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• October 2003

  The Abolitions of Slavery

  From the L. F. Sonthonax to Victor Schoelcher, 1793, 1794, 1848

  Dorigny, M. (ed)

  
  

  Subjects: Colonial History History: 18th/19th Century

• eBook available March 2022

  The Aesthetics of Rule and Resistance

  Analyzing Political Street Art in Latin America

  Bogerts, L.

  Through illuminating case studies of street art in Buenos Aires, Bogotá, Caracas, and Mexico City, The Aesthetics of Rule and Resistance explores the visual strategies of persuasion and meaning-making employed by both rulers and resisters to foster self-legitimization, identification, and mobilization.

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Urban Studies Cultural Studies (General)

• March 2020

  After the Pink Tide

  Corporate State Formation and New Egalitarianisms in Latin America

  Gold, M. & Zagato, A. (eds)

  The left-wing Pink Tide movement that swept across Latin America seems to now be overturned, as a new wave of free-market thinkers emerge across the continent. This book analyses the emergence of corporate power within Latin America and the response of egalitarian movements across the continent trying to break open the constraints of the state.

  Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)

• December 2008

  Against Machismo

  Young Adult Voices in Mexico City

  Ramirez, J.

  
  

  Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

• October 2023

  The Amazonian Puzzle

  Ethnic Positionings and Social Mobilizations

  Boyer, V.

  By examining the multiple cultural and ethnic threads that traverse this landscape, The Amazonian Puzzle sets out to show how the category of caboclo (a powerful spiritual entity to some, and to others a despised peasant of mixed ancestry) reveals deep currents of ethnic recompositions, religious interpenetration, and social hierarchy.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

• eBook available February 2022

  An American Icon in Puerto Rico

  Barbie, Girlhood, and Colonialism at Play

  Aguiló-Pérez, E. R.

  Since her creation in 1959, Barbie has become an icon of femininity to girls all over the world. In this monograph, author Emily R. Aguiló-Pérez explores the ways through which women and girls in Puerto Rico construct their own identities in relation to femininity, body image, race, and nationalism through Barbie play.

  Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

• eBook available August 2012

  Animism in Rainforest and Tundra

  Personhood, Animals, Plants and Things in Contemporary Amazonia and Siberia

  Brightman, M., Grotti, V. E., & Ulturgasheva, O. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

• eBook available October 2008

  An Anthropology of War

  Views from the Frontline

  Waterston, A. (ed)

  
  

  Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Theory and Methodology

• eBook available March 2006

  Anti-americanism in Latin America and the Caribbean

  McPherson A. (ed)

  
  

  Subject: History (General)

• eBook available September 2018

  Barter and Social Regeneration in the Argentinean Andes

  Angé, O.

  Drawing on ethnographic data from fairs in the Southern Andes involving highland herders and lowland cultivators, Barter and Social Regeneration in the Argentinean Andesadvances an anthropology of the practice of barter, contributing to a fuller understanding of how social groups create themselves through material circulation.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

• December 2016

  Between Blood and Gold

  The Debates over Compensation for Slavery in the Americas

  Beauvois, F.

  Lost among current debates over slavery reparations is the fact that such payments were once widespread—except the “victims” were not slaves, but slaveholders deprived of their labor. This landmark study analyzes the debates over compensation within France and Great Britain, establishing a compelling analysis of the Atlantic slave trade’s aftermath.

  Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History (General) Colonial History

• September 2023

  Between the Forest and the Road

  The Waorani Struggle for Living Well in the Ecuadorian Oil Circuit

  Bravo Díaz, A.

  During the past two decades Ecuadorians have engaged in a national debate around Buen Vivir (living well). This ethnography discusses one of the ways in which people experience well-being or aspire to live well in Ecuadorian Amazonia. Waponi Kewemonipa (living well) is a Waorani notion that embraces ideas of good conviviality, health and certain ecological relations.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Environmental Studies (General)

• eBook available November 2019

  Brazilian Steel Town

  Machines, Land, Money and Commoning in the Making of the Working Class

  Mollona, M.

