Latin America category: 3090 books
Degrees of Mixture, Degrees of Freedom
Genomics, Multiculturalism, and Race in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Race mixture, or mestizaje, has played a critical role in the history, culture, and politics of Latin America. In Degrees of Mixture, Degrees of Freedom, Peter Wade draws on a multidisciplinary research study in Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia. He shows how Latin American elites and outside observers...
The First Export Era Revisited
Reassessing its Contribution to Latin American Economies
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
This book challenges the wide-ranging generalizations that dominate the literature on the impact of export-led growth upon Latin America during the first export era. The contributors to this volume contest conventional approaches, stemming from structuralism and dependency theory, which portray a...
In Search of Christ in Latin America
From Colonial Image to Liberating Savior
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
"A treasure of a book! Escobar includes historical, sociological, political, and theological information and insights that give us the complex layers of understanding Christology in Latin America starting with its roots in Iberian theology and focusing on the Christology in the twentieth century....
Voices of Crime
Constructing and Contesting Social Control in Modern Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Crime exists in every society, revealing not only the way in which societies function but also exposing the standards that society holds about what is harmful and punishable. Criminalizing individuals and actions is not the exclusive domain of the state; it emerges from the collective consciousness—the...
by Jerry Dávila
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
Dictatorship in South America explores the experiences of Brazilian, Argentine and Chilean experience under military rule.
Presents a single-volume thematic study that explores experiences with dictatorship as well as their social and historical contexts in Latin America
Examines at the ideological...
by Benedict Lechova
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Experience from practical life, recommendations and 20 pieces of useful advice.
This publication is intended primarily for South American visitors who travel on the continent "on their own" or those who wish to take advantage of a long-term stay – simply, those in Latin America...
Hybrid Cultures
Strategies for Entering and Leaving Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
When it was originally published, Hybrid Cultures was foundational to Latin American cultural studies. This now-classic work features a new introduction in which Nestor Garcia Canclini calls for a cultural politics to contain the damaging effects of globalization and responds to relevant theoretical...
Cumbia!
Scenes of a Migrant Latin American Music Genre
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Cumbia is a musical form that originated in northern Colombia and then spread throughout Latin America and wherever Latin Americans travel and settle. It has become one of the most popular musical genre in the Americas. Its popularity is largely due to its stylistic flexibility. Cumbia absorbs and...
The Senses of Democracy
Perception, Politics, and Culture in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
In The Senses of Democracy, Francine R. Masiello traces a history of perceptions expressed in literature, the visual arts, politics, and history from the start of the nineteenth century to the present day. A wide transnational landscape frames the book along with an original and provocative thesis:...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Centering Animals in Latin American History writes animals back into the history of colonial and postcolonial Latin America. This collection reveals how interactions between humans and other animals have significantly shaped narratives of Latin American histories and cultures. The contributors work...
The Making of Modern Colombia
A Nation in Spite of Itself
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 1993
Colombia's status as the fourth largest nation in Latin America and third most populous—as well as its largest exporter of such disparate commodities as emeralds, books, processed cocaine, and cut flowers—makes this, the first history of Colombia written in English, a much-needed book. It tells...
A Living Past
Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
Though still a relatively young field, the study of Latin American environmental history is blossoming, as the contributions to this definitive volume demonstrate. Bringing together thirteen leading experts on the region, A Living Past synthesizes a wide range of scholarship to offer new perspectives...
Rethinking the Informal City
Critical Perspectives from Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Latin American cities have always been characterized by a strong tension between what is vaguely described as their formal and informal dimensions. However, the terms formal and informal refer not only to the physical aspect of cities but also to their entire socio-political fabric. Informal cities...
Contemporary Latin American Cinema
Breaking into the Global Market
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2007
This engaging book explores some of the most significant films to emerge from Latin America since 2000, an extraordinary period of international recognition for the region's cinema. Each chapter assesses an individual film, with some contributors considering the reasons for the unprecedented commercial...