Pacaritambo

8 MEN AND A DUCK: An Improbable Voyage in a Reed Boat to Easter Island
by Nick Thorpe. B&W photo section. Condition: NEW 2002 Free Press hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first edition, first printing. Content: When British travel writer and all-around thrill seeker Thorpe was traveling the wilds of Bolivia by bus, he passed the time by eavesdropping on a Frenchman talking to an Australian about a boat made of reeds. The conversation seemed more interesting than your average cross-cultural traveler exchange, so Thorpe listened intently as the Frenchman talked about legendary voyager Thor Heyerdahl and about continuing his legacy, about building this reed boat in Huatajata and sailing to Easter Island in it just eight men and a duck. Thorpe's enthusiasm for this insanity was such that he had to get involved. And not just as a documentarian: an original crew member dropped out, Thorpe dropped in and soon the journalist found himself making sails. The resulting narrative is witty, sad and as brave and daft as those who sail. Thorpe's British self-deprecation and eye for detail legitimize his passing comments on his fellow crew members, providing comic relief in an often claustrophobic text. A master of tension, Thorpe mingles storms, bruised egos, paranoia, food shortages, botched launchings, lamented loved ones and utterly inept seamanship into a tale of triumph against the odds. In Thorpe's hands, a travelogue becomes a comedy of errors, a farce, a Latinate epic and a picaresque tale. It's a warm, wonderful book, a story of enthusiasm superseding expertise in which Fate smiles favorably. [1 copy available]
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ARTS & CRAFTS OF SOUTH AMERICA
by Lucy Davies & Mo Fini. Color & B&W photos illustrate. Condition: NEW 1995 Chronicle Books softcover, first thus, first printing. Content: Covers ancient and modern art in South America with acurate history to accompany. "Davies and Fini, who run the TUMI Latin American Arts and Crafts Centers and reside in England, have taken on the gargantuan task of covering native arts, past and present, for all of South America in this slender volume. Simplistic and uncritical, their text is most successful when descibing contemporary artisans, traditional motifs, and techniques. Chapters investigate textiles and costumes, jewelry and metalwork, basketry, hats and bags, and pottery. Illustrations, particularly the 169 color photos, help to enliven the text, while a reference section offers advice on collecting, sources, a glossary, and a short bibliography." Questions welcome. [2 copies available]
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ASSAULT ON PARADISE: Social Change in a Brazilian Village
by Conrad Phillip Kottak. B&W photos illustrate. Condition: UNREAD c. 1983 Random House Trade Paperback, revised ediiton, 5th printing. Small edgewear. Content: The text chronicles the rapid social and economic change in Arembepe, a Brazilian coastal fishing village, where the author conducted anthropological fieldwork from 1962 to the present. This revision brings his research up to date with events that have occurred in this community in the 1990's, focusing primarily on the impact of modernization, technology and mass media. While this book is, by necessity, dated to some degree, it is still fascinating reading. Questions welcome [1 copy available]
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BLOOD-DRENCHED ALTARS: A Catholic Commentary on the History of Mexico
by Most Reverend Francis Clement Kelley (Bishop of Oklahoma City & Tulsa). Documentation & notes by Eber Cole Byam. B&W photos & maps. Condition: Gently pre-read 1987 Tan Books large Trade Paperback (502 pages), no edition given. Pale spine & hinge crease with tiny edgewear. Interior clean & tight. Content: Outlines the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Indians under Montezuma and exposes the lie that the Spanish destroyed a flourishing Indian civilization. Shows how they ended an Aztec reign of terror over the other Indian tribes, highlighted by human sacrifice and cannibalism on an unprecedented scale. Also shows that during the 300 years Spain ruled Mexico, 1521-1821, she raised that country and her native people to equality with the Europeans - in religion, education and opportunity - and produced in the process a flourishing and prosperous Catholic civilization. All this was swept away in the wanton devastation of the great Masonic Revolution which lasted from 1810 to 1928. The result is that Mexico became abjectly poor with a one party rule and despite her population being almost all Catholic, must now suffer an anti-Catholic government. Nevertheless, the author maintains that the Mexican people retain a national character impressed upon their very souls by the 300 years of Catholic civilization. [Note: Keep in mind this book is exactly what it says: a point of view. I doubt that the original Aztecs would believe the Catholic Church was such a benevolent presence.] Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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THE BURIED MIRROR: Reflections on Spain and the New World
by Carlos Fuentes. Four B&W and color photo sections. Companion to the TV mini-series. Condition: UNREAD 1992 Houghton Mifflin large soft cover, first printing. Four color and B&W photo sections. Content: Fuentes has used the occasion of the quincentennial of Columbus's voyage to the New World to reflect on the Latin American experience in this tie-in to the BBC series of the same name aired on the Discovery Channel on April, 1992. The theme of his thoughtful essay is the accommodation of cultures--Spain unique in the Old World in bringing together Christians, Moors, and Jews and the New World intermingling the blood and cultures of Spaniards, Indians, and blacks. It is the unavoidable encounter with the Other that has shaped the New World experience: "When we exclude, we betray ourselves," counsels Fuentes. "When we include, we find ourselves." Spanish America's predicament is that it inherited from Spain neither institutions nor attitudes necessary for full partnership in the modern capitalist world. Latin America remains derivative in culture and economy. Every page in this lapidary essay offers profound insight into the Spanish American psyche. [1 copy available]
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THE BURNING SEASON: The Murder of Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest
by Andrew Revkin. B&W photo section. Condition: UNREAD 1990 Houghton Mifflin hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first edition, first printing. Content: Chico Mendes was a young man who died for what he believed in--the salvation of the Amazon rain forest and its inhabitants from the hands of the predatory ranchers who are despoiling those forests. He died in December, 1988 at the hands of those very ranchers, and left a legacy behind him, which, as well as the story of his life, is presented in this intriguing book. More than biography, this book describes the recent political and environmental issues facing Brazil and the impact of these issues on the people of the Amazon region. As such, it is a commentary on some of the crucial issues of the day, such as environmental politics, literacy, and problems of third-world countries. Written in a clear, easy-to-read style, on a subject right out of the newspaper headlines and with a heroic young man at its center. [1 copy available]
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COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA
by Mark A. Burkholder and Lyman L. Johnson. Wonderful B&W photos and era drawings. Condition: Good only, 1990 Oxford Univ. Press Trade Paperback, 5th printing. Pale vertical crease front cover with highlighting on many pages up to page 127 - and then it stops. Content: In this lively and very readable history, two eminent historians provide a concise yet comprehensive study of the Iberian colonies in the New World from the pre-conquest background through European exploration, conquest, and colonization, to the wars of independence in the early nineteenth century. This book examines the Spanish and Portuguese empires in the Americas, and analyzes demographic change, labor systems, the colonial economies, and trade, while featuring a unique study of society, family, and daily life in the region. After a special section that provides a thorough treatment of the final century of colonial rule, the authors, in a concluding chapter, discuss independence, the colonial legacy, and the myriad problems that faced the newly formed nations. Numerous photographs and maps lend immediacy to the narrative, and biographical examples of both conquerer and conquered illustrate colonial life. Written in clear and engaging prose. [1 copy available.]
