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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 …
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 …
Biocultural Consequences of Contact in Mexico
Examining the long-lasting effectsof European colonization on Mexican populationsThe Biocultural Consequences ofContact in Mexico exploreshow Mexican populations have been shaped …
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 …
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 …
Building a Better Tomato
In the search for a superior alternative to bland and mealy grocery-store tomatoes, horticultural scientist Harry Klee and renowned taste researcher Linda Bartoshuk teamed up 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 …
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 …
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 …