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Religions of Mesoamerica

By David Carrasco

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9781478607403 | 2 edition (Waveland Pr Inc, August 13, 2013), cover price $25.95

Histories of Infamy: Francisco Lopez De Gomara and the Ethics of Spanish Imperialism

Product Description: Scuff-free matte lamination on cover, if available.

By David Carrasco (foreword by), Christian A. Roa-de-la-carrera and Scott Sessions (trans)

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9781607321859 | Univ Pr of Colorado, May 15, 2012, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Scuff-free matte lamination on cover, if available.

Fanning the Sacred Flame: Mesoamerican Studies in Honor of H. B. Nicholson

By Matthew A. Boxt (editor), David Carrasco (foreword by), Brian Dervin Dillon (editor) and Eduardo Matos Moctezuma (foreword by)

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Hardcover:

9781607321606 | Univ Pr of Colorado, June 15, 2012, cover price $50.00

The Aztecs: A Very Short Introduction

By David Carrasco

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9780195379389 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 14, 2011, cover price $11.95

Cueva, ciudad y nido de aguila/ Cave, City, and Eagle Nest: Una travesia interpretativa por el Mapa de Cuauhtinchan num. 2

Product Description: Cueva, ciudad y nido de Ã¡guila es la culminaciÃ³n de un proyecto internacional de investigaciones y una serie de reuniones organizadas por el Moses Mesoamerican Archive y centradas en el manuscrito pictÃ³rico del siglo XVI llamado el Mapa de Cuauhtinchan nÃºm...read more

By David Carrasco (editor) and Scott Sessions (editor)

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9780826350060 | Har/map/ch edition (Univ of New Mexico Pr, April 30, 2011), cover price $125.00 | About this edition: Cueva, ciudad y nido de Ã¡guila es la culminaciÃ³n de un proyecto internacional de investigaciones y una serie de reuniones organizadas por el Moses Mesoamerican Archive y centradas en el manuscrito pictÃ³rico del siglo XVI llamado el Mapa de Cuauhtinchan nÃºm.

9780201523737, titled "Business Networks" | Addison-Wesley, January 1, 1993, cover price $42.01 | also contains Business Networks, Cueva, ciudad y nido de aguila/ Cave, City, and Eagle Nest: Una travesia interpretativa por el Mapa de Cuauhtinchan num. 2

The War for the Heart and Soul of a Highland Maya Town

Product Description: This compelling ethnography explores the issue of cultural continuity and change as it has unfolded in the representative Guatemala Mayan town Santiago AtitlÃ¡n. Drawing on multiple sources, Robert S. Carlsen argues that local Mayan culture survived the Spanish Conquest remarkably intact and continued to play a defining role for much of the following five centuries...read more

By David Carrasco (foreword by)

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9780292723986, titled "The War for the Heart & Soul of a Highland Maya Town" | Revised edition (Univ of Texas Pr, April 1, 2011), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: This compelling ethnography explores the issue of cultural continuity and change as it has unfolded in the representative Guatemala Mayan town Santiago AtitlÃ¡n.

Daily Life of the Aztecs: People of the Sun and Earth

By David Carrasco and Scott Sessions

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Hardcover:

9780313377440 | 2 edition (Greenwood Pub Group, July 31, 2011), cover price $55.00

9780313295584 | Greenwood Pub Group, July 30, 1998, cover price $64.00

Paperback:

9780872209336 | Reprint edition (Hackett Pub Co Inc, September 30, 2008), cover price $16.00

The History of the Conquest of New Spain

By Rolena Adorno (contributor), David Carrasco (contributor), Sandra Messinger Cypess (contributor) and Bernal Diaz Del Castillo (editor)

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9780826342874 | Univ of New Mexico Pr, December 1, 2008, cover price $29.95

Cave, City, and Eagle's Nest: An Interpretive Journey Through the Mapa De Cuauhtinchan No. 2

By David Carrasco (editor) and Scott Sessions (editor)

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9780826342836 | Har/map edition (Univ of New Mexico Pr, November 1, 2007), cover price $125.00

Breaking Through Mexico's Past: Digging the Aztecs With Eduardo Matos Moctezuma

Product Description: This biography of Mexico's award-winning archaeologist, Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, is based on a series of interviews conducted by DavÃd Carrasco and Leonardo L?pez Luj?n, respected Mesoamericanists in their own right. Born in 1940 Mexico City, Matos Moctezuma's father was a diplomat from the Dominican Republic and his mother was a Mexican national...read more

By David Carrasco, Leonardo Lopez Lujan and Eduardo Matos Moctezuma

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9780826338310 | Univ of New Mexico Pr, April 30, 2007, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: This biography of Mexico's award-winning archaeologist, Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, is based on a series of interviews conducted by DavÃd Carrasco and Leonardo L?