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COLONIAL SPANISH AMERICA: A Documentary History
by Kenneth Mills and William B. Taylor (Editors). Wonderful B&W photos and era drawings. Condition: NEW 1998 Scholarly Resource large softcover, second printing. Content: Combining first hand accounts written at the time with descriptions by twenthieth-century historians, this compilation offers valuable new insights into everyday life in colonial Spanish America, not just into major events of major participants. The illustrations interspersed among the readings constitute a particularly rich source that provides a visual sense of the realities of life in the Spanish Indies. [Another book worth finding, if you can, is "Potosi." These are stories of the South American mining town - a wonderful look at people in that time and place.] [3 copies available]
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THE CORA: People of the Sierra Madre
by Sarah Lane; Peggy Mueller; Marilyn Turkovich. B&W photos & drawings illustrate. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1989 AMIE soft cover, no printing given. Wonderful B&W photos and drawings. Small white "mark" back cover. Interior perfect. Content: Based on Norwegian adventurer-anthropologist Carl Lumholtz's work with the Cora (of the Mexican Sierra Madre) in the 1890s, this includes history, anthropology, poetry, and religion. Exhibition book. [1 copy available]
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CRAZY FEBRUARY: Death and Life in the Mayan Highlands of Mexico (Historical Fiction)
by Carter Wilson. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, c. 1977 University of California Press Trade Paperback, 5th printing. Light edge wear with a few chelf wear smudges on the fore edges - working on that now. Interior clean & tight. Content: Reviewer: "Wilson's Crazy February is perhaps the best example of anthro-fiction that I've read, and gives a much clearer idea of life in Chiapas than most anthro nonfiction. Crazy February gives the reader an acute sense of what it is really like to live there. I'd also recommend Peter Matthiessen's Far Tortuga as another wonderful example." [1 copy available]
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CULTIVATING CRISIS: The Human Cost of Pesticides in Latin America
by Douglas L. Murray. B&W photos, maps, & charts illustrate. Condition: UNREAD 1994 University of Texas hardcover (no DJ), first edition. Content: Since World War II, the Green Revolution has boosted agricultural production in Latin America and other parts of the Third World, with money, technical assistance, and other forms of aid from United States development agencies. But the Green Revolution came at a high price -- massive pesticide dependence that has caused serious socioeconomic and public health problems and widespread environmental damage. In this study, Douglas Murray draws on ten years of field research to tell the stories of international development strategies, pesticide problems, and agrarian change in Latin America. Interwoven with his considerations of economic and geopolitical dimensions are the human consequences for individual farmers and rural communities. This highly interdisciplinary study, integrating the perspectives of sociology, ecology, economics, political science, and public health, adds an important voice to the debate on opportunities for and obstacles to more lasting and sustainable development in the Third World. [1 copy available]
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EIGHT BRIGHT CANDLES: Courageous Women of Mexico (Women of the West series)
by Doris E. Perlin. Wonderful B&W photos and era drawings. Condition: NEW 1996 Republic of Texas Trade Paperback, first printing. Content: This is a compelling profile of daring women who chose not to comply with conditions dictated by their men or society. They instead fought for political freedom and raised their voices to improve life for less fortunate people. For a few, it was a matter of personal survival that caused them to make history-changing decisions and to rise above personal tragedy. Above all, the story of heroism and courage is told. Many of these women impacted the American Southwest, i.e., Madam Candelaria: Mysterious Presence at the Alamo. [1 copy available]
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A GUIDE TO THE CARNIVORES OF CENTRAL AMERICA: Natural History, Ecology, & Conservation
by Carlos L. De La Rosa and Claudia C. Nocke. Wonderful B&W drawings of the animals & maps. Condition: NEW 2000 University of Texas Press Trade Papaerback, first edition, first printing. Content: Carnivores such as pumas, jaguars, and ocelots have roamed the neotropical forests of Central America for millennia. Enshrined in the myths of the ancient Maya, they still inspire awe in the region's current inhabitants, as well as in the ecotourists and researchers who come to experience Central America's diverse and increasingly endangered natural environment. This book is one of the first field guides dedicated to the carnivores of Central America. It describes the four indigenous families -- wild cats, raccoons and their relatives, skunks and their relatives, and wild canids -- and their individual species that live in the region. The authors introduce each species by recounting a first-person encounter with it, followed by concise explanations of its taxonomy, scientific name, English and Spanish common names, habitat, natural history, and conservation status. Range maps show the animal's past and current distribution, while Claudia Nocke's black-and-white drawings portray it visually. The concluding chapter looks to the carnivores' future, including threats posed by habitat destruction and other human activities, and describes some current conservation programs. Designed for citizens of and visitors to Central America, as well as specialists, this book offers an excellent introduction to a group of fascinating, threatened, and still imperfectly understood animals. Fabulous! [1 copy available]