  Volta Redonda is a Brazilian steel town founded in the 1940s by dictator Getúlio Vargas on an ex-coffee valley as a powerful symbol of Brazilian modernization. Brazilian Steel-Town tells the story of the people tied to this ailing giant – of their fears, hopes, and everyday struggles.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Urban Studies Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

• eBook available May 2019

  The Brazilian Truth Commission

  Local, National and Global Perspectives

  Schneider, N. (ed)

  Bringing together leading scholars, practitioners, and human rights activists, this groundbreaking volume provides the first systematic analysis of the 2012–2014 Brazilian National Truth Commission. It explores the emergence, functioning, and outcome of the Commission, and offers a more general and critical reassessment of truth commissions from a variety of perspectives.

  Subject: Peace and Conflict Studies

• November 2012

  Central America in the New Millennium

  Living Transition and Reimagining Democracy

  Burrell, J. L. & Moodie, E. (eds)

  
  

  Subject: Anthropology (General)

• eBook available March 2020

  The Children of Gregoria

  Dogme Ethnography of a Mexican Family

  Kristensen, R. & Adeath Villamil, C.

  The Children of Gregoria portrays a struggling Mexico, told through the story of the Rosales family. This book highlights their voices and allows them to tell their own stories in an accessible, literary manner without prejudice, persecution or judgment.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Media Studies

• April 2006

  Claims to Memory

  Beyond Slavery and Emancipation in the French Caribbean

  Reinhardt C.

  
  

  Subjects: Colonial History Cultural Studies (General) Memory Studies

• eBook available October 2018

  Competing Power

  Landscapes of Migration, Violence and the State

  Halstead, N.

  Drawing from ethnographic material based on long-term research in Guyana, Competing Power shows how the local is occupied and re-occupied by various powerful and powerless people and entities (“big ones” and “small ones”), and how it becomes the site of intense power negotiations in relation to external ideas of empowerment.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies

• eBook available May 2017

  Conflict, Domination, and Violence

  Episodes in Mexican Social History

  Illades, C.

  This wide-ranging, briskly narrated volume from acclaimed Mexican historian Carlos Illades guides the reader through key episodes in Mexican social history, from rebellions under Porfirio Díaz to the recent emergence of neo-anarchist movements. Taken together, they comprise a mosaic history of power and resistance, with ordinary people confronting the forces of domination and transforming Mexican society.

  Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Peace and Conflict Studies

• eBook available May 2022

  Continental Transfers

  Cultural and Political Exchange among Spain, Italy and Argentina, 1914-1945

  Fuentes Codera, M. & Dogliani, P. (eds)

  The cultural and political connections between Spain, Italy and Argentina developed complex transnational transfers over the course of two World Wars. Bringing together scholars from all three nations, Continental Transfers configures a multidirectional approach to the nations’ reciprocal exchange using new theoretical ground to understand the development links to the construction of national and supranational identities, such as Latinism and Hispanism.

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: World War I History: World War II

• April 2012

  Cosmos and Colonialism

  Alexander von Humboldt in Cultural Criticism

  Clark, R. & Lubrich, O. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

• June 2023

  Creation and Creativity in Indigenous Lowland South America

  Anthropological Perspectives

  Halbmayer, E. & Goletz, A. (eds)

  Investigating local Indigenous processes of creation and creativity, this book uses ethnographic and comparative anthropological perspectives to enquire about creative transformative practices in lowland South America.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

• eBook available October 2011

  Crude Domination

  An Anthropology of Oil

  Behrends, A., Reyna, S. P. & Schlee, G. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General)

• December 2004

  Day of the Dead

  When Two Worlds Meet in Oaxaca

  Haley, S. & Fukuda, C.

  
  

  Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

• eBook available January 2020

  The Devil is Disorder

  Bodies, Spirits and Misfortune in a Trinidadian Village

  Lynch, R.

  What role might the Devil have in health and illness? The Devil is Disorder explores constructions of the body, health, illness and wider misfortune in a Trinidadian village where evangelical Christianity is growing in popularity. Based on long-term ethnography, the book takes a nuanced cosmological approach to situate evangelical Christian understandings.

  Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion Sociology

• October 2011

  Diasporic Generations

  Memory, Politics, and Nation among Cubans in Spain

  Berg, M. L.

