LATIN AMERICA Spring 2020
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Abortion in Latin America and the Caribbean
An Ecology of Knowledges
Fear, Love, and Technoscience in Guatemalan Forest Conservation Micha Rahder
The Legal Impact of the American Convention on Human Rights Ligia De Jesús Castaldi
Experimental Futures May 2020 320pp 28 illus. 9781478006916 £22.99/$27.95 PB 9781478006107 £90.00/$104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
June 2020 520pp 9780268107659 £58.00/$75.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
New and original study, the first major publication How ways of knowing the forest of Guatemala’s to analyze the abortion laws of Latin American Maya Biosphere Reserve shape conservation and Caribbean nations, parties to the American practice, local livelihoods, and landscapes. Convention on Human Rights.
Argentina in the Global Middle East
Digital Pirates
Policing Intellectual Property in Brazil Alexander Sebastian Dent
Lily Pearl Balloffet
June 2020 264pp 9781503613010 £24.99/$30.00 PB 9781503611740 £77.00/$90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
July 2020 208pp 9781503612976 £21.99/$26.00 PB 9781503611443 £73.00/$85.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Argentina in the Global Middle East connects modern Latin American and Middle Eastern history through their shared links to global migration systems. By following the mobile lives of individuals with roots in the Levantine Middle East, Lily Pearl Balloffet sheds light on the intersections of ethnicity, migrant-homeland ties, and international relations.
Digital Pirates examines the unauthorized creation, distribution, and consumption of movies and music in Brazil. Alexander Sebastian Dent offers a new definition of piracy as indispensable to current capitalism alongside increasing global enforcement of intellectual property.
Handbook of Latin American Studies Vol. 74
I Never Left Home
Poet, Feminist, Revolutionary Margaret Randall March 2020 336pp 30 illus. 9781478006183 £24.99/$29.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Humanities Edited by Katherine D. McCann
In I Never Left Home, poet and revolutionary Margaret Randall tells the moving, captivating, and astonishing story of her life. From her childhood in New York to joining the Sandanista movement in Nicaragua, from escaping political repression in Mexico to raising a family and teaching college; she also weaves political and social analyses and poetry into the narrative of her life.
May 2020 792pp 9781477320983 £129.00/$150.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Handbook of Latin American Studies is the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Volume 74 annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America, as well as covering Latin America as a whole.
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Identity and Nationalism in Modern Argentina
Kissinger and Latin America
Intervention, Human Rights, and Diplomacy Stephen G. Rabe
Defending the True Nation Jeane DeLaney
June 2020 330pp 15 b&w halftones 9781501706295 £36.00/$41.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
June 2020 486pp 9780268107901 £35.00/$45.00 PB 9780268107895 /$125.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Analyzes US policies toward Latin America during the Cold War. Except for the issue of Chile under Salvador Allende, historians have largely ignored inter-American relations during the presidencies of Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford. Excludes ANZ
Study explores the origins and development of Argentina’s two forms of nationalism by linking nationalist thought to ongoing debates over Argentine identity. Demonstrates that national identities are neither unitary nor immutable.
Landscapes of Inequity
Love in the Drug War
Environmental Justice in the Andes-Amazon Region Edited by Nicholas A. Robins & Barbara J. Fraser
Selling Sex and Finding Jesus on the Mexico-US Border Sarah Luna April 2020 280pp 9781477320501 £24.99/$29.95 PB 9781477320495 £77.00/$90.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
July 2020 414pp 6 maps, 7 tables 9781496208026 £56.00/$65.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Sex, drugs, religion, and love are potent combinations in la zona, a regulated prostitution zone in the border city of Reynosa. Scrutinizes la zona, the people who work to survive there, and Reynosa itself—including the influence of the US—adding nuance and new understanding to the current US-Mexico border crisis.
Landscapes of Inequity examines a range of environmental justice issues in the Andes and western Amazon basin from the perspectives of Indigenous peoples and economic development in a global economy. Robins and Fraser explore the debate over rights to and use of resources.
