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A Century of Revolution: Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence during Latin Americas Long Cold War by: Joseph, Gilbert M./Grandin, Greg

A Century of Revolution: Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence during Latin Americas Long Cold War
by: Joseph, Gilbert M./Grandin, Greg

Softcover. Durham NC, Duke University Press, 1st pbk, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 443 pages. Latin America experienced an epochal cycle of revolutionary upheavals and insurgencies during the twentieth century, from the Mexican Revolution of 1910 through the mobilizations and terror in Central America, the Southern Cone, and the Andes during the 1970s and 1980s. In his introduction to A Century of Revolution, Greg Grandin argues that the dynamics of political violence and terror in Latin America are so recognizable in their enforcement of domination, their generation and maintenance of social exclusion, and their propulsion of historical change, that historians have tended to take them for granted, leaving unexamined important questions regarding their form and meaning. The essays in this groundbreaking collection take up these questions, providing a sociologically and historically nuanced view of the ideological hardening and accelerated polarization that marked Latin America's twentieth century. Clean copy.

Record # 382332

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A Glimpse At Guatemala, And Some Notes On The Monuments Of Central America. With Maps, Plans, Photographs, other Illustrations and a new Introduction by James C. Andrewsby:

A Glimpse At Guatemala, And Some Notes On The Monuments Of Central America. With Maps, Plans, Photographs, other Illustrations and a new Introduction by James C. Andrews
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Hardcover. Indianapolis, Flo Silver Books, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick-red cloth with gilt stamping. 289 pages, b&w illustrations. A quality reprint of the 1899 edition published in London. A travel book as well as an archaeological study of the area. No map laid in. Clean copy.

Record # 385742

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Archeological investigations at the mouth of the Amazonby: Evans, Clifford & Meggers, Betty J.

Archeological investigations at the mouth of the Amazon
by: Evans, Clifford & Meggers, Betty J.

Hardcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution/Bureau of American Ethnology, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, olive green cloth covers, gilt lettering on spine. 664 pages plus 112 b&w plates in rear. Extensive folding maps, plates. text illustrations. The mounds of Marajo & other sites. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 167. Clean copy.

Record # 381656

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At the Palace Gatesby: Helen Rand Parish/ Leo Politi

At the Palace Gates
by: Helen Rand Parish/ Leo Politi

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 7th pr., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in 3-colors by Leo Politi. Running through the streets of Lima went Paco, the nine year old Indian boy from the hill country of Peru. He was an orphan and, when his boss-man was hurt and had to go to the hospital, the "Public Welfare" said that Paco must come and live with them. But not Paco! Paco gets himself some city clothes, makes his bed of theater posters in a niche of an old building, and sets himself up as a shoeshine boy in front of the most handsome building he has ever seen, the palace of the President of Peru. Dust jacket with edgewear, otherwise clean.

Record # 374906

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Beyond All Pity: The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesusby: de Jesus, Carolina Maria

Beyond All Pity: The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus
by: de Jesus, Carolina Maria

Softcover. London, Earthscan Publications, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 190 pages. Translated by David St Clair. A diary of daily life in a favela in Sao Paulo, one of the city's slums where the poor live in shacks. Carolina Maria de Jesus describes the daily routine of her life, her hunt for paper and metal to sell so as to buy food for her family. At night she would write her diary on the scraps of paper she collected. Her diary reflected the experience of millions and exposed the injustice of Brazilian society. Clean copy.

Record # 382289

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Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala by: Stephen Schlesinger, Stephen Kinzer, John H. Coatsworth, Richard A. Nuccio

Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala
by: Stephen Schlesinger, Stephen Kinzer, John H. Coatsworth, Richard A. Nuccio

Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press , reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps, 330 pages. A comprehensive and insightful account of the CIA operation to overthrow the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954. First published in 1982, this book has become a classic, a textbook case of the relationship between the United States and the Third World. The authors make extensive use of U.S. government documents and interviews with former CIA and other officials. It is a warning of what happens when the United States abuses its power.

