Myths of Ancient Mexico (The Civilization of the American Indian, Vol 222)
by Michel Graulich
Most of our information on Mesoamerican religions comes from central Mexico, but the mythology of this area has been poorly understood. Myths of Ancient Mexico is the first comprehensive examination of these myths. In this innovative book, Michel Graulich summarizes the stories concerning the origin of the cosmos and the legendary histories of the Aztecs and their precursors, the Toltecs. The myths are compared with one another, then with similar material from other Mesoamerican cultures, partic...
Men in a Developing Society (LLILAS Latin American Monograph)
by Dr Jorge Balan, Harley Linwood Browning, and Elizabeth Jelin
The central objective of Men in a Developing Society is to show, as concretely as possible, how men experience a period of rapid economic development, particularly in the areas of migration, occupational mobility, and status attainment. It is based mainly on a sample of 1,640 men in Monterrey, Mexico, a large and rapidly growing manufacturing metropolis in northern Mexico with much in-migration, and a sample of 380 men in Cedral, San Luis Potosi, a small, economically depressed community with hi...
Guanajuato (Historias Breves)
by Monica Blanco, Alma Parra, and Ethelia Ruiz Medrano
Winner of the 1998 Michael C. Meyer Manuscript Prize! Feeding Mexico: The Political Uses of Food since 1910 traces the Mexican government's intervention in the regulation, production, and distribution of food from the days of Cardenas to the recent privatization inspired by NAFTA. Professor Ochoa argues that the real goals of the government's food subsidies were political, driven by presidential desires to court urban labor. Many of the agencies and policies were hastily set in place in response...
Mexico. Lo Que Todo Ciudadano Quisiera (No) Saber de Su Patria
by Denise Dresser and Jorge Volpi
Gestores de La Real Justicia (Estudios Historicos, H/231)
by Oscar Mazin and Oscar Mazin Gomez
Mexico Under Carranza; A Lawyer's Indictment of the Crowning Infamy of Four Hundred Years of Misrule
by Thomas Edward Gibbon
Pedestales vacíos
Empty Plinths: Monuments, Memorials, and Public Sculpture in Mexico responds to the unfolding political debate around one of the most significant public monuments in North America, Mexico City’s monument of Christopher Columbus on Avenida Paseo de la Reforma. In convening a diverse collective of voices around the question of the monument’s future, editors José Esparza Chong Cuy and Guillermo Ruiz de Teresa probe the unstable narratives behind a selection of monuments, memorials, and public sculp...
El Tributo Indigena En La Nueva Espana Durante El Siglo XVI (Estudios Historicos, H/019)
by Jose Miranda
"Tras catorce años de ausencia, Maria Venegas regresa a México, desde Estados Unidos, para visitar a su padre José en la hacienda donde él nació. Mientras pasan juntos una temporada, él comparte los recuerdos de su vida. Es así como Venegas consigue reconstruir el pasado doloroso, violento y enardecido de su padre: desde la última conversación que sostuvieron antes de que él fuera extraditado a México por asesinato, abandonándola a ella y a su familia en Chicago, hasta el orgullo que sintió la m...
Proudly Filipino Everyday Except on Cinco de Mayo
by Proud Nationality Cinco de Mayo