminó a los aztecas, el que los acompañó en su peregrinar desde la mítica Aztlán hasta el islote que se convertiría en Tenochtitlan, el que inspiró su mitología y por ello muchos de sus relatos fundacionales, el que atestiguó cómo un astuto enemigo logró someterlos. Los mexicas se consideraban a sí mismos humildes y valientes, afectos a los placeres de la vida —incluidos el baile y la poesía— y a contar historias, respetuosos de las tradiciones y hábiles negociantes. Aquí, Camilla Townsend presenta de modo novedoso la trayectoria del pueblo que llegó a regir en el centro de Mesoamérica, con mano dura, un uso inteligente de los linajes familiares y el establecimiento de un severo sistema de producción, hasta constituir eso que a falta de mejor término hemos llamado imperio. Con base principalmente en xiuhpohualli —los anales en que se consignaron los hechos más sobresalientes de un periodo— y otros documentos escritos en náhuatl, esta historia diferente de los aztecas derriba algunos mitos sobre su apetito sanguinario o su credulidad, y permite apreciar cómo perduró, incluso después de la conquista, una forma originalísima...

El cacicazgo en Nueva España y Filipinas

Autor: Margarita Menegus Bornemann

Número de Páginas: 416

The Burden of the Ancients

Autor: Allen J. Christenson

Número de Páginas: 376

In Maya theology, everything from humans and crops to gods and the world itself passes through endless cycles of birth, maturation, dissolution, death, and rebirth. Traditional Maya believe that human beings perpetuate this cycle through ritual offerings and ceremonies that have the power to rebirth the world at critical points during the calendar year. The most elaborate ceremonies take place during Semana Santa (Holy Week), the days preceding Easter on the Christian calendar, during which traditionalist Maya replicate many of the most important world-renewing rituals that their ancient ancestors practiced at the end of the calendar year in anticipation of the New Year’s rites. Marshaling a wealth of evidence from Pre-Columbian texts, early colonial Spanish writings, and decades of fieldwork with present-day Maya, The Burden of the Ancients presents a masterfully detailed account of world-renewing ceremonies that spans the Pre-Columbian era through the crisis of the Conquest period and the subsequent colonial occupation all the way to the present. Allen J. Christenson focuses on Santiago Atitlán, a Tz’utujil Maya community in highland Guatemala, and offers the first...

Los indios y las ciudades de Nueva España

Autor: Felipe Castro Gutiérrez

Número de Páginas: 424

"Seminario de Etnologia Novohispana"--Series title page.

Conquistadors and Aztecs

Autor: Stefan Rinke

Número de Páginas: 329

A new account of the conquest of Mexico that focuses on the fall of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztecs, timed for the 500th anniversary of this world historical event.

Rewriting Maya Religion

Autor: Garry G. Sparks

Número de Páginas: 445

In Rewriting Maya Religion Garry Sparks examines the earliest religious documents composed by missionaries and native authors in the Americas, including a reconstruction of the first original, explicit Christian theology written in the Americas—the nearly 900-page Theologia Indorum (Theology for [or of] the Indians), initially written in Mayan languages by Friar Domingo de Vico by 1554. Sparks traces how the first Dominican missionaries to the Maya repurposed native religious ideas, myths, and rhetoric in their efforts to translate a Christianity and how, in this wake, K’iche’ Maya elites began to write their own religious texts, like the Popol Vuh. This ethnohistory of religion critically reexamines the role and value of indigenous authority during the early decades of first contact between a Native American people and Christian missionaries. Centered on the specific work of Dominicans among the Highland Maya of Guatemala in the decades prior to the arrival of the Catholic Reformation in the late sixteenth century, the book focuses on the various understandings of religious analyses—Hispano-Catholic and Maya—and their strategic exchanges, reconfigurations, and...

indios, españoles y meztizos en zonas de frontera, siglos XVII-XX

Autor: José Medina , Esther Padilla , Chantal Cramaussel , Esperanza Donjuan , Mario Magaña , María Delvalle , Jesús Velarde , Laura Shelton , Silvia Ratto , Ignacio Almada , Juan Lorta , Valeria Domínguez , David Contreras , Zulema Trejo , Carlos Mejía

