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Esta crónica comienza en la madrugada del 29 de agosto de 1996 en La Crucecita, Huatulco con el descubrimiento de un cadáver, supuestamente de un guerrillero de la localidad de Loxicha, Oaxaca. A partir de entonces, durante los proximos años, policia y militares se desplazan a la region de Loxicha y comienzan arrestos masivos, torturas en sotanos con musica a todo volumen donde personas monolingues zapotecas son interrogadas en español acerca de grupos armados, casas de seguridad, guerrilleros de lo cual no saben nada.

La obra "La vieja verde: Estudios al natural" de Manuel Fernández y González es un texto fundamental en el ámbito de la narrativa costumbrista del siglo XIX en España. En este libro, el autor despliega un estilo descriptivo y minucioso, caracteristico de su prosa, que permite al lector adentrarse en la vida cotidiana y las tradiciones de la sociedad de su tiempo. La narrativa se centra en la figura de una anciana que, en su sabiduria y experiencia, refleja los problemas y virtudes de la vida rural y urbana en la España de la epoca. La obra, rica en detalles y matices, ofrece una profunda reflexion sobre la condicion humana y los cambios sociales que se estaban gestando en el siglo XIX. Manuel Fernandez y Gonzalez, conocido por sus contribuciones al realismo español, ha dedicado gran parte de su trabajo a explorar los entornos sociales y culturales en los que vivio. Su interes por la naturaleza humana y la observacion de las costumbres populares influyeron en su estilo literario y en el contenido de "La vieja verde". Esta obra no solo revela su habilidad como narrador, sino tambien su compromiso con una literatura que refleje la realidad social y cultural de su tiempo. Recomiendo encarecidamente "La vieja verde: Estudios al natural" a todos aquellos interesados en la literatura costumbrista y en el analisis de la sociedad española del siglo XIX. La obra no solo es un deleite literario, sino tambien un importante documento historico que brinda al lector una comprension mas profunda de la epoca y sus costumbres.En esta edicion enriquecida, hemos creado cuidadosamente un valor añadido para tu experiencia de lectura:- Una Introduccion sucinta situa el atractivo atemporal de la obra y sus temas.- La Sinopsis describe la trama principal, destacando los hechos clave sin revelar giros criticos.- Un Contexto Historico detallado te sumerge en los acontecimientos e influencias de la epoca que dieron forma a la escritura.- Un Analisis exhaustivo examina simbolos, motivos y la evolucion de los personajes para descubrir significados profundos.- Preguntas de reflexion te invitan a involucrarte personalmente con los mensajes de la obra, conectandolos con la vida moderna.- Citas memorables seleccionadas resaltan momentos de brillantez literaria.- Notas de pie de pagina interactivas aclaran referencias inusuales, alusiones historicas y expresiones arcaicas para una lectura mas fluida e enriquecedora.

J. G. Frazer explica en esta selección de su obra fundamental, La rama dorada: magia y religión, que existen leyes generales del pensamiento primitivo que se han transmitido hasta nuestros días bajo la forma impalpable y el respeto irrestricto que profesamos hacia objetos y palabras tabu.

Ricardo Pozas escribe sobre los indios tzotziles chiapanecos en la persona de Juan Pérez Jolote, del que describe su biografía. La prosa utilizada, de gran valor literario, pronto alcanzó un excelente nivel narrativo que lo ha convertido en un libro que se inserta en la tradicion de la novela indigenista mexicana.

Después de la fábula de las mil y quinientas islas que componen el Archipiélago Filipino, viene la de las "centenares de razas que en babilónica confusión pueblan las islas", como dice un autor lírico geografico que escribio sobre este pais. Haciendo omision de las rocas, peñas, islotes insignificantes, muchos sin vegetacion, otros con solo una especie de aves y algunos insectos como fauna, y la mayoria sin un ser humano que le habite, quedan, como islas habitadas y que solo cuentan, al tratarse de Filipinas, unas cuantas desde la de Luzon, que es la mayor, hasta la de Cagayancillo, que es una de las mas diminutas. Asi ocurre con las famosas "razas", nombre pomposo cuyo significado se ha confundido aplicandolo a agrupaciones politicas que en nada se diferencian unas de otras. Los estudios etnograficos mas recientes han demostrado que las razas que habitan nuestro archipielago son tres, a saber: negritos, indonesianos y malayos. Pero de estas razas resultan no solo varios mestizajes sino una gran variedad de tribus caracterizadas principalmente por las lenguas o, mejor dicho, dialectos filipinos que hablan. Si nos fundaramos en razones linguisticas para dar nombres a las diferentes agrupaciones de hombres, el numero de las llamadas "razas filipinas", con ser bastante crecido, no llegaria sin embargo a la cifra que hoy alcanza y que el profesor Blumentritt ha tenido la paciente labor de reunir en un folleto por orden alfabetico, publicado en español, con el titulo de Las razas del archipielago filipino. Como los estudios linguisticos aclaran poderosamente las cuestiones antropologicas, he creido que seria util hacer una informacion que permita establecer la etimologia de los nombres que hoy se aplican a las diferentes tribus que, con el nombre de razas, pueblan Filipinas.

