Weaving the Past: A History of Latin America's Women from the Prehispanic Period to the Present

by Susan Kellogg

Book Overview

Weaving the Past offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary history of Latin America's indigenous women. While the book concentrates on native women in Mesoamerica and the Andes, it covers indigenous people in other parts of South and Central America, including lowland peoples in and beyond Brazil, and Afro-indigenous peoples, such as the Garifuna, of Central America. Drawing on primary and secondary sources, it argues that change, not continuity,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195183282
• ISBN13: 9780195183283
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"