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Authors: Paloma Martinez-Cruz
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-12-01 - Publisher: University of Arizona Press

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Paloma Martinez-Cruz argues that the medicine traditions of Mesoamerican women constitute a hemispheric intellectual lineage that continues to thrive despite th
Ancient Maya Women
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Authors: Traci Ardren
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The flood of archaeological work in Maya lands has revolutionized our understanding of gender in ancient Maya society. The dozen contributors to this volume use
The Woman Who Turned Into a Jaguar, and Other Narratives of Native Women in Archives of Colonial Mexico
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Pages: 423
Authors: Lisa Sousa
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-01-11 - Publisher: Stanford University Press

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This book is an ambitious and wide-ranging social and cultural history of gender relations among indigenous peoples of New Spain, from the Spanish conquest thro
Queering Mesoamerican Diasporas
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Authors: Susy J. Zepeda
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-08-09 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

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Acts of remembering offer a path to decolonization for Indigenous peoples forcibly dislocated from their culture, knowledge, and land. Susy J. Zepeda highlights
Sorcery in Mesoamerica
Language: en
Pages: 422
Authors: Jeremy D. Coltman
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-12-16 - Publisher: University Press of Colorado

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Approaching sorcery as highly rational and rooted in significant social and cultural values, Sorcery in Mesoamerica examines and reconstructs the original indig