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  • An Indelible History

    The African and Amerindian Religious Encounter in the Caribbean

    by Alejandro Casas ...
    For centuries, the religious landscape of the Caribbean has been examined through the lens of African and European influences, often overlooking the full extent of the enduring contributions made by the region's first peoples. An Indelible History challenges this historical omission, offering the first comprehensive exploration of Amerindian religious influence on Afro-Caribbean traditions, with a ... Read more

    $20.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Under Saturn’s Gaze

    Illuminating the Hermit’s Lantern Beyond Apocrypha and Oracles

    by Alejandro Casas ...
    Under Saturn's Gaze: Illuminating the Hermit's Lantern Beyond Apocrypha and Oracles is a genre-defying work that blends fiction, philosophical inquiry, and spiritual memoir to explore the transformative power of mystery. Guided by the archetype of the Hermit and the symbol of Saturn, the book unfolds across poetic meditations, speculative tales, and personal encounters with the sacred and the ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ethnobotany of the Mountain Regions of Mexico

    Edited by Alejandro Casas, José Juan Blancas Vázquez ...
    Series series Reference Module Biomedical and Life Sciences
    Research in recent years has increasingly shifted away from purely academic research, and into applied aspects of the discipline, including climate change research, conservation, and sustainable development. It has by now widely been recognized that “traditional” knowledge is always in flux and adapting to a quickly changing environment. Trends of globalization, especially the globalization of ... Read more

    $494.99 USD

  • Evolutionary Ethnobiology

    Edited by Alejandro Casas, Patrícia Muniz De Medeiros, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Ethnobiology is a fascinating science. To understand this vocation it needs to be studied under an evolutionary point of view that is very strong and significant, although this aspect is often poorly approached in the literature. This is the first book to compile and discuss information about evolutionary ethnobiology in English. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Ethnobotany of Mexico

    Interactions of People and Plants in Mesoamerica

    Edited by Rafael Lira, Alejandro Casas, José Blancas ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book reviews the history, current state of knowledge, and different research approaches and techniques of studies on interactions between humans and plants in an important area of agriculture and ongoing plant domestication: Mesoamerica. Leading scholars and key research groups in Mexico discuss essential topics as well as contributions from international research groups that have conducted ... Read more

    $296.09 USD

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  • Earth Beings

    Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds

    by Marisol de la Cadena ...
    Series Book 2011 - The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
    Earth Beings is the fruit of Marisol de la Cadena's decade-long conversations with Mariano and Nazario Turpo, father and son, runakuna or Quechua people. Concerned with the mutual entanglements of indigenous and nonindigenous worlds, and the partial connections between them, de la Cadena presents how the Turpos' indigenous ways of knowing and being include and exceed modern and nonmodern practices ... Read more

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  • The Man Who Could Move Clouds

    A Memoir

    by Ingrid Rojas Contreras ...
    **PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • From the bestselling author of Fruit of the Drunken Tree, comes a dazzling, kaleidoscopic memoir reclaiming her family's otherworldly legacy.A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: TIME, NPR, VULTURE, PEOPLE, BOSTON GLOBE, VANITY FAIR, ESQUIRE, & MORE“Rojas Contreras reacquaints herself with her family’s past, weaving their stories with personal ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Dinosaur Footprints & Trackways of La Rioja

    by Félix Pérez-Lorente ...
    Series series Life of the Past
    A guide to this fossil-rich area of Spain: "Likely to become a landmark reference in dinosaur ichnology." —James O. FarlowDuring the Early Cretaceous, lakes, meandering streams, and flood plains covered the region where the current foothills of Rioja now exist. Today the area is known for its wine and for the dozens of sites where footprints and trackways of dinosaurs, amphibians, and even ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ayahuasca Reader

    Encounters with the Amazon's Sacred Vine

    Edited by Luis Eduardo Luna, PhD, Professor Steven F. White, PhD ...
    The Ayahuasca Reader: Encounters with the Amazon’s Sacred Vine, is a panorama of texts translated from nearly a dozen languages on the ayahuasca experience. These include indigenous mythic narratives, testimonies, and religious hymns, as well as stories related by Western travelers, scientists, and writers who have had contact with ayahuasca in different contexts.In addition to contributions from ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Horizontal Vertigo

    A City Called Mexico

    by Juan Villoro ...
    Translated by Alfred MacAdam ...
    At once intimate and wide-ranging, and as enthralling, surprising, and vivid as the place itself, this is a uniquely eye-opening tour of one of the great metropolises of the world, and its largest Spanish-speaking city.Horizontal Vertigo: The title refers to the fear of ever-impending earthquakes that led Mexicans to build their capital city outward rather than upward. With the perspicacity of a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Indigenous and Popular Thinking in América

    by Rodolfo Kusch, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
    Translated by María Lugones, Joshua M. Price ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    Originally published in Mexico in 1970, Indigenous and Popular Thinking in América is the first book by the Argentine philosopher Rodolfo Kusch (1922–79) to be translated into English. At its core is a binary created by colonization and the devaluation of indigenous practices and cosmologies: an opposition between the technologies and rationalities of European modernity and the popular mode of ... Read more

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  • A Luminous Republic

    by Andrés Barba ...
    Translated by Lisa Dillman ...
    A literary novel about the arrival of feral children to a tropical city in Argentina, and the quest to stop them from pulling the place into chaos.San Cristóbal was an unremarkable city—small, newly prosperous, contained by rain forest and river. But then the children arrived.No one knew where they came from: thirty-two kids, seemingly born of the jungle, speaking an unknown language. At first ... Read more

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