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Paperback. An anthology focusing specifically on the topic of Chicana expressive culture. This book features the work of native scholars. Blending narratives of personal experience with more formal, scholarly discussions, it tells the insider story of a professional woman mariachi performer. Editor(s): Cantu, Norma E.; Najera-Ramirez, Olga. Num Pages: 280 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252070129
ISBN
9780252070129
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.31

Paperback. The mythic roots and modern future of Ecuadorian indigenous communities in the twenty-first century Series: Interpretations of Culture in the New Millenium. Num Pages: 232 pages, 18 photographs; 7 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KLSE; HRLF; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780252076039
ISBN
9780252076039
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.12

Paperback. One of the first anthologies to focus on Mexican dance practices on both sides of the border Editor(s): Najera-Ramirez, Olga; Cantu, Norma E.; Romero, Brenda M. Num Pages: 432 pages, 37 black and white photographs; 6 line drawings; 1 map; 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; ASD; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780252076091
ISBN
9780252076091
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.96

Paperback. A multidisciplinary survey of the individuals, organizations, and institutions that have given shape and power to the contemporary immigrant rights movement in Chicago. Editor(s): Pallares, Amalia; Flores-Gonzalez, Nilda. Series: Latinos in Chicago and Midwest. Num Pages: 320 pages, 10 black & white photographs, 18 charts, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 1KLCM; JFFN; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252077166
ISBN
9780252077166
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.86

Paperback. As cultural mediators, Chamelco's market women offer a model of contemporary Q'eqchi' identity grounded in the strength of the Maya historical legacy. This book describes how market women gain social standing as mediators of sometimes conflicting realities, harnessing the forces of global capitalism to revitalize Chamelco's indigenous identity. Series: Interp Culture New Millennium. Num Pages: 176 pages, 7 black and white photographs, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLCG; JFSJ1; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 160 x 11. Weight in Grams: 292.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780252079887
ISBN
9780252079887
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.28

Paperback. Expands the diaspora framework to include Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, and Cuba, exploring the connections and disjunctures between colonial Latin America and the African diaspora in the Spanish empires. Editor(s): Bryant, Sherwin K.; O'Toole, Rachel Sarah; Vinson, Ben, III. Series: New Black Studies Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1KL; HBTS; JFC; JFFN; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 395.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252080012
ISBN
9780252080012
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Paperback. Series: Asian American Experience. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KB; 1KLCM; HBJK; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5969 x 3963. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780252082344
ISBN
9780252082344
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.31

Hardback. Presents an overview of dinosaur discoveries in Mexico that synthesizes information about the geography and environment of the region during the Mesozoic when it was the western margin of the ancient continent of Pangea. This book summarizes research on various groups, including turtles, lepidosauromorphs, pleisosaurs, crocodyliforms, pterosaurs. Editor(s): Rivera-Sylva, Hector E.; Carpenter, Kenneth; Frey, Eberhard. Series: Life of the Past. Num Pages: 232 pages, 10 color illus., 93 b&w illus., 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; RBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 6452 x 4522 x 20. Weight in Grams: 586.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253011831
ISBN
9780253011831
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.12

Paperback. While recognizing its origins and scope, this book offers an interpretation of Latin American philosophy by looking at its radical and transformative roots. It explores Latin America's engagement with contemporary problems in Western philosophy and describes the transformative impact of this encounter on contemporary thought. Series: World Philosophies. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 382.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253012579
ISBN
9780253012579
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 33.91

Paperback. Series: Indiana Series in Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies. Num Pages: 298 pages, 10 b&w illus., 9 maps, 14 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; 3JJ; HBJK; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
298
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253023032
ISBN
9780253023032
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Paperback. Examines the Latina subject whose work as dramatist, actress, theorist, and/or critic further defines the field of theater and performance in the United States. This book considers the emergence of a Latina aesthetics developed in the United States, but simultaneously linked with Latin America. Series: Unnatural Acts: Theorizing the Performative. Num Pages: 248 pages, 16 b&w photos, 1 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLS; AN; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253212856
ISBN
9780253212856
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 21.87

Paperback. The Afro-Brazilian religion Candomble has long been recognised as a resource of African tradition, values, and identity among its adherents in Bahia, Brazil. This book describes development of religion as an "alternative" space in which subjugated and enslaved blacks were able to cultivate a sense of individual. Series: Blacks in the Diaspora. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 bibliog. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 3JH; HRAX; HRKT; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253216106
ISBN
9780253216106
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.26

