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Corn is Our Blood

Author : Alan R. Sandstrom
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780806124032
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Corn is Our Blood written by Alan R. Sandstrom and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost a million Nahua Indians, many of them descendants of Mexico's ancient Aztecs, continue to speak their native language, grow corn, and practice religious traditions that trace back to pre-Hispanic days. This ethnographic sketch, written with a minimum of anthropological jargon and illustrated with color photographs, explores the effects of Hispanic domination on the people of Amatlan, a pseudonymous remote village of about six hundred conservative Nahuas in the tropical forests of northern Veracruz. Several key questions inspired anthropologist Alan R. Sandstrom to live among the Nahuas in the early 1970s and again in the 1980s. How have the Nahuas managed to survive as a group after nearly five hundred years of conquest and domination by Europeans? How are villages like Amatlan organized to resist intrusion, and what distortions in village life are caused by the marginal status of Mexican Indian communities? What concrete advantages does being a Nahua confer on citizens of such a community? Sandstrom describes how Nahua culture is a coherent system of meanings and at the same time a subtle and dynamic strategy for survival. In the 1980s, however, the villagers presented themselves as less Indian because increased urban wage imigration[sic] and profound changes in local economic conditions diminished the value of the Indian identity. Long-term participant-observation research has yielded new information about village-level Nahua society, culture change, magico-religious beliefs and practices, Protestantism among Mesoamerican Indians, and the role of ethnicity in maintaining and transforming traditional culture. Where possible, the villagers' own words are used in telling their history and culture.

Que Vivan Los Tamales!

Author : Jeffrey M. Pilcher
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826318732
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (187 download)

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Download or read book Que Vivan Los Tamales! written by Jeffrey M. Pilcher and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connections between what people eat and who they are--between cuisine and identity--reach deep into Mexican history, beginning with pre-Columbian inhabitants offering sacrifices of human flesh to maize gods in hope of securing plentiful crops. This cultural history of food in Mexico traces the influence of gender, race, and class on food preferences from Aztec times to the present and relates cuisine to the formation of national identity. The metate and mano, used by women for grinding corn and chiles since pre-Columbian times, remained essential to preparing such Mexican foods as tamales, tortillas, and mole poblano well into the twentieth century. Part of the ongoing effort by intellectuals and political leaders to Europeanize Mexico was an attempt to replace corn with wheat. But native foods and flavors persisted and became an essential part of indigenista ideology and what it meant to be authentically Mexican after 1940, when a growing urban middle class appropriated the popular native foods of the lower class and proclaimed them as national cuisine.

Turn Here Sweet Corn

Author : Atina Diffley
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452939179
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Turn Here Sweet Corn written by Atina Diffley and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2012-04-04 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the hail starts to fall, Atina Diffley doesn’t compare it to golf balls. She’s a farmer. It’s “as big as a B-size potato.” As her bombarded land turns white, she and her husband Martin huddle under a blanket and reminisce: the one-hundred-mile-per-hour winds; the eleven-inch rainfall (“that broccoli turned out gorgeous”); the hail disaster of 1977. The romance of farming washed away a long time ago, but the love? Never. In telling her story of working the land, coaxing good food from the fertile soil, Atina Diffley reminds us of an ultimate truth: we live in relationships—with the earth, plants and animals, families and communities. A memoir of making these essential relationships work in the face of challenges as natural as weather and as unnatural as corporate politics, her book is a firsthand history of getting in at the “ground level” of organic farming. One of the first certified organic produce farms in the Midwest, the Diffleys’ Gardens of Eagan helped to usher in a new kind of green revolution in the heart of America’s farmland, supplying their roadside stand and a growing number of local food co-ops. This is a story of a world transformed—and reclaimed—one square acre at a time. And yet, after surviving punishing storms and the devastating loss of fifth-generation Diffley family land to suburban development, the Diffleys faced the ultimate challenge: the threat of eminent domain for a crude oil pipeline proposed by one of the largest privately owned companies in the world, notorious polluters Koch Industries. As Atina Diffley tells her David-versus-Goliath tale, she gives readers everything from expert instruction in organic farming to an entrepreneur’s manual on how to grow a business to a legal thriller about battling corporate arrogance to a love story about a single mother falling for a good, big-hearted man.

