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Inkarri

Author : Ryan Miller
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 059528003X
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book Inkarri written by Ryan Miller and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-06-23 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1533, Atahualpa, leader of the Inca people, was killed. Decapitated. But before his death he vowed he would return one day. He would return in the form of Inkarri, and he would avenge his own wrongful death and that of his people. Today, in modern Peru, there are some who still await that return and look for their savior. James Leaf, was not looking for the deluxe tour, much less the savior of the Incas. He was not looking for friendship with strangers, much less dependence on them for his life. But James rarely receives what he looks for. So it is James who is thrust into the center of ancient prophecies, bitter destinies, and cruel battles. Most importantly, James finds himself embroiled in a war of his own conscience. While confronted with lies of good and evil, he must discover first, what truths lay in his own heart.

From Conquest to Struggle

Author : David Batstone
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791404225
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book From Conquest to Struggle written by David Batstone and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1991-01-22 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book goes to the very heart of the passionate debate over the true character of Christian faith and practice. The advance of liberation theology in the Latin American church has caused international reverberations within both the religious and political worlds. The Vatican was moved to denounce it as heretical, and the Reagan-Bush administration has deemed it a significant threat to the stability of the region. Here Batstone evaluates the writings of liberation theologians as they consider the central figure of Christian faith, Jesus of Nazareth, and asks whether a message of liberation for the poor and oppressed actually springs from the life and teachings of Jesus or is merely a religious projection of activists bent on radical social transformation. The judgment given to that issue will weigh heavily in the debate which currently rages in religious communities and seminaries over the political role and responsibility of the church. Batstones work links these discussions to the concrete lives of the Latin American people and, in that sense, goes beneath the text and examines the subtext of religious reflection. Chapters present events and stories that originate in the daily realities of contemporary Latin America and then consider what connection these experiences have to the story of Jesus of Nazareth.

Religion and Political Power

Author : Gustavo Benavides
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791400265
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Political Power written by Gustavo Benavides and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the interaction between two of the most charged topics in the modern world, religion and politics. It shows the inextricable connection between religious attitudes and representations, and political activities. After an introductory chapter explores theoretically the religious articulations of political power, the authors examine the role played by religion in the current political situation in several countries. Approaching these cases as anthropologists, historians, sociologists, and political scientists, the authors make visible the dialectical relationship between religion and the pursuit of political power--on the one hand, the political significance of religious choices, and on the other, the almost unavoidable need to articulate in religious terms a group's attempt to acquire, maintain, or expand political power.

Latin American Indian Literatures

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Latin American Indian Literatures written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Yawar Fiesta

Author : José María Arguedas
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478611529
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (786 download)

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Download or read book Yawar Fiesta written by José María Arguedas and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2002-04-10 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. In English translation. José María Arguedas is one of the few Latin American authors who loved and described his natural surroundings, and he ranks among the greatest writers of any time and place. He saw the beauty of the Peruvian landscape, as well as the grimness of social conditions in the Andes, through the eyes of the Indians who are a part of it. Yawar Fiesta describes the social relations between Indians, mestizos, and whites in the Peruvian highland town of Puquio in the early twentieth century. Each group’s reaction to the national government’s attempt to suppress the traditional Indian-style bullfight reflects their attitude toward social change more generally. Included with the text of the novel is Arguedas’ anthropological essay “Puquio: A Culture in the Process of Change,” written eighteen years after Yawar Fiesta. The article emphasizes the social changes in the village that resulted from the road construction described in the novel. While Arguedas’ poetry was published in Quechua, he invented a language for his novels in which he used native syntax with Spanish vocabulary, making translation into other languages extremely difficult. Frances Horning Barraclough has met the challenge and produced an excellent work that remains faithful to the author’s use of language to reflect with lived experience of Peruvian Indians.

Apocalyptic Faith and Political Violence

Author : J. Rinehart
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403984638
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Apocalyptic Faith and Political Violence written by J. Rinehart and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-09-02 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the functional relationship between millenarian-inspired terrorism and the process of political change. Through an exhaustive investigation of late Twentieth-century movements, Aum Shinrikyo, Sendero Luminoso and Hezbollah, it concludes that in each case, apocalyptic expectations performed a significant group mobilization, leadership and therapeutic function.

