Social and cultural history

Mexico's National Indigenist Institute (INI) was at the vanguard of hemispheric indigenismo from 1951 through the mid-1970s, thanks to the innovative development projects that were first introduced at its pilot Tseltal-Tsotsil Coordinating Center in highland Chiapas.

Around the world, indigenous peoples are returning to traditional foods produced by traditional methods of subsistence.

The conquest and colonization of the Americas imposed new social, legal, and cultural categories upon vast and varied populations of indigenous people.

In this groundbreaking new study on ladinas in Guatemala City, Patricia Harms contests the virtual erasure of women from the country's national memory and its historical consciousness.

In Prizefighting and Civilization: A Cultural History of Boxing, Race, and Masculinity in Mexico and Cuba, 18401940, historian David C.

For more than one hundred years, the Conquest of the Desert (18781885) has marked Argentina's historical passage between eras, standing at the gateway to the nation's ';Golden Age' of progress, modernity, andmost contentiouslynational whiteness and the ';invisibilization' of Indigenous peoples.

The Navajo tribe, the Din, are the largest tribe in the United States and live across the American Southwest.

In Overhaul, historians Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint present the largely forgotten story of Albuquerque's locomotive repair shops, which were the driving force behind the city's economy for more than seventy years.

2023 Honorable Mention, Warren Dean Prize in Brazilian HistoryIn From Sea-Bathing to Beach-Going B.

Over the course of more than twenty years, James D.

Famous for its majestic ruins, Mexico has gone to great lengths to preserve and display the remains of its pre-Hispanic past.

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This provocative examination of Aztec marriage practices offers a powerful analysis of the dynamics of society and politics in Mexico before and after the Spanish conquest.

This long-awaited book is the most detailed and up-to-date account of the complex history of Pueblo Indian land in New Mexico, beginning in the late seventeenth century and continuing to the present day.

At the height of their power in the late eleventh century, the Chaco Anasazi dominated a territory in the American Southwest larger than any European principality of the time.

This thoughtful study challenges a number of widespread assumptions about the role of Catholicism in Mexican history by examining two related Catholic charities: the male Society of St.

Running more than 1,200 miles from headwaters in eastern New Mexico through the middle of Texas to the Gulf of Mexico, the Brazos River has frustrated developers for nearly two centuries.

For centuries the Huichol (Wixrika) Indian women of Jalisco, Mexico, have been weaving textiles on backstrap looms.

';What roles do literary and community texts and social media play in the memory, politics, and lived experience of those dispossessed?

The history of emotions is a new approach to social history, and this book is the first in English to systematically examine emotions in colonial Mexico.

Anyone who has even a casual acquaintance with the history of New Mexico in the nineteenth century has heard of the Santa Fe Ringseekers of power and wealth in the postCivil War period famous for public corruption and for dispossessing land holders.

This study of sexuality in seventeenth-century Latin America takes the reader beneath the surface of daily life in a colonial city.

First published almost fifty years ago and long out of print, The Shoshoneans is a classic American travelogue about the Great Basin and Plateau region and the people who inhabit it, never beforeor sincedocumented in such striking and memorable fashion.

This thoughtful examination of a century of travel writing about the American West overturns a variety of popular and academic stereotypes.

Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human RightsThis new edition of an immensely influential book gives voice to Mexic Amerindian women silenced for hundreds of years by the dual censorship of being female and indigenous.

A contemporary of Columbus noted those crazy Spaniards have more regard for a bit of honor than for a thousand lives.

The decorated sandals worn by prehistoric southwesterners with their complex fiber structures and designs have been dissected, described, and interpreted for a century.

His face has appeared on T-shirts, postage stamps, jigsaw puzzles, posters, and an Andy Warhol print.

While much has been written about national history and citizenship, anthropologist Trevor Stack focuses on the history and citizenship of towns and cities.

';The ordinary tortilla was an extraordinary bond between the human and divine.

In the flow of drugs to the United States from Latin America, women have always played key roles as bosses, business partners, money launderers, confidantes, and courierswork rarely acknowledged.

Although it never had a plantation-based economy, the Ro de la Plata region, comprising present-day Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay, has a long but neglected history of slave trading and slavery.

The most thorough account ever written of southwestern life in the early seventeenth century, this engaging book was first published in 1630 as an official report to the king of Spain by Fray Alonso de Benavides, a Portuguese Franciscan who was the third head of the mission churches of New Mexico.

Mexico City's colorful panaderias (bakeries) have long been vital neighborhood institutions.

Against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Oaxaca City, Kathryn Sloan analyzes rapto trials--cases of abduction and/or seduction of a minor--to gain insight beyond the actual crime and into the reality that testimonies by parents, their children, and witnesses reveal about courtship practices, generational conflict, the negotiation of honor, and the relationship between the state and its working-class citizens in post colonial Mexico.

The distinguished American Indian photographer Lee Marmon has documented over sixty years of Laguna history: its people, customs, and cultural changes.

Struggles over land and water have determined much of New Mexico's long history.

Sherry Monahan is an authority on the city that wouldn't die and its history.

Decade of Betrayal focuses on the experiences of individuals illegally shipped from the U.

Scholars and Guatemalans have characterized eastern Guatemala as Ladino or non-Indian.

In the American Southwest, no two events shaped modern Spanish heritage more profoundly than the San Diego Expositions of 1915-16 and 1935-36.

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.

In the mid-nineteenth century prophetic visions attributed to a woman named Madre Matiana roiled Mexican society.

Amada Cardenas, a Mexican American woman from the borderlands of South Texas, played a pivotal role in the little-known history of the peyote trade.

The Spanish introduced European livestock to the New Worldnot only cattle and horses but also mules, donkeys, sheep, goats, pigs, and poultry.

Follow Agnes the dog and Rosie the hen as they head down to the farm in this amusing picture book for children.

Wie ergeht es Frauen an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz?

Für die Kritik der modernen Geschlechterordnung war und ist die Kritik an Naturbezügen zentral – zugespitzt im Argument, das vermeintlich Natürliche sei ganz und gar kulturell und die Geschlechterordnung (ja, die Geschlechtlichkeit selbst) infolgedessen vollständig sozial konstruiert.

Visuelle Medien – Bildillustrierte, Fotografien, Plakate oder Filme – waren nicht nur Ausdruck der tiefgreifenden gesellschaftlichen, politischen und kulturellen Umbrüche und Konflikte nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg, sondern agierten auch als deren Multiplikatorinnen.

In historischen, anthropologischen, literatur- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Essays nähern sich 39 Autorinnen und Autoren dem östlichen Europa an.