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Stephanie Merrim offers a dynamic interdisciplinary approach to colonial Hispanic writing based on the spectacular city, a model that encompasses three driving forces of New World literary culture: cities, festivals, and wonder.

';Valuable to anyone who loves cooking and eating south-of-the-border food and doesn't want to sacrifice taste for healthy choices or vice versa.' Foreword Just about everyone loves Mexican food, but should you eat it if you want to manage your weight or diabetes? Absolutely! There are countless authentic Mexican dishes that are naturally healthymoderate in calories, fat, and sugarand completely delectable. Naturally Healthy Mexican Cooking presents some two hundred easy recipes with exceptional nutrition profiles. Substitutions that alter the taste and pleasure of food have no place here. Instead you'll find flavorful low-calorie dishes from the various schools of Mexican and Mexican American cooking in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California. From traditional meat, seafood, and vegetarian entrees andm antojitos mexicanos, including tacos, enchiladas, and tamales, to upscale alta cocina Mexicana such as shrimp ceviche and mango salsa, these recipes are authentic, simple to prepare with supermarket ingredients, and fully satisfying in moderate portions. Every recipe includes nutritional analysis: calories, protein, carbs, fat, cholesterol, fiber, sugar, and sodium. You'll also find information on Mexican cooking and nutrition, ingredients, techniques, and equipment. Try the recipes in Naturally Healthy Mexican Cooking, and you'll discover that comfort food can be both delicious and good for you. Buen provecho!

An authoritative, firsthand account of conceptualism in Latin American art of the 1960s and 1970s by an artist who was at the forefront of the movement.

With a powerful, erotic, and entertaining Quechua story as a master narrative, Foxboy explores the acts of storytelling and story listening in the Andes to discover how these arts are used to communicate deeply held cultural values.

Investigating over forty key concepts from the perspectives of both Spain and Spanish America, this groundbreaking work of scholarship opens a vast new understanding of the profound cultural transfers and transformations that defined the transatlantic Spa

How community organizing and activism in support of public schools in one of America's most economically disadvantaged regions has engendered impressive academic results.

A deep exploration of the ways in which postcolonial narrative fiction both acts on and is acted upon by the modern world.

This social and cultural history of the provisioning of Salvador, Brazil, as it moved from colony to independent city encompasses a whole society by looking at a broadly defined occupation-the food trade-and showing the connections between and among social categories.

The first comprehensive study of literary works created both orally and in writing by immigrants to the United States from the Hispanic world since the early nineteenth century.

A critical translation and commentary on a work long regarded as Latin America's first novel, which proves that this famous tale of piracy is actually a historical account that sheds new light on Spain's worldwide struggle against the ambitions of France and other European powers.

Taking a new approach to traditional Andean art that links prehistory with the present, this book illustrates the ongoing legacy of the past in contemporary art and the importance of art not only as a way of expressing religious ideas rooted in nature, bu

In this benchmark book, twelve international scholars tackle the most vexed question in khipu studies: how did the Inkas record and transmit narrative records by means of knotted strings?

A vivid, comprehensive examination of the monumental Zapata legacy, incorporating new archival research and wide-ranging cultural issues.

In this book, Max Harris explores and develops principles for understanding the folk theology underlying patronal saints' day festivals, feasts of Corpus Christi, and Carnivals through a series of vivid, first-hand accounts of these festivities throughout

How participation in the global economy has affected a South American indigenous group.

This landmark book undertakes the first general overview of the prehistory of the Cuzco region from the arrival of the first hunter-gatherers (ca. 7000 B.C.) to the fall of the Inca Empire in A.D. 1532.

This pathfinding book presents a new understanding of the pictorial vocabulary presented in Codex Telleriano-Remensis, which reveals a native painter's perspective on the tandem of ethnosuicide and ethnogenesis, and the topology of conquest.

The first in-depth look at the international trade in Oaxacan wood carvings, including their history, production, marketing, and cultural representations.

A proven method for enhancing the teacher-student relationship and increasing student skills.

The first wide-ranging, systematic study of the Moche portraits, three-dimensional ceramic vessels formed in the likeness of people's heads.

Taking a sociocultural and human-centered approach, Music in Latin America and the Caribbean gathers the best scholarship from writers all over the world to cover in depth the musical legacies of indigenous peoples, creoles, African descendants, Iberian c

A major new analysis and interpretation of the surviving body of ancient Mexican divinatory codices.

Using an interdisciplinary approach that also considers legal, literary, and religious documents of the period, Magali Carrera focuses on eighteenth-century portraiture and casta paintings to understand how the people and spaces of New Spain were conceptu

A masterful examination of the "monumental ambivalence" that results when private and public interests compete to control and benefit from archaeological and historical sites.

Spanning some three hundred years, this masterful study of the transmission of the Virgin of Guadalupe from Spain to the Americas and back again explores the subjectivity of seeing and the power of an image at the intersection of religion and politics.

This Spanish-English bilingual volume gathers the most famous and representative prose writings of Gabriela Mistral, which have not been as readily available to English-only readers as her poetry.

Three leading experts offer a new, standard-setting interpretation of how the Classic Maya experienced and thought about the human body.

A study of the semantic changes evident in translations of Catholic catechisms, sermons, and manuals. It demonstrates how the translated texts often retained traces of ancient Andean modes of thought, despite the didactic lessons they contained.

Draws on thirty-five years of fieldwork (1965-1990) in the region to present a masterful ethnographic historical account of how nine communities in the Oaxaca Valley have striven to maintain land, livelihood, and civility in the face of transformational and cumulative change across five centuries.

Blending biography, literary analysis, and cultural history, Uncivil Wars reveals a new understanding of the works of Elena Garro and Octavio Paz, placing these iconic writers in the context of the revolutions-military, social, and feminist-that shaped th