Art, Nature, and Religion in the Central Andes

Author : Mary Strong
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292742908
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Art, Nature, and Religion in the Central Andes written by Mary Strong and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From prehistory to the present, the Indigenous peoples of the Andes have used a visual symbol system—that is, art—to express their sense of the sacred and its immanence in the natural world. Many visual motifs that originated prior to the Incas still appear in Andean art today, despite the onslaught of cultural disruption that native Andeans have endured over several centuries. Indeed, art has always been a unifying power through which Andeans maintain their spirituality, pride, and culture while resisting the oppression of the dominant society. In this book, Mary Strong takes a significantly new approach to Andean art that links prehistoric to contemporary forms through an ethnographic understanding of Indigenous Andean culture. In the first part of the book, she provides a broad historical survey of Andean art that explores how Andean religious concepts have been expressed in art and how artists have responded to cultural encounters and impositions, ranging from invasion and conquest to international labor migration and the internet. In the second part, Strong looks at eight contemporary art types—the scissors dance (danza de tijeras), home altars (retablos), carved gourds (mates), ceramics (ceramica), painted boards (tablas), weavings (textiles), tinware (hojalateria), and Huamanga stone carvings (piedra de Huamanga). She includes prehistoric and historic information about each art form, its religious meaning, the natural environment and sociopolitical processes that help to shape its expression, and how it is constructed or performed by today’s artists, many of whom are quoted in the book.

A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture

Author : Sara Castro-Klaren
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118492145
Total Pages : 723 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture written by Sara Castro-Klaren and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 723 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A COMPANION TO LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE “The work contains a wealth of information that must surely provide the basic material for a number of study modules. It should find a place on the library shelves of all institutions where Latin American studies form part of the curriculum.” Reference Review “In short, this is a fascinating panoply that goes from a reevaluation of pre-Columbian America to an intriguing consideration of recent developments in the debate on the modem and postmodern. Summing Up: Recommended.” CHOICE A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture reflects the changes that have taken place in cultural theory and literary criticism since the latter part of the twentieth century. Written by more than thirty experts in cultural theory, literary history, and literary criticism, this authoritative and up-to-date reference places major authors in the complex cultural and historical contexts that have compelled their distinctive fiction, essays, and poetry. This allows the reader to more accurately interpret the esteemed but demanding literature of authors such as Jorge Luis Borges, Mario Vargas Llosa, Octavio Paz, and Diamela Eltit. Key authors whose work has defined a period, or defied borders, as in the cases of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, César Vallejo, and Gabriel García Márquez, are also discussed in historical and theoretical context. Additional essays engage the reader with in-depth discussions of forms and genres, and discussions of architecture, music, and film This text provides the historical background to help the reader understand the people and culture that have defined Latin American literature and its reception. Each chapter also includes short selected bibliographic guides and recommendations for further reading.

Woven Stories

Author : Andrea M. Heckman
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826329349
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (293 download)

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Download or read book Woven Stories written by Andrea M. Heckman and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Quechua people of southern Peru are both agriculturalists and herders who maintain large herds of alpacas and llamas. But they are also weavers, and it is through weaving that their cultural traditions are passed down over the generations. Owing to the region's isolation, the textile symbols, forms of clothing, and technical processes remain strongly linked to the people's environment and their ancestors. Heckman's photographs convey the warmth and vitality of the Quechua people and illustrate how the land is intricately woven into their lives and their beliefs. Quechua weavers in the mountainous regions near Cuzco, Peru, produce certain textile forms and designs not found elsewhere in the Andes. Their textiles are a legacy of their Andean ancestors. Andrea Heckman has devoted more than twenty years to documenting and analyzing the ways Andean beliefs persist over time in visual symbols embedded in textiles and portrayed in rituals. Her primary focus is the area around the sacred peak of Ausangate, in southern Peru, some eighty-five miles southeast of the former Inca capital of Cuzco. The core of this book is an ethnographic account of the textiles and their place in daily life that considers how the form and content of Quechua patterns and designs pass stories down and preserve traditions as well as how the ritual use of textiles sustain a sense of community and a connection to the past. Heckman concludes by assessing the influences of the global economy on indigenous Quechua, who maintain their own worldview within the larger fabric of twentieth-century cultural values and hence have survived everything from Latin American militarism to a tidal wave of post-modern change.

