'In Our Sphere of Life' :$bGerman-Speaking Immigrants in Yucatán and Their Descendants, 1876-1914 /$cAlma Durán-Merk.

Using comprehensive ethnographic and historical methodologies, it examines how the origins of the migrants affected not only their possibilities of integration into the receiving society, but also how they impacted the opportunities and challenges faced by their descendants for several generations. Decades long the literature about the German presence in México positioned this as an exclusively elite migration, highlighting its lack of integration into the Mexican society, and assuming that the characteristics of the capital's population would be representative for the whole country. In this pioneering study Alma Durán-Merk breakdowns those stereotypes. Recurring to dozens of private and public archives on both sides of the Atlantic, this carefully crafted ethno-historical work examines the characteristics of origin and the life forms of the German-speaking immigrants and their descendants during the so-called Golden Time of Yucatán. The result is a highly differentiated mosaic of individual and familiar life paths. Durán-Merk's work is the first systematical research that inspects critically the relocation and acculturation phenomena on four generations of German origin in México. It demonstrates that is not possible to speak about a representative migration process.

Jewish Writings from the Hellenistic-Roman Period is a collection of apocrypha and Old Testament pseudoepigrapha along with other ancient Jewish writings of importance for the understanding of the cultural realities in the epoch of ancient Judaism and early Christianity. The texts are made accessible in academically precise translations with brief introductions and comments. The series is intended for teachers and students of Bible studies, Jewish studies, Ancient Near Eastern studies (and related disciplines), Egyptology, the History of Religion and Culture, and for the general reader interested in cultural and religious history.

INDEX ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABBREVIATIONS TABLES & FIGURES 1. INTRODUCTION 2 . THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK 3. ANTECEDENTS: THE GERMAN STATES AND MÉXICO ( 1821 - 1876 ) 4. THE RECEIVING SOCIETY 5. GERMAN-SPEAKING IMMIGRANTS AND THEIR DESCENDANTS 6. IN THE "LAND OF THE PHEASANT AND THE DEER" 7. IN OUR SPHERE OF LIFE 8. CONCLUSION APPENDIX 1. LIST OF SOURCES APPENDIX 2. CHRONOLOGY APPENDIX 3. GLOSSARY APPENDIX 4. LIST OF THE IMMIGRANT GENERATION APPENDIX 5. SOURCES EVALUATED FOR THE FAMILY PORTRAITS APPENDIX 6. FAMILY TREES