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...Robert Wauchope Miscellanea Paul Rivet Octogenario Dicata . 2 vols. Presentation by Martínez Del Río Pablo and Bosch-Gimpera P. . Mexico City , 1958 . XXXI Congreso Internacional de Americanistas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México . Illustrated. Map . Pp. 707 , 903...

...Jeremiah F. Epstein Los orígenes del hombre americano . By Rivet Paul . México , 1960 . Fondo de Cultura Económica . Colección Popular. No. 20 . Maps. Illustrations. Tables. Notes . Pp. 198 . Paper . Copyright 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 This little volume...

...Charles Gibson Maya Cities . By Rivet Paul . New York , 1960 . G. P. Putnam’s Sons . Map. Illustrations. Index . Pp. 234 . $5.95 . Copyright 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 This is an English translation of Cites Maya , first published in Paris in 1954. What is true...

... como la transformación del mundo rural, la profesionalización de la burocracia y la evolución del mercado laboral. Así, de la mano de Paul Rivet, la acción cultural francesa impulsó la creación del Instituto Etnológico Nacional (1941), organismo que permitió prolongar varias de las iniciativas que se...

...Robert Wauchope Los orígenes del hombre americano . By Rivet Paul . Traducción española de Recasens José . ( Mexico : Ediciones Cuadernos Americanos, No. 5 , 1943 . Pp. 244 . 41 figures . $1.20 .) Copyright 1944 by Duke University Press 1944 ...

..., possibly one-third. Whatever disparate points are being made are validated by references to the names of Prescott, Toynbee, Rivet, Stefan Zweig, Pirenne, Subercaseaux, Hjalmar Schacht, and a multitude of others. The names of Murra or Rowe do not appear in the discussions (?) on the economy of Tahuantinsuyo...

... for the incident. In discussing the kinship of the Charrúa to the Patagonians, Cordero accepts Paul Rivet’s theory as to their Australian origin, although he recognizes the difficulty of establishing a feasible route for the long transpacific migration. The second half of this work begins with a sketchy...

..., Marshall Saville, and Paul Rivet. Not that anybody wishes to minimize the certainly positive contributions of the earlier investigators; but not until Estrada did we obtain an overall picture of coastal archaeology, starting with the early Valdivia culture which Estrada discovered in 1956. The present...

... or a gasp of amazement or perhaps even some passion in a book that treats such a colorful and often riveting topic. What we get instead is cold, dry leaven, or perhaps the detailed examination (some would prefer “deconstruction”) of a particularly intriguing poster or two. Certainly such a book begs...

... argues against sweeping privatization or doing away with “minifundistas” in the interior. The state does have a role in interior and national development, but its failure to think about the interior as a developing region has been a mistake. The Other Argentina is accessible, riveting, and wisely...

... Santos. The third and most riveting tells the story of Father Stanley Rother, a Catholic missionary from Oklahoma murdered in Santiago Atitlán in 1981, whose martyrdom foreshadowed the terrible massacre nine years later. Here Perera examines the cultural politics surrounding Catholic Action...

... , 266 pp. Cloth , $68.50 . Paper , $22.95 . © 2006 by Duke University Press 2006 Maria Eugenia Vásquez Perdomo’s ethnographic exorcism of the ghosts from her clandestine past, and her struggle to uncover the early experiences that shaped her decision to take up arms, are riveting. Although...

... a genesis-like narrative of world creation that can be read as a single sequence. Although we can only understand the broad outlines of this cosmogony, her description of the narrative scenes is riveting. The book concludes with a balanced overview of the arguments over the knotty problem of the provenance...

... to make significant contributions to our understanding of Nazi activities in Latin America. His findings are substantiated by copious documentation and subjected to riveting analysis. A book as complex as this, which contains much new empirical detail that expands our knowledge of German–Latin American...

... liberal ideals with civil war and foreign intervention (the French in Mexico, the Chileans in Peru) that riveted their attention on the possibilities of full participation—citizenship—in the developing nation. Participation in national guard units and guerrilla forces in defense of La Patria especially...

... in Guadalajara's Santa Catalina parish is an excellent case study of the work of religious sisters in Mexico. The practical contribution of women, and especially women religious, to liberation theology as a social movement is woefully underacknowledged in so much other literature. Betsy Konefal's riveting chapter...

... tobacco and other highly prized commodities are racialized. Anyone who is interested in Maya culture will be riveted by the myths, images, and analyses contained in this volume. ...

.... The second section, on Central and South America, includes essays on banana production in British Honduras, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Honduras, as well as a riveting collection of historical documents rescued by Philippe Bourgois from a Chiriquí Land Company (a United Fruit subsidiary) warehouse on the Panama...

... history to understand how queer sex worked within theological conceptions of sin, the chapters as a whole communicate why bestiality (as explored in Mílada Bazant's chapter), incest, sodomy, and masturbation were considered unnatural acts in the colonial era. In his riveting contribution, Martín Bowen...

..., and despite frequent lengthy quotations, the narrative—even of well-known events—is often riveting. This book’s value is not only in its new material. The author demonstrates, he argues, the “inadequacy” of what might be called “the cynical school” of diplomatic history that discounts the role of idealism...