Mercedes Sanz-Bachiller

Este libro - cuya primera edición en el FCE se publicó en 1948 - introduce al lector al extraordinario mundo del espíritu maya. Su origen se remonta a los albores de la época colonial, al afán de algunos mayas de linaje ilustre por conservar su identidad, quienes trasladaban antiguos textos jeroglíficos a la nueva escritura aprendida de los frailes españoles. Los cerca de diecisiete libros del Chilam Balam proceden de distintos poblados de la península de Yucatán y cada uno contiene escritos diversos (religiosos, históricos, cronológicos, astronómicos, médicos y poéticos) y de...

El presente libro provee información biográfica de los principales personajes póstumos del pueblo Afrodescendientes de América Latina. El principal objetivo del libro es aportar a visualizar la población AfroLatina y los aportes que esta ha hecho en la construcción de sus respectivos países. Los países de estudio son: Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, México, Nicaragua, Panamá, Perú, República Dominicana, Uruguay y Venezuela. El libro recopila la información por países y subsiguientemente por los temas (i) política,...

Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492-1584) was a foot soldier in the army of Mexico's conqueror Hernán Cortés. The first edition of his True History of the Conquest of New Spain (as it was entitled in a later English translation) was published in Madrid in 1632 from a manuscript copy sent to Spain shortly after the author's death. Written in a highly accessible style, and describing the experiences of the troops themselves rather than seeing events from an officer's perspective, the work became even more successful than the official accounts and went through many editions and translations. The...

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