Número de Páginas: 189

Rutas de la esclavitud en África y América Latina

Autor: Rina Cáceres Gómez

Número de Páginas: 494

La hija del doctor Moreau

Autor: Silvia Moreno-garcía

Número de Páginas: 272

Una fascinante reinvención de La isla del doctor Moreau con el México del siglo XIX como telón de fondo. Carlota Moreau: una joven que crece en una hacienda remota y lujosa, a salvo del conflicto y las luchas de la península de Yucatán. La única hija de un investigador que es un genio o un loco. Montgomery Laughton: un capataz melancólico con un pasado trágico y propensión al alcohol. Un marginado que ayuda al Dr. Moreau en sus experimentos, que son financiados por los Lizalde, dueños de magníficas propiedades y abundantes arcas. Los híbridos: el fruto del trabajo del doctor; unos seres destinados a obedecer ciegamente a su creador y a permanecer en la sombra. Un variopinto grupo de monstruosidades en parte humanas y en parte animales. Todos ellos viven en un mundo perfectamente equilibrado, que se ve sacudido por la abrupta llegada de Eduardo Lizalde, el encantador y despreocupado hijo del mecenas del Dr. Moreau, quien sin saberlo iniciará una peligrosa reacción en cadena. Porque Moreau guarda secretos, Carlota tiene preguntas y, en el calor sofocante de la jungla, las pasiones pueden encenderse. «Deliciosa, escalofriante y entretenida, esta historia se coló bajo...

Cacicas

Autor: Margarita R. Ochoa , Sara V. Guengerich

Número de Páginas: 345

The term cacica was a Spanish linguistic invention, the female counterpart to caciques, the Arawak word for male indigenous leaders in Spanish America. But the term’s meaning was adapted and manipulated by natives, creating a new social stratum where it previously may not have existed. This book explores that transformation, a conscious construction and reshaping of identity from within. Cacicas feature far and wide in the history of Spanish America, as female governors and tribute collectors and as relatives of ruling caciques—or their destitute widows. They played a crucial role in the establishment and success of Spanish rule, but were also instrumental in colonial natives’ resistance and self-definition. In this volume, noted scholars uncover the history of colonial cacicas, moving beyond anecdotes of individuals in Spanish America. Their work focuses on the evolution of indigenous leadership, particularly the lineage and succession of these positions in different regions, through the lens of native women’s political activism. Such activism might mean the intervention of cacicas in the economic, familial, and religious realms or their participation in official and...

Riot and Rebellion in Mexico

Autor: Ana Sabau

Número de Páginas: 332

Many scholars assert that Mexico’s complex racial hierarchy, inherited from Spanish colonialism, became obsolete by the turn of the nineteenth century as class-based distinctions became more prominent and a largely mestizo population emerged. But the residues of the colonial caste system did not simply dissolve after Mexico gained independence. Rather, Ana Sabau argues, ever-present fears of racial uprising among elites and authorities led to persistent governmental techniques and ideologies designed to separate and control people based on their perceived racial status, as well as to the implementation of projects for development in fringe areas of the country. Riot and Rebellion in Mexico traces this race-based narrative through three historical flashpoints: the Bajío riots, the Haitian Revolution, and the Yucatan’s caste war. Sabau shows how rebellions were treated as racially motivated events rather than political acts and how the racialization of popular and indigenous sectors coincided with the construction of “whiteness” in Mexico. Drawing on diverse primary sources, Sabau demonstrates how the race war paradigm was mobilized in foreign and domestic affairs and...

