Bøker i Latin America in Translation-serien

Reflecting on the experience, philosophy, and practice of Latin American indigenous and Afro-descendant activist-intellectuals who mobilize to defend their territories from large-scale extraction, Arturo Escobar shows how the key to addressing planetary crises is the creation of the pluriverse-a world of many epistemological and ontological worlds.

When Rains Became Floods is the stunning autobiography of Lurgio Gavilan Sanchez, who as a child soldier fought for both the Peruvian guerilla insurgency Shining Path and the Peruvian military during the Peruvian Civil War. After escaping the war, he became a Franciscan priest.

Offers information about the myths, ceremonies, and lives of the New World inhabitants whom Columbus first encountered. This title contains many linguistic and cultural observations: descriptions of the Indians' healing rituals and their beliefs about their souls after death.