Say The Name: A Survivor's Tale In Prose And Poetry

Product Description: Say the Name vividly describes in the voice of a fourteen-year-old the experiences of a Jewish girl who was imprisoned in Ravensbruck Concentration Camp during World War II. Miraculously, Judita Sternova of Kurima, Czechoslovakia, survives persecutions, hiding, flight, capture, deportation, and the Camp...read more

By David Carrasco (introduced by) and Judith H. Sherman

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9780826334312 | Univ of New Mexico Pr, June 1, 2005, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Say the Name vividly describes in the voice of a fourteen-year-old the experiences of a Jewish girl who was imprisoned in Ravensbruck Concentration Camp during World War II.

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9780826334329 | Univ of New Mexico Pr, May 15, 2005, cover price $24.95

Alambrista and the U.S.-Mexico Border: Film, Music, and Stories of Undocumented Immigrants

Product Description: Robert M. Young's critically acclaimed 110-minute film Alambrista (1977) depicts the harsh realities of Mexican life on both sides of the border. Following the birth of his first child, a young Mexican slips across the border into the United States in search of the American dream for himself and his family...read more

By David Carrasco (editor) and Nicholas John Cull (editor)

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9780826333759 | Har/dvd edition (Univ of New Mexico Pr, March 1, 2004), cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Robert M.

Moctezuma's Mexico: Visions of the Aztec World

Examines the Aztec civilization and discusses recent archaeological finds and theories

By David Carrasco, Eduardo Matos Moctezuma and Scott Sessions

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9780870812637 | Univ Pr of Colorado, September 1, 1992, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Examines the Aztec civilization and discusses recent archaeological finds and theories

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9780870816765 | Rev sub edition (Univ Pr of Colorado, July 1, 2003), cover price $35.95

Mesoamerica's Classic Heritage: From Teotihuacan to the Aztecs

Product Description: For more than a millennium the great Mesoamerican city of Teotihuacan (c. 150 B.C.E. - 750 C.E.) has been imagined and reimagined by a host of subsequent cultures, including our own. Mesoamerica's Classic Heritage engages the subject of the unity and diversity of pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica by focusing on the classic heritage of this ancient city...read more

By David Carrasco (editor), Lindsay Jones (editor) and Scott Sessions (editor)

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9780870816376 | Univ Pr of Colorado, January 1, 2002, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: For more than a millennium the great Mesoamerican city of Teotihuacan (c.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures: The Civilizations of Mexico and Central America

Entries offer information on the geography, history, arts, literature, religion, and architecture of Pre-Hispanic, Colonial, and modern Mesoamerican cultures that span from central Mexico to present-day Costa Rica. (view table of contents)

By David Carrasco (editor)

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9780195108156 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, June 7, 2001, cover price $520.00 | About this edition: Entries offer information on the geography, history, arts, literature, religion, and architecture of Pre-Hispanic, Colonial, and modern Mesoamerican cultures that span from central Mexico to present-day Costa Rica.

City of Sacrifice: The Aztec Empire and the Role of Violence in Civilization

Chronicles the story of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, investigating Aztec religious practices, arguing that religious violence was integral to urbanization (view table of contents)

By David Carrasco

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9780807046425 | Beacon Pr, December 1, 1999, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Chronicles the story of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, investigating Aztec religious practices, arguing that religious violence was integral to urbanization

Paperback:

9780807046432 | Beacon Pr, December 8, 2000, cover price $25.00

Miscellaneous:

9780807046524 | Beacon Pr, November 7, 2000, cover price $27.50

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures

By David Carrasco (editor)

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9780195142556 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 1, 2000, cover price $55.01 | also contains Hilbert Functions of Filtered Modules | About this edition: Entries offer information on the geography, history, arts, literature, religion, and architecture of Pre-Hispanic, Colonial, and modern Mesoamerican cultures that span from central Mexico to present-day Costa Rica.

9780195142563 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 1, 2000, cover price $55.01 | also contains Intertemporal Resource Economics: An Introduction to the Overlapping Generations Approach | About this edition: Entries offer information on the geography, history, arts, literature, religion, and architecture of Pre-Hispanic, Colonial, and modern Mesoamerican cultures that span from central Mexico to present-day Costa Rica.

9780195142570 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 1, 2000, cover price $55.01 | also contains Performance Measurement: Linking Balanced Scorecard to Business Intelligence | About this edition: Entries offer information on the geography, history, arts, literature, religion, and architecture of Pre-Hispanic, Colonial, and modern Mesoamerican cultures that span from central Mexico to present-day Costa Rica.

Mesoamerica's Classic Heritage: From Theotihuacan to the Aztecs

Product Description: For more than a millennium the great Mesoamerican city of Teotihuacn (c. 150 b.c.a.d. 750) has been imagined and reimagined by a host of subsequent cultures including our own. Mesoamerica's Classic Heritage engages the subject of the unity and diversity of pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica by focusing on the classic heritage of this ancient city...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By David Carrasco (editor), Lindsay Jones (editor) and Scott Sessions (editor)

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9780870815126 | Univ Pr of Colorado, December 1, 1999, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: For more than a millennium the great Mesoamerican city of Teotihuacn (c.