A Tale of Two Granadas

Autor: Max Deardorff

Número de Páginas: 393

In 1570's New Kingdom of Granada (modern Colombia), a new generation of mestizo (half-Spanish, half-indigenous) men sought positions of increasing power in the colony's two largest cities. In response, Spanish nativist factions zealously attacked them as unequal and unqualified, unleashing an intense political battle that lasted almost two decades. At stake was whether membership in the small colonial community and thus access to its most lucrative professions should depend on limpieza de sangre (blood purity) or values-based integration (Christian citizenship). A Tale of Two Granadas examines the vast, trans-Atlantic transformation of political ideas about subjecthood that ultimately allowed some colonial mestizos and indios ladinos (acculturated natives) to establish urban citizenship alongside Spaniards in colonial Santafé de Bogotá and Tunja. In a spirit of comparison, it illustrates how some of the descendants of Spain's last Muslims appealed to the same new conceptions of citizenship to avoid disenfranchisement in the face of growing prejudice.

Archaeology of Performance

Autor: Takeshi Inomata , Lawrence S. Coben

Número de Páginas: 347

Performances in the premodern communities shaped identities, created meanings, generated and maintained political control. But unlike other social scientists, archaeologists have not worked much with these concepts. Archaeology of Performance shows how the notions of theatricality and spectacle are as important economics and politics in understanding how ancient communities work. Without sacrificing conceptual rigor, the contributors draw on the wide-ranging literature on performance. Without sacrificing material evidence, they try to see how performance creates meaning and ideology. Drawing on evidence from societies large and small, Archaeology of Performance offers an important new ways of understanding ancient theaters of power.

Más allá de la ciudad letrada: letramientos indígenas en los Andes

Autor: Rappaport, Joanne , Cummins, Tom

Número de Páginas: 461

En este libro Joanne Rappaport y el historiador Tom Cummins estudian la imposición colonial del letramiento alfabético y visual a los grupos indígenas en los Andes septentrionales. Los autores analizan con profundidad cómo los pueblos andinos recibieron y mantuvieron las convenciones del letramiento de España y se subvirtieron a ellas, muchas veces combinándolas con sus propias tradiciones. Las comunidades indígenas de los Andes ni usaban una representación narrativa pictórica ni tenían una escritura alfabética o jeroglífica antes de la llegada de los españoles. Para asimilar las convenciones del letramiento español hubieron de comprometerse con los sistemas de símbolos europeos. Al hacerlo, se alteró su visión del mundo y su vida cotidiana, con lo que el letramiento alfabético y el visual se convirtieron en herramientas primordiales del dominio colonial. Rappaport y Cummins emprenden un camino a un conocimiento profundo del letramiento, teniendo en cuenta no solo la lectura y la escritura, sino también las interpretaciones de la palabra hablada, pinturas, sellos de lacre, gestos y el diseño urbano. Al analizar manuales notariales y diccionarios seculares y...

Nahua Horizons

Autor: Ezekiel G. Stear

Número de Páginas: 263

Nahua Horizons: Writing, Persuasion, and Futurities in Colonial Mexico investigates how Nahuas conceptualized their futures in the early colonial period. Scholar Ezekiel G. Stear delves deeply into canonical texts such as the Florentine Codex and the Crónica mexicayotl as well as understudied texts such as the Lienzo de Quauhquechollan, the Tira de Tepechpan, and the Anales de Juan Bautista. The study does more than describe how Nahuas conceived of their own futures: it also shows their specific plans for moving into the coming years. The book examines how Nahua writers in Central Mexico and other Mesoamerican voices in colonial Spanish America played an active, decisive role in shaping culture, using writing to persuade their communities to mold their own destinies, even amid colonial upheaval. This work opens up new directions for research and teaching, shifting inquiry from how Nahuas preserved cultural continuity to how they envisioned their roles as pathfinders toward times to come. Nahua Horizons challenges the notion that the Spanish erased Nahua culture. The book emphasizes the ways people kept sovereignty over the futures they envisioned for themselves and their...

Mujer maya y desarrollo rural en Yucatán

Autor: Gina Villagómez , Wilbert Pinto

Número de Páginas: 154

The Flower and the Scorpion

Autor: Pete Sigal

Número de Páginas: 380

Sigal argues that sixteenth century Nahua sexuality cannot be fully understood only through colonial sensibilities and sources. He examines legal documents, clerical texts, pictorial manuscripts, images and glyphs of Nahua gods and goddesses and descriptions of fertility rituals and other historical accounts and stories to show the complexity of Nahua sexuality.