Indigenous Science and Technology

Author : Kelly S. McDonough
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816550387
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Indigenous Science and Technology written by Kelly S. McDonough and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indigenous Science and Technology focuses on how Nahuas have explored, understood, and explained the world around them in pre-invasion, colonial, and contemporary time periods.

Corn

Author : Michael Owen Jones
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780238576
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Corn written by Michael Owen Jones and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originating in Mesoamerica 9,000 years ago, maize—or, as we know it, corn—now grows in 160 countries. In the New World, indigenous peoples referred to corn as “Our Mother,” “Our Life,” and “She Who Sustains Us.” Today, the United States is the world’s leading producer of corn, and you can find more than 3,500 items in grocery stores that contain corn in one way or another—from puddings to soups, margarine to mayonnaise. In Corn: A Global History, Michael Owen Jones explores the origins of this humble but irreplaceable crop. The book traces corn back to its Mesoamerican roots, following along as it was transported to the Old World by Christopher Columbus, and then subsequently distributed throughout Europe, Africa, and Asia. Jones takes readers into the deliciously disparate culinary uses of corn, including the Chilean savory pie pastel de choclo, Japanese corn soup, Mexican tamales, a Filipino shaved ice snack, and the South African cracked hominy dish umngqusho, favored by Nelson Mandela. Covering corn’s controversies, celebrations, and iconic cultural status, Jones interweaves food, folklore, history, and popular culture to reveal the vibrant story of a world staple.

Circassia. Speech ... at a public meeting held at the Corn Exchange, Preston, ... to receive the Deputies from Circassia

Author : Stewart Erskine ROLLAND
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Circassia. Speech ... at a public meeting held at the Corn Exchange, Preston, ... to receive the Deputies from Circassia written by Stewart Erskine ROLLAND and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Splendid Village: Corn Law Rhymes; and Other Poems

Author : Ebenezer Elliott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Splendid Village: Corn Law Rhymes; and Other Poems written by Ebenezer Elliott and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Splendid Village; Corn-law Rhymes, and Other Poems. (The Village Patriarch, Love, and Other Poems. Kerhonah, the Vernal Walk, Win Hill, and Other Poems.).

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Author : Ebenezer Elliott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book The Splendid Village; Corn-law Rhymes, and Other Poems. (The Village Patriarch, Love, and Other Poems. Kerhonah, the Vernal Walk, Win Hill, and Other Poems.). written by Ebenezer Elliott and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dead End in Norvelt

Author : Jack Gantos
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 142996250X
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Dead End in Norvelt written by Jack Gantos and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dead End in Norvelt is the winner of the 2012 Newbery Medal for the year's best contribution to children's literature and the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction! Melding the entirely true and the wildly fictional, Dead End in Norvelt is a novel about an incredible two months for a kid named Jack Gantos, whose plans for vacation excitement are shot down when he is "grounded for life" by his feuding parents, and whose nose spews bad blood at every little shock he gets. But plenty of excitement (and shocks) are coming Jack's way once his mom loans him out to help a fiesty old neighbor with a most unusual chore—typewriting obituaries filled with stories about the people who founded his utopian town. As one obituary leads to another, Jack is launced on a strange adventure involving molten wax, Eleanor Roosevelt, twisted promises, a homemade airplane, Girl Scout cookies, a man on a trike, a dancing plague, voices from the past, Hells Angels . . . and possibly murder. Endlessly surprising, this sly, sharp-edged narrative is the author at his very best, making readers laugh out loud at the most unexpected things in a dead-funny depiction of growing up in a slightly off-kilter place where the past is present, the present is confusing, and the future is completely up in the air.

The Poetical Works of Ebenezer Elliott, the Corn-law Rhymer

Author : Ebenezer Elliott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetical Works of Ebenezer Elliott, the Corn-law Rhymer written by Ebenezer Elliott and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Corn Grows Ripe

Author : Dorothy Rhoads
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0140363130
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book The Corn Grows Ripe written by Dorothy Rhoads and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1993-06-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Newbery Honor Book Can Tigre find the strength and courage to support his family? When Tigre’s father is badly injured in an accident, the family is thrown into turmoil. Who will plant and harvest the corn that they need to survive—and to please the Mayan gods? The neighbors have fields of their own to tend, and Tigre’s mother and grandmother cannot do it on their own. Twelve-year-old Tigre has never done a man’s work before. Can he shoulder the burden on his own, and take his father’s place? “A book of special artistic distinction, with its well-told story rich in Mayan folkway and custom and its boldly appropriate drawings.”—The Horn Book