  
  

  Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Memory Studies

• June 2014

  Dignity for the Voiceless

  Willem Assies's Anthropological Work in Context

  Salman, T., Marti i Puig, S., & Haar, G. van der (eds)

  “This is a fascinating body of work…I was most impressed by his balance of "hard" political-science analysis and the softer socio-cultural interpretations and by the balance of theory and applied work (scholarship speaking to real world contemporary problems).”  ·  Edward Fischer, Vanderbilt University

  Willem Assies explored the messy, often untidy daily lives of people, with their inconsistencies, irrationalities, and passions, but also with their hopes, sense of beauty, solidarity, and quest for dignity. This collection brings together some of Willem Assies’ best, most fascinating, and still highly relevant writings.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies

• eBook available November 2020

  Dust Inside

  Fighting and Living with Asbestos-Related Disasters in Brazil

  Mazzeo, A.

  Toxic production, disrupted lives and contaminated bodies. Care for unacknowledged suffering, incurable cancers, and immeasurable losses. This book bears witness to the invisible disasters provoked by the asbestos market worldwide and gives a voice to the communities of survivors who struggle daily in the name of social and environmental justice.

  Subjects: Medical Anthropology Environmental Studies (General)

• March 2004

  An Earth-colored Sea

  'Race', Culture and the Politics of Identity in the Post-Colonial Portuguese-Speaking World

  Vale de Almeida, M.

  
  

  Subjects: Colonial History Anthropology (General) Sociology

• eBook available September 2018

  Edges, Fringes, Frontiers

  Integral Ecology, Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainability in Guyana

  Henfrey, T. B.

  Based on an ethnographic account of subsistence forest use by Wapishana people in Guyana and developing an original analytical framework, Edges, Frontiers, Fringes examines the social, cultural and behavioral bases for sustainability and resilience in indigenous resource use.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

• November 2014

  Enhancing Democracy

  Public Policies and Citizen Participation in Chile

  Delamaza, G.

  Since the end of the Pinochet regime, Chilean public policy has sought to rebuild democratic governance in the country. This book examines the links between the state and civil society in Chile and the ways social policies have sought to ensure the inclusion of the poor in society and democracy.

  Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

• eBook available July 2012

  Environment and Citizenship in Latin America

  Natures, Subjects and Struggles

  Latta, A. & Wittman, H. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

• January 2001

  Ethnoarchaeology of Andean South America

  Contributions to Archaeological Method and Theory

  Kuznar, L. A. (ed)

  The papers in this volume present detailed studies of highland and lowland pastoralists and horticulturalists in Andean South America, including taphonomy and sacred landscapes. This volume will be of use to anyone who studies human adaptations to highland or arid environments, and to those interested in pastoral societies, as well as Andean South America.

  Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General)

• August 2023

  The Feeling of the Fall

  An Ethnographic Writing Experiment between the Belize Barrier Reef and the Edges of Toronto, Ontario

  Taccone, I.

  As an inquiry into engagements with forces of loss and threat, this work explores experimental ways to write about climate crisis in anthropology. From Belize to Ontario and back, this ambitious piece of ethnographic writing set during a time “beyond ruin” in a fictional, ecotourist community in the year 2040.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Urban Studies

• eBook available December 2007

  Fetishes and Monuments

  Afro-Brazilian Art and Culture in the 20^th Century

  Sansi, R.

  
  

  Subjects: Heritage Studies Museum Studies Anthropology (General)

• eBook available January 2020

  Fifty Years of Peasant Wars in Latin America

  Binford, L., Gill, L., & Striffler, S. (eds)

  Informed by Eric Wolf’s Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century, published in 1969, this book examines selected peasant struggles in seven Latin American countries during the last fifty years and suggests the continuing relevance of Wolf’s approach.

  Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)

• eBook available January 2012

  Foodscapes, Foodfields, and Identities in the YucatÁn

  Ayora-Diaz, S. I.

  
  

  Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)

• August 2001

  From Chains to Bonds

  The Slave Trade Revisited

  Diène, D. (ed)

  
  

  Subject: Colonial History

• eBook available August 2017

  A Goddess in Motion

  Visual Creativity in the Cult of María Lionza

  Canals, R.

  Shedding light on the role of visual creativity in religion, Canals explores the current practice of the cult of María Lionza, one of the most important and yet unexplored religious practices in Venezuela.

  Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

• eBook available November 2021

  Good Enough Mothers

  Practicing Nurture and Motherhood in Chiapas, Mexico

  López, JM

  Motherhood in Mexico is profoundly shaped by the legacy of colonialism. This ethnography situates motherhood in a critical global health analysis of maternal health inequalities and interventions in the southeast state of Chiapas.

  Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)

• June 2006

  Green Encounters

  Shaping and Contesting Environmentalism in Rural Costa Rica

  Vivanco, L. A.

  
  

  Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Development Studies

• May 1995

  History and Modernity in Latin America

  Barloewen, C. von

  
  

  Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General)

• eBook available September 2017

  House of the Waterlily

  A Novel of the Ancient Maya World

  Carmean, K.

  House of the Waterlily is a historical novel set in the world of the Late Classic Period Maya of the Southern Lowlands. Through the story of Lady Winik, a young Maya noble girl, the reader is immersed in the everyday world of the Maya

  Subjects: Archaeology Literary Studies Memory Studies Anthropology (General)

• May 2015

  Housing and Belonging in Latin America

  Klaufus, C. & Ouweneel, A. (eds)

  The intricacies of living in contemporary Latin American cities include cases of both empowerment and restriction. This volume captures the paradoxical histories and experiences of urban life in Latin America, offering new empirical and theoretical insights to scholars.

  Subjects: Urban Studies Sociology

• December 2004

  Images of Power

  Iconography, Culture and the State in Latin America

  Andermann, J. & Rowe, W. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History (General) Media Studies

• eBook available December 2016

  The Imbalance of Power

  Leadership, Masculinity and Wealth in the Amazon

  Brightman, M

  The Imbalance of Power demonstrates that the indigenous societies of the Guiana region of Amazonia do not fit conventional characterizations of ‘simple’ political units with ‘egalitarian’ political ideologies and ‘harmonious’ relationships with nature.

  Subject: Anthropology (General)

• eBook available January 2016

  In Search of Legitimacy

  How Outsiders Become Part of the Afro-Brazilian Capoeira Tradition

  Griffith, L. M.

  Every year, young adults from Western nations travel to Brazil to train in the dance/martial art of capoeira. This ethnography uses the concept of apprenticeship pilgrimage—studying with a local master at a historical point of origin—to explore how non-Brazilians learn their art and claim legitimacy within capoeira communities.

  Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)

• eBook available June 2017

  Indigeneity and the Sacred

  Indigenous Revival and the Conservation of Sacred Natural Sites in the Americas

  Sarmiento, F. & Hitchner, S. (eds)

  This important contribution presents current research in the political ecology of indigenous revival and its role in nature conservation of sacred natural sites in the Americas. The book explores how struggles for land, rights, and political power are embedded within physical landscapes, and how indigenous identity is reformed as globalizing forces simultaneously threaten and promote the notion of indigeneity.

  Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies

• eBook available October 2008

  Indigenous Peoples, Civil Society, and the Neo-liberal State in Latin America

  Fischer, E. F. (ed)

  
  

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

• September 1997

  Indigenous Rights and Development

  Self-Determination in an Amazonian Community

  Gray, A.

  
  

  Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)

• eBook available May 2014

  Intellectuals and (Counter-) Politics

  Essays in Historical Realism

  Smith, G.

  “A cutting edge discussion between anthropology and the disciplines of history and geography, all through the lens of the politics of intellectual work. A paradigm of sensitive ethnographic work fused with broadly social/political theory, this book will pull in a lot of people looking to find their way out of a certain rabbit hole of recent academia.”  ·  Neil Smith, Graduate Center, City University of New York.

  Gavin Smith suggests a research agenda designed to maximize the political leverage of ordinary people faced with ever more remote states and technologies that make capitalism increasingly rapacious. He tackles the political conundrums of our times and asks what roles intellectuals might play therein.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

• May 2007

  Intersected Identities

  Strategies of Visualisation in 19th and 20th Century Mexican Culture

  Segre, E.

  
  

  Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Media Studies

• January 2018

  Island Historical Ecology

  Socionatural Landscapes of the Eastern and Southern Caribbean

  Siegel, P. (ed)

  Island Historical Ecology addresses Caribbean island ecologies from the perspective of social and cultural intervention, focusing on selected islands between Venezuela and Puerto Rico. This volume goes on to compare these ecologies with well-documented patterns in the Mediterranean and Pacific islands, placing the Caribbean into a larger context of island historical ecology.