Andrés Pérez de Ribas llegó a la Nueva España en 1604 y vivió durante 16 años entre los indios zuaques, ahomes y yaquis del noroeste de México. Nos entrega en esta selección paisajes, pueblos, costumbres y peripecias que enmarcaron la conquista espiritual de aquel territorio.

First published in the Bureau of American Ethnology, The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees (Illustrated) assembles a corpus of ritual textshealing, divination, hunting, love, warfare, and ball-game ritesrecorded in Sequoyahs syllabary and translated with philological care. Mooney couples the formulas parallelism, refrain, and archaic diction with commentary on performance, materia medica, and cosmology, noting numerologies and directional symbolism. The illustrated apparatus reproduces manuscripts and ethnobotanical identifications, giving visual access to a tradition where word, gesture, and object form a whole. James Mooney (18611921), a Smithsonian ethnographer with the Bureau of American Ethnology, conducted extended fieldwork among the Eastern Band of Cherokee in the late nineteenth century. Self-trained in Indigenous languages, he partnered with Cherokee practitioners and scribes, transcribing texts in the original syllabary before offering literal and free translations. Working amid missionary pressure and legal suppression of ritual practice, Mooney adopted a documentary ethic aimed at preserving knowledge while acknowledging its custodians. This edition is indispensable for scholars of anthropology, Indigenous studies, comparative religion, and ethnolinguistics, and for readers seeking a primary-source window into Cherokee intellectual life. Read alongside contemporary Cherokee scholarship, the illustrated volume invites careful, respectful study of a living tradition articulated in its own authoritative voice.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Isis Unveiled (Vol. 1 & 2) is Blavatskys sweeping synthesis and polemic: Volume I ("Science") challenges nineteenthcentury materialism; Volume II ("Theology") rebukes ecclesiastical dogma, proposing a perennial wisdom. In an encyclopedic, citationheavy collage ranging from the Vedas and Buddhist sutras to Neoplatonists, Hermeticists, and Church Fathers, it argues for occult causation and latent psychic faculties, emblematic of the Victorian occult revival amid Darwinian debate and nascent comparative religion. Russianborn Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, cofounder of the Theosophical Society (1875), wrote in New York drawing on extensive travel, multilingual reading, and claimed instruction from Eastern adepts. A journalist and tireless compiler, she mined archives, travelers reports, and philology then circulating in Europe and America. Encounters in Egypt and India, and immersion in Spiritualist circles, reinforced her conviction that ancient esoteric sciences underlie both religion and nature. Scholars of intellectual history, religious studies, and Western esotericism will find a provocative index of nineteenthcentury thought. Read critically yet sympathetically: as a quarry of sources, a feat of comparative imagination, and a cornerstone of Theosophy. Whether sought as an alternative to positivism or as a document of the eras ambitions and anxieties, Isis Unveiled repays patient, discriminating study.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

The Passing of the Aborigines gathers Batess newspaper pieces into a chronicle of Aboriginal life and colonial rupture across remote Australia. Mixing anecdotal reportage with ethnographic notes, it describes ceremonies, kinship, languages, illness, hunger, and policing. The Edwardian, rhetorical style and serialized, episodic formshaped in part by Ernestine Hillmark an interwar "salvage" anthropology that marries meticulous observation to an extinctionist, paternalist frame. Irish-born and largely self-taught, Bates spent years among communities in Western and South Australia, most notably at Ooldea on the Nullarbor, where she was known as Kabbarli, "grandmother." Sustained by journalism, small stipends, and scientific correspondence, she compiled vocabularies and genealogies; isolation, precarity, and a crusading sense of "protection" shaped both her intimacy with and misreadings of Aboriginal worlds. Approached critically and alongside Indigenous scholarship and contemporary histories, this volume repays attention as both field record and cultural artifact. Scholars of anthropology, Australian history, and settler colonialism will value its observational density; general readers will encounter a revealing, period voice. Recommended as a starting point rather than a verdict on the peoples it depicts.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

