2,684円 In 1786, Guatemalan priest Pedro José de Arrese published a work instructing readers on their duty to perform the cesarean operation on the bodies of recently deceased pregnant women in order to extract the fetus while it was still alive. Although the fetus’s long-term survival was desired, the o...

570円 La presente obra es resultado de una investigación etnográfica y musical producto de la curiosidad con que la autora logra comprender en la tradición oral de las cantadoras de Marialabaja qué se esconde detrás de la realidad cotidiana, de sus palabras, de sus discursos musicales, de los conflictos ...

4,000円 En 1614, a cuatro años de su establecimiento, el Tribunal de la Inquisición en Cartagena de Indias condenó a seis mujeres por hechicería en su primer auto de fe. El único de estos casos que ha sobrevivido hasta el día de hoy es el de doña Lorenzana de Acereto (1610-1613), una criolla de veintisie...

2,388円 On a hot and dusty December day in 1980, the bodies of four American women-three of them Catholic nuns-were pulled from a hastily dug grave in a field outside San Salvador. They had been murdered two nights before by the US-trained El Salvadoran military. News of the killing shocked the American ...

9,948円 Studying the State explores the results of governments in the Global South, particularly in Latin America, turning to the state as a vehicle for mobilizing people, resources and political change. The book evaluates the results of this return to the state by looking at recent historical events to ...

9,616円 This edited volume’s chief aim is to bring together, in an English-language source, the principal histories and narratives of some of the most significant academies and national schools of art in South America, Mexico, and the Caribbean, from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries. The book hi...

10,280円 Described as a ‘master plant’ by many indigenous groups in lowland South America, tobacco is an essential part of shamanic ritual, as well as a source of everyday health, wellbeing and community. In sharp contrast to the condemnation of the tobacco industry and its place in contemporary public he...

310円 In "The Panama Canal," Frederic J. Haskin crafts a comprehensive examination of one of the most ambitious engineering feats of the 20th century. Combining meticulous historical research with vivid narrative style, Haskin details the political intricacies, labor struggles, and technological innova...

7,751円 El Salvador has experienced a dramatic religious transformation over the past half-century. In what was once an almost exclusively Catholic nation, more than 35 percent of the people are now evangelical Protestants, mostly identified as charismatic or Pentecostal. While having some roots in Prote...

10,280円 Kinship and Incestuous Crime in Colonial Guatemala examines social relations in colonial Guatemala through the lens of incest. Using a combination of qualitative and quantitative analyses of incest trials from the Spanish secular courts, this study shows that incest codes were not homogenous nor ...

661円 One of the perennial pre-Columbian contact theories involves ancient visits by the Chinese to America. This is made plausible for several reasons. First of all, the voyage around the great circle route across the Pacific is facilitated by almost constant visibility of land and prevailing sea-curr...

1,300円 Examen del encuentro entre Europa y América, y las transformaciones ocurridas mediante un proceso que comenzó con del descubrimiento y continúa hasta el presente siglo XXI. El autor muestra el tejido de las relaciones entre diversos modos de vida, creencias, organizaciones sociales, leyes y costu...