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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.
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.
In this book, Susan Kellogg explains how Spanish law served as
an instrument of cultural transformation and adaptation in the
lives of Nahuatl-speaking peoples during the years 1500-1700--the
first two centuries of colonial rule. She shows that law had an
impact on numerous aspects of daily life, especially gender
relations, patterns of property ownership and transmission, and
family and kinship organization.
Based on a wide array of local-level Spanish and Nahuatl
documentation and an intensive analysis of seventy-three lawsuits
over property involving Indians residing in colonial Mexico City
(Tenochtitlan), this work reveals how legal documentation offers
important clues to attitudes and perceptions.
There Are Almost 200,000 New Cases Of Breast Cancer Diagnosed In
The United States Every Year. Virtually All Of The Women Who
Undergo Treatment Are Plagued By Questions Of Intimacy, Sexuality,
And Personal And Professional Relationships. 100 Questions And
Answers About Breast Cancer: Sensuality, Sexuality And Intimacy
Provides Authoritative Answers To The Most Common Questions Asked
By Women And Their Partners When Coping With Intimacy After The
Trauma Of Breast Cancer. Written By Renowned Female Sexuality And
Breast Cancer Physicians, This Book Offers Encouragement And
Reassurance To Those Struggling To Strengthen And Rebuild
Relationships During And After Breast Cancer Treatment. It Is An
Invaluable Guide For Anyone Dealing With The Physical And Emotional
Repercussions Of This Disease.
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