Making Immigrants in Modern Argentina
Making It at Any Cost
Aspirations and Politics in a Counterfeit Clothing Marketplace Matías Dewey
Julia Albarracín
May 2020 270pp 9780268107611 £42.00/$55.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Argues that modern Argentina’s selection of immigrants lies at the intersection of state decision-making processes and a number of economic, cultural, and international factors. Discusses how the current Macri administration, possibly emulating the Trump administration’s immigration policies, has rolled back some of the rights awarded to immigrants.
June 2020 272pp 9781477321058 £39.00/$45.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Dives deep into the world of La Salada to examine how market exchanges function outside the law and how agreements and norms develop in the economy for counterfeit clothing. Argues that aspirations for a better future shape garment workers’ everyday practices.
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Making Market Women
Matters of Justice
Gender, Religion, and Work in Ecuador Jill DeTemple
Pueblos, the Judiciary, and Agrarian Reform in Revolutionary Mexico Helga Baitenmann
March 2020 220pp 9780268107451 £42.00/$55.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
The Mexican Experience May 2020 342pp 4 photos, 8 illus. 9781496219480 £28.99/$35.00 PB 9781496215581 £52.00/$60.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Tells of the initial success, and later failure, of a liberationist Catholic women’s cooperative in central Ecuador. Argues that when gender and religious identities are capitalized, they are made vulnerable. Using archival and ethnographic methods, shares the story of the women involved in the cooperative, producing cheese and knitted goods for local markets.
Offers an original interpretation of Mexico’s revolutionary agrarian reform. From a judiciary takeover of land matters to villagers’ role in shaping the postrevolutionary state by siding with one branch of government over another.
Maya Bonesetters
Out of the Shadow
Manual Healers in a Changing Guatemala Written & Illustrated by Servando G. Hinojosa
Revisiting the Revolution from Post-Peace Guatemala Edited by Julie Gibbings & Heather Vrana
February 2020 256pp 9781477320297 £24.99/$29.95 PB 9781477320280 £77.00/$90.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
July 2020 336pp 9781477320853 £39.00/$45.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Guatemala’s “Ten Years of Spring” began when citizens ushered in a period of social reform. The research of diverse anthropologists and historians offers a new examination of this pivotal chapter in Latin American history whilst also shedding light on the period’s atrocities.
Maya Bonesetters is the first book-length study of bonesetting in Guatemala and situates the manual healing tradition within the current cultural context—one in which a changing medical landscape threatens bonesetters’ work.
Parenting Empires
Pictured Politics
Class, Whiteness, and the Moral Economy of Privilege in Latin America Ana Yolanda Ramos-Zayas
Visualizing Colonial History in South American Portrait Collections Emily Engel
April 2020 304pp 13 illus. 9781478008217 £22.99/$27.95 PB 9781478007746 £90.00/$104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
March 2020 280pp 9781477320594 £52.00/$60.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Explores how official portraiture originated and evolved to become an essential component in the construction of Ibero-American political relationships. Brings to light the historical relevance of political portraits in crafting the history of South American colonialism.
Ramos-Zayas focuses on the parenting practices of Latin American urban elites to analyze how everyday experiences of whiteness, privilege, and inequality reinforce national and hemispheric idioms of anti-corruption and austerity.
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Pluriversal Politics
Politics of Temporalization
The Real and the Possible Arturo Escobar
Medievalism and Orientalism in Nineteenth-Century South America Nadia R. Altschul
Latin America in Translation May 2020 232pp 3 illus. 9781478008460 £20.99/$25.95 PB 9781478007937 £86.00/$99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
June 2020 288pp 9780812252279 £69.00/$79.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Reflecting on the experience, philosophy, and practice of Latin American Indigenous and Afrodescendant activist-intellectuals who mobilize to defend their territories from large-scale extraction, is the key to addressing planetary crises is the creation of the pluriverse, a world of many epistemological and ontological worlds.
The alleged existence of medievality and Moorishness in the Ibero-American archive is not due to the existence of a past that continues to animate the present. Names aspects of the present as remnants of an imagined past.
