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Wheeling and Dealing : An Ethnography of an Upper-Level Drug Dealing and Smuggling Community
Patricia A. Adler
Paperback - $64.95
"Wheeling and Dealing" is a vivid account of the world inhabited by "wholesale" illicit drug traffickers. Based on six years of participant observation, fieldwork, and extensive interviews in an elite Southern California community of dealers, the boo ...
Guaman Poma : Writing and Resistance in Colonial Peru
Rolena Adorno
Paperback - $54.95
In the midst of native people's discontent following Spanish conquest, a native Andean born after the fall of the Incas took up the pen to protest Spanish rule. Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala wrote his Nueva coronica y buen gobierno to inform Philip III ...
Native Society and Disease in Colonial Ecuador
Suzanne Austin Alchon
Hardcover - $180.95
This book examines the relationship between indigenous populations in the north-central highlands of Ecuador and disease, especially those infections introduced by Europeans during the sixteenth century. Disease, of course, existed in the Americas lo ...
Native Society and Disease in Colonial Ecuador
Suzanne Austin Alchon
Paperback - $69.95
This book examines the relationship between indigenous populations in the north-central highlands of Ecuador and disease, especially those infections introduced by Europeans during the sixteenth century. Disease, of course, existed in the Americas lo ...
Tunnel to Canto Grande
Claribel Alegria
Paperback - $29.95
Tunnel to Canto Grande tells the dramatic story of how the Peruvian Tupac Amuru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) tunneled into an "escape proof" penitentiary, Canto Grande, to free forty-eight political prisoners on July 9, 1990. The prisoners escaped t ...
Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000
George Reid Andrews
Paperback - $44.95
While the rise and abolition of slavery and ongoing race relations are central themes of the history of the United States, the African diaspora actually had a far greater impact on Latin and Central America. More than ten times as many Africans came ...