South America 6

While it now attracts many tourists, the Colca Valley of Peru’s southern Andes was largely isolated from the outside world until the 1970s, when a passable road was built linking the valleyーand its……続きを見る

Fútbol, or soccer as it is called in the United States, is the most popular sport in the world. Millions of people schedule their lives and build identities around it. The World Cup tournament, play……続きを見る

In this pathbreaking history, Donna J. Guy shows how feminists, social workers, and female philanthropists contributed to the emergence of the Argentine welfare state through their advocacy of child……続きを見る

Kristian GustafsonÆs Hostile Intent reexamines one of the most controversial chapters in U.S. intelligence history, the Central Intelligence Agency's covert operations in Chile from 1964 to 1974. At……続きを見る

Iconic author, poet and anthropologist Hugh Fox was connecting the dots on contacts between the ancient cultures, across the globe, in prehistoric and post-Flood eras long before recent evidence sur……続きを見る

"... el periodismo me llevó a conocer en persona a Perón y también por oficio fue que a su muerte, 1974, siendo corresponsal en Madrid, me inquietase conocer qué datos, qué secretos rodearon el últi……続きを見る

In this riveting and relentless nonfiction thriller, award-winning investigative reporter William C. Rempel tells the harrowing story of former Cali cartel insider Jorge Salcedo, an ordinary man fac……続きを見る

O autor apresenta um estudo etnográfico de povos de Iaueretê (Tariano e Tukano), no Alto Rio Negro, detendo-se nas transformações sociais que vêm sofrendo em função do contato com o homem branco. O ……続きを見る

As relações luso-brasileiras: A immigração e a «desnacionalização» do Brasil INDICE Introducção I A proposta Consiglieri Pedroso II O problema luso-brasileiro III O supposto perigo IV Os estrangeiro……続きを見る

Inca Empire Quechua languages Pre-Columbian era Cusco Peru Andean civilizations Andes Ecuador Chile Colombia Argentina Bolivia Huaca Inti Pachamama Sapa Inca Solar deity Pachacuti Topa Inca Yupanqui……続きを見る

To many foreigners, Colombia is a nightmare of drugs and violence. Yet normal life goes on there, and, in Bogotá, it's even possible to forget that war still ravages the countryside. This paradox of……続きを見る

In this masterpiece about Trinidad, the Nobel Prize-winning author has “given us a lesson in history [and] shown us how it is best written” (The New York Times). The history of Trinidad begins with ……続きを見る

From the Mines to the Streets draws on the life of Félix Muruchi to depict the greater forces at play in Bolivia and elsewhere in South America during the last half of the twentieth century. It trac……続きを見る

Race, Place, and Medicine examines the impact of a group of nineteenth-century Brazilian physicians who became known posthumously as the Bahian Tropicalista School of Medicine. Julyan G. Peard explo……続きを見る

Trade and Empire in the Atlantic 1400-1600 provides an accessible and concise introduction to European expansion overseas during the early modern period. It explains why and how seafarers visited th……続きを見る

A Place in Politics is a thorough reinterpretation of the politics and political culture of the Brazilian state of São Paulo between the 1890s and the 1930s. The world’s foremost coffee-producing re……続きを見る

Drawing on deconstruction, postcolonial theory, cultural studies, and subaltern studies, The Other Side of the Popular is as much a reflection on the limitations and possibilities for thinking about……続きを見る

Following the 1996 treaty ending decades of civil war, how are Guatemalans reckoning with genocide, especially since almost everyone contributed in some way to the violence? Meaning “to count, figur……続きを見る

In Culture Wars in Brazil Daryle Williams analyzes the contentious politicking over the administration, meaning, and look of Brazilian culture that marked the first regime of president-dictator Getú……続きを見る

Located in the heart of the Andes, Potosí was arguably the most important urban center in the Western Hemisphere during the colonial era. It was internationally famous for its abundant silver mines ……続きを見る

A pioneering examination of the experiences of peasants and peons, or paysanos, in the Buenos Aires province during Juan Manuel de Rosas’s regime (1829–1852), Wandering Paysanos is one of the first ……続きを見る

Insisting on the critical value of Latin American histories for recasting theories of postcolonialism, After Spanish Rule is the first collection of essays by Latin Americanist historians and anthro……続きを見る

In Smoldering Ashes Charles F. Walker interprets the end of Spanish domination in Peru and that country’s shaky transition to an autonomous republican state. Placing the indigenous population at the……続きを見る

In Creating Our Own, anthropologist Zoila S. Mendoza explores the early-twentieth-century development of the “folkloric arts”ーparticularly music, dance, and dramaーin Cuzco, Peru, revealing the cen……続きを見る

Combining social and political history, The Plebeian Republic challenges well-established interpretations of state making, rural society, and caudillo politics during the early years of Peru’s repub……続きを見る

Many observers in colonial Spanish Americaーwhether clerical, governmental, or foreignーnoted the large numbers of forasteros, or Indians who were not seemingly attached to any locality. These migra……続きを見る

Contemporary natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina are quickly followed by disagreements about whether and how communities should be rebuilt, whether political leaders represent the community’……続きを見る

Between 1946 and 1966a surge of violence in Colombia left 200,000 dead in one of the worst conflicts the western hemisphere has ever experienced. the first seven years of this little-studied period ……続きを見る

Partners in Conflict examines the importance of sexuality and gender to rural labor and agrarian politics during the last days of Chile’s latifundia system of traditional landed estates and througho……続きを見る

There has been a significant surge in recent Argentine cinema, with an explosion in the number of films made in the country since the mid-1990s. Many of these productions have been highly acclaimed ……続きを見る