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Author : Ramón Gómez de la Serna
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Doña Juana la Loca, Y Otras written by Ramón Gómez de la Serna and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : María A. Gómez
Publisher : Associated University Presse
ISBN 13 : 9780838757048
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Juana of Castile written by María A. Gómez and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on pictorial, literary, screen, and operatic representations of Juana of Castile, this is the first interdisciplinary book that incorporates both sides of the coin (history and myth; fact and fiction) that shaped the enigmatic image of this much maligned Spanish queen. Even though the fictional reinvention of Juana of Castile has been the subject of sporadic articles, this is the first time that an English-language reader has access to a book that takes an in-depth look at the panorama of literary, pictorial, musical, and cinematic recreations of this historical character. The editors' aim is to incorporate works of authors from different countries (Spain, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, France) and an entire spectrum of literary genres (narrative, poetry, theater, essay), as well as opera and the visual arts. --From publisher's description.
Author : Alison Games
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1442203595
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Witchcraft in Early North America written by Alison Games and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2010-10-16 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witchcraft in Early North America investigates European, African, and Indian witchcraft beliefs and their expression in colonial America. Alison Games's engaging book takes us beyond the infamous outbreak at Salem, Massachusetts, to look at how witchcraft was a central feature of colonial societies in North America. Her substantial and lively introduction orients readers to the subject and to the rich selection of documents that follows. The documents begin with first encounters between European missionaries and Native Americans in New France and New Mexico, and they conclude with witch hunts among Native Americans in the years of the early American republic. The documents—some of which have never been published previously—include excerpts from trials in Virginia, New Mexico, and Massachusetts; accounts of outbreaks in Salem, Abiquiu (New Mexico), and among the Delaware Indians; descriptions of possession; legal codes; and allegations of poisoning by slaves. The documents raise issues central to legal, cultural, social, religious, and gender history. This fascinating topic and the book’s broad geographic and chronological coverage make this book ideally suited for readers interested in new approaches to colonial history and the history of witchcraft.
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Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Hispania written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eliseo “Cheo” Torres
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826336418
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Curandero written by Eliseo “Cheo” Torres and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eliseo Torres, known as "Cheo," grew up in the Corpus Christi area of Texas and knew, firsthand, the Mexican folk healing practiced in his home and neighborhood. Later in life, he wanted to know more about the plants and rituals of curanderismo. Torres's story begins with his experiences in the Mexican town of Espinazo, the home of the great curandero El Niño Fidencio (1899-1939), where Torres underwent life-changing spiritual experiences. He introduces us to some of the major figures in the tradition, discusses some of the pitfalls of teaching curanderismo, and concludes with an account of a class he taught in which curanderos from Cuernavaca, Mexico, shared their knowledge with students. Part personal pilgrimage, part compendium of medical knowledge, this moving book reveals curanderismo as both a contemplative and a medical practice that can offer new approaches to ancient problems. From Curandero ". . . for centuries, rattlesnakes were eaten to prevent any number of conditions and illnesses, including arthritis and rheumatism. In Mexico and in other Latin American countries, rattlesnake meat is actually sold in capsule form to treat impotence and even to treat cancer. Rattlesnake meat is also dried and ground and sprinkled into open wounds and body sores to heal them, and a rattlesnake ointment is made that is applied to aches and pains as well."
Author : Diane Matza
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9780874518900
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (189 download)
Download or read book Sephardic-American Voices written by Diane Matza and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1998-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking literary anthology reveals the nature and history of a lesser-known but vital branch of Jewish culture.
Author : Kimberly Gauderman
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780292705555
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (55 download)
Download or read book Women's Lives in Colonial Quito written by Kimberly Gauderman and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2003-12-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Undermines the long-accepted patriarchal model of colonial society by uncovering the active participation of indigenous, mestiza, and Spanish women of all social classes in many aspects of civil life in seventeenth-century Quito
Author : William H. Beezley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780842022842
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (228 download)
Download or read book The Human Tradition in Latin America written by William H. Beezley and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1987 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique collection emphasizes the human element in the study of Latin American history by focusing on the lives of twenty-three men, women, and children. Though they differ widely from each other in background and circumstance, these individuals share a common experience: all are caught up in some way by the profound, sometimes devastating, changes that accompany the modernization of a traditional society. Their stories bring vividly to life the impact that revolution, economic upheaval, urbanization, destruction of community life, and the disruption of family and gender roles have on ordinary people. These studies also bring out the various ways, often creative and courageous, in which Latin Americans have coped with the fortunes and vicissitudes of 'progress.'
Author : Anita Bradford
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Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Americana written by Anita Bradford and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nancy E. van Deusen
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822372282
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Embodying the Sacred written by Nancy E. van Deusen and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-07 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In seventeenth-century Lima, pious Catholic women gained profound theological understanding and enacted expressions of spiritual devotion by engaging with a wide range of sacred texts and objects, as well as with one another, their families, and ecclesiastical authorities. In Embodying the Sacred, Nancy E. van Deusen considers how women created and navigated a spiritual existence within the colonial city's complex social milieu. Through close readings of diverse primary sources, van Deusen shows that these women recognized the divine—or were objectified as conduits of holiness—in innovative and powerful ways: dressing a religious statue, performing charitable acts, sharing interiorized spiritual visions, constructing autobiographical texts, or offering their hair or fingernails to disciples as living relics. In these manifestations of piety, each of these women transcended the limited outlets available to them for expressing and enacting their faith in colonial Lima, and each transformed early modern Catholicism in meaningful ways.
