Search Results: AFRO LATIN AMERICA from Alla

NEW ~ A creative approach to the history of Afro-Brazilian religion that analyzes the marketing of liturgical objects used in Candomble, from 1850-1937 in Bahia, Brazil, based on archival manuscripts and contemporary newspapers. Anexos include detailed export manifests and glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Photography section. "...Uma instigante viagem intelectual a leitores com interesses os mais variados, desde historiadores, que encontrarao informacoes e analises consistentes, ate os adeptos das religioes afro-brasileiras, que terao a oportunidade de conhecer outros aspectos da historia de nossas relacoes com a Africa e do culto aos orixas." Em portugues / Text in Portuguese. Minor shelf wear: edges of a few final pages slightly bent. Hard to find! In stock. Usually ships in three days.

NEW ~ Fifteen interdisciplinary essay about African-Americans / Afroamericanos / negros and Indigenous Americans and Mexicans by a group of international scholars arranged in five thematic sections: Cultura Politica, Derechos Civiles, Educacion Publica, Temas de Salud, & Estudios Sobre Mujeres. 349pp. Charts. Bibliography. Edition of only 500 / 500 ejemplares. En espanol. Light shelf wear - shop inventory. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

NEW ~ 176 pp. Traducido por Gabriel Diaz Cortez. EN ESPANOL / IN SPANISH 8 oz. Analysis of nineteenth and twentieth-century Spanish Afro-Argentine (Afroargentino) literature, especially poetry and the works of Higinio Cazon, Gabino Ezeiza, and Tomas Platero.

NEW ~ Study of the interdisciplinary science of "la africanistica" as it applies to various aspects of Africa (and Cuba)--economy, politics, art, religion, and so forth. An effort to view the African continent objectively... "en la que se observa el estrecho vinculo entre trata - esclavitud -racismo-tribalismo-apartheid, y su entorno internacional." Coleccion Africania. Introduction and three chapters, lengthy bibliography. 147 pp. Printed on the newsprint typical of Cuban scholarly publications of this era. En espanol / Spanish. In stock.

NEW ~ EBBO, Animales, Materiales y Plantas. Distribucion: Ediciones Cubanas. Bibliografia. Indice. 197 pp. "El objetivo fundamental de este volumen [...] es demostrar que el sacrificio se considera el elemento mas importante dentro del culto de los orichas, es a traves de el que hace visible y concreta la inseparable y especial relacion entre el hombre y el enigmatico y maravilloso mundo suprasensible." The author (Havana, 1957), a profesor and sacerdote de Ifa, is a scholar of yoruba traditions. Erasure on front end paper. En espanol / Spanish.

NEW ~ Instituto Cubano del Libro - Editorial Oriente. "El vodu en Cuba aborda un tema de trascendental importancia en la conformacion de la cultura cubana, en particular, y de la caribena en general. La presencia, el significado, las manifestaciones de los grupos haitianos que llegaron a la zona oriental de este pais a principios de siglo y la interaccion que se produce entre ellos y los cubanos durante el desarrollo historico de la sociedad, tuvo entre otros resultados (sociales, economicos y politicos) la cristalizacion de una expresion religiosa...." Glossary, bibliography, index. 327 pp.

NEW ~ Academic study of ties between humans and Afro-Brazilian Candomble religious entities based on daily activities at terreiros in Salvador, Bahia, and the practitioners' own accounts. The author is a Sociology professor the the Federal University in Bahia. "Combinando rica etnografia e experimentacao teorica inspirada na fenomenologia, o livro sera de interesse para pesquisadores das religioes de matriz africana bem como estudiosos da antropologia e sociologia da religiao." Artful color photographs. Notes. Bibliography. 294 pp. Edition of 400 / 400 exemplares. Portuguese. Slight shelf wear - front end paper. Minor defect in cover's plastic coating. In stock ~ usually ship in 1-3 days.

