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One of the most fascinating books on pre-Columbian and early colonial Peru was written by a Peruvian Indian named Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala. This book covers pre-Inca times, various aspects of Inca culture, the Spanish conquest, and colonial times up to around 1615 when the manuscript was finished.

A collection of essays that elaborate themes such as art world systems versus an art of commitment; artistic genealogies and how they are consecrated; and, the possibilities for artistic agency.

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

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.

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.

Extensively revised to incorporate the latest interpretations and address issues of race and gender as well as of economic interest, this is the only book that in such a short space covers the causes, events, and consequences of the wars of independence (1810-1825) in all of Latin America

The third and final book in a major three-volume trilingual anthology of Mexican indigenous writing.

The second book in a major three-volume trilingual anthology of Mexican indigenous writing.

This groundbreaking anthology gathers works by the leading generation of writers in thirteen Mexican indigenous languages.

This exceptional study examines the experience of Mexican workers in the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP), widely considered a model program by the World Bank and other international institutions despite the significant violations of l

This fully illustrated volume documents Jose Clemente Orozco's finest work as a printmaker in lithography and intaglio.

The first major overview of the works and career of Leopoldo Mendez-one of the most distinguished printmakers of the twentieth century and a contemporary and countryman of Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and Jose Guadalupe Posada-contains over 150 ill

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

From sixteenth-century European Wunderkammern to the veneration of the Virgin of Guadalupe to the Latinization of the United States, this dynamic and innovative book explores how the circulation of objects between Europe and the Americas has profoundly re

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

Designed as a survey and focused on key examples and movements arranged chronologically from 1903 to 2003, this is the first comprehensive history of modern architecture in Latin America in any language.

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

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

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

Presenting the first comprehensive art historical study of some magnificent Mesoamerican murals, this book demonstrates how generations of ancient Mexican artists, patrons, and audiences created a powerful statement of communal identity that still capture

This catalogue of an exhibition at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum broadens our understanding of twentieth-century modernism by exploring the prolific Mexican artist Miguel Covarrubias's substantial contributions to a cosmopolitan sensibility in modernist art

Extensively illustrated with new color photographs, this pioneering study of a masterpiece of colonial Latin American art reveals how a cathedral dean and native American painters drew on their respective visual traditions to promote Christian faith in th

A compelling study of the writers who used the genre of cronica-combining literary aestheticism with journalistic form-to capture seismic political and sociological shifts in the 1920s and 1930s.

This fascinating, deeply human narrative of colonialism and capitalism captures the history of a New World winery in the desert mountains of southern Peru.

Viewing four centuries of art and architecture anew through the lens of cosmopolitanism, this pathfinding book explores how Mexican visual culture presents an ongoing process of negotiation between the local and the global.