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Trash and Limits in Latin American Culture
The ecological, social, and aestheticfunctions of garbage in literature and film from Argentina to MexicoThis book looks atthe role of waste in Latin American cultural texts from …
Making of Mississippian Tradition
In this volume, Christina Friberg investigates the influence of Cahokia, the largest city of North America's Mississippian culture between AD 1050 and 1350, on smaller communities …
Mestizo Modernity
Honorable Mention, Latin American Studies Association Mexico Section Best Book in the HumanitiesAfter the end of the Mexican Revolution in 1917, postrevolutionary leaders hoped to …
Archaeology and Bioarchaeology of Anatomical Dissection at a Nineteenth-Century Army Hospital in San Francisco
An archaeological site that tells a storyof structural violence in medical researchIn 2010, a pit containing over 4,000 human skeletalelements was discovered at the site of the …
Telling Migrant Stories
"e;Through the judicious use of secondary theoretical, critical, archival, and journalistic sources, this excellent and comprehensive collection surveys Latin American …
Cuban Revolution and the New Left
Understanding overlooked dimensions of the Cuban Revolution and its impact on the global left in the 1960s and beyondThis volume reconsiders revolutionary Cubas global influence by …
Democracy and Time in Cuban Thought
How the temporalities of past, future, andpresent have been used in Cuban political rhetoric and expressed in Cuban cultureIn this fascinatinganalysis of political discourse in …
Mississippian Women
Highlighting the role of precontact Indigenous women in building and transforming Mississippian cultureThis volume highlights how women were powerful farmers, economic …
Mississippian Beginnings
Using fresh evidence and nontraditional ideas, the contributing authors of Mississippian Beginnings reconsider the origins of the Mississippian culture of the North American …
Migrants and Political Change in Latin America
This book reveals how migrants shape the politics of their countries of origin, drawing on research from Mexico, Colombia, and Ecuador and their diasporas, the three largest in …
New Methods and Theories for Analyzing Mississippian Imagery
In this volume, contributors show how stylistic and iconographic analyses of Mississippian imagery provide new perspectives on the beliefs, narratives, public ceremonies, ritual …
Sex and Love in Porfirian Mexico City
Exploring the sexual lives of the poor and workingclass in turn-of-the-century MexicoThis socialhistory explores the romantic and sexual lives of the poor and working class …