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Weaving the past : a history of Latin America's indigenous women from the prehispanic period to the present / Susan Kellogg

New York : Oxford University Press, c2005

Online-Ressource (x, 338 p) : ill., maps ; 25 cm

Englisch

CONTENTS; ONE: Introducing the Indigenous Women of Latin America; TWO: Of Warriors and Working Women: Gender in Later Prehispanic Mesoamerica and the Andes; THREE: Colliding Worlds: Indigenous Women, Conquest, and Colonialism; FOUR: With Muted Voices: Mesoamerica's Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Women; FIVE: Fighting for Survival through Political Action and Cultural Creativity: Indigenous Women in Contemporary South and Central America; SIX: Indigenous Women: Creating Agendas for Change; ORGANIZATIONS MENTIONED IN THE TEXT AND THEIR ACRONYMS; GLOSSARY; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Includes bibliographical references ( p.239-315) and index

Print version: Weaving the Past : A History of Latin America's Indigenous Women from the Prehispanic Period to the Present

0-19-518328-2 ; 0-19-512381-6

978-0-19-512381-4 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

Online-Ausg.

2009

Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

E59.W8

305.48/898     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: Latin America -- History ; Indian women -- Latin America -- Social conditions ; Indian women -- Latin America -- Politics and government ; Latin America -- Social conditions ; Indian women -- Latin America -- History

Indian women ; Latin America ; History ; Indian women ; Latin America ; Politics and government ; Indian women ; Latin America ; Social conditions ; Latin America ; History ; Latin America ; Social conditions ; Electronic books

Offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary history of Latin America's indigenous women. Concentrating mainly on native women in Mesoamerica and the Andes, this book also covers indigenous peoples in a variety of areas of South and Central America. It also argues that change, not continuity, has been the norm for indigenous peoples