Record # 381706

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Black Rainbow: Legends of the Incas and Myths of Ancient Peru by: Bierhorst, John (edited and translated by)

Black Rainbow: Legends of the Incas and Myths of Ancient Peru
by: Bierhorst, John (edited and translated by)

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 129 pages. Anthology of 20 stories gathered from 16th Century chronicles of missionaries. Illustrated by Bierhorst, Jane Byers. Clean copy. Dust jacket price-clipped.

Record # 371860

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Bolivar - American Liberatorby: Arana, Marie

Bolivar - American Liberator
by: Arana, Marie

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, First Thus, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 603 pages. Hardcover. Ivory & red cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Dust jacket with only light marginal wear. Bright, clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 750678

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Bolivia: 150 Grabadoes en Cobreby: Gerstmann, Roberto

Bolivia: 150 Grabadoes en Cobre
by: Gerstmann, Roberto

Hardcover. Paris, Braun & Co., 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 150 pages of duotone plates, all photographed by Gerstmann. Introduction by Dr. F. Ahlfeld, 22 page index in English, Spanish and German. Frontispiece portrait of photographer with tissue guard, map at rear with his travels throughout Bolivia delineated. Olive suede covers with spine showing fading, gilt on front cover and spine faded, otherwise clean, bright copy. Hinges tender but no cracking.

Record # 406885

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Brazil and the Struggle for Rubber:A Study in Environmental History by: Dean, Warren

Brazil and the Struggle for Rubber:A Study in Environmental History
by: Dean, Warren

Softcover. London/NY, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 234 pages with index, b&w illustrations. Brazil once enjoyed a near monopoly in rubber when that commodity was gathered in the wild. By 1913, however, cultivated rubber from Southeast Asia swept the Brazilian gathered product from the market. In this innovative study, Warren Dean demonstrates that environmental factors have played a key role in the many failed attempts to once again produce a significant rubber crop in Brazil. Dean traces the numerous attempts to plant rubber in Brazil, including the ill-fated Ford estates, and others established by the major multinational tire companies. He also analyzes the struggles of the Brazilian government to foster rubber development, in the hope of obtaining a domestic source of supply for national industries that are now dependent on imports from Southeast Asia. Bookseller label on rear cover otherwise clean.

Record # 385717

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Carnival in Rioby: Helmut Teissl

Carnival in Rio
by: Helmut Teissl

Hardcover. NY, Abbeville, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Teissl's vibrant, color photos capture the unique pageantry and euphoria of the world's largest party. The sounds of Carnival are captured in a companion CD.

Record # 377994

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Carnival! by: Eco Umberto; V. V. Ivanov; Monica Rector; Edited By Thomas A. Sebeok

Carnival!
by: Eco Umberto; V. V. Ivanov; Monica Rector; Edited By Thomas A. Sebeok

Hardcover. NY/Berlin, Mouton Publishers, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 165 pages, three academic essays examine the codes and messages of the Brazilian Carnival. Numerous color photos. Foreword by Sebeok; Umberto Eco essay titled "The Frames of Comic 'Freedom'"; V.V. Ivanov essay titled "The Semiotic theory of Carnival as the Inversion of Bipolar Opposites"; and Monica Rector's essay "The code and Message of Carnival: 'Escolas-de-Samba''. Previous owner's name inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Record # 378345

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Chile from Within, 1973-1988by: Meiselas, Susan

Chile from Within, 1973-1988
by: Meiselas, Susan

Softcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 143 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Black & white photographs throughout.

Record # 353545

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Cloud Forest - A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness, Theby: Matthiessen, Peter

Cloud Forest - A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness, The
by: Matthiessen, Peter

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 280 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket with rubbing, short tears along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611588

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Comparative Peace Processes in Latin America by: Arnson Cynthia J. (Ed.)

Comparative Peace Processes in Latin America
by: Arnson Cynthia J. (Ed.)

Softcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, 3rd pr., 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 493 pages. This book is about ending guerrilla conflicts in Latin America through political means. It is about peace processes, aimed at securing an end to military hostilities in the context of agreements that touch on some of the principal political, economic, social, and ethnic imbalances that led to conflict in the first place. The book presents a carefully structured comparative analysis of six Latin American countries--Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Colombia, and Peru--which experienced guerrilla warfare that outlasted the end of the Cold War. The book explores in detail the unique constellation of national and international events that allowed some wars to end in negotiated settlement, one to end in virtual defeat of the insurgents, and the others to rage on. The aim of the book is to identify the variables that contribute to the success or failure of a peace dialogue. Clean copy.

Record # 382335

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Cycles of the Sun Mysteries of the Moon: The Calendar in Mesoamerican Civilization by: Malmstrom, Vincent H.

Cycles of the Sun Mysteries of the Moon: The Calendar in Mesoamerican Civilization
by: Malmstrom, Vincent H.

Softcover. Ausyin TX, University of Texas Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 282 pages, b&w illustrations. The simple question "How did the Maya come up with a calendar that had only 260 days?" led Vincent Malmstrom to discover an unexpected "hearth" of Mesoamerican culture. In this boldly revisionist book, he sets forth his challenging, new view of the origin and diffusion of Mesoamerican calendrical systems--the intellectual achievement that gave rise to Mesoamerican civilization and culture. Malmstrom posits that the 260-day calendar marked the interval between passages of the sun at its zenith over Izapa, an ancient ceremonial center in the Soconusco region of Mexico's Pacific coastal plain. He goes on to show how the calendar developed by the Zoque people of the region in the fourteenth century B.C. gradually diffused through Mesoamerica into the so-called "Olmec metropolitan area" of the Gulf coast and beyond to the Maya in the east and to the plateau of Mexico in the west. Clean copy.

Record # 385850

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Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazilby: Nancy Scheper-Hughes

Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil
by: Nancy Scheper-Hughes

Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 614 pages, b&w illustrations. When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of love? When assaulted by daily acts of violence and untimely death, what happens to trust? Set in the lands of Northeast Brazil, this is an account of the everyday experience of scarcity, sickness and death that centres on the lives of the women and children of a hillside "favela". Bringing her readers to the impoverished slopes above the modern plantation town of Bom Jesus de Mata, where she has worked on and off for 25 years, Nancy Scheper-Hughes follows three generations of shantytown women as they struggle to survive through hard work, cunning and triage. It is a story of class relations told at the most basic level of bodies, emotions, desires and needs. Most disturbing - and controversial - is her finding that mother love, as conventionally understood, is something of a bourgeois myth, a luxury for those who can reasonably expect, as these women cannot, that their infants will live. Clean copy.

Record # 372917

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Desde el mirador de Prospero: La Vida de Luis A. Ferre: Vol. 1 1904-1968by: Baralt, Guillermo A

Desde el mirador de Prospero: La Vida de Luis A. Ferre: Vol. 1 1904-1968
by: Baralt, Guillermo A

Hardcover. San Juan, P.R., Fundacion El Nuevo Dia, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 375 pages, Spanish text with copious photographs throughout. Volume 1 only. Light dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456616

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Domination without Dominance: Inca-Spanish Encounters in Early Colonial Peru by: Lamana, Gonzalo

Domination without Dominance: Inca-Spanish Encounters in Early Colonial Peru
by: Lamana, Gonzalo

Softcover. Durham NC, Duke University Press , 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 287 pages. Offering an alternative narrative of the conquest of the Incas, Gonzalo Lamana both examines and shifts away from the colonial imprint that still permeates most accounts of the conquest. Lamana focuses on a key moment of transition: the years that bridged the first contact between Spanish conquistadores and Andean peoples in 1531 and the moment, around 1550, when a functioning colonial regime emerged. Using published accounts and array of archival sources, he focuses on questions of subalternization, meaning making, copying, and exotization, which proved crucial to both the Spaniards and the Incas. On the one hand, he re-inserts different epistemologies into the conquest narrative, making central to the plot often-dismissed, discrepant stories such as books that were expected to talk and year-long attacks that could only be launched under a full moon. On the other hand, he questions the dominant image of a clear distinction between Inca and Spaniard, showing instead that on the battlefield as much as in everyday arenas such as conversion, market exchanges, politics, and land tenure, the parties blurred into each other in repeated instances of mimicry. Clean copy.

