This book examines the critical and often undervalued contributions of women to the culture, well-being, and subsistence of their communities as active, powerful, and wise ritual specialists.
Marcos, an expert on gender issues in ancient and contemporary Mesoamerica, works from colonial documents of the period of contact with European cultures and testimonies of indigenous people of the pe
Feminist scholars and activists present diverse conceptual frameworks of transnational/transcultural forms of feminism. Waller (women's studies and comparative literature, U. of California, Riverside)
This book is the outcome of a research program conducted by an international and multidisciplinary team of 20 scholars on the relation between indigenous spirituality and sustainable development. It r