Aztec Ceremonial Landscapes

Papers from a conference bring insights from archaeoastronomy, the history of religion, anthropology, art history, and archaeology to the study of pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica (view table of contents)

By David Carrasco (editor)

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9780870815096 | Univ Pr of Colorado, May 1, 1999, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Papers from a conference bring insights from archaeoastronomy, the history of religion, anthropology, art history, and archaeology to the study of pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica

Religions of Mesoamerica: Cosmovision and Ceremonial Centers

Product Description: Engaging exploration of religious expression in Mexico! Highly regarded scholar Davd Carrasco provides an overview of the history of Mesoamerican cultures and vividly describes their religious forms, structures, myths, and prevailing "cosmovision"--the Mesoamerican view of time and space and its ritualized representation and enactment...read more

By David Carrasco

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9781577660064 | Waveland Pr Inc, April 1, 1998, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Engaging exploration of religious expression in Mexico!

9780060613259 | Harper San Francisco, October 1, 1990, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: A vivid introduction to the native religions of Mexico and Central America from one of the leading scholars in the field.

Waiting for the Dawn: Mircea Eliade in Perspective

First published in 1991,Â Waiting for the DawnÂ is the result of a year-long interdisciplinary study of Mircea Eliadeâs scholarly, literary, and autobiographical works which took place at the University of Colorado in 1982. With a preface by DavÃd Carrasco that takes into account recent developments in Eliade scholarship, this important work is back in print after renewed interest in Eliade thanks to Francis Ford Coppolaâs screen adaptationÂ Youth without YouthÂ (2007).

By David Carrasco and Jane Marie Law (editor)

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9780813301471 | Westview Pr, June 1, 1985, cover price $38.50 | About this edition: First published in 1991,Â Waiting for the DawnÂ is the result of a year-long interdisciplinary study of Mircea Eliadeâs scholarly, literary, and autobiographical works which took place at the University of Colorado in 1982.

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9780870812392 | Reprint edition (Univ Pr of Colorado, December 1, 1991), cover price $23.95

To Change Place: Aztec Ceremonial Landscapes

Product Description: To Change Place: Aztec Ceremonial Landscapes [Hardcover]

By David Carrasco (editor)

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9780870811944 | Univ of Oklahoma Pr, March 1, 1991, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: To Change Place: Aztec Ceremonial Landscapes [Hardcover]

Witchcraft and Sorcery of the American Native Peoples

Product Description: A collection of studies (previously published) which is a revised and expanded edition of Walker's 1970 collection. Coverage has been extended to include the peoples of both Mesoamerica and the Arctic. When coupled with comparative studies drawn from other parts of the world, this volume contributes toward a cross-cultural theory of the forms and functions of supernatural techniques used to bring misfortune to others...read more

By David Carrasco (editor) and Deward E. Walker

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9780893011277 | Subsequent edition (Univ of Idaho Pr, June 1, 1990), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A collection of studies (previously published) which is a revised and expanded edition of Walker's 1970 collection.

The Imagination of Matter

Product Description: Eleven papers on the formation and character of the Mesoamerican cosmovision exploring the interaction between religious imagination, the movements of stars, the contours of mountains, hunting, stones, sun, moon, Venus and parts of the human body.

By David Carrasco (editor)

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9780860546566, titled "The Imagination of Matter: Religion and Ecology in Mesoamerican Traditions" | British Archaeological Reports Ltd, December 31, 1989, cover price $42.50 | About this edition: Eleven papers on the formation and character of the Mesoamerican cosmovision exploring the interaction between religious imagination, the movements of stars, the contours of mountains, hunting, stones, sun, moon, Venus and parts of the human body.

The Great Temple of Tenochtitlan: Center and Periphery in the Aztec World

Product Description: The remains of the great double pyramid of Tenochtitlan, capital of the Aztec empire, came to light during the spectacular excavation project undertaken by the Instituto Nacional de AntropologÃa e Historia from 1978 to 1982. This volume offers three views of the Templo Mayor as the quintessential sacred space within the Aztec empire, presented in a collaborative effort by an archaeologist, an ethnohistorian, and a historian of religion...read more

By Johanna Broda, David Carrasco and Eduardo Matos Moctezuma

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9780520056022 | Univ of California Pr, January 1, 1988, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Examines the importance of the Aztec temple from the perspectives of archaeologist, ethnohistorian, and religious historian

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9780520065970 | Reprint edition (Univ of California Pr, May 1, 1989), cover price $22.50 | About this edition: The remains of the great double pyramid of Tenochtitlan, capital of the Aztec empire, came to light during the spectacular excavation project undertaken by the Instituto Nacional de AntropologÃa e Historia from 1978 to 1982.

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