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HISTORY AND SOCIETY IN CENTRAL AMERICA
(Interpretación del Desarrollo Social Centroamericano)
by Edelberto Torres Rivas. Translated by Douglass Sullivan-Gonzalez. B&W charts. Condition: UNREAD 1993 University of Texas Press (Latin America Series) Trade Paperback, first edition (actually a First Thus since it was first published in Chile as Interpretación del desarrollo social centroamericano). Content: The first attempt at an integrated analysis of modern Central America's socioeconomic structure, Torres Rivas's work traces the social development of Central America from independence (1871) up to the 1960s. Using a dependency framework, but not limited by it, Torres Rivas describes the various divisions of Central American society and their evolution within the liberal development model that has been so much a part of the past century of Central American economic history. The book is compelling in its explanation of the relationship between foreign and native elements in the social development of the region. Torres Rivas describes and analyzes the resulting long-term problems this development has posed for Central America. With a new chapter added for the English edition, History and Society in Central America remains vital for readers interested in the region. [2 copies available]
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THE HUMAN TRADITION IN LATIN AMERICA: The Nineteenth Century
edited by Judith Ewell and William H. Beezley. Condition: UNREAD 1989 SR Books Trade Paperback, first printing. Content: Essays and histories of movements in Latin America as well as the leaders of those movements. Questions welcome [1 copy available]
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INCAS AND OTHER MEN: Travels in the Andes
by George Woodcock. B&W maps and photo section. Condition: Good only, gently pre-read 1959 Faber & Faber (London) Trade Paperback, no printing given. Edge wear with spine & hinge crease. Interior clean & tight. Content: This is a snapshot of the Andean Inca descendants as detailed during Woodcock's trip through the Andes in the mid-1950s. Woodcock relates the cultures are they were then (and are today) weaving ancient civilizaton with the press of modern culture & technology. Fascinating. Questions welcome [1 copy available]
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JUDAS AT THE JOCKEY CLUB and Other Episodes of Porfirian Mexico
by William H. Beezley. B&W photos and drawings illustrate. Condition: NEW 1989 University of Nebraska Trade Paperback, sixth printing. Content: During the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz, from 1876 to 1911, Mexico underwent modernization, producing a fierce struggle between the traditional and the new and exacerbating class antagonisms. William H. Beezley's absorbing social history of the Porfirian era, Judas at the Jockey Club, examines a broad range of topics from sports to technology as well as the traditional Easter-time Judas burnings that became a primary focus of the strife during these years. Questions welcome [1 copy available]
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MEXICAN JOURNAL: The Conquerors Conquered
by Selden Rodman. Condition: UNREAD 1968 So. Illinois University Press trade paperback, second printing. Very light tanning to white cover edges with tiny edgewear. Interior clean & tight with no tanning that I can see. Also, NO photos. Content: Part history and part travel book. Rodman traveled Mexico in the early 1950s - visiting the ancient historical sites and visiting with the leaders of the day from great artists to revolutionaries. A wonderful snapshot of this period in Mexican history. [1 copy available]
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MEXICAN REVOLUTION Genesis under Madero
by Charles C. Cumberland. B&W maps. Condition: Gently pre-read 1974 University of Texas Press Trade Paperback, second printing. Light tanning to white cover edges (but none on interior pages), highlighting first 20 pages only. Content: First puboished in 1952, Cumberland's study of the early years of the Mexican Revolution has long been recognized as a classic in its field. He traces the overthrow of the Diaz dictatorship, the role of Madero as the catalyst of the revolution, and the defeat of madero by counterrevolutionary movement.. Provocative and readable. [1 copy available]
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THE MEXICAN WAR (Chicago History of American Civilization series)
