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Shark Attack Files
The University of Florida has an ambitious goal: to harness the power of its faculty, staff, students, and alumni to solve some of society's most pressing problems and to become a …
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 …
Latin American Culture and the Limits of the Human
This volume explores works from Latin American literary and visual culture that question what it means to be human and examine the ways humans and nonhumans shape one another. In …
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 in Dominica
Archaeology in Dominica examines the everyday lives of enslaved and free workers at Morne Patate, an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Caribbean plantation that produced sugar, …
Situated Narratives and Sacred Dance
Using storytelling and performance to explore shared religious expression across continentsThrough a revolutionary ethnographic approach that foregrounds storytelling and …
Methods, Mounds, and Missions
Methods, Mounds, and Missions offers innovative ways of looking at existing data, as well as compelling new information, about Floridas past. Diverse in scale, topic, time, and …
Labor Politics in Latin America
In recent decades, Latin American countries have sought to modernize their labor market institutions to remain competitive in the face of increasing globalization. This book …
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 …
Geopolitics, Culture, and the Scientific Imaginary in Latin America
Highlighting the relationship among science, politics, and culture in Latin American historyChallenging the common view that Latin America has lagged behind Europe and North …
Telling Migrant Stories
"e;Through the judicious use of secondary theoretical, critical, archival, and journalistic sources, this excellent and comprehensive collection surveys Latin American …