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| HISTORIES OF INFAMY : Francisco López de Gómara & the Ethics of Spanish Imperialism [Cristián A Roa-de-la-Carrera; Translated by Scott Sessions] This volume analyses Francisco López de Gómara's (1511-ca1559) attempt to convince readers of the Spanish conquest's worth through eloquent defence of colonisation ideology, despite public outcry against conquistadors' atrocities. { 264pp, 155x230mm, December 2005; HB, £26.99, 0870818139:9780870818134 , University Press of Colorado } |
| I WON'T STAY INDIAN, I'LL KEEP STUDYING : Race, Place, & Discrimination in a Costa Rican High School [Karen Stocker] While teaching and researching on an indigenous reservation in Costa Rica, Karen Stocker discovered that for Native students who attended the high school outside the reservation, two extreme reactions existed to the predominantly racist high school environment. While some maintained their indigenous identity and did poorly in school, others succeeded academically, but rejected their Indianness and the reservation. Between these two poles lay a whole host of responses. In I WON'T STAY INDIAN, I'LL KEEP STUDYING, Stocker addresses the institutionalised barriers these students faced and explores the interaction between education and identity. Stocker reveals how overt and hidden curricula taught ethnic, racial, and gendered identities and how the dominant ideology of the town, present in school, conveyed racist messages to students. I WON'T STAY INDIAN, I'LL KEEP STUDYING documents how students from the reservation reacted to, coped with, and resisted discrimination. { 248pp, 155x230mm, December 2005; HB, £29.99, 0870818163:9780870818165 , University Press of Colorado } |
| NEW WORLD, FIRST NATIONS : Native Peoples of Mesoamerica & the Andes Under Colonial Rule [David Cahill & Blanca Tovias (eds)] The Spanish conquest and colonisation of the Americas dramatically transformed the lives of native peoples in Mesoamerica and the Andes. This revolutionary and multilayered process varied greatly in its intensity and timing from region to region, but in all cases radically changed indigenous societies, their values and beliefs. The encounter between native peoples and the Spanish conquistadors and later settlers was marked by violence and drastic, epidemic-driven population decline. This dislocatory phase gradually gave way to myriad forms of accommodation, resistance, and social, cultural and religious hybridity -- the colonial heritage of Spanish America. The innovative essays in this volume compare the colonial experience of native peoples of the conquered Aztec, Maya and Inca civilisations, from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries. They highlight their creative responses to the challenges posed by colonial rule, its institutions, religion, and legal and economic systems. Interdisciplinary in approach, the essays distil a generation of scholarship and suggest an agenda for future research. This book will be of great interest to historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, and post-colonialists. { 304pp, 150x230mm, February 2006; HB, £55.00, 1903900638:9781903900635 , Sussex Academic Press } |
| OAXACA CELEBRATION : Family, Food, & Fiestas in Teotitlán [Mary Jane Gagnier de Mendoza] Almost twenty years ago, a young Canadian woman, Mary Jane Gagnier, travelled through Mexico on a journey of self-exploration. One evening on the zócaló in Oaxaca, she met a weaver from the nearby village of Teotitlan del Valle, who offered his uncles' help in repairing her broken clarinet. Shortly thereafter the two were married, and rather instantly the Ontario native with wanderlust found herself intimately immersed in the culture and traditions of her new home. Fiestas are synonymous with Mexico and daily ceremonial rituals and celebrations are at the center of Oaxaca's spiritual and social life. Gagnier de Mendoza chronicles the festival cycle in Teotitlán, a Zapotec village located fifteen miles from the capitol. The fiestas here center on the complex art of hosting, whether for family gatherings or religious ceremonies that involves traditional cooking and flower arranging, candle making and fireworks. Throughout the year, village brass bands regularly line the streets in processions featuring plumed dancers and masked actors. Beginning with Christmas posadas through Fiesta of the Black Christ of Esquipulas, pre-wedding and wedding celebrations, Lent and Holy Week, post-Easter revelry celebrating the patron saints, to the conclusion of the festival cycle with Day of the Dead, this memoir chronicles the spirit-life of an ancient community that day after day honors its gods as itself. { 160pp, 190x285mm, October 2005; PB, £16.99, 0890134456:9780890134450 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| POLITICS & ECONOMICS OF LATIN AMERICA, VOLUME 4 [Arthur P Linket (ed)] Latin America is a diverse group countries with extremely diverse economies and political dynamics. Some are heavy in poverty and others are booming with petrodollars. They speak Spanish, Portuguese, and French. This book brings together analyses detailing crucial issues at the beginning of the 21st century. { 307pp, 180x260mm, July 2007; HB, £52.99, 160021181X:9781600211812 , Nova Science Publishers } |
| RESHAPING NEW SPAIN : Government & Private Interests in the Colonial Bureaucracy, 1531-1550 [Ethelia Ruiz Medrano; Translated by Julia Constantino & Pauline Marmasse] The first English edition of Gobierno y Sociedad en Nueva Espana traces development of colonial institutions in Mexico and how they changed indigenous land and labour laws in bureaucrats' favour. { 320pp, 155x230mm, January 2006; HB, £43.50, 0870818147:9780870818141 , University Press of Colorado } |