  Subjects: Archaeology Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

• eBook available January 2020

  Jaguars of the Dawn

  Spirit Mediumship in the Brazilian Vale do Amanhecer

  Pierini, E.

  Drawing upon over a decade of extensive fieldwork in temples of the Vale do Amanhecer in Brazil and Europe, this ethnography explores how mediums understand their experiences and how they learn to establish relationships with their spirit guides.

  Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Medical Anthropology Sociology

• eBook available September 2017

  Laborers and Enslaved Workers

  Experiences in Common in the Making of Rio de Janeiro's Working Class, 1850-1920

  Badaró Mattos, M.

  In the nineteenth century, Rio de Janeiro was not only home to the largest population of enslaved laborers in the Americas, but it was also the site of an incipient working-class consciousness across seemingly distinct social categories. This volume analyzes the diverse labor arrangements and associative life of Rio’s working class, from which emerged the strategies that workers free and unfree pursued against oppression.

  Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

• April 2000

  The Language Encounter in the Americas, 1492-1800

  Gray, E. & Fiering, N. (eds)

  
   

  Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Colonial History Cultural Studies (General) Refugee and Migration Studies

• March 1997

  The Last Shaman

  Change in an Amazonian Community

  Gray, A.

  
  

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Development Studies Literary Studies

• eBook available August 2021

  Latin America and Refugee Protection

  Regimes, Logics, and Challenges

  Jubilut, L. L., Vera Espinoza, M., & Mezzanotti, G. (eds)

  Looking at refugee protection in Latin America, this landmark edited collection assesses what the region has achieved in recent years. The book analyses Latin America’s main documents in refugee protection, evaluates the particular aspects of different regimes, and reviews their emergence, development and effect, to develop understanding of refugee protection in the region.

  Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

• eBook available October 2010

  Latin America Facing China

  South-South Relations beyond the Washington Consensus

  Fernández Jilberto, A. E. & Hogenboom, B. (eds)

  
  

  Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

• eBook available October 2007

  Learning Religion

  Anthropological Approaches

  Berliner, D. & Sarró, R. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Theory and Methodology Sociology

• eBook available September 2015

  The Living Ancestors

  Shamanism, Cosmos and Cultural Change among the Yanomami of the Upper Orinoco

  Jokic, Z.

  This ethnography focuses on Yanomami shamanism, especially in the context of cultural change. The author interweaves ethnographic material with theoretical components of a holographic principle, or the “part is equal to the whole.” This book fills a gap in the study of Yanomami people and enriches understanding of this ancient phenomenon.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

• eBook available October 2022

  Living on a Time Bomb

  Local Negotiations of Oil Extraction in a Mexican Community

  Schöneich, S.

  Providing a holistic understanding of extensive oil extraction in rural Mexico, this book focuses on a campesino community, where oil extraction is deeply inscribed into the daily lives of the community members. The book shows how oil shapes the space where it is extracted in every aspect and produces multiple uncertainties.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

• eBook available February 2018

  A Living Past

  Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America

  Soluri, J., Leal, C., & Pádua, J. A. (eds)

  Though still a relatively young field, the study of Latin American environmental history is no longer in its infancy. Bringing together thirteen leading experts on the region, A Living Past gives a transnational and thematically diverse survey of historical developments since the nineteenth century.

  Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present

• eBook available April 2019

  Luso-Tropicalism and Its Discontents

  The Making and Unmaking of Racial Exceptionalism

  Anderson, W., Roque, R., & Ventura Santos, R. (eds)

  The Portuguese-speaking Global South, especially Brazil, often envisions itself as exceptional in its racial conceptions and politics. Luso-Tropicalism and Its Discontents reassesses Gilberto Freyre’s influential claims that Portuguese colonialism produced what came to be called “racial democracy,” and explores racialization beyond the common trope of “race-mixing.”

  Subjects: Colonial History History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

• eBook available November 2018

  The Man Who Invented Aztec Crystal Skulls

  The Adventures of Eugène Boban

  MacLaren Walsh, J. & Topping, B.

  Detailed are the travels, self-education, and archaeological explorations of Eugène Boban, an expert in the field of pre-Columbian studies and explores the circumstances that allowed him to sell fakes to museums that would remain undetected for over a century.

