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  • The Militant Song Movement in Latin America

    Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina

    by Pablo Vila, Illa Carrillo Rodríguez, María L. Figueredo, Laura Jordán González, Camila Juárez, Eileen Karmy Bolton, Carlos Molinero, Nancy Morris, Abril Trigo ...
    Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s underwent a profound and often violent process of social change. From the Cuban Revolution to the massive guerrilla movements in Argentina, Uruguay, Peru, Colombia, and most of Central America, to the democratic socialist experiment of Allende in Chile, to the increased popularity of socialist-oriented parties in Uruguay, or para-socialist movements, such as ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • The Latin American Cultural Studies Reader

    Edited by Ana Del Sarto, Alicia Ríos, Abril Trigo ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    The Latin American Cultural Studies Reader brings together thirty-six field-defining essays by the most prominent theorists of Latin American cultural studies. Written over the past several decades, these essays provide an assessment of Latin American cultural studies, an account of the field’s historical formation, and an outline of its significant ideological and methodological trends and ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

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    The Pulitzer Prize–nominated book that served as the basis for the Oscar–winning movie starring Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek.Charles Horman was an American freelance journalist and documentary filmmaker who had traveled to Chile in the early 1970s to explore a country that was undergoing significant changes under the then-Marxist President Salvador Allende. In the course of his research, Horman ... Read more

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  • The Loss of El Dorado

    A Colonial History

    by V. S. Naipaul ...
    In this masterpiece about Trinidad, the Nobel Prize-winning author has “given us a lesson in history [and] shown us how it is best written” (The New York Times).The history of Trinidad begins with a delusion: the belief that somewhere nearby on the South American mainland lay El Dorado, the mythical kingdom of gold. In this extraordinary and often gripping book, V. S. Naipaul—himself a native of ... Read more

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  • The Ecology of Power

    Culture, Place and Personhood in the Southern Amazon, AD 1000–2000

    by Michael J. Heckenberger ...
    In 1884 a community of Brazilians was "discovered" by the Western world. The Ecology of Power examines these indigenous people from the Upper Xingu region, a group who even today are one of the strongest examples of long-term cultural continuity. Drawing upon written and oral history, ethnography, and archaeology, Heckenberger addresses the difficult issues facing anthropologists today as they ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Adoptive Migration

    Raising Latinos in Spain

    by Jessaca B. Leinaweaver ...
    Spain has one of the highest per capita international adoption rates in the world. Internationally adopted kids are coming from many of the same countries as do the many immigrants who are radically transforming Spain's demographics. Based on interviews with adoptive families, migrant families, and adoption professionals, Jessaca B. Leinaweaver examines the experiences of Latin American children ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Race, Place, and Medicine

    The Idea of the Tropics in Nineteenth-Century Brazil

    by Julyan G. Peard ...
    Race, Place, and Medicine examines the impact of a group of nineteenth-century Brazilian physicians who became known posthumously as the Bahian Tropicalista School of Medicine. Julyan G. Peard explores how this group of obscure clinicians became participants in an international debate as they helped change the scientific framework and practices of doctors in Brazil.Peard shows how the ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Amazons, Wives, Nuns, and Witches

    Women and the Catholic Church in Colonial Brazil, 1500-1822

    by Carole A. Myscofski ...
    Series series Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series
    The Roman Catholic church played a dominant role in colonial Brazil, so that women’s lives in the colony were shaped and constrained by the Church’s ideals for pure women, as well as by parallel concepts in the Iberian honor code for women. Records left by Jesuit missionaries, Roman Catholic church officials, and Portuguese Inquisitors make clear that women’s daily lives and their opportunities ... Read more

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  • Conjuring Property

    Speculation and Environmental Futures in the Brazilian Amazon

    by Jeremy M. Campbell, K. Sivaramakrishnan ...
    Series series Culture, Place, and Nature
    Winner of the 2017 James M. Blaut Award from the Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group of the Association of American GeographersHonorable Mention for the 2016 Book Prize from the Association for Political and Legal AnthropologySince the 1960s, when Brazil first encouraged large-scale Amazonian colonization, violence and confusion have often accompanied national policies concerning land ... Read more

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  • Spectacular Modernity

    Dictatorship, Space, and Visuality in Venezuela, 1948-1958

    by Lisa Blackmore ...
    Series Book 76 - Illuminations
    In cultural history, the 1950s in Venezuela are commonly celebrated as a golden age of modernity, realized by a booming oil economy, dazzling modernist architecture, and nationwide modernization projects. But this is only half the story. In this path-breaking study, Lisa Blackmore reframes the concept of modernity as a complex cultural formation in which modern aesthetics became deeply entangled ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Punk and Revolution

    Seven More Interpretations of Peruvian Reality

    by Shane Greene ...
    In Punk and Revolution Shane Greene radically uproots punk from its iconic place in First World urban culture, Anglo popular music, and the Euro-American avant-garde, situating it instead as a crucial element in Peru's culture of subversive militancy and political violence. Inspired by José Carlos Mariátegui's Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality, Greene explores punk's political ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Food, Power, and Resistance in the Andes

    Exploring Quechua Verbal and Visual Narratives

    by Alison Krögel ...
    Food, Power, and Resistance in the Andes is a dynamic, interdisciplinary study of how food's symbolic and pragmatic meanings influence access to power and the possibility of resistance in the Andes. In the Andes, cooking often provides Quechua women with a discursive space for achieving economic self-reliance, creative expression, and for maintaining socio-cultural identities and practices. This ... Read more

    $47.79 USD