Unwriting Maya Literature

Autor: Paul M. Worley , Rita M. Palacios

Número de Páginas: 249

Unwriting Maya Literature provides an important decolonial framework for reading Maya texts that builds on the work of Maya authors and intellectuals such as Q’anjob’al Gaspar Pedro González and Kaqchikel Irma Otzoy. Paul M. Worley and Rita M. Palacios privilege the Maya category ts’íib over constructions of the literary in order to reveal how Maya peoples themselves conceive of artistic creation. This offers a decolonial departure from theoretical approaches that remain situated within alphabetic Maya linguistic and literary creation. As ts’íib refers to a broad range of artistic production from painted codices and textiles to works composed in Latin script, as well as plastic arts, the authors argue that texts by contemporary Maya writers must be read as dialoguing with a multimodal Indigenous understanding of text. In other words, ts’íib is an alternative to understanding “writing” that does not stand in opposition to but rather fully encompasses alphabetic writing, placing it alongside and in dialogue with a number of other forms of recorded knowledge. This shift in focus allows for a critical reexamination of the role that weaving and bodily performance play ...

Afroméxico

Autor: Ben Vinson , Bobby Vaughn

Número de Páginas: 136

En su ensayo introductorio abre un amplio panorama sobre la presencia afromexicana, para ofrecer después una bibliografía de los principales títulos al respecto. Es, en realidad, una herramienta para estudiantes, profesores e investigadores interesados en el tema.

Perspectivas traductológicas desde América Latina

Autor: Gertrudis Payás , Danielle Zaslavsky

Número de Páginas: 298

Los textos que componen este volumen son producto del Tercer Congreso Bienal de la Red Latinoamericana de Estudios de Traducción e Interpretación (RELAETI) que organizó la Universidad Católica de Temuco (Chile) en octubre 2020, dando continuidad a los fructíferos congresos de México (Zacatecas, 2018) y Argentina (Córdoba, 2020), cuyos trabajos ha acogido también esta casa editorial. Las investigaciones que aquí se presentan cubren distintas épocas y lugares del continente hispanoamericano, y adoptan enfoques diversos: lingüístico-discursivo, histórico, social, filosófico, que atañen tanto a la traducción escrita como a la interpretación. Perspectivas traductológicas desde América Latina se aproxima a lo que podría caracterizar una traductología latinoamericana, menos centrada en las búsquedas de carácter teórico y más interesadas en explorar las temáticas que marcaron y siguen marcando la convivencia, a ratos amable y no pocas veces conflictiva, entre las distintas comunidades y lenguas del continente.

Papeles de los Xiu de Yaxá, Yucatán

Autor: Sergio Quezada , Tsubasa Okoshi Harada

Número de Páginas: 198

Desacatos Transgresiones

Número de Páginas: 206

Europa y su diáspora

Autor: Bartolome Clavero

Número de Páginas: 360

"Al hilo de esos Debates sobre colonialismo y derecho creo que he venido desmenuzando cuestiones referentes a Europa entre poscolonial y preconstitucional, lo que quiere decir, si lo he logrado, desvelando claves de la ensoñación supremacista de la cultura europea recalcitrante e impenitentemente colonialista o, si prefiere decirse para hoy, neocolonista, bien que realmente, habida cuenta de todo lo que se contempla, no se aprecie solución sustancial de continuidad respecto al colonialismo menos solapado de otros tiempos. En todo caso, las lecturas críticas ayudan a enfocar miradas y afinar visiones. El método del debate historiográfico puede resultar transitivo. A mí al menos me ha servido para acceder a problemática de fondo sobre derecho y colonialismo; no pretendo desde luego que, a toda ella, pero sí a parte que me parece sustancial. Me felicitaría si así también fuera para quien ahora me lea".