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Author : Great Britain. Public Record Office
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Total Pages : 1096 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Calendar of Letters, Despatches, and State Papers Relating to the Negotiations Between England and Spain Preserved in the Archives at Simancas and Elsewhere: Henry VIII. 1509-[1546] 12 v written by Great Britain. Public Record Office and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ruth B. Bottigheimer
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 143844222X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Fairy Tales Framed written by Ruth B. Bottigheimer and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-23 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2012 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Most early fairy tale authors had a lot to say about what they wrote. Charles Perrault explained his sources and recounted friends' reactions. His niece Marie-Jeanne Lhéritier and her friend Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy used dedications and commentaries to situate their tales socially and culturally, while the raffish Henriette Julie de Murat accused them all of taking their plots from the Italian writer Giovan Francesco Straparola and admitted to borrowing from the Italians herself. These reflections shed a bright light on both the tales and on their composition, but in every case, they were removed soon after their first publication. Remaining largely unknown, their absence created empty space that later readers filled with their own views about the conditions of production and reception of the tales. What their authors had to say about "Puss in Boots," "Cinderella," "Sleeping Beauty," and "Rapunzel," among many other fairy tales, is collected here for the first time, newly translated and accompanied by rich annotations. Also included are revealing commentaries from the authors' literary contemporaries. As a whole, these forewords, afterwords, and critical words directly address issues that inform the contemporary study of European fairy tales, including traditional folkloristic concerns about fairy tale origins and performance, as well as questions of literary aesthetics and historical context.
Author : Raymond Fagel
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 946270287X
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (627 download)
Download or read book Protagonists of War written by Raymond Fagel and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julián Romero, Sancho Dávila, Cristóbal de Mondragón, and Francisco de Valdés were prominent Spanish military commanders during the first decade of the Revolt in the Low Countries (1567–1577). Occupying key positions in this conflict, they featured as central characters in various war narratives and episodical descriptions of the events they were involved in, ranging from chronicles, poems, theatre plays, engravings, and songs to news pamphlets. To this day, they still figure as protagonists of historical novels: brave heroes in some, cruel oppressors in others. Yet personal, first-hand accounts also exist. Archival research into the letters written by these commanders now makes it possible to include their perspectives and the way they describe their own experiences. Looking through the eyes of four Spanish commanders, Protagonists of War provides the reader with an alternative reading of the Revolt, contrasting the subjective experiences of these protagonists with fictionalised perceptions.
Author : Alexandra Brewis
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421433362
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Lazy, Crazy, and Disgusting written by Alexandra Brewis and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How stigma derails well-intentioned public health efforts, creating suffering and worsening inequalities. 2020 Winner, Society for Anthropological Sciences Carol R. Ember Book Prize,Shortlisted for the British Sociological Association's Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize Stigma is a dehumanizing process, where shaming and blaming are embedded in our beliefs about who does and does not have value within society. In Lazy, Crazy, and Disgusting, medical anthropologists Alexandra Brewis and Amber Wutich explore a darker side of public health: that well-intentioned public health campaigns can create new and damaging stigma, even when they are otherwise successful. Brewis and Wutich present a novel, synthetic argument about how stigmas act as a massive driver of global disease and suffering, killing or sickening billions every year. They focus on three of the most complex, difficult-to-fix global health efforts: bringing sanitation to all, treating mental illness, and preventing obesity. They explain how and why humans so readily stigmatize, how this derails ongoing public health efforts, and why this process invariably hurts people who are already at risk. They also explore how new stigmas enter global health so easily and consider why destigmatization is so very difficult. Finally, the book offers potential solutions that may be able to prevent, challenge, and fix stigma. Stigma elimination, Brewis and Wutich conclude, must be recognized as a necessary and core component of all global health efforts. Drawing on the authors' keen observations and decades of fieldwork, Lazy, Crazy, and Disgusting combines a wide array of ethnographic evidence from around the globe to demonstrate conclusively how stigma undermines global health's basic goals to create both health and justice.
Author : F. G. Eva W.
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1641383585
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (413 download)
Download or read book The Castle on the Lake written by F. G. Eva W. and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the death of her mother, elementary schoolteacher Marisol Molina feels that her life is empty of meaning, until her Aunt Juana invites her to come live with her on the beautiful but remote and primitive Lake Izabal. Discovering that the local children are condemned to a life of poverty and ignorance for lack of a local school, Marisol struggles to build a small school, assisted by MauricioaEUR"handsome and cultured, but emotionally scarred by a recent betrayal by a former lover. Torn between her powerful attraction to Mauricio and her near certainty that he is struggling with a secret that may send him into a selfaEUR"destructive spiral, Marisol seeks to remain true to her commitment to the children she has come to love and value.
Author : Gregorio Marañón
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Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Antonio Perez, "Spanish Traitor." written by Gregorio Marañón and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jill Hedges
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857719769
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book Argentina written by Jill Hedges and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 20th century, Argentina possessed one of the world's most prosperous economies, yet since then Argentina has suffered a series of boom-and-bust cycles that have seen it fall well behind its regional neighbours. At the same time, despite the lack of significant ethnic or linguistic divisions, Argentina has failed to create an over-arching post-independence national identity and its political and social history has been marred by frictions, violence and a 50-year series of military coups d'etat. In this book, Jill Hedges analyses the modern history of Argentina from the adoption of the 1853 constitution until the present day, exploring political, economic and social aspects of Argentina's recent past in a study which will be invaluable for anyone interested in South American history and politics.
