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NEW ~ Autobiographical stories told by Alejandro Tsakimp, a Shuar healer of the Andean foothills in Ecuador, to American Anthropologist Steven Rubenstein, who transcribed and edited them before his untimely death in 2012. 322pp. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. References. Index. Shop inventory. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

NEW ~ The savage late-nineteenth century military campaigns against an isolated millenarian community, Canudos, in the northeast Brazilian outback by eye-witness journalist Euclides da Cunha. A fascinating episode and a literary classic. Translation and with an Introduction by Samuel Putman. Reprint of the 1944 edition. Includes glossary of specialized regional terms. 532pp. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

NEW ~ English-language version of this highly readable Brazilian classic--the history of Portuguese colonial Brazil by Joao Capistrano de Abreu, translated by Arthur Brakel, with a preface by Fernando A. Novais, and an introduction by Stuart Schwartz. 236pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. New hardcover with dust jacket. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

Sao Paulo, Brazil--today a global industrial hub--was once a sparsely-populated Portuguese outpost where Indigenous slavery and strategic marriage alliances were central to the success of the colonial enterprise. Landmark English-language study on Brazilian family and rural community based on careful archival documentation by Rice University professor Alida Metcalf. 280pp. Illustrations. Maps. Charts. Bibliography. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

NEW ~ Study of social relations and community formation in eighteenth-century Spanish New Mexico, thoroughly based on ecclesiastical and civil archival research by Suzanne Stamatov, Ph.D. Important for understanding gender, family, community, and survival in this remote Spanish colonial borderlands. 242pp. Charts. Bibliography. New copy. Slight sun fading to cover. See photo. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

Classic text on comparative slavery and race relations in the Americas by Frank Tannenbaum, with an Introduction by Franklin W. Knight. First published in 1947. 128pp. Index. No markings, interior pages fine. Slight wear to cover. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

NEW ~ English translation of this 1988 history of the self-emancipated maroon communities of eighteenth and nineteenth-century eastern Cuba by Gabino La Rosa Corza, Center for Anthropological Study, University of Havana. Translated by Mary Todd. 292pp. Maps. Illustrations. Charts. Bibliography. Light shelf wear. Alla inventory--In stock. Usually ships in three days.

Award-winning book about burial customs in nineteenth-century Bahia, Brazil, and the 1836 popular riot that challenged government control of local traditions. Translated from the Portuguese by H. Sabrina Gledhill. 386pp. Maps. Illustrations. Charts. Light shelf wear and pencil erasure on front end paper. Shop inventory. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

NEW ~ Mark Harris writes a very readable history of developments in the Brazilian Amazon region leading up to and including the tragic events of the Cabanagem War in the late 1830s. A solid contribution to the anthropological history of the Brazilian north. 328pp. Maps. Illustrations. Bibliography. Cambridge Latin American Studies Series edited by Herbert S. Klein. English. In stock.… Read more about this item

NEW ~ Lavishly-illustrated exhibition catalogue from a 2006 show in the Real Alcazar of Seville on the late-medieval history of the Mediterranean. Emphasizes cross-cultural connections and the role of Seville. 455pp. Color illustrations. Quality paper. This copy is unused with pages in fine condition. Slight bend to bottom corner of cover. Pencil erasure on front end paper. In English. In… Read more about this item

NEW ~ Eight essays by well-respected scholars on early Spanish - Indigenous relations in Yucatan, Chiapas, and Guatemals. 291pp. Maps. Bibliographies. Index. Hardcover published without a dust jacket. English / en ingles. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

Essays on slavery in colonial Brazil by Stuart B. Schwartz considering topics such as labor, family, and the maroon community Palmares. 174pp. Bibliographies. Index. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

NEW ~ Composer Peter Garland researched, assembled, translated, and edited this collection of Northern California native music published by Jaime de Angulo and M. Beclard d'Harcourt, and Old Time Stories, Pit River Songz [sic], and Song of Los Pesares (with intriguing titles such as "Song of lost in the fog" or "Song of the Big Lizzard") collected by Angulo. A… Read more about this item

NEW ~ Over 100 eighteenth-century Maya wills from the Yucatan presented in Mayan & English with historical context and analysis by Mark Christensen and Matthew Restall. 302pp. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

NEW ~ Joel Sherzer uses linguistic and ethnographic analysis of chants, reporting, speech making and other verbal practices to reveal cultural insights into the Indigenous Kuna of Panama. 281pp. Brand new copy in original plastic wrap. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

NEW ~ Textbook survey of Latin American colonial history with background on Iberia, Africa, and Indigenous America. Maps. Illustrations. Index. 304pp. Brand new. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

NEW ~ Vergil's history of ancient Rome in a new English translation, friendly to the modern reader. Translation, Introduction, and Notes by Barry B. Powell. Forward by Denis Feeney. 410pp. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Timeline. Glossary. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

NEW ~ Eliud Martinez focuses on Mariano Azuela's 1920s literary production, rather than his better-known novels on the Mexican Revolution, and his role in the development of Mexican Modernism. With an Introduction by Luis Leal. 101pp. Notes. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

NEW ~ John Tutino, professor of history and international affairs, explores the central role of the eighteenth-century Mexican silver economy and events leading up to Independence in 1821. UNM Dialogos Series. 296pp. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. In English. Brand new. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

NEW ~ Novel set in the Brazilian Pantanal, where the inhabitants of Pedra Canga face the world armed only with "poverty, myth, and superstition." Translation from the Portuguese to English by Clifford E. Landers. Masterworks of Fiction (1987). 153pp. In stock. Usually ships in three days.