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      • Editora Moinhos

        Editora Moinhos is an independent publishing house that aims to publish books in the most diverse genres. The proposal includes the rescue of great classics of Brazilian and foreign literature, seeking to make viable works still unpublished in Brazil and to deliver a quality work to the reader.

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        International relations
        September 2005

        Naming security - constructing identity

        ‘Mayan-women’ in Guatemala on the eve of ‘peace’

        by Maria Stern

        How do people seek security in relation to their sense of 'who they are'? How can one make sense of insecurity at the intersection of competing identity claims? Based on the voices of Mayan women, Stern critically re-considers the connections between security, subjectivity and identity. By engaging in a careful reading of how Mayan women 'speak' security in relation to the different contexts that inform their lives, she explores the multiplicity of both identity and security, and questions the main story of security imbedded in the modern 'paradox of sovereignty.' Her provocative analysis thus raises vital questions about what might constitute 'security', and the 'insecurity' that is its inevitable supplement. Her study also offers an innovative methodology that bridges many different disciplines and substantively develops the method of 'reading' politics as a 'textual practice'. It will be essential reading for students of security, identity politics, feminism, and Latin American studies.

      • Humanities & Social Sciences

        Social reproduction and kinship in the Mayan area of Mexico

        by Erin Ingrid Estrada Lugo

        This book, the first in the Socio-environmental Approaches Collection, places the analysis of local kinship groups in the southern Mayan area of the country and their reproduction and production strategies at the center. The information offered here derives from research with Tseltal, Tsotsil, Mam, Lacandon, Chuj and Yucatec Maya groups, whose historical roots in their territories are deep.

      • Literature & Literary Studies
        August 2016

        Pura sangre (Pure blood)

        by Moisés Ramírez

        With a rhythmic irregularity that breaks its own voice, this work contains a deceptive but measured movement, as if it were the footwork of a boxer, which gradually envelops the reader. There is a singular back-and-forth in this collection of poems: scenarios described through sensations, through immaterial elements; and sensations exposed through physical ingredients. There is bebop. Words are left behind. And then they come back on their own, lashing out. It is not surprising, then, that inside this book there is a reference to Thelonious Monk, an expansive creator who took harmony to its ultimate consequences. As the author himself puts it, this book is a horse on the prairie.

      • 2020

        Bubba and Squirt's Mayan Adventure

        by Sherry Ellis

        An ancient Mayan civilization!   That's what Bubba and Squirt find when they travel through the mysterious vortex for another wild adventure. There they meet archeologists who are unearthing priceless artifacts.   But someone is stealing them. And an encounter with the Tate Duende awakens magic within Bubba. Throw in the mysterious Alux and a new discovery and things get sticky.   Will Bubba and Squirt solve the mystery, or will they be stuck forever in the jungles of Belize?

      • The Arts
        January 2020

        Rough Work. Illustrated Architecture by Smiljan Radic

        by Smiljan Radic, Alan Chandler, Ricardo Serpell, Moisés Puente, Hans Ulrich Obrist.

        In the last years, Smiljan Radic has become in one of the most renowned architects in the world, mainly due to his work’s eccentricity, his “significative contribution to architecture as an art” as recognized by the Arnold W. Brunner of the American Institute of Architects in 2018. Rough Work, written mainly by Radic himself, is an essential compilation of his work. Smiljan shares his thoughts, inspirations, heroes, and a selection of 24 key works that allows us to understand the architect’s trajectory. "In it, you will find a stolen title and other tales, together with my writing, frustrated projects, drawings and scribbles, academic excercises, happy buildings in use, others that are gone now, and many engineering plans. It is all part of what I have been able to build through 2015—a past that today takes a natural and expectant position in my present work, as if it were REMEMBERING A FORGETTING."—Smiljan Radic.

      • February 2013

        The Heirs of Columbus

        by Gerald Vizenor

        A novel which turns cultural aggression on its head as the Native American heirs of Christopher Columbus, himself descended from early Mayan explorers, create a fantastic tribal nation.

