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  • Urban Latin America

    Images, Words, Flows and the Built Environment

    Series series Architext
    Urban Latin America explores the relationship between images, words and the built environment using an engaging variety of methods and sources, with a timely emphasis on comparative studies. The book brings together scholars with various disciplinary backgrounds and theoretical affiliations who critically approach urban experiences through visual accounts, texts and architectural elements. The ... Leer más

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  • On the Plaza

    The Politics of Public Space and Culture

    de Setha M. Low ...
    Robert B. Textor Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology, American Anthropological Association, 2000Honorable Mention, Victor Turner Award, Society for Humanistic Anthropology, 2001Leeds Prize, Society of Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology, 2001Friendly gossip, political rallies, outdoor concerts, drugs, shoeshines, and sex-for-sale—almost every aspect of Latin ... Leer más

    $497 MXN

  • Gender, Sexuality, and Power in Latin America since Independence

    Series series Jaguar Books on Latin America
    Featuring the original primary research of a number of leading scholars, this innovative volume integrates gender and sexuality into the main currents of historical interpretation concerning Latin America. The book argues that gender and sexuality-rather than simply supplementing existing explanations of political, social, cultural, and economic phenomena-are central to understanding these ... Leer más

    $860 MXN

  • Becoming Brazilians

    Race and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Brazil

    Series series New Approaches to the Americas
    This book traces the rise and decline of Gilberto Freyre's vision of racial and cultural mixture (mestiçagem - or race mixing) as the defining feature of Brazilian culture in the twentieth century. Eakin traces how mestiçagem moved from a conversation among a small group of intellectuals to become the dominant feature of Brazilian national identity, demonstrating how diverse Brazilians embraced ... Leer más

    $564 MXN

  • Latin America

    The Allure and Power of an Idea

    "Latin America" is a concept firmly entrenched in its philosophical, moral, and historical meanings. And yet, Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo argues in this landmark book, it is an obsolescent racial-cultural idea that ought to have vanished long ago with the banishment of racial theory. Latin America: The Allure and Power of an Idea makes this case persuasively.Tenorio-Trillo builds the book on three ... Leer más

    $237 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Rise and Fall of the Cosmic Race

    The Cult of Mestizaje in Latin America

    Latin America is characterized by a uniquely rich history of cultural and racial mixtures known collectively as mestizaje. These mixtures reflect the influences of indigenous peoples from Latin America, Europeans, and Africans, and spawn a fascinating and often volatile blend of cultural practices and products. Yet no scholarly study to date has provided an articulate context for fully ... Leer más

    $443 MXN

  • The Cambridge Companion to Modern Latin American Culture

    Edición de John King ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    The term Latin America refers to the Portuguese and Spanish-speaking states created in the early 1820s following the wars of independence, states that differed enormously in geographical and demographical scale, ethnic composition and economic resources, yet shared distinct historical and cultural traits. Specially-commissioned essays by leading experts explore the unity and diversity of the ... Leer más

    $578 MXN

  • Brazilian Art under Dictatorship

    Antonio Manuel, Artur Barrio, and Cildo Meireles

    Brazilian Art under Dictatorship is a sophisticated analysis of the intersection of politics and the visual arts during the most repressive years of Brazil's military regime, from 1968 until 1975. Raised in Rio de Janeiro during the dictatorship, the curator and art historian Claudia Calirman describes how Brazilian visual artists addressed the political situation and opened up the local art scene ... Leer más

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  • The New Cultural History of Peronism

    Power and Identity in Mid-Twentieth-Century Argentina

    In nearly every account of modern Argentine history, the first Peronist regime (1946–55) emerges as the critical juncture. Appealing to growing masses of industrial workers, Juan Perón built a powerful populist movement that transformed economic and political structures, promulgated new conceptions and representations of the nation, and deeply polarized the Argentine populace. Yet until now, most ... Leer más

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  • Culture Wars in Brazil

    The First Vargas Regime, 1930–1945

    In Culture Wars in Brazil Daryle Williams analyzes the contentious politicking over the administration, meaning, and look of Brazilian culture that marked the first regime of president-dictator Getúlio Vargas (1883–1954). Examining a series of interconnected battles waged among bureaucrats, artists, intellectuals, critics, and everyday citizens over the state’s power to regulate and consecrate the ... Leer más

    $408 MXN

  • Cumbia!

    Scenes of a Migrant Latin American Music Genre

    Cumbia is a musical form that originated in northern Colombia and then spread throughout Latin America and wherever Latin Americans travel and settle. It has become one of the most popular musical genre in the Americas. Its popularity is largely due to its stylistic flexibility. Cumbia absorbs and mixes with the local musical styles it encounters. Known for its appeal to workers, the music takes ... Leer más

    $433 MXN

  • Collective Situations

    Readings in Contemporary Latin American Art, 1995–2010

    Edición de Bill Kelley Jr., Grant H. Kester ...
    In Collective Situations scholars, artists, and art collectives present a range of socially engaged art practices that emerged in Latin America during the Pink Tide period, between 1995 and 2010. This volume's essays, interviews, and artist's statements—many of which are appearing in English for the first time—demonstrate the complex relationship between moments of political transformation and ... Leer más

    $495 MXN