Stories, Myths, Chants, and Songs of the Kuna Indians

Joel Sherzer

• Paperback | Engels | Llilas Translations from Latin America
• The Kuna Indians of Panama, probably best known for molas, their colorful appliqué blouses, also have a rich literary tradition of oral stories and pe... Lees meer

Memory, Myth, and Time in Mexico

Enrique Florescano, Kathryn R Bork

• Paperback | Engels | Llilas Translations from Latin America
• In Memory, Myth, and Time in Mexico , noted Mexican scholar Enrique Florescano's Memoria mexicana becomes available for the first time in English. A c... Lees meer

The Cultural Life of the Automobile

Guillermo Giucci

• Paperback | Engels | Llilas Translations from Latin America
• From its invention in Europe at the end of the nineteenth century, the automobile crisscrossed the world, completely took over the cities, and became ... Lees meer

El Lector

Araceli Tinajero

• Paperback | Engels | Llilas Translations from Latin America
• The practice of reading aloud has a long history, and the tradition still survives in Cuba as a hard-won right deeply embedded in cigar factory worker... Lees meer

History and Society in Central America

Edelberto Torres Rivas

• Paperback | Engels | Llilas Translations from Latin America
• First published in Chile in 1969 as Interpretación del desarrollo social centroamericano , this classic is now available in English. The first attempt... Lees meer

Quiché Rebelde

Ricardo Falla

• Paperback | Engels | Llilas Translations from Latin America
• Since the arrival of the Spanish in the sixteenth century, the Maya population of Guatemala has been forced to adapt to extraordinary challenges. Unde... Lees meer

Broadcasting the Civil War in El Salvador

Carlos Henriquez Consalvi

• Paperback | Engels | Llilas Translations from Latin America
• During the 1980s war in El Salvador, Radio Venceremos was the main news outlet for the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN), the ... Lees meer

The Play of Mirrors

Sylvia Caiuby Novaes

• Paperback | Engels | Llilas Translations from Latin America
• Focusing on the Bororo people of west-central Brazil, this book addresses the construction of self-identity through interethnic interaction. By presen... Lees meer

In the Eyes of God

Fernando Escalante Gonzalbo

• Paperback | Engels | Llilas Translations from Latin America
• "Every culture needs to appropriate the universal truth of human suffering," says Fernando Escalante, ". . . to give its own meaning to this suffering... Lees meer

The Seduction of Brazil

Antonio Pedro Tota

• Paperback | Engels | Llilas Translations from Latin America
• Following completion of the U.S. air base in Natal, Brazil, in 1942, U.S. airmen departing for North Africa during World War II communicated with Braz... Lees meer

México Profundo

Guillermo Bonfil Batalla

• Paperback | Engels | Llilas Translations from Latin America
• This translation of a major work in Mexican anthropology argues that Mesoamerican civilization is an ongoing and undeniable force in contemporary Mexi... Lees meer

Bandits, Peasants, and Politics

Gonzalo Sánchez, Donny Meertens

• Paperback | Engels | Llilas Translations from Latin America
• The years 1945-1965 saw heavy partisan conflict in the rural areas of Colombia, with at least 200,000 people killed. This virtual civil war began as a... Lees meer

The Devil and the Land of the Holy Cross

Laura De Mello E Souza

• Paperback | Engels | Llilas Translations from Latin America
• Originally published in Brazil as O Diabo e a Terra de Santa Cruz, this translation from the Portuguese analyzes the nature of popular religion and th... Lees meer

Latin American Politics

Torcuato S Di Tella

• Paperback | Engels | Llilas Translations from Latin America
• First published in English in 1990 as Latin American Politics: A Theoretical Framework, a translation of Torcuato S. Di Tella's original Sociología de... Lees meer

The History of Capitalism in Mexico

Enrique Semo

• Paperback | Engels | Llilas Translations from Latin America
• What lies at the center of the Mexican colonial experience? Should Mexican colonial society be construed as a theoretical monolith, capitalist from it... Lees meer

Transforming Modernity

Néstor García Canclini

• Paperback | Engels | Llilas Translations from Latin America
• Is popular culture merely a process of creating, marketing, and consuming a final product, or is it an expression of the artist's surroundings and an ... Lees meer

Contemporary Short Stories from Central America

• Paperback | Engels | Llilas Translations from Latin America
• This volume collects some of the best short fiction from the six Spanish-speaking countries of Central America--Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nica... Lees meer

Plants and Animals in the Life of the Kuna

Jorge Ventocilla, Heraclio Herrera, Valerio Núñez

• Paperback | Engels | Llilas Translations from Latin America
• "The earth is the mother of all things"; thus begins this original and accessible book on how the Kuna of Panama relate to the natural world. An integ... Lees meer

Beautiful Flowers of the Maquiladora

Norma Iglesias Prieto

• Paperback | Engels | Llilas Translations from Latin America
• Published originally as La flor mas bella de la maquiladora , this beautifully written book is based on interviews the author conducted with more than... Lees meer