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Book Creating Our Own

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  • Author : Zoila S. Mendoza
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2008-01-15
  • ISBN : 9780822341529
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Creating Our Own written by Zoila S. Mendoza and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVAnalyzes the key role that the production of "folkloric" music, dance, and drama has had in the formation of ethnic/racial identities, regionalism, and nationalism in Cuzco, Peru during the twentieth century./div

Book The Myths of Mexico   Peru

Download or read book The Myths of Mexico Peru written by Lewis Spence and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Myths of Mexico & Peru is a detailed study on the history and mythology of ancient Aztecs and Incas, providing valuable information to allow understanding into the background of Latin American heritage. The book includes tales of the myths of creations, legends of numerous Mesoamerican Gods, such as Quetzalcoatl, Tlaloc, Tezcatlipoca and Huitzilopochtli, and many other interesting folk tales of the ancient tribes of Mexico and Peru.

Book The Myths of Mexico   Peru

Download or read book The Myths of Mexico Peru written by Lewis Spence and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Black Rainbow

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  • Author : John Bierhorst
  • Publisher : New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Release : 1976
  • ISBN : 9780374308292
  • Pages : 131 pages

Download or read book Black Rainbow written by John Bierhorst and published by New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 1976 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty myths and legends recount events from the Creation to the Spanish Conquest and express Incan values and culture

Book The Myths of Mexico   Peru

Download or read book The Myths of Mexico Peru written by Lewis Spence and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-10-29 with total page 943 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Myths of Mexico & Peru" by Lewis Spence is a captivating exploration of indigenous folklore from two rich and ancient cultures. Spence skillfully navigates the intricate realms of Mexico and Peru's myths, revealing the intriguing tales of their gods, heroes, and legendary creatures. His narrative prowess breathes life into these distant mythologies, making it an enthralling read for anyone intrigued by Mesoamerican and South American folklore and seeking to immerse themselves in the mystical worlds of these civilizations.

Book Black Rhythms of Peru

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  • Author : Heidi Feldman
  • Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
  • Release : 2023-02-28
  • ISBN : 0819500976
  • Pages : 327 pages

Download or read book Black Rhythms of Peru written by Heidi Feldman and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the IASPM's Woody Guthrie Award (2007) In the late 1950s to 1970s, an Afro-Peruvian revival brought the forgotten music and dances of Peru's African musical heritage to Lima's theatrical stages. The revival conjured newly imagined links to the past in order to celebrate—and to some extent recreate—Black culture in Peru. In this groundbreaking study of the Afro-Peruvian revival and its aftermath, Heidi Carolyn Feldman reveals how Afro-Peruvian artists remapped blackness from the perspective of the "Black Pacific," a marginalized group of African diasporic communities along Latin America's Pacific coast. Feldman's "ethnography of remembering" traces the memory projects of charismatic Afro-Peruvian revival artists and companies, including José Durand, Nicomedes and Victoria Santa Cruz, and Perú Negro, culminating with Susana Baca's entry onto the global world music stage in the 1990s. Readers will learn how Afro-Peruvian music and dance genres, although recreated in the revival to symbolize the ancient and forgotten past, express competing modern beliefs regarding what constitutes "Black Rhythms of Peru."

Book Peruvian Short Stories

Download or read book Peruvian Short Stories written by Dorila A. Marting and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-08-12 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A native of Pomabamba, Peru, Dorila A. Marting grew up surrounded by the tales of her native city as told by family members and local Quechua storytellers. In Peruvian Short Stories, Marting brings these childhood accounts to life with a narrative that is as distinctively authentic as it is universally relatable. "This Peruvian legend has many versions depending on who is telling, the story. I will relate to you what I heard a long, long time ago, as a child, from an elderly storyteller Quechua woman named Mama Cunchina ... " -The Cave of Maria Josefa With voices spanning from the small and elderly mouse (The Emigration of Domestic Animals) to the all-encompassing Mama Patcha (Mother Earth), every story is uniquely enchanting while still supporting the overall parable that is weaved throughout the collection. Marting illustrates her memories with the ease of the Quechua storytellers of her youth, and indeed these accounts of love, loss, family, nature, friendship, and respect are as crucial and resonant today as they were during the inception of Peruvian Folklore. I invite you to navigate to a foreign land and to a foreign culture and enjoy these stories as much as I have ... " -Mary L. Jones, Introduction

Book Pachamama Tales

Download or read book Pachamama Tales written by Paula Martín and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bilingual collection of enchanting folk tales from the peoples of Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Uruguay, and Paraguay, accompanied by historical and geographical background as well as color photographs. Containing numerous tales that have never before appeared in an English-language children's story collection, this book presents many of author Paula Martín's favorite stories from her many years of experience in storytelling around the world and particularly in South America. It stands as a unique folklore and storytelling resource that will give readers a better understanding of life and culture in the southern part of South America. Readers of all ages will delight in entertaining stories about animals, plants and trees, musical instruments, lost places, fantastic creatures, and witches and devils. This collection also includes never-ending tales, sky stories, and folk tales about fools. The book provides related cultural information about the lands where these stories originated as well as the people who tell these tales, traditional games of South America, and recipes for regional food items that can go hand in hand with the stories.

