Indigenous Dispossession: Housing and Maya Indebtedness in Mexico, Paperback - M. Bianet Castellanos

Following the recent global housing boom, tract housing development became a billion-dollar industry in Mexico. At the national level, neoliberal h...

Investment in homeownership meant dispossession, so immigrants fought back.

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Responding to Human Trafficking provides a new framework for critical analyses of anti-trafficking and other rights-based and anti-violence interve...

DescriptionSince the 2000 elections toppled the PRI, over 150 Mexican journalists have been murdered. Failed assassinations and threats have silenc...

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Profiles the voices of those who fight against inequalities of care even while they form alliances with the systems that perpetuate them. Lydia Dix...

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Contributor(s): Author: James OlesThis new interpretive history of Mexican art from the Spanish Conquest to the early decades of the twenty-first c...

True crime meets political thriller in an explosive expose of US meddling in MexicoPublisher: Pluto PressAuthor(s): Rob McKenzieIllustration(s): 11...

Reducere. Rebecca Janzen brings a unique applied understanding of religion to bear on analysis of Mexican cinema from the Golden Age of the 1930s onward. Unh...

Publisher: Rutgers University PressAuthor(s): Pilar DomingoNumber of pages: 202Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 18Cover type: Paperbac...

Time Among the Maya shows Ronald Wright to be far more than a mere storyteller or descriptive writer. He is an historical philosopher with a profou...

A monumental contribution to the study of systemic violence and neoliberalism in Mexico.Publisher: Haymarket BooksAuthor(s): Hepzibah Munoz Martine...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Harry Leonard SawatzkyIllustration(s): 1 frontisp.Number of pages: 410Publication date: 2021Dim...

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The book examines Spanish conquest and early colonialism from the vantage point of the indigenous nobility of Tetzcoco, one of the most important c...

In Citizens of Scandal, Vanessa Freije explores the causes and consequences of political scandals in Mexico from the 1960s through the 1980s. Traci...

Why have Latin American democracies proven unable to confront the structural inequalities that cripple their economies and stymie social mobility? ...

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Spanish colonization of Latin America in the sixteenth century continues to provoke scholarly debate. Spanish missionaries employed various strateg...

In this unique work, the authors explore both the historic origins of the Day of the Dead and its colorful present-day celebrations in Mexico and t...

*Includes pictures *Includes accounts written by Emperor Maximilian and his wife of their lives and reign in Mexico *Includes online resources and ...

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In his exciting new book, based on a decade of ethnographic fieldwork, Maurice Maga a considers how urban and migrant youth in Oaxaca embrace subcu...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Bob JosephSince its creation in 1876, the Indian Act has dictated and constrained the lives and opportunities of Indigenous...

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Contributor(s): Author: Guadalupe Correa-CabreraThe rapid growth of organized crime in Mexico and the government's response to it have driven an un...

Describes the lives of native leaders whose resilience and creativity allowed them to survive and prosper in the traumatic era of European conquest...

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DescriptionTrail of Footprints offers an intimate glimpse into the commission, circulation, and use of indigenous maps from colonial Mexico. A coll...

Dispossession describes the condition of those who have lost land, citizenship, property, and a broader belonging to the world. This thought-provok...

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"The Source: Tshisimane is the thrilling account of surgeon David Cumes' encounter with the indigenous medicine of South Africa, his birthplace. In...

DescriptionTranscontinental Dialogues brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous anthropologists from Mexico, Canada, and Australia who work at ...

DescriptionThis wide-ranging reference book covers almost 3000 years of history, offering enthralling insights into the art and architecture, myths...

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