Predictable Pleasures
Radical Cartographies
Food and the Pursuit of Balance in Rural Yucatán Lauren A. Wynne
Participatory Mapmaking from Latin America Edited by Bjørn Sletto, Alfredo Wagner, Joe Bryan & Charles Hale
At Table May 2020 300pp 9 photos 9781496201317 £43.00/$50.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
August 2020 224pp 9781477320884 £39.00/$45.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
In Predictable Pleasures, Lauren A. Wynne examines the centrality of food in rural Yucatán and how residents practice care, as exercised through food, to negotiate anxieties, achieve desired bodily and social status, and maintain valued cultural forms.
Critically explores the ways in which participatory mapping is being used by Indigenous, Afrodescendant, and other traditional groups in Latin America to preserve their territories and cultural identities. Rethinks the role of maps.
Revolutionary Positions
Risking Immeasurable Harm
Sexuality and Gender in Cuba and Beyond Edited by Michelle Chase, Isabella Cosse, Melina Pappademos & Heidi Tinsman
Immigration Restriction and U.S.-Mexican Diplomatic Relations, 1924–1932 Benjamin C. Montoya
April 2020 360pp 9 tables, 1 graph 9781496201294 £47.00/$55.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
January 2020 234pp 16 illus. 9781478008774 £11.99/$14.00 PB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Demonstrates the correlation of immigration restriction and diplomacy, the ways racism can affect diplomatic relations, and how domestic immigration policy can have international consequences.
For the sixtieth anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, this special issue explores the impact of the revolution through the lens of sexuality and gender, and illuminates the global New Left.
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Shifting Livelihoods
Silver Veins, Dusty Lungs
Gold Mining and Subsistence in the Chocó, Colombia Daniel Tubb Foreword & Series Editing by K. Sivaramakrishnan
Mining, Water, and Public Health in Zacatecas, 1835-1946 Rocio Gomez
The Mexican Experience July 2020 288pp 14 photos, 2 maps, 3 tables, 3 graphs 9781496221117 £24.99/$30.00 PB 9780803290891 £52.00/$60.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Culture, Place, and Nature July 2020 264pp 16 b&w illus., 2 maps, 2 charts 9780295747538 £23.99/$30.00 PB 9780295747521 £79.00/$95.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Examines the detrimental effects of the silver mining industry on water resources and public health in the city of Zacatecas.
Effects on rural people, corporations, and politics due to domination by gold and cocaine.
Talking Books with Mario Vargas Llosa
The Adorned Body
Mapping Ancient Maya Dress Edited by Nicholas Carter, Stephen Houston & Franco Rossi
A Retrospective Edited by Raquel Chang-Rodríguez & Carlos Riobó
August 2020 264pp 9781477320709 £52.00/$60.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
New Hispanisms August 2020 258pp 15 photos 9781496220257 £52.00/$60.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
With contributions from a wide range of scholars, leading to the first in-depth study of Maya dress in Precolumbian times. Shedding new light on the art and archaeology of the ancient Americas, The Adorned Body investigates categories of dress, as well as popular styles and trends through times.
Celebrate Llosa’s visits to the City College of New York, an opportunity to learn about his body of work through his own perspective and those of key fiction writers and literary critics.
The Chicano Studies Reader
The Frontier Effect
State Formation and Violence in Colombia Teo Ballvé
An Anthology of Aztlán, 1970–2019 Edited by Chon A. Noriega, Eric Avila, Karen Mary Davalos, Chela Sandoval, Rafael Pérez-Torres & Charlene Villaseñor Black
Cornell Series on Land: New Perspectives on Territory, Development, and Environment March 2020 228pp 13 b&w halftones 3 b&w line drawings, 3 maps 9781501747540 £22.99/$27.95 PB 9781501747533 £99.00/$115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
February 2020 728pp 21 b&w illus., 32 tables 9780895511720 £21.99/$27.95 PB UCLA CHICANO STUDIES RESEARCH CENTER PRESS
Shows Urabá, Colombia’s violent condition is more than a case of Hobbesian political disorder. Excludes ANZ
This fourth edition of the Reader documents the foundation of Chicano studies.
