Walter D Mignolo: 46 books
Latin American Perspectives on Globalization
Ethics, Politics, and Alternative Visions
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2002
From the most prominent thinkers in Latin American philosophy, literature, politics, and social science comes a challenge to conventional theories of globalization. The contributors to this volume imagine a discourse in which revolution is defined not as a temporalized march of progress or takeover...
Trading Roles
Gender, Ethnicity, and the Urban Economy in Colonial Potosí
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2005
Located in the heart of the Andes, Potosí was arguably the most important urban center in the Western Hemisphere during the colonial era. It was internationally famous for its abundant silver mines and regionally infamous for its labor draft. Set in this context of opulence and oppression associated...
The Circulation of Children
Kinship, Adoption, and Morality in Andean Peru
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
In this vivid ethnography, Jessaca B. Leinaweaver explores “child circulation,” informal arrangements in which indigenous Andean children are sent by their parents to live in other households. At first glance, child circulation appears tantamount to child abandonment. When seen in that light,...
What’s Love Got to Do with It?
Transnational Desires and Sex Tourism in the Dominican Republic
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2004
In locations around the world, sex tourism is a booming business. What's Love Got to Do with It? is an in-depth examination of the motivations of workers, clients, and others connected to the sex tourism business in Sosúa, a town on the northern coast of the Dominican Republic. Denise Brennan considers...
Remembering Pinochet's Chile
On the Eve of London 1998
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2004
During the two years just before the 1998 arrest in London of General Augusto Pinochet, the historian Steve J. Stern had been in Chile collecting oral histories of life under Pinochet as part of an investigation into the form and meaning of memories of state-sponsored atrocities. In this compelling...
Callaloo Nation
Metaphors of Race and Religious Identity among South Asians in Trinidad
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2004
Mixing—whether referred to as mestizaje, callaloo, hybridity, creolization, or multiculturalism—is a foundational cultural trope in Caribbean and Latin American societies. Historically entwined with colonial, anticolonial, and democratic ideologies, ideas about mixing are powerful forces in the...
Muddied Waters
Race, Region, and Local History in Colombia, 1846–1948
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2003
Colombia’s western Coffee Region is renowned for the whiteness of its inhabitants, who are often described as respectable pioneer families who domesticated a wild frontier and planted coffee on the forested slopes of the Andes. Some local inhabitants, however, tell a different tale—of white migrants...
by Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2005
A major contribution to debates about Latin American state formation, Political Cultures in the Andes brings together comparative historical studies focused on Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru from the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth. While highlighting patterns of political discourse...
Another Face of Empire
Bartolomé de Las Casas, Indigenous Rights, and Ecclesiastical Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
The Spanish cleric Bartolomé de Las Casas is a key figure in the history of Spain’s conquest of the Americas. Las Casas condemned the torture and murder of natives by the conquistadores in reports to the Spanish royal court and in tracts such as A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies...
by José de Acosta, Walter D. Mignolo
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2002
The Natural and Moral History of the Indies, the classic work of New World history originally published by José de Acosta in 1590, is now available in the first new English translation to appear in several hundred years. A Spanish Jesuit, Acosta produced this account by drawing on his own observations...
Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies
Chicana Literature and the Urgency of Space
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2002
A train station becomes a police station; lands held sacred by Apaches and Mexicanos are turned into commercial and residential zones; freeway construction hollows out a community; a rancho becomes a retirement community—these are the kinds of spatial transformations that concern Mary Pat Brady...
The Cord Keepers
Khipus and Cultural Life in a Peruvian Village
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2004
None of the world’s “lost writings” have proven more perplexing than the mysterious script in which the Inka Empire kept its records. Ancient Andean peoples encoded knowledge in knotted cords of cotton or wool called khipus. In The Cord Keepers, the distinguished anthropologist Frank Salomon...
The Time of Liberty
Popular Political Culture in Oaxaca, 1750–1850
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2005
Between 1750 and 1850 Spanish American politics underwent a dramatic cultural shift as monarchist colonies gave way to independent states based at least nominally on popular sovereignty and republican citizenship. In The Time of Liberty, Peter Guardino explores the participation of subalterns in this...
by James Williams, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2001
This book brings back into print, for the first time since the 1830s, a text that was central to the transatlantic campaign to fully abolish slavery in Britain’s colonies. James Williams, an eighteen-year-old Jamaican “apprentice” (former slave), came to Britain in 1837 at the instigation of...