Record # 385730

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Enanitos Torerosby: Corona, Livia

Enanitos Toreros
by: Corona, Livia

Hardcover. US, powerHouse Books, 1st, 2008-05-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 175 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to boards, else a clean, tight copy. Text and color and black and white photographs by Corona. A collection of images about a little known subset of bullfighers - dwarfs and their families.

Record # 385460

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Enanitos Torerosby: Corona, Livia

Enanitos Toreros
by: Corona, Livia

Hardcover. US, powerHouse Books, 1st, 2008-05-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 175 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to boards, else a clean, tight copy. Text and color and black and white photographs by Corona. A collection of images about a little known subset of bullfighers - dwarfs and their families.

Record # 350098

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Flowing Road, The: Adventuring on the Great Rivers of South Americaby: Whitney, Caspar

Flowing Road, The: Adventuring on the Great Rivers of South America
by: Whitney, Caspar

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1st, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 319 pages, b&w photographs. Maroon cloth covers w/ gilt lettering and design; spine slightly faded. Top edge gilt. Light rubbing to cover corners. Foxing to edges. Light soiling to first few pages. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 851347

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Gego, 1957-1988: Thinking the Lineby: Nadja Rottner and Peter Weibel

Gego, 1957-1988: Thinking the Line
by: Nadja Rottner and Peter Weibel

Softcover. Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 240 pages. Venezuelan sculptor Gertrud Luise Goldschmidt (1912-1994), who worked under the pseudonym Gego, was one of the most important representatives of Latin American Geometric Abstractionism. Born in Germany, Goldschmidt became an architect and later immigrated to Caracas in 1939, where she radically altered the nature of modernist sculpture, countering the deductive logic of 1960s abstraction with a fluid conceptualism, reconfiguring "content-less" art into an open-ended process of "thinking the line." The most comprehensive examination of Gego's art published in English to date, this monograph contains deep analyses by scholars from a range of disciplines as well as previously untranslated historical texts, offering new perspectives on Gego's critical relationships to Venezuelan urbanism and kineticism, the New York avant-garde, and the European modernist traditions of Bauhaus and Russian Constructivism. Includes an illustrated chronology and an extensive plate section featuring three decades of sculpture and drawings.

Record # 361578

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Gregorio and the White Llamaby: Bannon, Laura

Gregorio and the White Llama
by: Bannon, Laura

Chicago, Albert Whitman, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 48 pages. Color, b&w illustrations by Bannon. Previous owner's bookplate opposite title page. Otherwise tight and clean in a bright unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 600263

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HANDBOOK OF SOUTH AMERICAN INDIANS Volume 3: The Tropical Forest Tribes by: Steward Julian H. (ed.)

HANDBOOK OF SOUTH AMERICAN INDIANS Volume 3: The Tropical Forest Tribes
by: Steward Julian H. (ed.)

Hardcover. Washington DC, Government Printing Office, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, olive green cloth hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. 986 pages, includes drawings, photographs, maps (some fold-out) and an extensive bibliography. Super condition with just a small ownership sticker on inside front cover, otherwise a clean, tight copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 381715

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HANDBOOK OF SOUTH AMERICAN INDIANS Volume 5: The Comparative Ethnology of South American Indians by: Steward Julian H. (ed.)

HANDBOOK OF SOUTH AMERICAN INDIANS Volume 5: The Comparative Ethnology of South American Indians
by: Steward Julian H. (ed.)

Hardcover. Washington DC, Government Printing Office, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, olive green cloth hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. This is Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 143; 818 pages, includes drawings, photographs, maps and an extensive bibliography. Super condition with just a small ownership sticker on inside front cover, otherwise a clean, tight copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 381717

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Handbook of South American Indians, Volume 6 - Physical Anthropology, Lingustics and Cultural Geography of South American Indians by: Steward, Julian H. (ed.)

