Los afro-des-cen-dien-tes, que vi-nie-ron es-cla-vi-za-dos des-de Afri-ca, es-tu-vie-ron pre-sen-tes en nues-tros te-rri-to-rios des-de el ini-cio mis-mo de la conquis-ta.
Based on more than thirty years of ethnographic fieldwork in Highland Guatemala, this study of Maya diviners, shamans, ritual dancers, and religious brotherhoods describes the radical changes in traditional Maya religious practice wrought by economic globalization and political turmoil.
Among the oldest buildings in the United States, the churches of Spanish New Mexico--made of earth, of stone, of wood--are the surprisingly fragile reminders of a unique amalgam of Spanish architectural ideas and native American Pueblo culture.
This book unravels the ethnic history of California since the late nineteenth-century Anglo-American conquest and the institutionalization of "e;white supremacy"e; in the state.
Although he finds himself on the wrong side of history, Stonewall Jackson has become known as one of the American Civil War's most brilliant military strategists.
Rarely visited by outsiders, the ranchers of the Sierra de la Giganta in Baja California Sur live much as their ancestors have for the past two centuries.
Now back in print after more than thirty years, The Zunis: Self-Portrayals offers forty-six stories of myth, prophecy, and history from the great oral literature of the Zuni Indians of New Mexico.
Rise of the Labor Movement in Los Angeles by Grace Heilman Stimson recovers the largely neglected early history of organized labor in southern California, situating the city's unions within the broader trajectory of American labor and industrial relations.
Rise of the Labor Movement in Los Angeles by Grace Heilman Stimson recovers the largely neglected early history of organized labor in southern California, situating the city's unions within the broader trajectory of American labor and industrial relations.
