Telltale Stories From Central America

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Telltale Stories From Central America

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Author : Samuel Z. Stone
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001

Telltale Stories From Central America written by Samuel Z. Stone and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Fiction categories.

By collecting and studying folktales and legends from the five countries of Central America, Stone examines the values and beliefs that forge a people's sense of themselves or their consciousness.

Telltale Stories From Central America

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Author : Samuel Z. Stone
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001

Telltale Stories From Central America written by Samuel Z. Stone and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Fiction categories.

By collecting and studying folktales and legends from the five countries of Central America, Stone examines the values and beliefs that forge a people's sense of themselves or their consciousness.

The Fish That Ate The Whale

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Author : Rich Cohen
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-07-19

The Fish That Ate The Whale written by Rich Cohen and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-19 with History categories.

Whether you know him as El Amigo, the Banana Man, the Gringo, or simply Z - whether you even know him at all - Sam Zemurray lived one of the greatest untold American stories of the last hundred years. A tough, uneducated Russian Jew who found himself and his fortune in turn-of-the-century New Orleans, Zemurray built a fruit-selling empire hustling rotting fruit to market to eke out the slimmest profit, to eventually become a backchannel kingmaker and capitalist revolutionary. The Fish That Ate the Whale spans the transition from Old-World business to New-: from privateer adventurers seeking fortunes in remote frontiers, to buccaneers of high finance and wars fought with media, no-bid contracts, and necessary illusions. Part of what makes this book so remarkable - and its dubious hero so compelling - is the almost invisible ease with which Cohen's threads intertwine to create a larger pattern that seems so obvious once you step back to see it. Z's story spans the birth of modern foreign relations, the creation of the CIA, smuggling dispossessed Jews out of Europe, the invention of Israel, corporate espionage, the Bay of Pigs, political assassination, and the unspoken motives of the Cold War. It is a twentieth-century epic, and standing at its core is a man unlike any we've seen before or since, who, for good or ill, looked at what was, but saw only what was possible.

Princeton Alumni Weekly

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Author : Author
language : en
Publisher: princeton alumni weekly
Release Date : 2001

Princeton Alumni Weekly written by Author and has been published by princeton alumni weekly this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with categories.

Struggles For Social Rights In Latin America

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Author : Susan Eva Eckstein
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-11-12

Struggles For Social Rights In Latin America written by Susan Eva Eckstein and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-12 with Social Science categories.

This is a collection of original essays focusing on social rights in Latin America, covering four areas in particular: subsistence, labor, gender, and race/ethnicity within the original framework of human rights. Topics covered include the environment, AIDS, workers' rights, tourism, and many more.

The Dog Who Spoke And More Mayan Folktales

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Author : James D. Sexton
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2014-10-22

The Dog Who Spoke And More Mayan Folktales written by James D. Sexton and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-22 with History categories.

In the delightful Mayan folktale The Dog Who Spoke, we learn what happens when a dog’s master magically transforms into a dog-man who reasons like a man but acts like a dog. This and the other Mayan folktales in this bilingual collection brim with the enchanting creativity of rural Guatemala’s oral culture. In addition to stories about ghosts and humans turning into animals, the volume also offers humorous yarns. Hailing from the Lake Atitlán region in the Guatemalan highlands, these tales reflect the dynamics of, and conflicts between, Guatemala’s Indian, Ladino, and white cultures. The animals, humans, and supernatural forces that figure in these stories represent Mayan cultural values, social mores, and history. James D. Sexton and Fredy Rodríguez-Mejía allow the thirty-three stories to speak for themselves—first in the original Spanish and then in English translations that maintain the meaning and rural inflection of the originals. Available in print for the first time, with a glossary of Indian and Spanish terms, these Guatemalan folktales represent generations of transmitted oral culture that is fast disappearing and deserves a wider audience.

Book Review Digest

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002-11

Book Review Digest written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-11 with Bibliography categories.

Latin America

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Author : Juan Manuel Pérez
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2004

Latin America written by Juan Manuel Pérez and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.

This is a general bibliography on Latin America, covering a wide variety of subjects, from pre-Columbian civilizations, to Columbus, to Castro, to the foreign debt, to pollution, ect. This work will not only be of use to the general, casual reader on Latin America, but also to the more specialized researcher. The book contains over 800 topics, with over 8,000 titles identified.

The Latin American Story Finder

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Author : Sharon Barcan Elswit
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2015-10-02

The Latin American Story Finder written by Sharon Barcan Elswit and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-02 with Literary Criticism categories.

Anything is possible in the world of Latin American folklore, where Aunt Misery can trap Death in a pear tree; Amazonian dolphins lure young girls to their underwater city; and the Feathered Snake brings the first musicians to Earth. One in a series of folklore reference guides ("...an invaluable resource..."--School Library Journal), this book features summaries and sources of 470 tales told in Mexico, Central America and South America, a region underrepresented in collections of world folklore. The volume sends users to the best stories retold in English from the Inca, Maya, and Aztec civilizations, Spanish and Portuguese missionaries and colonists, African slave cultures, indentured servants from India, and more than 75 indigenous tribes from 21 countries. The tales are grouped into themed sections with a detailed subject index.

The 2012 Story

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Author : John Major Jenkins
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2009-10-15

The 2012 Story written by John Major Jenkins and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-15 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.

On December 21, 2012, the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, a 5,125-year cycle calendar system pioneered by the Maya, will come to an end. At the same time, the earth, the sun, and the center of the galaxy will come together in an extremely rare cosmic alignment. More and more people believe that the world as we know it will experience a transformation in 2012, but few are aware of the complete history or significance of the date. John Major Jenkins, among the most authoritative voices of the 2012 movement, has written a definitive explanation of one of the most thought-provoking phenomena of our time. Drawing from his own groundbreaking research (including his involvement in the modern reconstruction of Mayan 2012 cosmology) and more than two decades of extensive study of Mayan culture, Jenkins has created the crucial guide to understanding the story of 2012—an essential overview of the history, theory, cultures, and personalities that have brought this extraordinary idea into modern awareness. Jenkins provides illuminating answers to some of the most-asked questions about 2012, including: - How did the early Maya devise the calendar that gives us the cycle ending in 2012, and how does it work? - How did the calendar come to be rediscovered and reconstructed in our era? - What controversies and intrigues surround the topic, and what do scholars and researchers have to say about them? - How can we cut through all the noise about 2012 and gain true wisdom from the Mayan teachings about this moment?