Handbook of South American Indians, Volume 6 - Physical Anthropology, Lingustics and Cultural Geography of South American Indians
by: Steward, Julian H. (ed.)

Hardcover. Washington DC, Goverment Printing Office, 1st, 1950, Hardccover, olive green cloth with gilt title on spine. 715 pages, Illustrated with b/w photos, drawings, portraits, tables, maps, fold-in maps & color map in rear pocket. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 143. Small ownership sticker inside front cover, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 381657

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Heart of the Andes, Theby: Avery, Kevin J.

Heart of the Andes, The
by: Avery, Kevin J.

Softcover. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, First Edition, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover published to accompany the exhibition, Church's Great Picture, The Heart of the Andes, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 5, 1993 - January 2, 1994. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 750698

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Histoire de la decouverte de l'Amerique - traduite de l'allemand de Campe - 2 Volumesby: Piton, E. C.

Histoire de la decouverte de l'Amerique - traduite de l'allemand de Campe - 2 Volumes
by: Piton, E. C.

Hardcover. Paris, Corbet Aine Libraire, 1st Thus, 1836, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 leather bound volumes. FRENCH TEXT. Black & white illustrations, each volume with fold-out map in rear. Volume 1 with rubbing, chipping to leather covers. 1" piece of leather missing at bottom of spine. Marbled endpapers. Light foxing throughout. Volume 2 with rubbing, chipping to leather covers. Marbled endpapers. Light to moderate foxing throughout. Both volumes with clean, unmarked texts.

Record # 611802

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In Darkness and Secrecy: The Anthropology of Assault Sorcery and Witchcraft in Amazonia by: Editor Neil L. Whitehead/Robin Wright

In Darkness and Secrecy: The Anthropology of Assault Sorcery and Witchcraft in Amazonia
by: Editor Neil L. Whitehead/Robin Wright

Softcover. Durham NC, Duke University Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 328 pages, In Darkness and Secrecy brings together ethnographic examinations of Amazonian assault sorcery, witchcraft, and injurious magic, or "dark shamanism." Anthropological reflections on South American shamanism have tended to emphasize shamans' healing powers and positive influence. This collection challenges that assumption by showing that dark shamans are, in many Amazonian cultures, quite different from shamanic healers and prophets. Assault sorcery, in particular, involves violence resulting in physical harm or even death. While highlighting the distinctiveness of such practices, In Darkness and Secrecy reveals them as no less relevant to the continuation of culture and society than curing and prophecy. The contributors suggest that the persistence of dark shamanism can be understood as a form of engagement with modernity. These essays, by leading anthropologists of South American shamanism, consider assault sorcery as it is practiced in parts of Brazil, Guyana, Venezuela, and Peru. They analyze the social and political dynamics of witchcraft and sorcery and their relation to cosmology, mythology, ritual, and other forms of symbolic violence and aggression in each society studied. They also discuss the relations of witchcraft and sorcery to interethnic contact and the ways that shamanic power may be co-opted by the state. In Darkness and Secrecy includes reflections on the ethical and practical implications of ethnographic investigation of violent cultural practices. Clean copy.

Record # 378657

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Inside the Favelas: Rio de Janeiroby: Mayhew, Douglas

Inside the Favelas: Rio de Janeiro
by: Mayhew, Douglas

Hardcover. New York, Glitterati, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 352 page. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. A unique linsight into life in Brazil's infamous favelas. A honest portrayal of the 'other side' of Brazil's society. Portrays a world that came to prominence with the hit film City of God. Combining thought-provoking text and hard-hitting, stunning photography, Inside the Favelas provides a compelling commentary on the life in Brazil's shanty towns Includes a foreword by The Honorable Sergio Cabral Filho, Govenor of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Record # 352347

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Journal of a Cruise Made to the Pacific Ocean by Captain David Porter in the United States Frigate Essex in the Years 1812, 1813, and 1814 (2 Vols in One)by: Porter,

