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Weaving the Past - A History of Latin America's Indigenous Women from the Prehispanic Period to the Present (Paperback, New)
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Weaving the Past - A History of Latin America's Indigenous Women from the Prehispanic Period to the Present (Paperback, New)
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Weaving the Past offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary
history of Latin America's indigenous women. While the book
concentrates on native women in Mesoamerica and the Andes, it
covers indigenous people in other parts of South and Central
America, including lowland peoples in and beyond Brazil, and
Afro-indigenous peoples, such as the Garifuna, of Central America.
Drawing on primary and secondary sources, it argues that change,
not continuity, has been the norm for indigenous peoples whose
resilience in the face of complex and long-term patterns of
cultural change is due in no small part to the roles, actions, and
agency of women. The book provides broad coverage of gender roles
in native Latin America over many centuries, drawing upon a range
of evidence from archaeology, anthropology, religion, and politics.
Primary and secondary sources include chronicles, codices,
newspaper articles, and monographic work on specific regions.
Arguing that Latin America's indigenous women were the critical
force behind the more important events and processes of Latin
America's history, Kellogg interweaves the region's history of
family, sexual, and labor history with the origins of women's power
in prehispanic, colonial, and modern South and Central America.
Shying away from interpretations that treat women as house bound
and passive, the book instead emphasizes women's long history of
performing labor, being politically active, and contributing to,
even supporting, family and community well-being.
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