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Despite melancholy s long tenure in European history, little attention has been paid to the subject of melancholy during the Spanish Golden Age, in spite of its enormous importance to Spanish thinking and culture. This volume demonstrates that the melancholy that prevailed in this historical period is an indispensable link in a chain which may help us to further understand the appearance of sadness and malcontent in Europe at the dawn of modernity. Staring with an exploration of "Libro de la melancholia," the first book on melancholy written in vernacular Spanish, "Melancholy and Culture"...

Mexico is home to some of the world s most extraordinary folk art, and the majority of its highly acclaimed pieces were created by women. Looking closely at eight types of Mexican folk art, including votive paintings, embroidered exvotos, cardboard Judas dolls, reproductions of Frida Kahlo s paintings made of clay, and clay figures from Cumicho called "alebrijes," this beautifully illustrated volume is one of the first to trace the role and effects of gender on both the objects of Mexican folk art and the knowledge and life experiences that lie behind them."

Written with verve over a period of twenty years, these essays most translated into English here for the first time suggest why Bartra has become one of Latin America s leading public intellectuals. The essays...