Journal of a Cruise Made to the Pacific Ocean by Captain David Porter in the United States Frigate Essex in the Years 1812, 1813, and 1814 (2 Vols in One)
by: Porter,

Hardcover. New York, Wiley & Halsted, 2nd Ed., 1822, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 246, 256 pages, two volumes bound as one. A total of 6 engraved plates - 2 illustrations in vol. I and 4 illustrations in vol. II, but lacks the map, an illustration at page 20, fold-out chart and frontispiece portrait that some dealers describe. Polished brown calf with leather label, gilt lettering still very readable. Previous owner's small stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 403563

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Latin American Insects and Entomologyby: Hogue, Charles L.

Latin American Insects and Entomology
by: Hogue, Charles L.

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 536 pages, illustrations in color and b&w. Light edgewear to dust jacket with small tear to upper edge of front cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 463562

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Latin American Posters: Public Aesthetics And Mass Politicsby: Davidson (Ed.), Russ

Latin American Posters: Public Aesthetics And Mass Politics
by: Davidson (Ed.), Russ

Softcover. Santa Fe, Museum of New Mexico Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 188 pages, illustrated with 100+ political posters made between 1960 and 1990, this book documents the sociopolitical history of Latin America during a period of intense radicalism and upheaval. Essays by leading Latin American scholars

Record # 353190

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Let's Read About Brazilby: May, Stella Burke

Let's Read About Brazil
by: May, Stella Burke

Grand Rapids, The Fideler Company, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 128 pages, endpapers map. Illustrated with black & white photographs.Clean copy.

Record # 510133

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Life an Death in Templo Mayor by: Eduardo Matos Moctezuma

Life an Death in Templo Mayor
by: Eduardo Matos Moctezuma

Softcover. University Press of Colorado, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 138 pages, b&w illustrations. The great temple known as the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan symbolizes the axis mundi, the Aztec center of the world, where the sky, the earth, and the underworld met. In this volume, Matos Moctezuma uses his unmatched familiarity with the archaeological details to present a concise and well-supported development of this theme. Name on front fly leaf other wise clean.

Record # 385754

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Llama Land: East and West of the Andes in Peruby: Anthony Dell

Llama Land: East and West of the Andes in Peru
by: Anthony Dell

Hardcover. NY, George H. Doran, 1st, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in gilt, 248 pages. First printing with the publisher's colophon on copyright page. 24 b&w plates, endpapers map. Last 20 pages with loss to paper at bottom of pages, perhaps insect damage. Not affecting text, margin only.

Record # 383779

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Lost City of the Incas - The Story of Machu Picchu and Its Buildersby: Bingham, Hiram

Lost City of the Incas - The Story of Machu Picchu and Its Builders
by: Bingham, Hiram

Softcover. Lima, Librerias A. B. C., Reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 252 pages. Softcover with light marginal wear to wraps. Bright photograph, Young Hiram Bingham in Front of Tent, to front wrap in bw. Full page, full color photographs throughout. Very clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750745

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Macunaima by: De Andrade, Mario

Macunaima
by: De Andrade, Mario

Softcover. London, Quartet, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wraps, 168 pages. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 371863

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Missing Mila, Finding Family: An International Adoption in the Shadow of the Salvadoran Civil War by: Ward, Margaret E.

Missing Mila, Finding Family: An International Adoption in the Shadow of the Salvadoran Civil War
by: Ward, Margaret E.

