South America
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The Aztec Calendar: and other solar monuments [Hardback]
Eduardo Matos Moctezuma (Author); F. Solis (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9789706780096
Published by : Grupo Azabache
A unique book that brings together two of the most important expressions of the pre-Hispanic era: The Aztec Calendar and the solar symbol Nahui Ollin . Time has transformed the Aztec Calendar into a symbol associated with ruthless human sacrifi... .... Learn More -
El Calendario Azteca [Hardback]
Eduardo Matos Moctezuma (Author); F. Solis (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9789706780065
Published by : Grupo Azabache
Un libro unico que presenta dos de los elementos mas importantes de la era prehispanica: El Calendario Azteca y el simbolo Nahui Ollin. El tiempo a transformado al Calendario Azteca en un simbolo asociado con despiadados sacrificios humanos. E... .... Learn More -
The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas. Volume 3 South America: Part 1 [Hardback]
Frank Salomon (Author)
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Life on the Amazon: The Anthropology of a Brazilian Peasant Village [Hardback]
Mark Harris (Author)
Regular Price: £25.00
Special Price: £12.95
ISBN: 9780197262399
Published by : British Academy
Innovative contribution to anthropology's interest in how identity is created and defined, using two forms of ethnographic writing to explore the historical and social identity of a village of coboclo fisherpeople who live on the banks of the... .... Learn More -
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A History of Peruvian Literature [Hardback]
James Higgins (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9780905205359
Published by : Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd
Peru, which in this century has produced world-renowned novelists of the stature of Mario Vargas Llosa and José María Arguedas, and poets such as the avant-garde CésarVallejo, possesses a distinctive and varied literary culture of great intrin... .... Learn More -
The Poet in Peru. Alienation and the quest for a Super-Reality [Hardback]
James Higgins (Author)
£17.50ISBN: 9780905205106
Published by : Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd
James Higgins's readings of the work of six very diverse modern Peruvian poets - Eguren, Vallejo, Belli, Cisneros, Moro, Adán - reveal their common dilemma: how to reconcile the dichotomies of their society; and their common artistic stance: th... .... Learn More -
Daily Life of the Aztecs [Paperback]
Jacques Soustelle (Author)
Regular Price: £12.99
Special Price: £2.95
ISBN: 9781842125083
Published by : Weidenfeld & Nicholson
A social history of the everyday life of the Aztecs: cities, society, rites of passage, leisure, lifestyle, war. .... Learn More -
Socio-Political Strategies Among the Maya from the Classic Period to the Present [Paperback]
Veronica Vasquez Lopez (Author); rogelio Valencia Rivera (Editor); Eugenia Gutierrez Gonzalez (Editor)
Regular Price: £30.00
Special Price: £10.00
ISBN: 9781407312545
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: BAR S
Volume: 2619
The present volume was born from the interest to analyse the different modalities of the political strategies used by the dominant groups in Maya societies at different moments of their history. It tries to show the diversity of these socio-politi... .... Learn More