  Subjects: Museum Studies Archaeology

• December 1994

  Mobile Farmers

  An Ethnoarchaeological Approach to Settlement Organization Among the Raramuri of Northwestern Mexico

  Graham, M.

  This ethnoarchaeological study of the settlements of the Rarámuri focuses primarily on their mobility strategy. This group presents a case where the common equation of agriculturalists = sedentary, and hunter-gatherers = mobile is broken. The Rarámuri are agriculturalists with a pattern of mobility between two or more settlements during the course of any year.

  Subject: Archaeology

• eBook available April 2009

  Mobility and Migration in Indigenous Amazonia

  Contemporary Ethnoecological Perspectives

  Alexiades, M. N. (ed)

  
  

  Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Mobility Studies Anthropology (General)

• September 1996

  Mythology, Spirituality, and History

  Gray, A.

  
  

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Development Studies Literary Studies

• eBook available September 2019

  Nearly the New World

  The British West Indies and the Flight from Nazism, 1933–1945

  Newman, J.

  In the years leading up to the Second World War, increasingly desperate European Jews looked to far-flung destinations such as the Barbados, Trinidad, and Jamaica in search of refuge. Nearly the New World tells the remarkable story of Jewish refugees who overcame persecution and sought safety in the West Indies from the 1930s through the end of World War II

  Subjects: Jewish Studies Genocide History Refugee and Migration Studies

• eBook available November 2018

  Non-Humans in Amerindian South America

  Ethnographies of Indigenous Cosmologies, Rituals and Songs

  Rivera Andía, J. J. (ed)

  Drawing on fieldwork from diverse Amerindian societies, and presenting ethnographies of non-human entities emerging in ritual, oral tradition, cosmology, shamanism and music, this book offers new insights into the indigenous constitutions of humanity, personhood, and environment characteristic of the South American highlands and lowlands.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

• eBook available April 2022

  Nurturing the Other

  First Contacts and the Making of Christian Bodies in Amazonia

  Grotti, V.

  Combining archival research, oral history and long-term ethnography, this book studies relations between Amerindians and outsiders such as American missionaries through a series of contact expeditions that led to the 'pacification' of three native Amazonian groups in Suriname and French Guiana.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History Anthropology of Religion

• eBook available February 2020

  On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise

  Affect, Tourism, Belize

  Little, K.

  On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise is a collection of seven stories about local lives in the fictional village of Wallaceville. They turn rogue in the face of runaway forces that take the form and figure of a Belize beast-time, which can appear as a comic mishap, social ruin, tragic excess, or wild guesses.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Literary Studies

• eBook available May 2016

  Ownership and Nurture

  Studies in Native Amazonian Property Relations

  Brightman, M., Fausto, C. & Grotti, V. (eds)

  Through ethnography of the Amazonia region, Ownership and Nurture sets new and challenging terms for debates about the classic anthropological theme of property. This volume demonstrates that property relations are of central importance in Amazonia despite portrayals of the region as the antithesis of Western, property-based, civilization.

  Subject: Anthropology (General)

• May 2011

  Panamanian Museums and Historical Memory

  Sánchez Laws, A. L.

  
  

  Subjects: Museum Studies Memory Studies

• eBook available July 2021

  Peter Lilienthal

  A Cinema of Exile and Resistance

  Sandberg, C.

  Peter Lilienthal is the first comprehensive study of Lilienthal’s life and career, highlighting the distinctively cross-cultural and transnational dimensions of his oeuvre, and exploring his role as an early exemplar of a more vibrant and inclusive European film culture.

  Subject: Film and Television Studies

• eBook available September 2012

  Playing with Languages

  Children and Change in a Caribbean Village

  Paugh, A. L.

  
  

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Educational Studies Sociology

• eBook available May 2019

  Political Networks and Social Movements

  Bolivian State–Society Relations under Evo Morales, 2006–2016

  Valdivia Rivera, S.

  Political Networks and Social Movements examines the relationship between the State and social movements under the administration of current Bolivian president Evo Morales. Author Soledad Valdivia Rivera analyzes how this linkage has come to transform the essence of the Bolivian political process as we know it.

  Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology History (General)

• eBook available November 2020

  Politics of the Dunes

  Poetry, Architecture, and Coloniality at the Open City

  Woods, M.

  Politics of the Dunes explores the ways in which the Open City’s architectural and urban practice is devoted to keeping open the utopian possibility for multiplicity, pluralism, and democratization in the face of authoritarianism, a powerful mode of postcolonial environmental urbanism that can inform architectural practices today.

  Subjects: Urban Studies Sociology History (General)

• eBook available September 2017

  Power in Practice

  The Pragmatic Anthropology of Afro-Brazilian Capoeira

  González Varela, S.

  Considering the concept of power in capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian ritual art form, Varela describes ethnographically the importance that capoeira leaders (mestres) have in the social configuration of a style called Angola in Bahia, Brazil.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Performance Studies

• April 2023

  The Power of the Story

  Writing Disasters in Haiti and the Circum-Caribbean

  Joos, V., Munro, M. & Ribó, J. (eds)

  A cross-disciplinary volume that combines and puts into dialogue perspectives on disasters, this book includes contributions from anthropology, history, cultural studies, sociology, and literary studies. Offering a rich and diverse set of arguments and analyses on the ever-relevant theme of catastrophe in the circum-Caribbean, it will encourage debate and collaboration between scholars working on disasters from a range of disciplinary perspectives.

  Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

• eBook available July 2004

  Resistance in an Amazonian Community

  Huaorani Organizing against the Global Economy

  Ziegler-Otero, L.

  
  

  Subjects: Development Studies Sociology

• eBook available December 2009

  Rethinking the Informal City

  Critical Perspectives from Latin America

  Hernández, F., Kellett, P. and Allen, L.K. (Eds.)

  
  

  Subject: Urban Studies

• July 2023

  Romani Chronicles of COVID-19

  Testimonies of Harm and Resilience

  Blasco, P. G. y & Fotta, M. (eds)

  A ground-breaking volume that gathers the testimonies of NGO workers, street vendors, activists, scholars, health professionals, and creative writers to chronicle the devastating impact of COVID-19 on Romani communities globally.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Medical Anthropology

• eBook available October 2017

  Silenced Communities

  Legacies of Militarization and Militarism in a Rural Guatemalan Town

  Esparza, M.

  Silenced Communities offers an ethnographic account of the failed demilitarization of the rural militia in the town of Santo Tomás Chichicastenango following the Guatemalan Civil War. Author Marcia Esparza explores how legacies of grassroots militarization affect indigenous communities exploited by the internal colonialism prevalent in Latin American societies.

  Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies History: 20th Century to Present

• eBook available June 2013

  Slavery and Antislavery in Spain's Atlantic Empire

  Fradera, J. M. & Schmidt-Nowara, C. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: Colonial History History (General)

• eBook available November 2008

  Slipping Away

  Banana Politics and Fair Trade in the Eastern Caribbean

  Moberg, M.

  
  

  Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies

• eBook available June 2021

  Sovereign Forces

  Everyday Challenges to Environmental Governance in Latin America

  McNeish, J.-A.

  Sovereignty is a significant force regarding the ownership, use, protection and management of natural resources. By placing an emphasis on the complex intertwined relationship between natural resources and diverse claims to resource sovereignty, this book reveals the backstory of contemporary resource contestations in Latin America and their positioning within a more extensive history of extraction in the region.

  Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Peace and Conflict Studies

• eBook available December 2016

  Stars and Stardom in Brazilian Cinema

  Bergfelder, T., Shaw, L. & Vieira, J. L. (eds)

  The richness of Brazilian stardom extends well beyond the ubiquitous Carmen Miranda, and among the studies assembled in this volume are fascinating explorations of figures alongside interrogations of the inner workings of the star system in Brazil, from the pioneering efforts of silent-era actresses to the recent advent of the non-professional movie star.

  Subjects: Film and Television Studies Media Studies

• eBook available March 2021

  The Struggle for the Past

  How We Construct Social Memories

  Jelin, E.

  Organized around Argentine “memory wars” since the 1970s, The Struggle for the Past undertakes an innovative exploration of memory’s dynamic social character. In addition to its analysis of how human rights movements have inflected public memory and democratization in Argentina, it also gives an illuminating account of the emergence and development of Memory Studies as a field.