Softcover. Austin TX, University of Texas Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 288 pages. In the spring of 1983, a North American couple who were hoping to adopt a child internationally received word that if they acted quickly, they could become the parents of a boy in an orphanage in Honduras. Layers of red tape dissolved as the American Embassy there smoothed the way for the adoption. Within a few weeks, Margaret Ward and Thomas de Witt were the parents of a toddler they named Nelson-an adorable boy whose prior life seemed as mysterious as the fact that government officials in two countries had inexplicably expedited his adoption. In Missing Mila, Finding Family, Margaret Ward tells the poignant and compelling story of this international adoption and the astonishing revelations that emerged when Nelson's birth family finally relocated him in 1997. After recounting their early years together, during which she and Tom welcomed the birth of a second son, Derek, and created a family with both boys, Ward vividly recalls the upheaval that occurred when members of Nelson's birth family contacted them and sought a reunion with the boy they knew as Roberto. She describes how their sense of family expanded to include Nelson's Central American relatives, who helped her piece together the lives of her son's birth parents and their clandestine activities as guerrillas in El Salvador's civil war. In particular, Ward develops an internal dialogue with Nelson's deceased mother Mila, an elusive figure whose life and motivations she tries to understand.

Record # 374282

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Origin of Indian Corn and its Relatives - Texas Agricultural Experiment Station - Bulletin Number 574 - May 1939, Theby: Mangelsdorf, P. C./R. G. Reeves

Origin of Indian Corn and its Relatives - Texas Agricultural Experiment Station - Bulletin Number 574 - May 1939, The
by: Mangelsdorf, P. C./R. G. Reeves

Softcover. College Station, Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 315 pages. Softcover. Previous owners name at top right corner of front cover. Black & white photographs and illustrations. Darkening to spine paper, light surface rubbing to front cover. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 611805

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Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art by: E. Carmen Ramos

Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art
by: E. Carmen Ramos

Hardcover. Washington DC /London, Smithsonian/Giles, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 366 pages including index. E. Carmen Ramos addresses the whole issue of the definition of "Latino art" and how this emerged within the context of the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s as American artists of Latino descent (Mexican American, Puerto Rican, Cuban American, and, more recently, Dominican) began to give a tangible face to their culture and history. Highlights include an installation altar by Amalia Mesa-Bains, the "recycled" films of Raphael Montanez Ortiz, and a 1960 geometric painting by Carmen Herrera. Other notable artists include Olga Albizu, Melesio "Mel" Casas, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Margarita Cabrera, Enrique Chagoya, Teresita Fernandez, Ken Gonzales-Day, Luis Jimenez, Ana Mendieta, Pepon Osorio, Sophie Rivera, Freddy Rodriguez, and John M. Valadez, among many others. Color illustrations explore how one group of Latin American artists express their relationship to American art, history and culture. Clean, bright copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 396869

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Our Life in Brazilby: Julia Keyes

Our Life in Brazil
by: Julia Keyes

Hardcover. np, self-published, 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers with gilt title on spine, ship drawing on front cover. 280 pages. A collection of articles and a manuscript written by Julia Louisa Keyes (1828-1877). She was the daughter of novelist Caroline Lee Hentz and wife of Dr. John W. Keyes of Montgomery, Ala. The collection is a typescript of "Our Life in Brazil," a combination of diary, reminiscences, and letter copies, compiled in 1874 by Julia Louisa Hentz Keyes about her experiences in Brazil, 1867-1870. Keyes and her husband emigrated to Brazil after the Civil War. This volume was compiled by Nancy Hamlin Huber on the 100th anniversary of that first voyage. Blank prelim page gone, clean copy. Scarce.

Record # 381661

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Panama: Made in the U.S.A.by: Weeks John; Gunson Phil

Panama: Made in the U.S.A.
by: Weeks John; Gunson Phil

Softcover. London, Latin America Bureau, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Softcover, 131 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. How did Manuel Noriega, the CIA's most important agent in Central America, become the US administration's most wanted criminal? Why did 22,000 US troops invade Panama, to arrest a man who had been a staunch ally of the US? Was his involvement in the drug trade the real reason for General Noriega's downfall? Panama: Made in the USA explores the unanswered questions behind the invasion of December 1989 and looks at the turbulent history of US-Panamanian relations, in particular the bitter struggle for control of the Panama Canal. It analyzes the economic and geo-strategic importance of a country literally created by and for the US government. Looking at Panama since the invasion, the authors explore the challenge facing the US-installed Endara government as rebuilds a country shattered by invasion and US sanctions. Clean copy.