      • General fiction (Children's/YA)
        2019

        CAPTAIN ZHEIMER 3 - DOGGY ADVENTURE

        by Nacho Golfe

        This crazy gang will travel to the North Pole or the Mayan Empire in order to find a new friend for Captain Zheimer. A DOG ADVENTURE

      • July 2017

        Satira Politica en Chile

        150 años de revistas de humor, sátira y politica

        by Moises Hasson

        The book presents a chronological journey, ordered according to the milestones of the cultural, political and social history of Chile, in which it gathers dozens of covers and revives the humor. Through its seven chapters, it runs through the cartoon newspapers in Chile from 1895 to today's paper and publications.   An essential story to know and appreciate the vicissitudes and events of Chilean political humor, in a carefully edited and profusely illustrated work.

      • February 2015

        Pin-Up

        Comics Picarescos en Chile

        by Moises Hasson

        Hasson’s story of the Pin-Up magazines in Chile, represent a correlate of the history of Chile in the 20th century and of how this society lived humor and eroticism, in a time of great nocturnal bohemia.   This exhaustive compilation by researcher Hasson brings together dozens of covers, and relives the times of brilliance, death and resurrection of pin-up magazines in Chile, forming a continuum with his other two works Comics in Chile, and Political Satire in Chile.

      • Los relatos del abuelo

        by A.C. Cruz

        A. C. Cruz in Los relatos del abuelo (The Grandfather's Tales), a collection of short stories and anecdotes, presents us with a cosmogony of the Mayan towns and culture of the region Los Altos de Chiapas. These accounts are permeated with the magical thinking of the Maya and their way of interracting with the world.

      • September 2017

        Viaje de la Tierra a Marte

        Primer Comic de Ciencia Ficcion en 1924

        by Andres Magre, Moises Hasson

        This work Journey from Earth to Mars is the first science fiction title published in Chile in the format of comic in 1924. It's a naive adventure with jocular tone that allows to know customs, places and problems of a century ago, while discovers Mars and its inhabitants. The books includes a long review with the incredible life of the author.

      • August 2020

        Underworld Lit

        by Srikanth Reddy

        Simultaneously funny and frightful, Srikanth Reddy's Underworld Lit is a multiverse quest through various cultures' realms of the dead. Couched in a literature professor's daily mishaps with family life and his sudden reckoning with mortality, this adventurous serial prose poem moves from the college classroom to the oncologist's office to the mythic underworlds of Mayan civilization, the ancient Egyptian place of judgment and rebirth, the infernal court of Qing dynasty China, and beyond—testing readers along with the way with diabolically demanding quizzes. It unsettles our sense of home as it ferries us back and forth across cultures, languages, epochs, and the shifting border between the living and the dead.

      • Archaeology by period / region

        Terminal Classic in the Maya Lowlands

        Collapse, Transition, & Transformation

        by Arthur A Demarest , Prudence M Rice , Don S Rice

        This book revisits one of the great problems in Mayan archaeology -- the apparent collapse of Classic Maya civilisation from roughly AD830-950. During this period the Maya abandoned their power centres in the southern lowlands and rather abruptly ceased the distinctive cultural practices that marked their apogee in the Classic period. Archaeological fieldwork during the past three decades, however, has uncovered enormous regional variability in the ways the Maya experienced the shift from Classic to Post-classic society, revealing a period of cultural change more complex than acknowledged by traditional models. Featuring an impressive roster of scholars, the book presents the most recent data and interpretations pertaining to this perplexing period of cultural transformation in the Maya lowlands. Although the research reveals clear interregional patterns, the contributors resist a single overarching explanation. Rather, this volume's diverse and nuanced interpretations provide a new, more properly grounded beginning for continued debate on the nature of lowland Terminal Classic Maya civilisation.