Amerindian Images and the Legacy of Columbus

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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9781452901381
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Amerindian Images and the Legacy of Columbus written by and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Iran and Hezbollah in the Western Hemisphere

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iran and Hezbollah in the Western Hemisphere written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Treasure Hunters Digital Omnibus

Author : James Patterson
Publisher : jimmy patterson
ISBN 13 : 0316574139
Total Pages : 3278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Treasure Hunters Digital Omnibus written by James Patterson and published by jimmy patterson. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 3278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 2 million copies sold of the bestselling series! Discover the Kidd family's action-packed, funny, danger-filled adventures—together for the first time in this incredible nine-book gift set! Follow the Kidd siblings—Bick, Beck, Storm, and Tommy—from their first solo treasure hunt to the stunning finale, as the stakes get higher and the treasures more epic. Their travels will take you down the Nile and around the Egyptian pyramids, beyond the Great Wall of China into the underbelly of Berlin, to the frosty Arctic and across the Australian Outback. Each book is packed with action, humor, fascinating facts, and fun illustrations. Kids will race through the pages as the Treasure Hunters adventures unfold, then reach for the next book in this unmissable series.

Treasure Hunters: Quest for the City of Gold

Author : James Patterson
Publisher : jimmy patterson
ISBN 13 : 0316463892
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book Treasure Hunters: Quest for the City of Gold written by James Patterson and published by jimmy patterson. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gear up for an exciting adventure with the thrill-seeking Kidds as they search for a missing Incan city in South America made entirely of gold! When Bick and Beck Kidd find a hidden trove of pirate treasure, it includes a map with clues to an even bigger score: the lost Incan city of Paititi. But treasure hunting is never easy—and when the map is stolen, the Kidds must rely on Storm's picture-perfect memory to navigate the dangerous Amazon jungle. Watch out for that nest of poisonous snakes! To save the Amazon rainforest and stop a Peruvian tribe from losing their home, the Kidds must unlock the secrets to the missing map and find the fabled city of Paititi . . . before the bad guys find it first. The race is on!

Constructing Collective Identities & Shaping Public Spheres

Author : Sznajder Roniger
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1836241607
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Constructing Collective Identities & Shaping Public Spheres written by Sznajder Roniger and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text shows how different collective identities in Latin America shape the access to, and participation in, the public domain. Collective identities were previously thought to be primordial components that would not survive the modern world, but now theorists think of them as a modern creation.

An Unholy Rebellion, Killing the Gods

Author : Sharonah Esther Fredrick
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496238737
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book An Unholy Rebellion, Killing the Gods written by Sharonah Esther Fredrick and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2024-08-20 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking work in literature, cultural studies, and history compares the two greatest epics of the Indigenous peoples of Latin America: the Popul Vuh of the Quiché Maya of Guatemala and the Huarochiri Manuscript of Peru’s lower Andean regions.

Lost Paititi & the Non-Human Remains of Nazca

Author : Thierry Jamin
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1948803607
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book Lost Paititi & the Non-Human Remains of Nazca written by Thierry Jamin and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French explorer and anthropologist Thierry Jamin relates findings from his years in Peru in search of the lost Inca city of Paititi plus his most recent escapades with non-human skeletons at Nazca on the coast. Chapters include: On the Path of Adventure; On the Tracks of the Lost City of the Incas; Machu Picchu and the Mystery of the Secret Room; The Strange Square Mountain; Where It All Begins; In the Footsteps of “Mario”; Summit Meeting; Strange Relics; The New B.E.; A Mysterious Man in Black; Three Eggs!; The Incredible Hybrid; First Results... and New B.E.; The Lima Conference; The Real False Site; The “Familia”; Analysis and Pressure on All Sides!; The Final Proof; The Starchild; Transfer of the Mummies; The Ica Conference; The Flight Over the Gran Paititi; The Case of Nazca Continues; more. Includes an 8-page color photo section.

Voices from the Fuente Viva

Author : Amy Nauss Millay
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838755945
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book Voices from the Fuente Viva written by Amy Nauss Millay and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many twentieth-century Spanish American writers sought to give voice to their countries' native inhabitants. Drawing upon anthropology and literary theory, this book explores the representation of orality by major Spanish American anthropologist-writers: Lydia Cabrera, Jose Maria Arguedas, and Miguel Barnet. These writers played a quintessential role of the Spanish American writer from colonial times to the present: they inscribed the mythical world of a vanishing Other by creating a poetic effect of orality in their ethnographies and narratives. This book argues that supposed differences between oral and written culture are rhetorical devices in the elaboration of literature, specifically modern fiction in Spanish America. Fictionalization of the oral requires adherence to the theory of a great divide between orality and literacy. Because the texts considered here are predicated on the ideality of speech, a contradiction underlies their shared desire to salvage oral tradition. This book explores how anthropologist-writers have addressed this compelling dilemma in their anthropological and narrative writings. at Tufts University.