Signs of the Americas: A Poetics of Pictography, Hieroglyphs, and Khipu, Paperback - Edgar Garcia

Indigenous sign-systems, such as pictographs, petroglyphs, hieroglyphs, and khipu, are usually understood as relics from an inaccessible past. That...

Whether a precondition of poiesis, aisthesis and noesis, an ideological assumption, an elaborate artifice, a strategy of mystification, or a destab...

With fresh insight and contemporary relevance, Radium of the Word argues that a study of the form of language yields meanings otherwise inaccessibl...

Reducere. Located at Fort Benning in Columbus, Georgia, the School of the Americas (soa) is a U.S. Army center that has trained more than sixty thousand sold...

Reducere. DescriptionColonial violence is a sticky phenomenon, gumming up the associational matrices of our daily lives and dreamscapes. Edgar Garcia interve...

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This edited volume performs a critical analysis of the Americas Award, issues related to the content of the award-winning and honored books, and th...

DescriptionGet ready to explore America's most thrilling gravel, road and trail bike routes. This definitive companion for cycling enthusiasts show...

Reducere. Lives of fifteen Saints from North America, Central America, and South America, illustrated in full color.

Reducere. "Eskimo Pie: A Poetics of Inuit Identity" examines Dunning's lived history as an Inuk who was born, raised and continues to live south of sixty. He...

Reducere. Long before Christopher Columbus set foot in the Americas, long before the Vikings discovered the New World, the indigenous cultures of the America...

Reducere. *Special Edition Hardcover (Exclusive Case Laminate art Dust Jacket)*Ancient peoples knew there were lands given over to shadow and spirit. The wor...

Buckle up and get ready to hit the road for 50 of the Americas' greatest drives. Ranging in duration from a few hours to a week or more, each route...

Reducere. In Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being, Kevin Quashie imagines a Black world in which one encounters Black being as it is rather than only as it...

Reducere. In Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being, Kevin Quashie imagines a Black world in which one encounters Black being as it is rather than only as it...

A collection of stories from nations and cultures across our two continents--the Sea-Ringed World, as the Aztecs called it--from the Andes all the ...

Reducere. A beautiful presentation of this Marian Feast. Illustrated in full color.

PAR EntreMundos: A Pedagogy of the Americas challenges the standard narratives of "achievement" to think about how Latinx students can experience a...

Lace up your hiking boots and get ready to explore 50 of the Americas' most epic hikes. Ranging from one-day walks to multi-day treks, each route i...

Henri Meschonnic was a linguist, poet, translator of the Bible and one of the most original French thinkers of his generation. He strove throughout...

Reducere. Karl Marx set about to analyze the development pf capital, the componets of capital and the modern day application of capital. As a political econo...

DescriptionIn 1890, the United States government outlawed the Ghost Dance. The ceremony remained illegal until 1978. Why? Did the authorities fear ...

douard Glissant was a leading voice in debates centering on the postcolonial condition and on the present and future of globalisation. Prolific as ...

A beautiful culinary and ethnobotanical survey of the punch-packing ingredient central to today's multi-cultural palate, with more than 40 pan-Lati...

Examining three turning points that shaped exceptionalism in both Americas - the late colonial and early Republican period, expansion into the fron...

Reducere. Pinatas and Paper Flowers: Holidays of the Americas in English and Spanish, Paperback

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Americas, then keep reading...The one-character trait that sometimes surpasses the human ins...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Patrick CampbellIllustration(s): 7 Halftones, black and white; 7 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of ...

Traces the transmission of Guadalupe as la Virgen de ida y vuelta from Spain to the Americas and back again, analyzing how the Spanish and Mexican ...

Analyzing more than one hundred and fifty historical maps, this book traces the Jesuits' significant contributions to mapping and mapmaking from th...

Ice trekking in Argentina. Salsa dancing in Cuba. Road-tripping the USA. We present 60 of the most exciting travel experiences across North, Centra...