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The Future of Change
The Government of Beans
How Technology Shapes Social Revolutions Raymond H. Brescia
Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops Kregg Hetherington
April 2020 240pp 9781501748110 £23.99/$28.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
May 2020 304pp 1 illus. 9781478006893 £22.99/$27.95 PB 9781478006060 £90.00/$104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Identifying US history’s "social innovation moments"—during which social movements have embraced advances in communications technologies—illuminates the complicated, dangerous, innovative, and exciting relationship between these technologies, social movements, and social change themselves. Excludes ANZ
Shows how the tools used to drive economic growth exacerbate the very environmental challenges they were designed to solve, with Paraguay’s adoption of massive soybean production as an example.
The Last Good Neighbor
The Spirit of Hispanism
Mexico in the Global Sixties Eric Zolov
Commerce, Culture, and Identity across the Atlantic, 1875–1936 Diana Arbaiza
American Encounters/Global Interactions May 2020 432pp 34 illus. 9781478006206 £25.99/$30.95 PB 9781478005438 £99.00/$114.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
March 2020 302pp 9780268106935 £42.00/$55.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Examines how Spanish authors, economists, and entrepreneurs of various ideological backgrounds strove to reconcile the construction of Hispanic cultural identity with discourses of political economy and commercial interests surrounding the movement.
Eric Zolov prevents a revisionist account of Mexican domestic politics and international relations during the long 1960s, tracing how Mexico emerged from the shadow of FDR’s Good Neighbor policy to become a geopolitical player in its own right during the Cold War.
The Woman Who Turned Into a Jaguar, and Other Narratives of Native Women in Archives of Colonial Mexico
Trafficking
Narcoculture in Mexico and the United States Hector Amaya May 2020 280pp 7 illus. 9781478008040 £21.99/$26.95 PB 9781478007647 £86.00/$99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Lisa Sousa
March 2020 424pp 9781503613621 £24.99/$30.00 NIP STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
In Trafficking Hector Amaya examines how the dramatic escalation of drug violence in Mexico in 2008 transformed how people discussed violence and prompted new forms of participation in public culture in Mexico and the United States. It also altered assumptions about freedom of expression.
This book is an ambitious and wide-ranging social and cultural history of gender relations among indigenous peoples of New Spain, from the Spanish conquest through the first half of the eighteenth century.
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Vital Decomposition
Mafalda
April 2020 248pp 42 illus., incl. 8 in color 9781478008163 £20.99/$25.95 PB 9781478007692 £86.00/$99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Presents an ethnography of human-soil relations and follows state soil scientists and peasant farmers in the Putumayo region. Shows relationship with soil is key to care of the forest and growing non-illicit crops with violence, militarism, and environmental destruction.
A Social and Political History of Latin America’s Global Comic Isabella Cosse Translated by Laura Pérez Carrara
Latin America in Translation December 2019 320pp 56 illustrations 9781478006381 £23.99/$26.95 PB 9781478005070 £88.00/$99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS BOOKS
Examines the history, political commentary, and influence of the comic character Mafalda from her Argentine origins in 1964 to the 1990s.
The Florentine Codex
An Encyclopedia of the Nahua World in SixteenthCentury Mexico Edited by Jeanette Favrot Peterson & Kevin Trerraciano
September 2019 256pp 122 color and 9 b&w photos, 1 map 9781477318409 £47.00/$55.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Explores the most significant trove of Nahua culture and language. This illustrated work ultimately yields new perspectives on the Nahua world several decades after the fall of the Aztec.
The Value of Aesthetics
Oaxacan Woodcarvers in Global Economies of Culture Alanna Cant
September 2019 232pp 8-page color insert, 1 b&w map 9781477318812 £24.99/$29.95 PB 9781477318805 £77.00/$90.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
A study of the economic and cultural impact of aesthetics, focusing on an internationally renowned workshop where Oaxacan woodcarvings, or alebrijes, are highly profitable. Shows how aesthetic practices produce and redefine social and political relationships.
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