      • Literature & Literary Studies
        June 2017

        Historia de una ceiba azul (Story of a blue ceiba)

        by Gonzalo Sánchez de Tagle

        The ceiba, imposing column, gave brilliance to the pre-Columbian cities and majesty to the haciendas of the Yucatecan peninsula. The Mayas considered it a communicator of the universe: its branches opened the heavens. It is a tree that is the owner of time, permanent and inevitably mystical. Its proximity to the sky makes it the owner of inescapable chiaroscuros that perplex those who look at them. That is precisely the imprint of this work: the symbiosis between the observed and its observer, their reciprocal transformation, the subtle contrasts between nature and the beholder, dislocated in the pages of Historias de una ceiba azul.

      • Astronomy, space & time

        Skywatching in the Ancient World

        New Perspectives in Cultural Astronomy

        by Clive Ruggles (Editor) , Gary Urton (Editor)

        Compiled in honour of Anthony F Aveni, America's leading archaeoastronomer, this book offers state-of-the-art work in cultural astronomy by well-known experts in Mayan glyphic studies, cultural history, ethnohistory, and the history of science and of religions. This collection's wide range of outstanding scholarship reveals that cultural astronomy has come into its own. The diverse topics addressed by the contributors include the correlation between Colonial Northern Zapotec and Gregorian calendars, the period of use of the Dresden Codex Venus table and the significance of the Lunar Almanacs that precede it, a new interpretation of an Inka tapestry mantle as a commemorative calendar, temple orientations in Hawai'i and church orientations in Medieval England, and the connection in cultural imagery between astronomers (science) and wizards (magic). Contributors include: Harvey M Bricker; Victoria R Bricker; Edward E Calnek; Clemency Coggins; John Justeson; Edwin C Krupp; Stephen C McCluskey; Susan Milbrath; Clive Ruggles; David Tavàrez; Barbara Tedlock; Dennis Tedlock; Gary Urton and R Tom Zuidema.

      • Archaeology

        Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl

        The Once & Future Lord of the Toltecs

        by H B Nicholson

        This is the most comprehensive survey and discussion of the primary documentary sources and the relevant archaeological evidence concerning the most enigmatic figure of ancient Mesoamerica. Probably no indigenous New World personage has aroused more interest or more controversy than this Lord of Tollan, capital of the Toltec Empire, who was merged with the prominent Feathered Serpent god, Quetzalcoatl. Professor Nicholson sorts through this wealth of material, classifying, summarising, and analysing all known primary accounts of the career of Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl, in the Spanish, Nahuatl, and Mayan languages, which Spanish missionaries and Spanish-educated natives recorded after the Conquest. In a new Introduction, he updates the original source material presently available to scholars concerned with this figure. After careful consideration of the evidence, he concludes that, in spite of the obvious myth surrounding this renowned Toltec priest-ruler, at least some of Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl's recorded life and deeds are drawn from historical fact. Nicholson also contends that the tradition of his expected return probably played a role in the peaceable reception of Cortés by Moctezuma II in Mexico's Tenochtitlan in the fall of 1519. Includes new illustrations and an index.

      • Archaeology by period / region

        In the Realm of Nachan Kan

        Postclassic Maya Archaeology at Laguna De On, Belize

        by Marilyn A Masson

        Kan opens a window on Post-Classic Maya patterns of cultural development and organisation through a close examination of the small rural island of Laguna de On, a location that was distant from the governing political centres of the day. Using diachronic analysis of regional settlement patterns, ceramic traditions, household and ritual features, and artefacts from the site, Masson tracks developmental changes throughout the Post-classic period. These data suggest that affluent patterns of economic production and local and long-distance exchange were established within northern Belize by the eleventh century, and continued to develop, virtually uninterrupted, until the time of Spanish arrival. In addition, Masson analyses contemporary political and religious artistic traditions at the temples of Mayapan, Tulum, and Santa Rita to provide a regional context for the changes in community patterns at Laguna de On. These cultural changes, she maintains, are closely correlated with the rise of Mayapan to power and participation of sites like Laguna de On in a pan-lowland economic and ritual interaction sphere. Offering a thoroughly new interpretation of Post-classic Mayan civilisation. This is a must for scholars of Mesoamerican history and culture.

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