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  • Audiobook

    When a Woman Rises

    Narrated by Bianca Bryan ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 45 min

    Magdalena summons the soul of her friend, Lucia, who migrated north to find work and disappeared. She tells daughter Veronica how they yearned to be teachers. How poverty and gender roles stole away their dreams. Yet, each woman remained true to herself, Lucia as a Zapatista leader and curandera; Magdalena as a weaver and community organizer. But poverty is cruel. ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Women and Alcohol in a Highland Maya Town

    Water of Hope, Water of Sorrow

    Healing roles and rituals involving alcohol are a major source of power and identity for women and men in Highland Chiapas, Mexico, where abstention from alcohol can bring a loss of meaningful roles and of a sense of community. Yet, as in other parts of the world, alcohol use sometimes leads to abuse, whose effects must then be combated by individuals and the community.In this pioneering ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • The Journey of a Tzotzil-Maya Woman of Chiapas, Mexico

    Pass Well over the Earth

    Series series Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series
    Most recent books about Chiapas, Mexico, focus on political conflicts and the indigenous movement for human rights at the macro level. None has explored those conflicts and struggles in-depth through an individual woman's life story. The Journey of a Tzotzil-Maya Woman of Chiapas, Mexico now offers that perspective in one woman's own words. Anthropologist Christine Eber met "Antonia" in 1986 and ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Mayan Lives, Mayan Utopias

    The Indigenous Peoples of Chiapas and the Zapatista Rebellion

    Series series Latin American Perspectives in the Classroom
    The dramatic January 1, 1994, emergence of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) in Chiapas, Mexico, brought the state's indigenous peoples to the attention of the international community. Yet indigenous peoples in Chiapas had been politically active and organized for years prior to the uprising. This compelling volume examines in detail these local and regional histories of power and ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

  • Rereading Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

    The Political Economy of Gender

    Series series Latin American Perspectives in the Classroom
    This indispensable text reader provides a broad-ranging and thoughtfully organized feminist introduction to the ongoing controversies of development in Latin America and the Caribbean. Designed for use in a variety of college courses, the volume collects an influential group of essays first published in Latin American Perspectives-a theoretical and scholarly journal focused on the political ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

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