Format:
Online-Ressource (x, 338 p)
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ill., maps
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25 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0195183282
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0195123816
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references ( p.239-315) and index
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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
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780195123814
Additional Edition:
Print version Weaving the Past : A History of Latin America's Indigenous Women from the Prehispanic Period to the Present
Language:
English
