South America category: 2208 books
Yutopian
Archaeology, Ambiguity, and the Production of Knowledge in Northwest Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Around 400 BCE, inhabitants of the Southern Andes took up a sedentary lifestyle that included the practice of agriculture. Settlements were generally solitary or clustered structures with walled agricultural fields and animal corrals, and the first small villages appeared in some regions. Surprisingly,...
My Colombian War
A Journey Through the Country I Left Behind
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
A timely, evocative account of a reporter's reckoning with her homeland's volatile past
Growing up in the coastal city of Barranquilla, Colombia, Silvana Paternostro indulged in the typical concerns of a privileged young girl: friendships and parties, school and family. But soon it became apparent...
Leprosy and Colonialism
Suriname Under Dutch Rule, 1750-1950
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Leprosy and colonialism investigates the history of leprosy in Suriname within the context of Dutch colonial power and racial conflict, from the plantation economy and the age of slavery to the modern colonial state. It explores the relationship between the modern stigmatization and exclusion of people...
by Phyllis R. Parker
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
When the Brazilian military overthrew President João Goulart in 1964, American diplomats characterized the coup as a "100 percent Brazilian movement." It has since become apparent, largely through government documents declassified during the course of research for this book, that the United...
by Juan José Saer
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
"Saer is one of the best writers of today in any language."-Ricardo Piglia
"What Saer presents marvelously is the experience of reality, and the characters' attempts to write their own narratives within its excess."-Bookforum
In modern-day Paris, Pichón Garay receives...
Indigenous Mestizos
The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco, Peru, 1919–1991
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2000
In the early twentieth century, Peruvian intellectuals, unlike their European counterparts, rejected biological categories of race as a basis for discrimination. But this did not eliminate social hierarchies; instead, it redefined racial categories as cultural differences, such as differences in education...
Ethnicity, Markets, and Migration in the Andes
At the Crossroads of History and Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 1995
Until now, Andean peasants have primarily been thought of by scholars as isolated subsistence farmers, "resistant" to money and to different markets in the region. Ethnicity, Markets, and Migration in the Andes overturns this widely held assumption and puts in its place a new perspective...
Unfinished Conversations
Mayas and Foreigners Between Two Wars
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
A century ago, European and North American archaeologists first came upon the extraordinary ruins of Chichen Itza and Tulum—and started to converse with the Mayas who inhabited the forests of the Yucatan. In this thought-provoking history of a century-long "unfinished conversation" between...
Slavery and Politics
Brazil and Cuba, 1790-1850
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
The politics of slavery and slave trade in nineteenth-century Cuba and Brazil is the subject of this acclaimed study, first published in Brazil in 2010 and now available for the first time in English. Cubans and Brazilians were geographically separate from each other, but they faced common global...
Our House in the Clouds
Building a Second Life in the Andes of Ecuador
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
While many baby boomers are downsizing to a simpler retirement lifestyle, photographer and writer Judy Blankenship and her husband Michael Jenkins took a more challenging leap in deciding to build a house on the side of a mountain in southern Ecuador. They now live half the year in Cañar, an indigenous...
Inglorious Revolution
Political Institutions, Sovereign Debt, and Financial Underdevelopment in Imperial Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Nineteenth-century Brazil’s constitutional monarchy credibly committed to repay sovereign debt, borrowing repeatedly in international and domestic capital markets without default. Yet it failed to lay the institutional foundations that private financial markets needed to thrive. This study shows why...
by Cristina Maria de Castro
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
This book shows the results of my doctoral thesis in Social Sciences about the construction of Muslim identities in São Paulo, the state which receives more Muslim immigrants in Brazil. The issue of construction of identities of this religious minority was undertaken in relation to: a) the pressures...
Argentine Cinema
From Noir to Neo-Noir
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Argentine Cinema: From Noir to Neo-Noir examines the phenomenon of Argentine film noir. Beginning with definitions of film noir and its international iterations, the book presents a history of the development of film noir and neo-noir in Argentina (from the 1940s to the present), as well as a technical,...
by Celso Thomas Castilho
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Winner, 2018 AHA Bolton Prize (best book on Latin American History)
Winner, 2018 AHA/CLAH Dean Prize (best book on Brazilian History)
Celso Thomas Castilho offers original perspectives on the political upheaval surrounding the process of slave emancipation in postcolonial Brazil. He shows how...