Mexico Mystique
The Coming Sixth World of Consciousness
By Frank Waters
In Mexico Mystique Frank Waters draws us deeply into the ancient but still-living myths of Mexico. To reveal their hidden meanings and their powerful symbolism, he brings to bear his gift for intuitive imagination as well as a broad knowledge of anthropology, Jungian psychology, astrology, and Eastern and esoteric religions. He offers a startling interpretation of the Mayan Great Cycle — our present Fifth World — whose beginning has been projected to 3113 B.C.,
History | Latin America | Pre-Columbian · Philosophy | Eastern · Spirituality · Mexico · Latin American Studies
Literature and Resistance in Guatemala
Textual Modes and Cultural Politics from El Señor Presidente to Rigoberta Menchú
By Marc Zimmerman
What circumstances lead writers in a poor, multi-ethnic and largely illiterate country to produce a literature that both expresses and affects opposition to the regime? Who are these writers? This study examines these and other questions about the literature of resistance in Guatemala, from the days of Estrada Cabrera up to the events of May and June of 1993.Zimmerman
Literary Criticism, Latin America · Latin American Studies · Literature
Captured Peace
Elites and Peacebuilding in El Salvador
By Christine J. Wade
The most comprehensive, up-to-date book on Salvadoran politics of the last twenty-five years.
Political Science · Latin American Studies · International Studies · Peace Studies · El Salvador · Central America · Americas
Threatening Others
Nicaraguans and the Formation of National Identities in Costa Rica
By Carlos Sandoval-Garcia
During the last two decades, a decline in public investment has undermined some of the national values and institutions of Costa Rica. The resulting sense of dislocation and loss is usually projected onto Nicaraguan “immigrants.”Threatening Others: Nicaraguans and the Formation of National Identities in Costa Rica explores the representation of the Nicaraguan “other” in the Costa Rican imagery.
Latin American History · History · Race and Ethnicity · History | Modern | 20th Century · Costa Rica · Nationalism · Emigration and Immigration · Americas · Central America · Nicaragua · International Studies · Latin American Studies
Peasants in Arms
War and Peace in the Mountains of Nicaragua, 1979–1994
By Lynn Horton
Drawing on testimonies from contra collaborators and ex-combatants, as well as pro-Sandinista peasants, this book presents a dynamic account of the growing divisions between peasants from the area of Quilalí who took up arms in defense of revolutionary programs and ideals such as land reform and equality and those who opposed the FSLN.Peasants
Latin American History · Latin American Studies · Political Science · International Studies · History · Violence in Society · Nicaragua · Central America · Americas
Blood and Capital
The Paramilitarization of Colombia
By Jasmin Hristov
In Blood and Capital: The Paramilitarization of Colombia, Jasmin Hristov examines the complexities, dynamics, and contradictions of present-day armed conflict in Colombia. She conducts an in-depth inquiry into the restructuring of the state’s coercive apparatus and the phenomenon of paramilitarism by looking at its military, political, and legal dimensions.
Sociology · Violence in Society · Human Rights · Latin American Studies · Colombia
Feminism and the Legacy of Revolution
Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas
By Karen Kampwirth
In many Latin American countries, guerrilla struggle and feminism have been linked in surprising ways. Women were mobilized by the thousands to promote revolutionary agendas that had little to do with increasing gender equality. They ended up creating a uniquely Latin American version of feminism that combined revolutionary goals of economic equality and social justice with typically feminist aims of equality, nonviolence, and reproductive rights.Drawing
Gender Studies · International Studies · Women’s Studies · Sociology · Political Science · North America · Mexico · El Salvador · Americas · Central America · Nicaragua · Latin American Studies
Pachakutik and the Rise and Decline of the Ecuadorian Indigenous Movement
By Kenneth J. Mijeski and Scott H. Beck
The mobilization of militant indigenous politics is one of the most important stories in Latin American studies today. In this critical work, Kenneth J. Mijeski and Scott H. Beck examine the rise and decline of Ecuador’s leading indigenous party, Pachakutik, as it tried to transform the state into a participative democracy.Using
Latin American History · History · Political Science · Latin American Studies
Populist Seduction in Latin America
By Carlos de la Torre
Is Latin America experiencing a resurgence of leftwing governments, or are we seeing a rebirth of national-radical populism? Are the governments of Hugo Chávez, Evo Morales, and Rafael Correa becoming institutionalized as these leaders claim novel models of participatory and direct democracy? Or are they reenacting older traditions that have favored plebiscitary acclamation and clientelist distribution of resources to loyal followers?