NEW ~ A collection of essays on the history of Jesuit haciendas throughout Ibero-America from California and Zacatecas to Venezuela, Peru, Paraguay, and Brazil that focus primarily on slavery, the economy, and evangelization. Contributors: Manuel M. Marzal, Iris Gareis, Jean-Pierre Tardieu, Francisco de Borja Medina, Luis Arnal Simon, Ignacio de Rio, Jose del Ray Farjardo, Edda O. Samudio A., Pavel Stipanek, Maria Eugenai Codina, David Rodriguez, Miriam Salas Olivari, Ana Maria Soldi, Alicia Polvarini de Reyes, Guillermo Bravo A., Luis Alejandro ALvero, Felipe Gonzalez Mora, Sandra Negro, Jessica Esquivel Coronado, Carmen Ruiz de Pardo, Victor Hugo Limpias Ortiz, Rosana Najjar, Beatriz Vasconcellos Franzen. 571 pp. Illus. Maps. 500 ejemplares / edition of only 500. EN ESPANOL / IN SPANISH 2.25 lbs. Heavy weight cover. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

NEW ~ 148 pp. EN ESPANOL / IN SPANISH 6 oz. Libro Premiado : Certamen Internacional Quinto Centenario de la Conquista de America. "La realidad latinoamericana nos induce a efectuar una objetiva reflexion sobre nuestro hombre." A reflection on Latin American identity by journalist (trained in Physics and Mathematics) Ramon Antonio Glass Santana, born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

NEW ~ 140 pp. IN PORTUGUES / PORTUGUESE 8 oz. First published in 1933.

NEW ~ 271 pp. PORTUGUESE / PORTUGUES 11 oz. "...o estudo do processo da Abolicao, das formas de exploracao do trabalho no periodo pos-abolicionista e da persistencia da discriminacao racista contra os negros no Brasil burgues."

NEW ~ light shelf wear. 126 pp. Serie Abolicao, 9. Edicao compilada do original manuscrito por Jose Antonio Gonsalves de Mello. Prefacio de Manuel Correia de Andrade. Organizacao e Apresentacao de Leonardo Dantas Silva. Em co-edicao com o Ministerio da Ciencia e Tecnologia - CNPq / Comissao de Eventos Historicos. 100 Cem Anos da Abolicao 1888 - 1988. IN PORTUGUESE / PORTUGUES 9 oz. Essay by the great Brazilian abolitionist written in 1870 when he was only 21 years old.

NEW ~ slight shelf wear. 195 pp. EM PORTUGUES / IN PORTUGUESE 7 oz. A re-examination of the abolition of African slavery in Brazil by the prominent historian Richard Graham. Covers the slave family in colonial Brazil, the causes of abolition, the significance of British economic influence and diplomacy, and the state of the Brazilian slave holding class at the end of the empire.

NEW ~ light shelf wear. 125 pp. IN PORTUGUESE / PORTUGUES 6 oz.

NEW ~ 619 pp. Anthology of twelve essays by Rosario Nava Roman, Maria Elisa Velazquez Gutierrez, Marco Antonio Perez Jimenez, Maria Camila Diaz Casas, Gabriela Iturralde Nieto, Jose Luis Martinez Maldonado, Maria Dolores Ballesteros Paez, Cristina V. Masferrer Leon, Carlos Correz Angulo, Itza Amanda Varela Huerta, Citlali Quecha Reyna, and Alicia Castellanos Guerrero. Coleccion Africania. In Spanish / en espanol. Bibliographies.

NEW ~ Eleven short autobiographies by afrodescendants who reflect on social exclusion and lack of economic opportunity in Uruguay as well as their ability to transform their own lives. 139 pp. EN ESPANOL / IN SPANISH 9 oz.

NEW ~ Edicao atualizada e ampliada. Colaboracao de Sergio Fausto. Updated and expanded edition. Didatica, 1. 680pp. Map. Illustrations, some color. Bibliography. Index. The history of Brazil by the accomplished historian Boris Fausto. Em portugues / Portuguese. Light shelf wear. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

NEW ~ 256 pp. EN ESPANOL / IN SPANISH 1 lb. Edited by William G. Acree, Jr. and Alex Borucki. Prologo George Reid Andrews.

Author's calling card clipped to front end paper of the first volume: "ENVIO CON LOS CUMPLIDOS DEL AUTOR, FERNANDO ORTIZ, CALLE 27 NO. 160, HABANA, CUBA." Signed "M. JORRIN" in pen on title page of both volumes -- father of Enrique Jorrin. Vol I: 477 pp.; Vol. II: 466 pp. Both with illustrations, musical scores, and bibliographies. Interior pages otherwise unmarked; both volumes light water damage. See photos. En espanol / Spanish. Sold as a set. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

NEW ~ 62 pp. Coleccion Analysis. EN ESPANOL / IN SPANISH 3 oz. The author offers a path to liberation for Caribbeans and Latin Americans of African descent by exhorting them to reject "el discurso dominante del Occidente moderno, burgues y capitalista...." and return to their ancestral cultural roots.