Pablo Neruda wrote these sonnets for his adored wife, Matilde Urrutia de Neruda
Amina, a baker in sultan's palace, awaits her son's return from a voyage at sea, fearful that the sea has claimed Said. Said begins to make his way home witnessing British colonial... Læs mere
An examination of early European theories about the origin of American indigenous peoples.
Extensively revised and expanded to include more artists and new illustrations, this critically acclaimed, award-winning book is the essential overview of the art of contemporary Latin America.
Combining interview commentary with in-depth analysis of organized crime as a transnational and corporate phenomenon, this book proposes a new theoretical framework for understanding the emerging face, new structure, and economic implications of organized crime in Mexico.
Capoeira, a Brazilian battle dance and national sport, has become popular all over the world. This book combines cultural history with anthropological research to offer a study of the development and meaning of capoeira, starting with the African cultures.
The surprising story of how the children of the vanquished retained their rights and privileges in colonial Mexico.
A boon for students and teachers of the language, culture, and literature of the Portuguese-speaking world, this language resource manual delves beyond the realm of traditional language textbooks
A Grammy Award–winning singer and scholar explores how Chican@ artivistas in East Los Angeles, from 1995 to the present, have created a unique community of process-based political engagement influenced by the Zapatista and Fandango movements.
Beginning in Paris in the 1920s, women poets, essayists, painters, and artists in other media have actively collaborated in defining and refining surrealism's... Læs mere
Explores the interplay of space and culture in the plaza, showing how culture acts to shape public spaces and how the physical form of the plaza encodes the social, political, and economic relations within the city.
Newly revised and expanded, this is the standard reference and classroom text for the study of genre in film, with more than 25,000 copies sold