by Otis A. Singletary. B&W illustrations. Condition: Good+, 1980 University of Chicago Press Trade Paperback, 8th printing. It appears unread, but has some sort of tag removal top cover at hinge, spine, to back cover. Pale hinge crease with small edgewear. Interior is very clean & tight. Content: Otis Singletary's concise, dramatic account of the war that won the Southwest and California for the United States is designed to evoke in modern readers a fresh appreciation of one of the most colorful but neglected episodes in American military affairs--and certainly one of the most significant. Victory in this "military exercise" turned our attention to the Far West, made possible the Gold Rush of '49, and brought vast new territories and new peoples into the Union--altering the face of the nation and greatly influencing its future course. Mr. Singletary treats the military, political, economic, and diplomatic aspects of the war. He focuses on the ways in which the Mexican War exemplified the dynamic spirit of Manifest Destiny and was a microcosm of peculiarly American--and peculiarly democratic--problems of waging war. [1 copy available]
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MEXICO: THE DAY OF THE DEAD
compiled & edited by Chloe Sayer. Designed by Julian Rothstein. B&W drawings with color art & photos. Condition: Gently pre-read 1990 Shambhala small hardcover (4.75" x 6.75", 96 pages) with its DJ missing. No edition given. Content: In Mexico, on November 2, All Souls's Day, the dead are granted celestial permission to visit friends and relatives on earth, and the entire country is given over to fiesta. For Mexicans, such rituals support their half-humorous conviction that death is a part of life. 16 pages of color illustrations. Was part of a boxed set at one time. [1 copy available]
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NORTHCOAST HONDURAS: Tropical Karma and Other Stories
by Guillermo Yuscaran. Cover Art By Rafael Molina. B&W Drawings By Author. Condition: UNREAD 1993 Nuevo Sol Trade Paperback, no edition given. Light rubbings front cover fore edge with light edgeear. Interior clean & tight. Content: While not history, this is an excellent look into Honduran life. ". . . a potent and versatile blend of drama, humor, reality and fantasy . . . exploring the depths and the fascination of Northcoast - Bay Island culture, as well as the roots of the author's "gringo" rites of passage. . ." Most of the stories here were previously printed in magazines. 8 short stories including "Half an Iguana." By the author of Blue Pariah. Questions welcome. [2 copies available]
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RACE MIXTURE IN THE HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA
by Magnus Morner. B&W drawings (some de Poma), photos, and charts. Condition: Acceptable condition 1967 Little Brown Trade Paperback edition, 7th printing. Rubbings both front and back covers and spine, notes and underlinings. Although the condition is poor, the information is still good. Content: This is the first comprehensive and objective account of the evolution of miscegenation and accultration in Latin America. Morner draws on a wide range of source material and unravels the incredibly complex ethnic history of the continent to fill a long-standing need in literature about Latin America. [1 copy available]
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SANDINO
by Gregorio Selser. Condition: UNREAD 1980 Monthly Press Review Trade Paperback, first printing. Lilght edge wear front cover fore edge. Light tanning to white cover edges. Content: In 1927 a guerrilla war was unleashed in the jungles and mountains of Nicaragua by a rqagged and hungry group of compatriots who grew in number from 26 to 3,000 - against 6,000 well-fed, well-trained and well-equipped U.S. Marines. For seven years the invaders were held at bay. The leader of this remarkable guerrilla band was Augusto Cesar Sandino. A mechanic and miner of peasant and Indian stock, he never lost sight of his prime objective: to rid Nicaragua of the U.S. army of occupation and the bueiness interess it was protecting. This is his story. [1 copy available]
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SONS OF THE MOON: A Journey in the Andes
by Henry Shukman. B&W photo section and maps. Condition: Gently pre-read 1989 Charles Scribner's hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first printing. Light edgewear to DJ. Content: The author, a Cambridge-educated journalist, travels by himself from Argentina through Bolivia to Peru. His purpose is to seek out the ancient Aymara and others whose history and culture predated that of the Incas, who conquered them. The trip covers some of the most isolated and harshest regions on the continent--primarily the Altiplano, the plateau between the eastern and western cordilleras of the Andes. Shukman hitches rides, walks, travels in lorries, pitches his tent, and meets people. The author has a poet's eye; his vivid descriptions of the scenery, the villages, the ruins of this unvisited and largely unknown area dance across the pages. Interweaving a little history and myth along with the sights and sounds, Shukman has succeeded in producing one of the most enjoyable travel books in years. [1 copy available]
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THE SYMBOLISM OF SUBORDINATION: Indian Identity in a Guatemalan Town