Latin American History · Political Science · History · Latin American Studies · South America · Americas · Central America · History | Modern | 20th Century
When Sugar Ruled
Economy and Society in Northwestern Argentina, Tucumán, 1876–1916
By Patricia Juarez-Dappe
Two tropical commodities—coffee and sugar—dominated Latin American export economies in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. When Sugar Ruled: Economy and Society in Northwestern Argentina, Tucumán, 1876–1916 presents a distinctive case that does not quite fit into the pattern of many Latin American sugar economies.During
Latin American History · Economic History · Argentina · Latin American Studies
Blood and Capital
The Paramilitarization of Colombia
By Jasmin Hristov
In Blood and Capital: The Paramilitarization of Colombia, Jasmin Hristov examines the complexities, dynamics, and contradictions of present-day armed conflict in Colombia. She conducts an in-depth inquiry into the restructuring of the state’s coercive apparatus and the phenomenon of paramilitarism by looking at its military, political, and legal dimensions.
Sociology · Violence in Society · Human Rights · Latin American Studies · Colombia
The Carnivalesque Defunto
Death and the Dead in Modern Brazilian Literature
By Robert H. Moser
The Carnivalesque Defunto explores the representations of death and the dead in Brazil’s collective and literary imagination. The recurring stereotype of Brazil as the land of samba, soccer, and sandy beaches overlooks a more complex cultural heritage in which, since colonial times, a relationship of proximity and reciprocity has been cultivated between the living and the dead.Robert
Literary Criticism | Subjects & Themes | General · Literary Criticism, Latin America · Brazil · South America · Americas · Latin American Studies
Madness in Buenos Aires
Patients, Psychiatrists and the Argentine State, 1880–1983
By Jonathan Ablard
Madness in Buenos Aires examines the interactions between psychiatrists, patients and their families, and the national state in modern Argentina. This book offers a fresh interpretation of the Argentine state’s relationship to modernity and social change during the twentieth century, while also examining the often contentious place of psychiatry in modern Argentina.Drawing
Latin American History · History of Psychiatry · Latin American Studies · Argentina
Organic Coffee
Sustainable Development by Mayan Farmers
By Maria Elena Martinez-Torres
Despite deepening poverty and environmental degradation throughout rural Latin America, Mayan peasant farmers in Chiapas, Mexico, are finding environmental and economic success by growing organic coffee. Organic Coffee: Sustainable Development by Mayan Farmers provides a unique and vivid insight into how this coffee is grown, harvested, processed, and marketed to consumers in Mexico and in the north.Maria
Food Studies · Latin American History · International Studies · Mexico · Latin American Studies
The Unpast
Elite Violence and Social Control in Brazil, 1954–2000
By R. S. Rose
Portuguese and Brazilian slave-traders shipped at least four million slaves to Brazil—in contrast to the five hundred thousand slaves that English vessels brought to the Americas. Controlling the vast number of slaves in Brazil became of primary importance. The Unpast: Elite Violence and Social Control in Brazil, 1954–2000 documents the ways in which the brutal methods used on plantations led directly to the phenomenon of Brazilian death squads.The
History · Violence in Society · Criminology · 21st century · History | Modern | 20th Century · International Studies · Latin American History · World and Comparative History · Americas · South America · Brazil · Global Issues · Latin American Studies
Feminism and the Legacy of Revolution
Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas
By Karen Kampwirth
In many Latin American countries, guerrilla struggle and feminism have been linked in surprising ways. Women were mobilized by the thousands to promote revolutionary agendas that had little to do with increasing gender equality. They ended up creating a uniquely Latin American version of feminism that combined revolutionary goals of economic equality and social justice with typically feminist aims of equality, nonviolence, and reproductive rights.Drawing
Gender Studies · International Studies · Women’s Studies · Sociology · Political Science · North America · Mexico · El Salvador · Americas · Central America · Nicaragua · Latin American Studies