Pouvoirs des familles, familles de pouvoir

Autor: Collectif

Número de Páginas: 910

La famille constitue depuis longtemps un objet d’étude privilégié des historiens des sociétés. Ayant abandonné l’attention presque exclusive accordée autrefois aux seuls lignages aristocratiques voire royaux, cette histoire de la famille a connu depuis un demi-siècle de profonds renouvellements, tant thématiques que méthodologiques. Directement impliquée dans l’histoire quantitative, notamment par le biais de la « reconstruction des familles », la thématique familiale s’est retrouvée au centre de l’histoire des mentalités. Ultérieurement enfin, via l’importation de problématiques venues des autres sciences sociales et le recours à la démarche « micro-historique », la famille s’est muée en un espace social et anthropologique au sein duquel sont mises à jours les dynamiques qui affectent ces réalités familiales. Dans le même temps, ces réflexions sur le passé d’une réalité sociale toujours vivante viennent en écho aux interrogations contemporaines sur le devenir de la famille nucléaire. La « crise » d’un modèle familial pluriséculaire et les recompositions familiales auxquelles elles donnent lieu placent ces réflexions sur la...

Costumbres en disputa: los muiscas y el Imperio español en Ubaque, siglo xvi

Autor: Santiago Muñoz Arbeláez

Número de Páginas: 267

En 1563, el cacique de Ubaque organizó una celebración a la que atendieron indígenas muiscas de apartados asentamientos de los Andes orientales del Nuevo Reino de Granada. Según un testigo, el propósito de la celebración era que "muriesen todos [los indios] [...] y no quedase ninguno para servir a los cristianos e que les diesen cámaras de sangre y viruelas y otras enfermedades y males por que todos acabasen". Según otros testimonios, el propósito era hacer obsequias al cacique de Ubaque, quien se encontraba enfermo. En la ceremonia, los invitados del cacique corrían y bailaban vestidos con plumajes y máscaras, de tal suerte que un observador español afirmó que "venían de manera de demonios e que a los hombres ponían espanto". La celebración, cuyo referente más cercano en lengua muisca sería biohote, era traducida al español como "borrachera" y se concebía como una práctica idólatra asociada con el culto del demonio.

Pueblos within Pueblos

Autor: Benjamin Johnson

Número de Páginas: 269

Focusing on the specific case of Acolhuacan in the eastern Basin of Mexico, Pueblos within Pueblos is the first book to systematically analyze tlaxilacalli history over nearly four centuries, beginning with their rise at the dawn of the Aztec empire through their transformation into the “pueblos” of mid-colonial New Spain. Even before the rise of the Aztecs, commoners in pre-Hispanic central Mexico set the groundwork for a new style of imperial expansion. Breaking free of earlier centralizing patterns of settlement, they spread out across onetime hinterlands and founded new and surprisingly autonomous local communities called, almost interchangeably, tlaxilacalli or calpolli. Tlaxilacalli were commoner-administered communities that coevolved with the Acolhua empire and structured its articulation and basic functioning. They later formed the administrative backbone of both the Aztec and Spanish empires in northern Mesoamerica and often grew into full and functioning existence before their affiliated altepetl, or sovereign local polities. Tlaxilacalli resembled other central Mexican communities but expressed a local Acolhua administrative culture in their exacting patterns of...

Maya Political Science

Autor: Prudence M. Rice

Número de Páginas: 388

How did the ancient Maya rule their world? Despite more than a century of archaeological investigation and glyphic decipherment, the nature of Maya political organization and political geography has remained an open question. Many debates have raged over models of centralization versus decentralization, superordinate and subordinate status—with far-flung analogies to emerging states in Europe, Asia, and Africa. But Prudence Rice asserts that neither the model of two giant "superpowers" nor that which postulates scores of small, weakly independent polities fits the accumulating body of material and cultural evidence. In this groundbreaking book, Rice builds a new model of Classic lowland Maya (AD 179-948) political organization and political geography. Using the method of direct historical analogy, she integrates ethnohistoric and ethnographic knowledge of the Colonial-period and modern Maya with archaeological, epigraphic, and iconographic data from the ancient Maya. On this basis of cultural continuity, she constructs a convincing case that the fundamental ordering principles of Classic Maya geopolitical organization were the calendar (specifically a 256-year cycle of time...