by Kay B. Warren. B&W photos illustrate. Condition: Good only, 1989 University of Texas Press Trade Paperback, first printing. Problems: some pencil underlining througout and the first 40 pages seem to have been exposed to water - no stains. Content: First published, I believe, in 1978, this book hs a new introduction by the author. In the early 1950s, a pro-orthodoxy Catholic Action congregation was established in San Andres, Guatemala, in reaction to governmental fears that peasants had become radicalized during the revolutionary decade of 1944 to 1954. This book is the groundbreaking study of this bi-ethnic community, examining how the Trixano Indians (Mayans) reacted - and have reacted historically - to the domination by Ladinos (non-Indian nationals. [1 copy available]
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TALES OF TWO CITIES: Race and Economic Culture in Early Republican North and South America
by Camilla Townsend. B&W era drawings illustrate. Condition: NEW 1999 University of Texas Press Trade Paperback, first pritning. Content: This book attempts to answer the age-old hemisphere question: why did the countries of Latin America not bloom as did the countries of North America. The United States and the countries of Latin America were all colonized by Europeans, yet in terms of economic development, the U.S. far outstripped Latin America beginning in the nineteenth century. Observers have often tried to account for this disparity, many of them claiming that differences in cultural attitudes toward work explain the U.S.'s greater prosperity. In this innovative study, however, Camilla Townsend challenges the traditional view that North Americans succeeded because of the so-called Protestant work ethic and argues instead that they prospered relative to South Americans because of differences in attitudes towards workers that evolved in the colonial era. Townsend builds her study around workers' lives in two similar port cities in the 1820s and 1830s. Through the eyes of the young Frederick Douglass in Baltimore, Maryland, and an Indian girl named Ana Yagual in Guayaquil, Ecuador, she shows how differing attitudes towards race and class in North and South America affected local ways of doing business. This empirical research clarifies the significant relationship between economic culture and racial identity and its long-term effects. (Perhaps a cautionary tale?) [1 copy available]
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TALES OF THE YANOMAMI: Daily Life in the Venezuelan Forest
by Jacques Lizot. B&W photos throughout. Condition: Pre-read 1997 Canto (Cambridge Univ. Press) Trade Paperback, reprint. Several pages have underlining and margin notes. Light tanning to page edges. Front cover shows pale impressions. A good used copy. Content: The Yanomami Indians, living in the depths of the Venezuelan forest, are one of the most interesting of the world’s tribal peoples. Jacques Lizot lived among them for over fifteen years and has written an account which allows them to speak for themselves, in stories told by Yanomami individuals. The tales are revealing in the insights they provide into the Indians’ daily experience; their shamanism, magic and sorcery; and conflict and alliance with other villages. The result is a richly evocative and intimate account - illustrated with revealing photographs of the Yanomami’s own perceptions of their world - recreating in detail the atmosphere, speech, noises, smells and images of life in the Amazon forest. [1 copy available]
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TAMBO: Life in an Andean Village ('TAMBO)
by Julia Meyerson. B&W photo section. Condition: NEW 1994 University of Texas Trade Paperback, third printing. Small edgewear. Everything else is perfect. Content: From the back cover: Perhaps the best way to sharpen one's power's of observation is to be a stranger in a strange land. Julia Meyerson was one such stranger during a year in the village of 'Tambo, Peru, where her husband was conducting anthropological fieldwork. Though sometimes overwhelmed by the differences between Quechua and North American culture, she still sought eagerly to understand the lifeways of 'Tambo and to find her place in the village. Her vivid observations, recorded in this field journal, admirably follow Henry James's advice: "Try to be one of the people upon whom nothing is lost." One of the essential Andean cultures books. [1 copy available]
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TARAHUMARA OF THE SIERRA MADRE: Beer, Ecology, and Social Organization
by John G. Kennedy. B&W photo section. Condition: Very Good 1978 AHM Publishing Trade Paperback, no edition given. On the outside, this book appears unead with a light hinge crease and tiny edgewear, BUT within the first 20 pages, thre are 7 pages that have highlighting on them. The rest of the book is unread and untouched. Very odd. Overall, very good condition. Content: Among the Tarahumara Indians of Chihuahua, Mexico, are some who have steadfastly refused to subordinate themselves either to the secular or the religious authority of the national society. The price of this intransigence has been their restriction to a remote and difficult terrain high in the western Sierra Madres. This is their story. [1 copy available]
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TIMES GONE BY: Memoirs of a Man of Action (Library of Latin America)