Paperback. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Brazil, Vietnam, and Zambia, this volume integrates youth studies with urban studies, and argues that youth is an experience in its own right, not merely a transition from childhood to adulthood. It includes case studies in three cities - Recife, Hanoi, and Lusaka. Series: Tracking Globalization. Num Pages: 248 pages, 37 b&w photos, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 1HFMZ; 1KLSB; JFSG; JFSP2; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 16. Weight in Grams: 413.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253219695
ISBN
9780253219695
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.12

Paperback. The people of Quirpini, a rural community in the Bolivian Andes, are in constant motion. They visit each other's houses, work in their fields, go to nearby towns for school, market, or official transactions, and travel to Buenos Aires for wage labour. This work argues that by their travels, they play a role in shaping the places they move through. Num Pages: 320 pages, 14 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KLSL; 1KLSX; JFFN; JHMC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 147 x 23. Weight in Grams: 488.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253222107
ISBN
9780253222107
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.20

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSE; HRCX7; JFSF; KCM; RNU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268026110
ISBN
9780268026110
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 38.45

Paperback. Reconstructs how Iberian, indigenous, and African beliefs fused to create a syncretic religious culture in Brazil. Focusing on sorcery, this title argues that European traditions of witchcraft combined with practices of Indians and African slaves to form a Brazilian set of beliefs that became central to the lives of the people in the colony. Translator(s): Whitty, Diane Grosklaus. Series: LLILAS Translations from Latin America Series. Num Pages: 374 pages, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; HRQX5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 492.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
374
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292702363
ISBN
9780292702363
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.00

Paperback. Presents an overview of the prehistory of the Cuzco region from the arrival of the first hunter-gatherers (ca 7000 BC) to the fall of the Inca Empire in AD 1532. This book addresses both the specific patterns of settlement in the Cuzco Valley and the larger processes of cultural development. Series: Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American & Latino Art & Culture. Num Pages: 271 pages, 76 photos, 25 figures, 26 maps, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1KL; HBJK; HBLC; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 276 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
271
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780292702790
ISBN
9780292702790
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.25

Paperback. Offers the readings of fourteen key films to demonstrate how these cultural products promote the principles of an antiheterosexist stance. Num Pages: 208 pages, 22 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KL; APFA; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 509. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780292705371
ISBN
9780292705371
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.72

Paperback. Presents an ethnographic study of Maya handicraft vendors in the international marketplace. Num Pages: 332 pages, 13 b&w illus., 4 maps, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1KLCG; JFC; JFFS; KNSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 246 x 24. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
332
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292705678
ISBN
9780292705678
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.70

Paperback. Since the early twentieth century, technological transfers from the United States to Latin American countries have involved technologies of violence for social control. This title includes essays that addresses the topic of state-sponsored terrorism in a variety of ways. Editor(s): Menjivar, Cecilia; Rodriguez, Nestor P. Num Pages: 388 pages, 1 graph, 11 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KL; JKV; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 554.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
388
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780292706798
ISBN
9780292706798
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.01

Paperback. Propitiating the supernatural forces that could grant bountiful crops or wipe out whole villages through natural disasters was a sacred duty in ancient Peruvian societies. This book examines the evidence for ancient Peruvian sacrificial offerings of human beings and animals, as well as the cultural contexts in which the offerings occurred. Editor(s): Benson, Elizabeth P.; Cook, Anita G. Num Pages: 227 pages, 66 halftones, 47 line drawings, 3 maps, 2 charts. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; HDD; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 18. Weight in Grams: 652.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
227
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292708945
ISBN
9780292708945
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.72

Paperback. The second phase of the civil rights movement (1965-1973) was a pivotal period in the development of ethnic groups in the United States. This title creates an intercultural frame to study the historical and cultural connections among Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and Chicanos/as since the 1960s. Series: Chicana Matters Series. Num Pages: 220 pages, 3 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KLCM; 2ADSL; DSB; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 509. Weight in Grams: 445.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292709652
ISBN
9780292709652
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.12

Paperback. Responding to the changes in Guatemala, the women there began organizing to gain an active role in the national body politic. This study examines the formation and evolution of the Guatemalan women's movement and assesses how it has been affected by, and has in turn affected, the forces of democratization and globalization. Num Pages: 169 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCG; 1KLCM; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 248.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
169
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292712539
ISBN
9780292712539
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 18.53

Hardcover. The Moche people who inhabited the north coast of Peru between approximately 100 and 800 AD created the most elaborate system of iconographic representation of any ancient Peruvian culture. This book raises the analysis of Moche iconography to a level through a study of visual representations of rituals involving sex, death, and sacrifice. Num Pages: 272 pages, 259 b&w illus., 24 color photos in 16 page section. BIC Classification: 1KL; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 263 x 188 x 24. Weight in Grams: 824.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780292712799
ISBN
9780292712799
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.32

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