Of Blood and Bone

Author : Nora Roberts
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 125012302X
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Of Blood and Bone written by Nora Roberts and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nora Roberts, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the epic Year One returns with Of Blood and Bone, a new tale of terror and magick in a brand new world. They look like an everyday family living an ordinary life. But beyond the edges of this peaceful farm, unimaginable forces of light and dark have been unleashed. Fallon Swift, approaching her thirteenth birthday, barely knows the world that existed before—the city where her parents lived, now in ruins and reclaimed by nature since the Doom sickened and killed billions. Traveling anywhere is a danger, as vicious gangs of Raiders and fanatics called Purity Warriors search for their next victim. Those like Fallon, in possession of gifts, are hunted—and the time is coming when her true nature, her identity as The One, can no longer be hidden. In a mysterious shelter in the forest, her training is about to begin under the guidance of Mallick, whose skills have been honed over centuries. She will learn the old ways of healing; study and spar; encounter faeries and elves and shifters; and find powers within herself she never imagined. And when the time is right, she will take up the sword, and fight. For until she grows into the woman she was born to be, the world outside will never be whole again.

Wild Horses in My Blood

Author : Eva Pendleton Henderson
Publisher : Sunstone Press
ISBN 13 : 0865343365
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book Wild Horses in My Blood written by Eva Pendleton Henderson and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eva Pendleton Henderson, a member of the historical Chisum family, recounts her life on the windy border country of southern New Mexico in the 1890s when it was still a territory. Growing up in a time of legends--Pancho Villa afoot, the rumblings of the first automobile terrifying horses as well as men, drought and fate walking hand in hand, the end of the old West and the beginning of the new. An oft told tale? Yes, but rarely told by a girl and woman who truly saw what was there and wrote of it in a clear, strong, sensible voice. Her story shines as brightly as her unmistakable wit. For all ages; a book for all seasons now in a new edition.

In the Maw of the Earth Monster

Author : James E. Brady
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292756151
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book In the Maw of the Earth Monster written by James E. Brady and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As portals to the supernatural realm that creates and animates the universe, caves have always been held sacred by the peoples of Mesoamerica. From ancient times to the present, Mesoamericans have made pilgrimages to caves for ceremonies ranging from rituals of passage to petitions for rain and a plentiful harvest. So important were caves to the pre-Hispanic peoples that they are mentioned in Maya hieroglyphic writing and portrayed in the Central Mexican and Oaxacan pictorial codices. Many ancient settlements were located in proximity to caves. This volume gathers papers from twenty prominent Mesoamerican archaeologists, linguists, and ethnographers to present a state-of-the-art survey of ritual cave use in Mesoamerica from Pre-Columbian times to the present. Organized geographically, the book examines cave use in Central Mexico, Oaxaca, and the Maya region. Some reports present detailed site studies, while others offer new theoretical understandings of cave rituals. As a whole, the collection validates cave study as the cutting edge of scientific investigation of indigenous ritual and belief. It confirms that the indigenous religious system of Mesoamerica was and still is much more terrestrially focused that has been generally appreciated.

Berkshire World and Cornbelt Stockman

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1546 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Berkshire World and Cornbelt Stockman written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Moore's Rural New-Yorker

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1110 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Moore's Rural New-Yorker written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Blood and Salt

Author : Kim Liggett
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 069817383X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book Blood and Salt written by Kim Liggett and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last words Ash hears her mother say are, “When you fall in love, you will carve out your heart and throw it into the deepest ocean. You will be all in—blood and salt.” Determined to find her mother when she disappears, Ash follows her to Quivara, Kansas, the spiritual commune she escaped long ago. But something sinister and ancient waits among the rustling cornstalks of this village lost to time. Her mother is nowhere to be found, but Ash is plagued by memories of her ancestor, Katia, which harken back to the town’s history of unrequited love, murder, alchemy, and immortality. Charming traditions give way to a string of deaths. And Ash feels herself drawn to Dane, a mysterious, forbidden boy with secrets of his own. As the community prepares for a ceremony five hundred years in the making, Ash fights to save her mother, her lover, and herself. She must discover the truth about Quivara before it’s too late. Before she’s all in—blood and salt.