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Marvels And Miracles In Late Colonial Mexico - Three Texts In Context

by William B. Taylor

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 Miracles, signs of divine presence and intervention, have been esteemed by Christians, especially Catholic Christians, as central to religious belief. Consisting of three rare documents about miracles, each accompanied by an introductory essay, this study serves as a source book and complement to the author's Shrines and Miraculous Images.
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Colonial Kinship - Guarani, Spaniards, And Africans In Paraguay

by Shawn Michael Austin

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 Traces the history of conquest and colonization in Paraguay during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Emphasizing the social and cultural agency of Guarani, Austin argues that interethnic relations and cultural change in Paraguay can only be properly understood through the Guarani logic of kinship.
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The Book Of Forms 5th Ed - A Handbook Of Poetics

by Turco

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 Now in its fifth edition, The Book of Forms continues to be the go-to reference and guide for students, teachers, and critics. Filled with both common and rarely heard of forms and prosodies, Turco's engaging style and apt examples invite writers to try their hands at exploring forms in ways that challenge and enrich their work.
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Grief Land - Poems

by Carrie Shipers

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 Explores the paradoxical nature of bereavement as both a universal human experience and an intensely personal one. The poems interrogate and dismiss common notions of loss and recovery through a series of letter-poems.
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Captain Jack Crawford - Buckskin Poet, Scout, And Showman

by Darlis A. Miller

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 Jack Crawford (1847-1917) entertained a generation of Americans and introduced them to their frontier heritage. A master storyteller who presented the West as he experienced it, he was one of America's most popular performers in the late nineteenth century. In this biography, Darlis Miller re-creates his experiences as a scout, rancher, miner, reformer, husband and father, and poet and entertainer to reinterpret the American Dream and the lure of getting rich pursued by many during the Gilded Age.
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The Suppressed Memoirs Of Mabel Dodge Luhan - Sex, Syphilis, And Psychoanalysis In The Making Of Modern American Culture

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 Reveals the extraordinary impact of syphilis on Western culture - on memoir, art, literature, the formation of modern women's identities, and the formation of psychoanalysis. The revelations are embedded in Luhan's memoirs, of which she wrote some 20 volumes, four of which she published during the 1930s. Her unpublished memoirs include her account of her multiple exposures to VD and what happened when she contracted syphilis from her fourth husband, Antonio Lujan.
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Iberia Before The Iberians - The Stone Age Prehistory Of Cantabrian Spain

by Lawrence Guy Straus

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 Straus examines the Stone Age prehistory of Cantabrian Spain and provides readers with an interpretation of his findings.
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Folktales Of Joha, Jewish Trickster

by Matilda Koen-Sarano

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 Joha has Janus' double face: On the one hand, he is innocent and stupid; on the other, a trickster. He is a cheater and is cheated. He sets traps for others and falls into traps himself; he is simpleton and liar, victimizer and victim.
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Religion In The Americas - Trans-Hemispheric And Transcultural Approaches

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Religion In The Americas - Trans-Hemispheric And Transcultural Approaches

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Re-Creating The Circle - The Renewal Of American Indian Self-Determination

by Barbara Morris e Stephen Sachs

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 A collaboration between Native activists, professionals, and scholars, Re-creating the Circle brings a new perspective to the American Indian struggle for self-determination: the returning of Indigenous peoples to sovereignty, self-sufficiency, and harmony so that they may again live well in their own communities.
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Astonishing Light - Conversations I Never Had With Patrocino Barela

by E. A. Mares

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 E.A. Mares never crossed paths with the great New Mexico sculptor Patrocino Barela, but the conversations he imagines with this gifted Taos artist (ca. 1900-1964) are uncannily vivid and persuasive.
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War And Music - A Medley Of Love

by Max Evans

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 Ty Hale, a young corporal from New Mexico, finds himself alone in the middle of a grain field in Normandy after being knocked unconscious. Stunned and overwhelmed by visions of his grandfather and the simple life of the New Mexico prairie he has left behind, Ty stumbles onto a country estate and inextricably into the lives of its inhabitants.
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Shrines And Miraculous Images - Religious Life In Mexico Before The Reforma