Estudios de cultura maya

Número de Páginas: 276

Publicación anual del Centro de Estudios Mayas.

La encarnación de la profecía Canek en Cisteil

Autor: Pedro Bracamonte Y Sosa

Número de Páginas: 220

Coloniality in the Maya Lowlands

Autor: Kasey Diserens Morgan , Tiffany C. Fryer

Número de Páginas: 303

Coloniality in the Maya Lowlands explores what has been required of the Maya to survive both internal and external threats and other destabilizing forces. These include shifting power dynamics and sociocultural transformations, tumultuous political regimes, the precarity of newly formed nation states, migration in search of refuge, and newly globalizing economies in the Yucatecan lowlands in the Late Colonial to Early National periods—the times when formal Spanish colonial rule was giving way to Yucatecan and Mexican neocolonial settler systems. The work takes a hemispheric approach to the historical and material analysis of colonialism, bridging the often disparate literatures on coloniality and settler colonialism. Archaeologists and anthropologists working in what are today southeastern Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras grapple with the material realities of coloniality at a regional level. They provide sustained discussions of Maya experiences with wide-ranging colonial endurances: violence, resource insecurity, land rights, refugees, the control of borders, the movement of contraband, surveillance, individual and collective agency, consumption, and use of historic...

Where Did the Eastern Mayas Go?

Autor: Brent E. Metz

Número de Páginas: 418

Copublished with the Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, University of Albany In Where Did the Eastern Mayas Go? Brent E. Metz explores the complicated issue of who is Indigenous by focusing on the sociohistorical transformations over the past two millennia of the population currently known as the Ch’orti’ Maya. Epigraphers agree that the language of elite writers in Classic Maya civilization was Proto-Ch’olan, the precursor of the Maya languages Ch’orti’, Ch’olti’, Ch’ol, and Chontal. When the Spanish invaded in the early 1500s, the eastern half of this area was dominated by people speaking various dialects of Ch’olti’ and closely related Apay (Ch’orti’), but by the end of the colonial period (1524–1821) only a few pockets of Ch’orti’ speakers remained. From 2003 to 2018 Metz partnered with Indigenous leaders to conduct a historical and ethnographic survey of Ch’orti’ Maya identity in what was once the eastern side of the Classic period lowland Maya region and colonial period Ch’orti’-speaking region of eastern Guatemala, western Honduras, and northwestern El Salvador. Today only 15,000 Ch’orti’ speakers remain, concentrated in two...

La supervivencia de los bandidos

Autor: Lean Sweeney

Número de Páginas: 220

Picture Worlds

Autor: David Saunders , Megan E. O’neil

Número de Páginas: 212

This abundantly illustrated volume is the first to explore the painted pottery of the ancient Greek, Moche, and Maya cultures side by side. Satyrs and sphinxes, violent legumes, and a dancing maize deity figure in the stories painted on the pottery produced by the ancient Greek, Moche, and Maya cultures, respectively. Picture Worlds is the first book to examine the elaborately decorated terracotta vessels of these three distinct civilizations. Although the cultures were separated by space and time, they all employed pottery as a way to tell stories, explain the world, and illustrate core myths and beliefs. Each of these painted pots is a picture world. But why did these communities reach for pottery as a primary method of visual communication? How were the vessels produced and used? In this book, experts offer introductions to the civilizations, exploring these foundational questions and examining the painted imagery. Readers will be rewarded with a better understanding of each of these ancient societies, fascinating insights into their cultural commonalities and differences, and fresh perspectives on image making and storytelling, practices that remain vibrant to this day.

Social Identities in the Classic Maya Northern Lowlands

Autor: Traci Ardren

Número de Páginas: 203

Using new archaeological data from four major cities of the Classic Maya world, this book explores how gender, age, familial and community memories, and the experience of living in an urban setting interacted to form social identities. Social Identities in the Classic Maya Northern Lowlands plumbs the archaeological record for what it can reveal about the creation of personal and communal identities in the Maya world. Using new primary data from her excavations at the sites of Yaxuna, Chunchucmil, and Xuenkal, and new analysis of data from Dzibilchaltun in Yucatan, Mexico, Traci Ardren presents a series of case studies in how social identities were created, shared, and manipulated among the lowland Maya. Ardren argues that the interacting factors of gender, age, familial and community memories, and the experience of living in an urban setting were some of the key aspects of Maya identities. She demonstrates that domestic and civic spaces were shaped by gender-specific behaviors to communicate and reinforce gendered ideals. Ardren discusses how child burials disclose a sustained pattern of reverence for the potential of childhood and the power of certain children to mediate...