  Subjects: Memory Studies Peace and Conflict Studies

• eBook available October 2007

  Sugarlandia Revisited

  Sugar and Colonialism in Asia and the Americas, 1800-1940

  Bosma, U., Giusti-Cordero, J, & Knight, G.K. (eds)

  
  

  Subject: Colonial History

• eBook available December 2019

  Teaching Modernization

  Spanish and Latin American Educational Reform in the Cold War

  Martín García, Ó. J. & Gómez-Escalonilla, L. D. (eds)

  Amid the Cold War and global student protests, transnational forces significantly shaped the modernization of educational systems in Spain and Latin America during the 1960s and 1970s. Each study sheds new light on the transnational circulation of modernization discourses, practices, and ideology within the sphere of education.

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Educational Studies

• eBook available May 2022

  Theorizing Relations in Indigenous South America

  González Gálvez, M., Di Giminiani, P., & Bacchiddu, G. (eds)

  Whether invented, discovered, implicit, or directly addressed, relations remain the main focus of most anthropological inquiries. These relations, once conceptualized in ethnographic fieldwork as self-evident connections between discrete social units, have been increasingly explored through local ontological theories. This collected volume explores how ethnographies of indigenous South America have helped to inspire this analytic shift.

  Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

• January 2016

  Tourism and Informal Encounters in Cuba

  Simoni, V.

  Based on a detailed ethnography, this book explores tourism in Cuba, drawing attention to challenges that tourists and local people face in establishing meaningful connections with each other. Comparing a wide array of these experiences, the author uses tourism to offer a new understanding of how relationships across difference and inequality are imagined and understood.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Travel and Tourism

• April 2012

  Transatlantic Echoes

  Alexander von Humboldt in World Literature

  Clark, R. & Lubrich, O. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

• eBook available July 2017

  Transborder Media Spaces

  Ayuujk Videomaking between Mexico and the US

  Kummels, I.

  Transborder Media Spaces offers a new perspective on how various media forms have been appropriated by Mexican indigenous people in the light of transnational migration and ethnopolitical movements. Within new media spaces, the Ayuujk people carve out their own visions of development, modernity, gender, and indigeneity in the twenty-first century.

  Subjects: Media Studies Anthropology (General)

• eBook available October 2010

  Unsafe Motherhood

  Mayan Maternal Mortality and Subjectivity in Post-War Guatemala

  Berry, N.

  
  

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology

• eBook available April 2012

  Urban Residence

  Housing and Social Transformations in Globalizing Ecuador

  Klaufus, C.

  
  

  Subjects: Urban Studies Applied Anthropology Sociology

• eBook available November 2009

  Virtualism, Governance and Practice

  Vision and Execution in Environmental Conservation

  Carrier, J. C. & West, P. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General) Applied Anthropology

• eBook available November 2017

  Vital Diplomacy

  The Ritual Everyday on a Dammed River in Amazonia

  Nahum-Claudel. C.

  Focusing on the major ceremonial cycle of the Enawene-nawe people, Vital Diplomacy sheds new light on classic Amazonian themes such as manioc cultivation and cuisine, predatory relations with non-humans, and the interplay of myth and practice, and to consider dynamics of kin, clan, and gender relations, the meaning of productive work, and practices of foreign diplomacy.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

• eBook available July 2009

  A Walk to the River in Amazonia

  Ordinary Reality for the Mehinaku Indians

  Stang, C. D.

  
  

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

• eBook available May 2022

  The Walls of Santiago

  Social Revolution and Political Aesthetics in Contemporary Chile

  Gordon-Zolov, T. & Zolov, E.

  The response in Chile to Santiago’s metro’s fare hike in October of 2019 has grown into a strong and multi-faceted resistance movement. Through incisive and topical analysis, the authors offer a beautiful catalog of photographs of the murals, graffiti, and other forms of political art, reflecting on these aesthetic traditions and their relationship to the broader context of global protest movements and the long shadow cast by memories of the Pinochet regime.

  Subjects: Media Studies History: 20th Century to Present

• February 2010

  Who Abolished Slavery?

  Slave Revolts and Abolitionism
  A Debate with João Pedro Marques

  Drescher, S. & Emmer, P. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Colonial History