by William B. Taylor

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 The literature on Our Lady of Guadalupe dominates the study of shrines and religious practices in Mexico. But there is much more to the story of shrines and images in Mexico's religious history. This book brings together the authorâ€™s essays on previously unstudied or reconsidered places, themes, patterns, and episodes in Mexican religious history.
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Shook - An Earthquake, A Legendary Mountain Guide, And Everest'S Deadliest Day

by Jennifer Hull

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 Dave Hahn, a local of Taos, New Mexico, is a legendary figure in mountaineering. On April 25, 2015, he and his team were on Everst as an earthquake shook the mountain. Shook tells their story of resilience, nerve, and survival on the deadliest day on Everest.
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Postmodernism Of Resistance In Roberto Bolano'S Fiction And Poetry

by J. Agustín Pastén B.

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 Examines the ways in which Bolano employs a type of literary aesthetics that subverts traits traditionally associated with postmodernism. Pasten B. argues that Bolano creates a fictional world comprised of characters and situations that paradoxically refuse to accept defeat - even while displaying the scars of terrible historical events.
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Richard S. Buswell - Fifty Years Of Photography

by Richard S. Buswell

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 Richard S. Buswell has been photographing Montana's ghost towns and homesteads for five decades. The photographs in Richard S. Buswell: Fifty Years of Photography illustrate the range and variety of his work from his earliest days to his most recent projects.
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The House Of The Cylinder Jars - Room 28 In Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon

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 Details the archaeological excavations led by Patricia Crown at Pueblo Bonito's famed Room 28 in Chaco Canyon in 2013. Originally excavated in 1896 by the Hyde Exploring Expedition, Room 28 gained notoriety for its incredible assemblage of 174 whole ceramic vessels.
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An Imperative To Cure - Principles And Practice Of Q'Eqchi' Maya Medicine In Belize

by James B. Waldram

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 Bringing an innovative methodological approach based on fifteen years of ethnographic research, James Waldram argues that Q'eqchi' medical practitioners access an extensive body of empirical knowledge and personal clinical experience to diagnose, treat, and cure patients according to a coherent ontology and set of therapeutic principles.
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The King Of Taos - A Novel

by Max Evans

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 Set in the late 1950s, this novel tells the stories of sharp-witted Zacharias Chacon, aspiring artist Shaw Spencer, and a circle of characters who drink, fight, love, argue, and-mostly-talk. Readers will enjoy this witty and moving evocation of unforgettable characters as they look for work, love, comfort, dignity, and bottomless oblivion.
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With This Root About My Person - Charles H. Long And New Directions In The Study Of Religion

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 Charles H. Long's groundbreaking works on Africana religious studies serve as the backdrop to With This Root about My Person. Revitalizing an interpretive framework rooted in the Chicago tradition, the essays in this volume vigorously debate the nature of religions in the Americas.
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Sandia - Seasons Of A Mountain

by David Muench e Ruth Rudner

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 This portrait of Sandia, the mountain backdrop that dwarfs Albuquerque's sprawl, offers a sense of place through the eyes of a photographer and the words of a writer. Fascinated by Sandia, photographer David Muench shows us a brilliant autumn, the sparkle of snow, an April explosion of cactus blooms, a summer summit garden of wildflowers, the marvel of the mountain's rock forms.
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Woodswork - New And Selected Stories Of The American West

by Miles Wilson

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 These stories from four decades are grounded in the geographical, cultural, and psychological American West. Ranging from realism to fables, from childhood to senescence, from a faltering rancher to the rich and rocky road of fatherhood, Woodswork is filled with indelible characters keenly rendered. This is not fast-food fiction but a nourishing feast.
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Santa Fe - The Chief Way

by C. Fenton Richards

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 Offers a fresh and nostalgic look at the streamliners of the Santa Fe railroad from the late thirties to the early seventies. Historic photographs, promotional posters, and art capture the charm of travelling by rail throughout the Southwest on classics such as the Super Chief, the Chief, El Capitan, and the San Francisco Chief.
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