Latin American Studies

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A Beautiful Fight

The Racial Politics of Capoeira in Backland Bahia

By Esther Viola Kurtz
Subjects: Dance, Music, Ethnomusicology, African American Studies, Latin American Studies, Race and Ethnicity
Series: Music and Social Justice

A critical ethnography of Black and white participation in Afro-Brazilian music and dance

Geographies of Relation

Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas

By Theresa Delgadillo
Subjects: Latinx Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory, 20th Century Literature, Latin American Studies, American Studies, Theater and Performance, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

How diaspora and borderlands subjects from across the Americas have represented and performed their interrelationship

Gheo-Shih

An Archaic Macroband Camp in the Valley of Oaxaca

1st Edition

By Frank Hole & Kent V. Flannery
Subjects: Archaeology, New World, Latin American Studies
Series: Memoirs

Reports on the discovery of Gheo-Shih, an Archaic site in the Valley of Oaxaca, and subsequent archaeological investigations.

Bodies on the Front Lines

Performance, Gender, and Sexuality in Latin America and the Caribbean

Edited by Brenda Werth & Katherine Zien
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Latin American Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Sexuality Studies

Performances as feminist, queer, and trans activism, from theater and flash mobs to street protests and online manifestos

The Burials of Cerro Azul, Peru

1st Edition

By Joyce Marcus
Subjects: Archaeology, New World, Latin American Studies
Series: Memoirs

Burial material from excavations at Cerro Azul in Peru’s Cañete Valley, a pre-Inca fishing community.

None of the Above

Protest Voting in Latin American Democracies

By Mollie J. Cohen
Subjects: Latin American Studies, Political Science, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Governance
Series: Emerging Democracies

How citizens casting an invalid vote still contribute to democracy

Inhabiting the Impossible

Dance and Experimentation in Puerto Rico

Edited by Susan Homar & nibia pastrana santiago
Subjects: Dance, Theater and Performance, Latin American Studies
Series: Studies in Dance: Theories and Practices

Artists and scholars celebrate the development, diversity, and ethics of Puerto Rican experimental dance

Architectures of Hope

Infrastructural Citizenship and Class Mobility in Brazil's Public Housing

By Moisés Kopper
Subjects: Political Science, Urban Politics, Latin American Studies, Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Class Studies

On the eve of the 2008 financial crisis, Brazil implemented its largest-ever public housing program, the Minha Casa Minha Vida

Evading the Patronage Trap

Interest Representation in Mexico

By Brian Palmer-Rubin
Subjects: Latin American Studies, Political Science, Public Policy, Governance

Patronage negatively affects economic opportunity for small farms and businesses

A Study of Crisis

with a new Preface

By Michael Brecher & Jonathan Wilkenfeld
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Economics, International Economics, Latin American Studies, Digital Projects

A comprehensive study of the causes and consequences of war in the twentieth century

New Global Cities in Latin America and Asia

Welcome to the Twenty-First Century

By Pablo Baisotti
Subjects: Political Science, Urban Politics, Latin American Studies, Asian Studies

The modernity of the new century

Human Capital versus Basic Income

Ideology and Models for Anti-Poverty Programs in Latin America

By Fabian A Borges
Subjects: Latin American Studies

Examines the relationship between the widespread election of left-leaning presidents and the diffusion of conditional cash transfer programs in Latin America

(Post-)colonial Archipelagos

Comparing the Legacies of Spanish Colonialism in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines

By Hans-Jürgen Burchardt & Johanna Leinius
Subjects: Political Science, Latin American Studies

The influence of Spanish colonialism on 21st century crises

Translocas

The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance

By Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Latin American Studies, Sexuality Studies, Gender Studies, American Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Argues for the political potential of drag and trans performance in Puerto Rico and its diaspora

Performance in the Zócalo

Constructing History, Race, and Identity in Mexico's Central Square from the Colonial Era to the Present

By Ana Martínez
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Latin American Studies, Latinx Studies

Quien domina el centro, domina el pais: Whoever dominates the center, dominates the country

Advances in Titicaca Basin Archaeology–III

Edited by Alexei Vranich, Elizabeth A. Klarich, and Charles Stanish
Subjects: Archaeology, New World, Latin American Studies
Series: Memoirs

Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in the Upper Mantaro and Tarma Drainages, Junín, Peru

Volume 2, The Wanka Region

Edited by Jeffrey R. Parsons, Charles M. Hastings, and Ramiro Matos M.
Subjects: Archaeology, New World, Latin American Studies
Series: Memoirs

Yuthu

Community and Ritual in an Early Andean Village

By Allison R. Davis
Subjects: Archaeology, New World, Latin American Studies
Series: Memoirs

Maguey Utilization in Highland Central Mexico: An Archaeological Ethnography

By Jeffrey R. Parsons & Mary H. Parsons
Subjects: Archaeology, New World, Latin American Studies
Series: Anthropological Papers Series

Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in the Upper Mantaro and Tarma Drainages, Junín, Peru

The Tarama-Chinchaycocha Region, Vol. 1, Parts 1 and 2

By Jeffrey R. Parsons, Charles M. Hastings, and Ramiro Matos M.
Subjects: Archaeology, New World, Latin American Studies
Series: Memoirs

Monte Albán's Hinterland, Part II

Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in Tlacolula, Etla, and Ocotlan, the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, Vols. 1 and 2

By Stephen Kowalewski, Gary Feinman, Laura Finsten, Richard E. Blanton, and Linda Nicholas
Subjects: Archaeology, New World, Latin American Studies
Series: Memoirs

The Inscriptions of Calakmul

Royal Marriage at a Maya City in Campeche, Mexico

By Joyce Marcus
Subjects: Archaeology, New World, Latin American Studies
Series: Technical Reports

Caciques and Their People

A Volume in Honor of Ronald Spores

Edited by Joyce Marcus & Judith Francis Zeitlin
Subjects: Archaeology, New World, Latin American Studies
Series: Anthropological Papers Series

Spanish-Guarani Relations in Early Colonial Paraguay

By Elman R. Service
Subjects: Archaeology, New World, Latin American Studies
Series: Anthropological Papers Series

Excavation at San José Mogote 1

The Household Archaeology

By Kent V. Flannery & Joyce Marcus
Subjects: Archaeology, New World, Latin American Studies
Series: Memoirs
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