Record # 385616

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Peru: Art from the Chavin to the Incas (Collections Du Petit Palais, Musee Des Beaux-Arts de la VILL)by: Lemasson, Patrick

Peru: Art from the Chavin to the Incas (Collections Du Petit Palais, Musee Des Beaux-Arts de la VILL)
by: Lemasson, Patrick

Hardcover. New York , Skira, 1st, 2006-09-05, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, like new in publishers shrink-wrap. 224 pages profusely illustrated in color. This book describes the grandeur and richness of the numerous civilizations predating the Incas, including the Paracas, Nazca, Recuay, Sican-Lambayeque, Moche-Sipan, and Chimu cultures, as well as the great Inca civilization. Included in the book are the important sites and landscapes representative of the three major ecological levels of Peru, as well as a general view and a historical perspective of the pre-Columbian cultures of Peru.

Record # 350031

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Pizarro: Conqueror of the Inca by: Stuart Stirling

Pizarro: Conqueror of the Inca
by: Stuart Stirling

Hardcover. UK, Sutton, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 243 pages, 16 pages of b&w photos. Clean copy.

Record # 385773

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Prehistoric Settlement Patterns in the Viru Valley, Peruby: Willey, Gordon R.

Prehistoric Settlement Patterns in the Viru Valley, Peru
by: Willey, Gordon R.

Hardcover. Washington DC, GPO, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 155. 453 pages, 60 plates, 88 figures including several large fold outs, appendix & bibliography. In 1946 the first attempt to study settlement patterns in the Americas took place in the Viru Valley, led by Gordon Willey. Rather than examine individual settlement sites, Willey wanted to look at the valley as a whole and the way that each village interacted with the others. The study showed that villages were located in places which reflected their relationship with the wider landscape and their neighbours. The project emphasised the importance for archaeologists of viewing sites holistically and to take into account the economic, environmental, social and political factors acting on past societies. Clean, bright copy with all plates and fold-outs in excellent condition. Owner's name inside front cover.

Record # 380357

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Religion in the Andes: Vision and Imagination in Early Colonial Peruby: Sabine MacCormack

Religion in the Andes: Vision and Imagination in Early Colonial Peru
by: Sabine MacCormack

Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 2nd pr., 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 488 pages, b&w illustrations. Addressing problems of objectivity and authenticity, Sabine MacCormack reconstructs how Andean religion was understood by the Spanish in light of seventeenth-century European theological and philosophical movements, and by Andean writers trying to find in it antecedents to their new Christian faith. Some fading to spine, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 380422

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River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazonby: Buddy Levy

River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon
by: Buddy Levy

Hardcover. NY, Bantam, 2nd pr., 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 324 pages with b&w illustrations. A thrilling account of one of history's greatest adventures of discovery. With cinematic immediacy and meticulous attention to historical detail, here is the true story of a legendary sixteenth-century explorer and his death-defying navigation of the Amazon--river of darkness, pathway to gold. Interweaving eyewitness accounts of the quest with newly uncovered details, Buddy Levy reconstructs the seminal journey that has electrified adventurers ever since, as Orellana became the first European to navigate and explore the entire length of the world's largest river. Levy gives a long-overdue account of the native populations--some peaceful and welcoming, offering sustenance and life-saving guidance, others ferociously hostile, subjecting the invaders to gauntlets of unremitting attack and intimations of terrifying rituals. And here is the Amazon itself, a powerful presence whose every twist and turn held the promise of new wonders both natural and man-made, as well as the ever-present risk of death--a river that would hold Orellana in its irresistible embrace to the end of his life. Clean copy.

Record # 387304

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Seven Voices: Seven Latin American Writers Talk to Rita Guibertby: Guibert, Rita

Seven Voices: Seven Latin American Writers Talk to Rita Guibert
by: Guibert, Rita

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 436 pages. Interviews with: Pablo Neruda, Jorge Luis Borges, Miguel Angel Asturias, Octavio Paz, Julio Cortazar, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Guillermo Cabera Infante. B&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Record # 379855

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