In Teutonic Mythology: The Gods and Goddesses of the Northland (Vol. 1-3), Viktor Rydberg reconstructs the Germanic cosmos by interlacing Eddaic verse, kennings, sagas, law codes, and place-names into a narrative. His style, both philological and visionary, joins etymology with comparative Indo-European mythography, placing Odin, Thor, Freyja, and heroic cycles within a cosmogony from Ginnungagap to Ragnarok. Written in the wake of Grimm and Romantic historicism, it seeks coherence lost to Christian redaction, advancing new identifications and chronologies. Rydberg (18281895) was a Swedish poet, novelist, and intellectual whose training in classics and biblical criticism sharpened his source work. A liberal humanist and member of the Swedish Academy, he fused journalistic discipline with antiquarian zeal, seeking in the Nordic past an ethical counter to modern materialism. His historical fiction and essays supplied the confidenceand the skepticism toward late interpolationsdriving this synthesis. Scholars of Norse studies, comparative religion, folklore, and intellectual history will find this edition rewarding. Even where its bold reconstructions invite debate, the collation of texts, lucid cross-references, and architecture make it invaluable as both reference and artifact of nineteenth-century mythography. For readers who wish to see fragments cohere into a mythic epic, Rydberg remains a demanding yet bracing guide.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

The Lenâpé and Their Legends distills Lenape history, mythology, and language through a rigorously annotated edition of the Walam Olum, accompanied by pictographs, glossary, and notes. Brinton survey

The Medicine-Men of the Apache offers a closely observed ethnography of Apache healers: their rites, chants, materia medica, cosmology, and social authority. Bourke alternates translated incantations with case sketches and careful inventories of paraphernalia, embedding practice within mythic etiologies. Stylistically, it blends taxonomic catalog with vivid field reportage, typical of late-nineteenth-century Bureau of Ethnology work, rich in lexical notes and ritual choreography yet inflected by period classifications that merit critical reading. An Irish-American soldier-scholar, Bourke served as aide to General George Crook and spent years among Apache scouts and reservation communities, filling notebooks with linguistic gleanings and ethnographic detail. Access mediated by interpreters and pragmatic alliances brought him to ritual specialists. The study reflects his broader corpus, from On the Border with Crook to The Snake-Dance of the Moquis, and his salvage impulse, even as his colonial vantage inevitably delimited perception and nomenclature. Readers in anthropology, Indigenous studies, and the history of medicine will find an essential primary source: empirically rich, interpretively fraught, and enduringly instructive. Approach it critically and comparatively, alongside contemporary Apache voices, and the book yields granular evidence for understanding ritual, authority, and knowledge under conditions of upheaval.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

The Fairy Legends is a great collection of folk tales about fairies from all over the world. The book looks at fairy traditions from various countries and nations; Scandinavia, the British Isles, Germany, with folklore tales and the histories behind myths and legends of such mythical creatures as the Kobolds or Korrigans. The author took a thorough approach to the study of myth and folklore, and explored the parallels between the myth of a nation to the religions and mythology of other regions.

"Egyptian Birds" by Charles Whymper. Published by e-artnow. e-artnow publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgottenor yet undiscovered gemsof world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each e-artnow edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

In "Cherokee Mythology (Illustrated Edition)", James Mooney offers a comprehensive exploration of the rich tapestry of Cherokee beliefs and narratives, blending anthropological rigor with a lyrical literary style. This work delves into the sacred stories, deities, and rituals that form the backbone of Cherokee culture, presenting them not merely as myths but as vital elements of identity and communal memory. The beautifully illustrated edition enhances the textual experience, inviting readers to visualize the intricate connections between the Cherokee people and their ancestral tales, while situating these myths within the broader context of Native American literature and spirituality. James Mooney, an esteemed anthropologist and a pioneering figure in the study of Native American cultures, spent several years living among the Cherokee. His unique immersion into their communities allowed him to collect authentic narratives and understand the cultural significance behind them, ultimately leading to this seminal text. Mooneys dedication to preserving indigenous knowledge and stories is evident throughout, as is his desire to bridge cultural gaps through his scholarship. This illustrated edition is highly recommended for readers interested in anthropology, folklore, and indigenous studies. It serves not only as an academic resource but also as a profound exploration of the human experience through myth. Whether you are a student, researcher, or simply a curious reader, Mooneys work will captivate you and deepen your understanding of the Cherokee worldview.In this enriched edition, we have carefully created added value for your reading experience:- A succinct Introduction situates the works timeless appeal and themes.- The Synopsis outlines the central plot, highlighting key developments without spoiling critical twists.- A detailed Historical Context immerses you in the eras events and influences that shaped the writing.- A thorough Analysis dissects symbols, motifs, and character arcs to unearth underlying meanings.- Reflection questions prompt you to engage personally with the works messages, connecting them to modern life.- Handpicked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.- Interactive footnotes clarify unusual references, historical allusions, and archaic phrases for an effortless, more informed read.

"Lancashire Folk-lore" by Thomas Turner Wilkinson, John Harland. Published by e-artnow. e-artnow publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgottenor yet undiscovered gemsof world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each e-artnow edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.