The Fifth Sun
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Author | : Camilla Townsend |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190673060 |
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Fifth Sun offers a comprehensive history of the Aztecs, spanning the period before conquest to a century after the conquest, based on rarely-used Nahuatl-language sources written by the indigenous people.
Author | : Camilla Townsend |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2005-09-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1429930772 |
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Camilla Townsend's stunning new book, Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma, differs from all previous biographies of Pocahontas in capturing how similar seventeenth century Native Americans were--in the way they saw, understood, and struggled to control their world---not only to the invading British but to ourselves. Neither naïve nor innocent, Indians like Pocahontas and her father, the powerful king Powhatan, confronted the vast might of the English with sophistication, diplomacy, and violence. Indeed, Pocahontas's life is a testament to the subtle intelligence that Native Americans, always aware of their material disadvantages, brought against the military power of the colonizing English. Resistance, espionage, collaboration, deception: Pocahontas's life is here shown as a road map to Native American strategies of defiance exercised in the face of overwhelming odds and in the hope for a semblance of independence worth the name. Townsend's Pocahontas emerges--as a young child on the banks of the Chesapeake, an influential noblewoman visiting a struggling Jamestown, an English gentlewoman in London--for the first time in three-dimensions; allowing us to see and sympathize with her people as never before.
Author | : Rick Heide |
Publisher | : Heyday Books |
Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : |
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A collection of fiction, poetry, essays, memoirs, and commentary, highlighting more than two centuries of Latino writing from California.
Author | : Burr Cartwright Brundage |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2014-02-19 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0292756054 |
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The ancient Aztecs dwelt at the center of a dazzling and complex cosmos. From this position they were acutely receptive to the demands of their gods. The Fifth Sun represents a dramatic overview of the Aztec conception of the universe and the gods who populated it—Quetzalcoatl, the Plumed Serpent; Tezcatlipoca, the Smoking Mirror; and Huitzilopochtli, the Southern Hummingbird. Burr Cartwright Brundage explores the myths behind these and others in the Aztec pantheon in a way that illuminates both the human and the divine in Aztec life. The cult of human sacrifice is a pervasive theme in this study. It is a concept that permeated Aztec mythology and was the central preoccupation of the aggressive Aztec state. Another particularly interesting belief explored here is the “mask pool,” whereby gods could exchange regalia and, thus, identities. This vivid and eminently readable study also covers the use of hallucinogens; cannibalism; the calendars of ancient Mexico; tlachtli, the life-and-death ball game; the flower wars; divine transfiguration; and the evolution of the war god of the Mexica. A splendid introduction to Aztec religion, The Fifth Sun also contains insights for specialists in ethnohistory, mythology, and religion.
Author | : Earl Shorris |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 644 |
Release | : 2012-01-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0393343723 |
Download Under the Fifth Sun: A Novel of Pancho Villa Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This is a work of great scope, a powerful illumination of an enigmatic figure. Told from the point of view of an ancient shaman, this is the dark and mystical story of Mexico's greatest revolutionary general, Pancho Villa. Shedding the Hollywood mantle of the drunken, womanizing bandit-turned-hero, the Villa who comes to life in this extraordinary novel is part man and part myth, part visionary hoodlum and part brilliant general. A troubled childhood--marked by his father's early death in the fields and his sister's rape by a local landowner--and a prophetic dream propel young Villa through a period of lawlessness and drifting and into life as a military leader. The story moves convincingly through the events of Villa's life, showing him to be a man of fierce passions and moral conviction, a natural leader for the rebellion.
Author | : Brian Fagan |
Publisher | : Perseus Books |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1998-05-04 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
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A prominent archaeologist uses the latest scientific techniques to interpret the spiritual lives of ancient people, explaining how cutting-edge science can take readers beyond the artifacts and into the mystical realm of shamans and spirit mediums, ancestor worship and ritual sacrifice. Photos.
Author | : Susan E. Ramírez |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780804749213 |
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This book reexamines the structure of Inca society on the eve of the Spanish Conquest. The author argues that native Andean cosmology organized the indigenous political economy as well as spatial and socio-kinship systems.
Author | : Jo Harper |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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"A retelling of traditional folk tales that originate from Mexico and Central America. They reflect the pre-Colombian, Mesoamerican worldview, and include characters like Quetzalcoatl and trickster figures like coyote. A few of the tales are contemporary and seem to originate from Nahuatl-speaking descendants of the Aztecs"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Bryce Milligan |
Publisher | : Riverhead Books (Hardcover) |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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"Without question, some of the most interesting writing of the last decade has come from the Latina literary movimiento. Daughters of the Fifth Sun is an informed and inspiring collection of short fiction and poetry that displays the breadth and achievement of celebrated Latina authors while introducing the next generation of voices, be they Chicana, Cubana, Puertorriquena, Dominican, or U.S.-born Latinas."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author | : Maxine Hong Kingston |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2007-12-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307428575 |
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A long time ago in China, there existed three Books of Peace that proved so threatening to the reigning powers that they had them burned. Many years later Maxine Hong Kingston wrote a Fourth Book of Peace, but it too was burned--in the catastrophic Berkeley-Oakland Hills fire of 1991, a fire that coincided with the death of her father. Now in this visionary and redemptive work, Kingston completes her interrupted labor, weaving fiction and memoir into a luminous meditation on war and peace, devastation and renewal.