Book The Myths of Mexico and Peru

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  • Author : Lewis Spence
  • Publisher : Independently Published
  • Release : 2020-01-08
  • ISBN : 9781657482814
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book The Myths of Mexico and Peru written by Lewis Spence and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-01-08 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writers in the sphere of Mexican and Peruvian myth have been few. The first to attack the subject in the light of the modern science of comparative religion was Daniel Garrison Brinton, professor of American languages and archaeology in the University of Philadelphia. He has been followed by Payne, Schellhas, Seler, and Rrstemann, all of whom, however, have confined the publication of their researches to isolated articles in various geographical and scientific journals. The remarks of mythologists who are not also Americanists upon the subject of American myth must be accepted with caution. The question of the alphabets of ancient America is perhaps the most acute in present-day pre-Columbian archaeology. But progress is being made in this branch of the subject, and several scholars are working in whole-hearted co-operation to secure final results. What has Great Britain accomplished in this new and fascinating field of science? If the lifelong and valuable labours of the late Sir Clements Markham be excepted, almost nothing. It is earnestly hoped that the publication of this volume may prove the means of leading many English students to the study and consideration of American archaeology. There remains the romance of old America. The real interest of American mediaeval history must ever circle around Mexico and Peru, her golden empires, her sole exemplars of civilisation; and it is to the books upon the character of these two nations that we must turn for a romantic interest as curious and as absorbing as that bound up in the history of Egypt or Assyria. If human interest is craved for by any man, let him turn to the narratives of Garcilasso el Inca de la Vega and Ixtlilxochitl, representatives and last descendants of the Peruvian and Tezcucan monarchies, and read there the frightful story of the path to fortune of red-heeled Pizarro and cruel Cortés, of the horrible cruelties committed upon the red man, whose colour was "that of the devil," of the awful pageant of fold-sated pirates laden with the treasures of palaces, of the stripping of temples whose very bricks were of gold, whose very drain-pipes were of silver, of rapine and the sacrilege of high places, of porphyry gods dashed down the pyramidal sides of lofty teocallis, of princesses tom from the very steps of the throne-ay, read these for the most wondrous tales ever writ by the hand of man, tales by the side of which the fables of Araby seem dim -the story of a clash of worlds, the conquest of a new, of an isolated hemisphere. It is usual to speak of America as "a continent without a history." The folly of such a statement is extreme. For centuries prior to European occupation Central America was the seat of civilisations boasting a history and a semi-historical mythology second to none in richness and interest. It is only because the sources of that history are unknown to the general reader that such assurance upon the lack of it exists. Let us hope that this book may assist in attracting many to the head-fountain of a river whose affluents water many a plain of beauty not the less lovely because bizarre, not the less fascinating because somewhat remote from modern thought. In conclusion I have to acknowledge the courtesy of the Bureau of American Ethnology, which placed in my hands a valuable collection of illustrations and allowed me to select from these at my discretion. The pictures chosen include the drawings used as tailpieces to chapters; others, usually half-tones, are duly acknowledged where they occur.

Book Celebrating Latino Folklore  3 volumes

Download or read book Celebrating Latino Folklore 3 volumes written by María Herrera-Sobek and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-07-16 with total page 1261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latino folklore comprises a kaleidoscope of cultural traditions. This compelling three-volume work showcases its richness, complexity, and beauty. Latino folklore is a fun and fascinating subject to many Americans, regardless of ethnicity. Interest in—and celebration of—Latin traditions such as Día de los Muertos in the United States is becoming more common outside of Latino populations. Celebrating Latino Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Cultural Traditions provides a broad and comprehensive collection of descriptive information regarding all the genres of Latino folklore in the United States, covering the traditions of Americans who trace their ancestry to Mexico, Spain, or Latin America. The encyclopedia surveys all manner of topics and subject matter related to Latino folklore, covering the oral traditions and cultural heritage of Latin Americans from riddles and dance to food and clothing. It covers the folklore of 21 Latin American countries as these traditions have been transmitted to the United States, documenting how cultures interweave to enrich each other and create a unique tapestry within the melting pot of the United States.

Book Peru

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  • Author : Rosalie Smith
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1936
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book Peru written by Rosalie Smith and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pachamama Tales

Download or read book Pachamama Tales written by Margaret Read MacDonald and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bilingual collection of enchanting folk tales from the peoples of Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Uruguay, and Paraguay, accompanied by historical and geographical background as well as color photographs. Containing numerous tales that have never before appeared in an English-language children's story collection, this book presents many of author Paula Martín's favorite stories from her many years of experience in storytelling around the world and particularly in South America. It stands as a unique folklore and storytelling resource that will give readers a better understanding of life and culture in the southern part of South America. Readers of all ages will delight in entertaining stories about animals, plants and trees, musical instruments, lost places, fantastic creatures, and witches and devils. This collection also includes never-ending tales, sky stories, and folk tales about fools. The book provides related cultural information about the lands where these stories originated as well as the people who tell these tales, traditional games of South America, and recipes for regional food items that can go hand in hand with the stories.

Book Folklore Series

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  • Author : Indiana University
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1961
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book Folklore Series written by Indiana University and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Myths of Mexico and Peru

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  • Author : Lewis Spence
  • Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
  • Release : 2014-03
  • ISBN : 9781497914353
  • Pages : 500 pages

Download or read book Myths of Mexico and Peru written by Lewis Spence and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1913 Edition.

Book The Thunder King

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  • Author : Amanda Loverseed
  • Publisher : Hamish Hamilton
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 32 pages

Download or read book The Thunder King written by Amanda Loverseed and published by Hamish Hamilton. This book was released on 1991 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great bird Condor helps Illanti rescue his twin brother from King Thunder's ice palace high in the mountains.

Book Mexico and Peru

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  • Author : Lewis Spence
  • Publisher : Palala Press
  • Release : 2016-05-09
  • ISBN : 9781356089543
  • Pages : 512 pages

Download or read book Mexico and Peru written by Lewis Spence and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-09 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book The Myths of Mexico   Peru

Download or read book The Myths of Mexico Peru written by Lewis Spence and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: