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Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570 (Cambridge Latin American Studies)
In what is both a specific study of conversion in a corner of the Spanish Empire and a work with implications for the understanding of European domination and native resistance throughout the colonial world, Inga Clendinnen explores the intensifying conflict between competing and increasingly divergent Spanish visions of Yucatan and its destructive outcomes. In Ambivalent Conquests Clendinnen penetrates the thinking and feeling of the Mayan Indians in a detailed reconstruction of their assessment of the intruders. This new edition contains a preface by the author where she reflects upon the book's contribution in the past fifteen years. Inga Clendinnen is Emeritus scholar, LaTrobe University, Australia. Her books include the acclaimed Reading the Holocaust (Cambridge, 1999), named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, and Aztec: An Interpretation (Cambridge, 1995), and Tiger's Eye: A Memoir (Scribner, 2001)..
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The Commitment Cure: What to Do When You Fall for an Ambivalent Man
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Ambivalent Zen : One Man's Adventures on the Dharma Path
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Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570 (Cambridge Latin American Studies)
This is both a specific study of conversion in a corner of the Spanish Empire, and a work with implications for the understanding of European domination and native resistance throughout the colonial world. Dr Clendinnen explores the intensifying conflict between competing and increasingly divergent Spanish visions of Yucatan and its destructive outcomes. She seeks to penetrate the ways of thinking and feeling of the Mayan Indians in a detailed reconstruction of their assessment of the intruders..
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Cemeteries Of Ambivalent Desire: Unearthing Deep South Narratives from a Texas Graveyard (University of Houston Series in Mexican American Studies)
Growing up as the daughter of a funeral director in Fort Bend County, Texas, Marie Theresa Hernandez was a frequent visitor to the San Isidro Cemetery, a burial place for Latino workers at the Imperial Sugar Company, based in nearby Sugar Land. During these years she acquired from her father and mother a sense of what it was like to live as an ethnic minority in Jim Crow Texas. Therefore, returning to the cemetery as an ethnographer offered Hernandez a welcome opportunity to begin piecing together a narrative of the lives and struggles of the Mexican American community that formed her heritage.However, Hernandez soon realized that San Isidro contained hidden depths. The cemetery was built on the former grounds of an old slave-owning plantation. Her story quickly burgeoned from one of immigrant laborers working the land of the giant sugar company to one of the slave laborers who had worked the sugar plantations decades before, but whose history had been largely wiped out of the narrative of the affluent, white-majority county. Much like an archeologist, Hernandez began carefully brushing away layers of time to reveal the fragile, entombed remnants of a complex, unknown past.A professional photographer as well as a scholar, Hernandez provides visual images to spur the reader's imagination and anchor the narrative in historical reality. She mines interviews, newspaper accounts, and other primary sources - interpreted through her own rich sense of place and time - to reconstruct the identity of a community where the Old South, the wealthy New South, and the culture from south of the border all comingle to form an almost iconic symbol for today's America.In this complex and nuanced, self-reflexive ethnography, Hernandez interweaves personal memory and group history, ethnic experience and class...even death and life..
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The Ambivalent Magician
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