by Vincente Perez Rosales. B&W photos. Condition: NEW 2003 Oxford University Press Trade Paperback, first printing. Content: What a life this man led - to end up a civil servant in his native Chile. These memoirs trace the wild and adventurous life of Perez Rosales from his childhood up to the 1860s. During that approximately half-century he saw and did more than a dozen ordinary men. At age eleven in Argentina he witnessed the executions of Luis and Juan Jose Carrera. From there, his activities and adventures took him on several journeys on sailing vessels around Cape Horn; to Paris, where he witnessed the July revolution of 1830; to various commercial endeavors including a distillery, the practice of medicine, and cattle smuggling; into service as an advisor to an Argentine warlord; as a miner for precious metals in the north of Chile; as participant in the California Gold Rush in 1849; as director of the government's project for German immigration and settlement in the wild south of Chile; and also as Chilean consul and immigration agent in Hamburg. Around the world, Rosales lived through many of his era's watershed moments. His exciting memoirs offer a chance to relive the rush and chaos of these times--from a much safer vantage. [1 copy available]
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TRUTH AND LEGEND ON PANCHO VILLA: Life and Dees of the Famous Leader of the Mexican Revolution
by Luis Garfias M. B&W era photos & drawings illustrate. Condition: UNREAD 1987 Panorama Editorial paperback, THIRD edition (in English), no printing given. Shelfwear in the form of pale diagonal crease bottom and top front cover corners. Interior clean & tight. Content: From the cover: The well-known historian and general of the Mexican Army, Luis Garfias M. studies the human personality of Francisco Villa in his work and, basing himself on a large body of documents and data, analyzes his actions. In this he tries to present the reader with a balanced picture of the real man, conditioned by his birth, life and ideals and the myth that has grown up around him with the passage of time. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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A VISIT TO THE RANQUEL INDIANS ((Una excursion a los indios ranqueles)
by Lucio V. Mansilla. Translated by Eva Gillies. B&W photos, drawings illustrate. Condition: NEW 1997 University of Nebraska Press Trade Paperback, first printing. Small, pale remainder mark. Content: Cultured scion of a famous family and nephew of Argentine dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas, Lucio V. Mansilla (1831-1913) undertook an "excursion" to the Argentine interior in 1870 to visit natives in areas then largely unknown. In a series of letters, Mansilla recorded invaluable ethnographic observations and perspectives on the "Indian question" and the dichotomy of civilization and barbarism. [Interesting look at the South American solutions to the "Indian Problem." Not much different than ours - unfortunately.) [1 copy available]
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WIND IN THE BLOOD: Mayan Healing and Chinese Medicine
by Hernan Garcia, Antonio sierra, Gilberto Balam, and translated from the Spanish by Jeff Conant. B&W photos and B&W drawings by Maria Teresa Munguia. Condition: NEW 1999 North Atlantic Books large soft cover, first printing. Content: This is a detailed look of Mayan medicine on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula and its similarities to Chinese traditional medicine. It was originally published in Spanish as a manual for health workers in Mayan areas to bridge the gulf between Western medical technique and Mayan medical knowledge. [1 copy available]
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THE WINDS OF IXTEPEJI: World View and Society in a Zapotec Town
by Michael Kerney. B&W photos, charts, drawings. Condition: Used 1972 Holt, Rinehart & Winston Trade Paperback edition, second printing. Underlining and notes on many pages. Content: This work offers an exploration into the worldview and social organization in a Zapotec town called Ixtepeji where people believe the world is threatening and filled with dangerous beings! Within the realm of cognitive anthropology, the author continually asks, "How do the people perceive their situation?" Through interview data and case histories the main topic unfolds of how Ixtepejanos perceive reality and how such perceptions affect, and in turn are affected by, the conduct of village life. While some of the information may be dated, it is still an interesting snapshot of life in the late 1960s. [1 copy available]
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YANOMAMO: The Fierce People (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology)
by Napoleon A, Chagnon. B&W photos, charts, drawings. Condition: UNREAD 1984 Holt, Rhinehart & Winston Trade Paperback, third edition, second printing. Content: Anthropology study into the lives of the Yanomamo tribes along the Orinoco River in Venezuela from 1964 to 1984. There have been at least 2 additional editions since this one was published. [1 copy available]
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THE ZINACANTECOS OF MEXICO: A Modern Maya Way of Life
by Evon Z. Vogt. B&W photos, charts, drawings. Condition: Used 1970 Holt, Rinehart & Winston Trade Paperback edition, 1989 9th printing. Underlining and notes on many pages. Content: Part of the Cultral Anthropology Series, this book discuses the ritualization in the lives of the Zinacantecos Maya Indians of Mexico. While some of the information may be dated, it is still an interesting snapshot of life in the late 1960s. [1 copy available]
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