Amy - South America 1

An exploration of gender, race, and food in Peru in the 1950s and 1960s and today. From the late 1940s to the mid 1960s, Peru’s rapid industrialization and anti-communist authoritarianism coincided ……続きを見る

Una fotografía hizo a Macchu Picchu famoso y ayudó a transformar el lugar en lo que la autora llama una "ciudad perdida descubierta", una utopía andina encontrada. Desde entonces el lugar no ha sido……続きを見る

The untold story of how welfare and development programs in the United States and Latin America produced the instruments of their own destruction In the years after 1945, a flood of U.S. advisors sw……続きを見る

Since the early 1980s Ecuador has experienced a series of events unparalleled in its history. Its “free market” strategies exacerbated the debt crisis, and in response new forms of social movement o……続きを見る

O livro trata das dinâmicas do racismo na cidade da Bahia – a mais negra do país - nas primeiras décadas depois da Abolição. Ao percorrer diferentes territórios físicos e culturais da capital baiana……続きを見る

The lottery called the jogo do bicho, or “animal game,” originated as a raffle at a zoo in Rio de Janeiro in 1892. During the next decade, it became a cultural phenomenon all over Brazil, where it r……続きを見る

The Roman Catholic church played a dominant role in colonial Brazil, so that women’s lives in the colony were shaped and constrained by the Church’s ideals for pure women, as well as by parallel con……続きを見る