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No odies a nadie, pues el odio te hiere a ti más que al otro. No emitas un juicio sobre nadie mientras no hayas andado dos kilómetros con sus mocasines. Es bueno para la persona tener la cabeza en las nubes y dejar que sus pensamientos moren entre las aguilas. Pero tambien ha de pensar que cuanto mas crece un arbol en direccion al cielo tanto mas profundamente tienen que penetrar sus raices en el corazon de la madre tierra. Donde nadie se impone por la fuerza pueden vivir muchos en armonia. La belleza de la creacion: la religion y la espiritualidad: los animales como hermanos y hermanas de los hombres, los niños, las mujeres y los ancianos: la solidaridad de todo el genero humano y, en no menor medida, la muerte, son algunos de los temas tratados en este libro. A ellos se han añadido relatos y leyendas de personalidades de los pueblos indios de America del Norte del pasado y del presente. Los textos pretenden alumbrar una actitud critica con uno mismo y pedir modestamente atencion, respeto y amor a la Tierra y a todo cuanto hay en ella. EVELINE MEINERT, nacida en 1956, es doctora en medicina. Desde hace veinte años se dedica a estudiar el arte y la cultura de los indios, tema sobre el que ha publicado numerosos libros. En Bielefeld creo el grupo de trabajo "Arte y cultur

The decade of the 1990s was one of the most turbulent periods in recent Mexican history marked by political assassinations, the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, the signing of NAFTA, a catastrophic economic crisis, and the defeat of the PRI after seventy years of one-party rule. How did art respond to these events? To answer this question, Gallo examines some of the most radical artistic experiments produced in this period, from Daniela Rossell's photographs of Mexican millionaires to Teresa Margolles's manipulations of human remains, from Santiago Sierra's controversial work with human subjects to Vicente Razo's creation of a Salinas museum.

The Five (later Six) Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy were central to the story of the white colonization of the American Northeast. The European fur trade transformed their world, and the struggles between English and French colonists forced the tribes to take sides. Sir William Johnson's efforts in the Mohawk Valley ensured that the Iroquois Nations were allies of the British crown; and the loyalty of his kinsman Joseph Brant (Thayendanegea) during the American Revolution forced the Mohawks into Canadian exile. This richly illustrated book introduces Iroquois history, social organization, religion and material culture.

Ancient Puebloan Southwest traces the evolution of Puebloan society in the American Southwest from the emergence of the Chaco and Mimbres traditions in the AD 1000s through the early decades of contact with the Spanish in the sixteenth century. The book focuses on the social and political changes that shaped Puebloan people over the centuries, emphasizing how factors internal to society impacted on cultural evolution, even in the face of the challenging environment that characterizes the American Southwest. The underlying argument is that while the physical environment both provides opportunities and sets limitations to social and political change, even more important evolutionary forces are the tensions between co-operation and competition for status and leadership. Although relying primarily on archaeological data, the book also includes oral histories, historical accounts, and ethnographic records as it introduces readers to the deep history of the Puebloan Southwest.

Historian Marc Simmons is already a favourite among scholars, students, Hispanophiles, and borderland enthusiasts for his careful, readable histories of the American Southwest. In the twelve essays collected in here, the author''s topical, in-depth approach to New Mexico''s colonial period is skilfully deployed. His original research and unique insights transform New Mexico''s colonial history into an engaging story of real people and the real events that shaped their lives - a true journey of discovery. Simmons finds in the commonplace moments of everyday life ways to place the reader fully within the realities of the past. Immersion in details permits us to understand the behaviour and character of a people and the true tenor of their times: how the average person lived and played, how he or she made economic choices, how worship and religious concerns were integrated into daily life. The book covers such topics as the Pueblo Revolt, New Mexico sheep and cattle ranching, Spanish irrigation practices, the settlement of Albuquerque, the smallpox epidemic of 1780-81, and the Feast of St. John.The society and economy of the upper Rio Grande were complex and richly textured, and the people who sustained themselves there became resilient and stoic, fashioning their own formulas for survival and forever impacting the directions taken by history''s currents.