Author: Elizabeth Hill Boone
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292756569
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 527
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In communities throughout precontact Mesoamerica, calendar priests and diviners relied on pictographic almanacs to predict the fate of newborns, to guide people in choosing marriage partners and auspicious wedding dates, to know when to plant and harvest crops, and to be successful in many of life's activities. As the Spanish colonized Mesoamerica in the sixteenth century, they made a determined effort to destroy these books, in which the Aztec and neighboring peoples recorded their understanding of the invisible world of the sacred calendar and the cosmic forces and supernaturals that adhered to time. Today, only a few of these divinatory codices survive. Visually complex, esoteric, and strikingly beautiful, painted books such as the famous Codex Borgia and Codex Borbonicus still serve as portals into the ancient Mexican calendrical systems and the cycles of time and meaning they encode. In this comprehensive study, Elizabeth Hill Boone analyzes the entire extant corpus of Mexican divinatory codices and offers a masterful explanation of the genre as a whole. She introduces the sacred, divinatory calendar and the calendar priests and diviners who owned and used the books. Boone then explains the graphic vocabulary of the calendar and its prophetic forces and describes the organizing principles that structure the codices. She shows how they form almanacs that either offer general purpose guidance or focus topically on specific aspects of life, such as birth, marriage, agriculture and rain, travel, and the forces of the planet Venus. Boone also tackles two major areas of controversy—the great narrative passage in the Codex Borgia, which she freshly interprets as a cosmic narrative of creation, and the disputed origins of the codices, which, she argues, grew out of a single religious and divinatory system.
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 622
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The border between the United States of America and Mexico is the busiest in the world. This area is also the meeting place of the two great cultures of the Western Hemisphere, Spanish-speaking Latin America and English-speaking North America. Recent demographic migrations coupled with increasing globalization have necessitated closer cooperation and communication between these groups. The area of communication of this dictionary centers around the vernacular or common names of plants. Many recent immigrants from Mexico and further south have gained employment in areas of agriculture, landscaping, and commercial plant nurseries. The new residents also bring with them a rich history of herbal medicines that are becoming increasingly popular in the United States. Both groups share interests in each other's cuisines with respect to food plants and spices. This dictionary contains the Latin, English, and Spanish names for over 7,000 species of the most important plants found mainly in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. Included are native and naturalized plants as well as plants of economic value. The main section of the book is organized alphabetically by the scientific Latin genus and species of each plant. The book is also fully indexed by common names primarily in American-English and Mexican-Spanish.
Author: Rubén Cobos
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 0890135371
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 265
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This book, continuously in print since 1983, has become a classic Spanish reference book, widely used in classrooms across the United States. Linguist and folklorist Rubén Cobos, now in his nineties, has been diligently working on revisions for the past decade. Much expanded—the number of pages has increased by seventy—this revised edition will assume its place as the most authoritative reference on the archaic dialect of Spanish spoken in this region.
Author: Ricardo Muñoz Zurita
Publisher: Ediciones Larousse (MX)
ISBN: 9786072106192
Category : Cooking
Languages : es
Pages : 0
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The best reference and resource out there on Mexican cooking and cuisine, Larousse Diccionario Enciclopedico de la Gastronomia Mexican covers just about everything from A to Z in 648 pages. In it Ricardo defines ingredients, cooking styles and methods, the cooking in various regions, utensils, festivals, foodways and more. There are also lists of antojitos, moles, mushrooms, chiles fresh and dried in handy chart form that makes it easy to figure out where a dish originated, what the major components are and what it might be called in the various areas of Mexico. An updated new edition, that is beautiful, easy to use and enhanced with many color photos. This is a tremendous resource for serious students of Mexican cuisine. La mejor referencia y de los recursos que hay en la cocina y la gastronomía mexicana, Larousse Diccionario Enciclopédico de la Gastronomía Mexicana abarca casi todo, desde la A a la Z, en 648 páginas. En ella Ricardo define ingredientes, estilos de cocina y métodos, la cocción en varias regiones, los utensilios, las fiestas, costumbres alimenticias y mucho más. También hay listas de antojitos, lunares, champiñones, chiles frescos y secos en forma de tabla útil que hace que sea fácil de averiguar dónde se originó un plato, lo que los componentes principales son y lo que podría ser llamado en las diversas regiones de México. Una nueva edición actualizada, que es hermoso, fácil de usar y mejorado con muchas fotos en color. Este es un gran recurso para los estudiantes serios de la cocina mexicana.
Author: Francisco Arturo Rosales
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
ISBN: 9781611920390
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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This first-ever dictionary of important issues in the U.S. Latino struggle for civil rights defines a wide-ranging list of key terms.
Author: Linton H. Robinson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780962708077
Category : Spanish language
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This Spanish slang lexicon explains & translates many of the obscure expressions in common usage on Mexican streets today, most of which are not in standard English/Spanish dictionary. (Contains some adult language.)
Author: Berlitz Berlitz Publishing
Publisher: Berlitz Languages, Incorporated
ISBN: 9781780043012
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The world's best-selling phrase book & CD series.
Author: Nicolàs Kanellos
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
ISBN: 9781611921632
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Project is a national project to locate, identify, preserve and make accessible the literary contributions of U.S. Hispanics from colonial times through 1960 in what today comprises the fifty states of the United States.
Author: Michael Mahler
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780764139291
Category : Spanish language
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Presents more than four thousand contemporary colloquial expressions from Spain, Latin America, and the Spanish-speaking community in the United States, with definitions, a sample sentence, and an equivalent in American slang.
Author: Ilan Stavans
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 9781555974190
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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In 13 essays, Stavans (Latin American and Latino culture, Amherst College, Massachusetts) explores the history of lexicography across many languages, sharing strange meaning inconsistencies, unusual origins, and extraordinary anecdotes. He does not provide an index. Annotation 2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
