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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 …
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 …
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 …
Bioarchaeology of the Southwest
A wide-ranging synthesis of research illuminating the lives of ancient people who lived in the deserts, mountains, and river valleys of the North American SouthwestThe two volumes …
NASA and the American South
An unprecedented examination of NASAs strong ties to the American South, exploring how the space program and the region have influenced each other over 60 yearsDuring the Cold War, …
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 …
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 …