CHOLULA

Autor: Norma Angélica Castillo Palma

Número de Páginas: 542

Un análisis de las consecuencias demográficas, económicas y sociales del mestizaje en una ciudad novohispana (1649-1796) La historia del mestizaje en América, uno de los hilos conductores de la colonización europea, se forjó del dramático encuentro de dos mundos. La transformación de las sociedades indias o la implantación del poder de los colonizadores, no pueden comprenderse en su dimensión integral sin considerar las fusiones de todo género. El mestizaje fue el elemento diluyente de las fronteras de grupos étnicos protagonistas de la dolorosa gestación del orden colonial. La proliferación de mestizos ilegítimos dio el argumento moral para excluirlos de los puestos públicos y de la dirección de almas. Con base en algunos valores de la época ("honor", "pureza", "linaje"), se estableció una jerarquía que condenó a los mestizos y a los afromestizos a la marginidad. Esta lógica puede explicar la búsqueda obsesiva de la blancura en la gente mezclada, así como su intención de ocultar sus orígenes. Los mestizos biológicos buscaron integrarse a alguno de los grupos privilegiados y salvar los obstáculos impuestos por la hibridación social. El acento está...

Hablar con extraños

Autor: Malcolm Gladwell

Número de Páginas: 289

VUELVE EL MEJOR GLADWELL, autor de El punto clave, Inteligencia intuitiva y Fuera de serie . «Si puedo convencerte de una única cosa con este libro, que sea esta: los desconocidos no son simples.» ¿Cómo pudo un espía pasar años sin ser detectado en los más altos niveles del Pentágono? ¿Qué llevó a Neville Chamberlain a creer que podía confiar en Adolf Hitler? ¿Qué tienen en común esos casos con el engaño de Bernie Madoff, el juicio de Amanda Knox, el suicidio de Sylvia Plath o la comedia de televisión Friends? Cuando interactuamos con desconocidos, a menudo las cosas no salen bien, en parte porque creemos adivinar las intenciones de los demás basándonos en pistas terriblemente endebles. En Hablar con extraños, Malcolm Gladwell, el autor que ha conquistado a una legión de admiradores con su particular manera de ver el mundo, entrevista a toda una serie de personas brillantes, ofrece un arsenal de ejemplos divertidos, contraintuitivos y convincentes, extrae de ellos ideas poderosas y las condimenta con abundantes datos inolvidables. Al mostrarnos por qué se nos da tan mal leer entre líneas, revela las claves para lidiar mejor con los desconocidos en nuestra...

Maya Lords and Lordship

Autor: Sergio Quezada

Número de Páginas: 303

When the Spanish arrived in Yucatán in 1526, they found an established political system based on lordship, a system the Spanish initially integrated into their colonial rule, but ultimately dismantled. In Maya Lords and Lordship, Sergio Quezada builds on the work of earlier scholars and reexamines Yucatec Maya political and social power, arguing that it operated not over territory, as previous scholars assumed, but rather through interpersonal relationships. The changes to Maya culture imposed by Franciscan friars and Spanish lords worked to unravel the networks of personal ties that had empowered the highest Maya lords, and political power devolved to second-tier Maya lords. By 1600 Spanish rule had fragmented what was left of the interpersonal networks, draining power from the indigenous political structure. Building on Quezada’s seminal 1993 study, Maya Lords and Lordship offers a fundamentally new vision of Maya political power, challenging the established views of anthropologists and ethnohistorians. Grounded in archival sources as well as historical and ethnographic literature, Quezada’s insights and conclusions will influence studies of the Postclassic and...