Alfredo Lopez

The Rabbit on the Face of the Moon: Mythology in the Mesoamerican Tradition

Eighteen essays provide an accessible, entertaining look into a system of millennia-old legends and beliefs.Mythology is one of the great creations of humankind. It forms the core of sacred books and reflects the deepest preoccupations of human beings, their most intimate secrets, their glories, and...

Dona Licha's Island: Modern Colonialism in Puerto Rico

Mexico's Indigenous Past (Civilization of the American Indian Series)

This handsomely illustrated book offers a panoramic view of ancient Mexico, beginning more than thirty thousand years ago and ending with European occupation in the sixteenth century. Drawing on archaeological and ethnohistorical sources, the book is one of the first to offer a unified vision of Mex...

El conejo en la cara de la luna. Ensayos sobre mitología de la tradición meosamericana (Spanish Edition)

Alfredo López Austin, uno de los más destacados estudiosos del pensamiento y la religión prehispánicas, autor de grandes tratados e indagaciones exhaustivas, ofrece aquí una muestra de sus hallazgos. Y lo hace en el tono de quien conversa, con humor y ánimo de entretener, a la vez echando mano de to...

Dioses del Norte. Dioses del Sur. Religiones y cosmovisioin en Mesoamerica y Los Andes (Spanish Edition)

Dicen los autores de este libro sobre religion y cosmovision en Mesoamerica y los Andes: Hace ya muchos anos que los autores coincidimos en varias reuniones motivadas por nuestro comun interes en el mundo sobrenatural de nuestros antepasados indigenas. En todas nos manifestamos preocupados por la es...

El burlador de Sevilla o el convidado de piedra/ The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest (Letras Hispanicas/ Hispanic Writings) (Spanish Edition)

El burlador de Sevilla, el personaje más universal del teatro español, ha dado origen aun mito asentado sobre dos personajes: la pareja inseparable Burlador/Criado (se llame éste como se llame) y una figura, la del Comendador, inseparable también del mito de Don Juan. La presente edición plantea una...

The Art of Urbanism: How Mesoamerican Kingdoms Represented Themselves in Architecture and Imagery (Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia)

The Art of Urbanism explores how the royal courts of powerful Mesoamerican centers represented their kingdoms in architectural, iconographic, and cosmological terms. Through an investigation of the ecological contexts and environmental opportunities of urban centers, the contributors consider how an...

Images of the Spirit

Graciela Iturbide makes subtle yet powerful photographs that blend evocative scenes, primarily the cultures of her native Mexico, with her own deeply personal vision. Images of the Spirit, the first major publication of Iturbide's photography, demonstrates how in her dreamlike encounters with what m...

Alfredo Lopez

Alfredo Jose Miguel Lopez (born 1949) is an activist, writer, media producer, teacher and organizer in Brooklyn, New York. He is currently a well-known Internet...