Böcker i Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture-serien

Spanning some three hundred years, this masterful study of the transmission of the Virgin of Guadalupe from Spain to the Americas and back again explores the subjectivity of seeing and the power of an image at the intersection of religion and politics.

A multifaceted exploration of La Malinche, the ballet created by Jose Limon, one of the leading figures of modern dance in the twentieth century.

The second book in a major four-volume work focusing on the musical legacies of the New World.

This pathfinding book presents a new understanding of the pictorial vocabulary presented in Codex Telleriano-Remensis, which reveals a native painter's perspective on the tandem of ethnosuicide and ethnogenesis, and the topology of conquest.

Presenting an authoritative translation and analysis of the only surviving original document from the first months of the Spanish conquest, this book brings to life a decisive moment in the history of Mexico and offers an enlarged understanding of the con

This pioneering study examines television's impact on an Amazonian river town from the first broadcasts in Gurupa, in 1983, to the present.

This study of the most fully developed and intensive use of "soft power" diplomacy in U.S. history explores how the U.S. government enlisted Walt Disney, Orson Welles, John Ford, and other cultural leaders and institutions to bolster inter-American cultur

A pioneering ethnography of a crucial, yet often undervalued, site of family and community building-the kitchen.

How community organizing and activism in support of public schools in one of America's most economically disadvantaged regions has engendered impressive academic results.

Blending biography, literary analysis, and cultural history, Uncivil Wars reveals a new understanding of the works of Elena Garro and Octavio Paz, placing these iconic writers in the context of the revolutions-military, social, and feminist-that shaped th

In this benchmark book, twelve international scholars tackle the most vexed question in khipu studies: how did the Inkas record and transmit narrative records by means of knotted strings?

A vivid, comprehensive examination of the monumental Zapata legacy, incorporating new archival research and wide-ranging cultural issues.

This Spanish-English bilingual volume gathers the most famous and representative prose writings of Gabriela Mistral, which have not been as readily available to English-only readers as her poetry.

How participation in the global economy has affected a South American indigenous group.

In this book, Max Harris explores and develops principles for understanding the folk theology underlying patronal saints' day festivals, feasts of Corpus Christi, and Carnivals through a series of vivid, first-hand accounts of these festivities throughout

With fascinating insights into how both ordinary and famous Cuban-Americans, including Desi Arnaz, Oscar Hijuelos, Gloria Estefan, and Jose Kozer, have lived "life on the hyphen," this is an expanded, updated edition of the classic, award-winning study of

This collection of interviews conducted while the author traveled across the country demonstrates the complexity of Latino immigration by foregrounding the myriad voices of immigrants themselves.

The first comprehensive study of literary works created both orally and in writing by immigrants to the United States from the Hispanic world since the early nineteenth century.

A critical translation and commentary on a work long regarded as Latin America's first novel, which proves that this famous tale of piracy is actually a historical account that sheds new light on Spain's worldwide struggle against the ambitions of France and other European powers.

With a powerful, erotic, and entertaining Quechua story as a master narrative, Foxboy explores the acts of storytelling and story listening in the Andes to discover how these arts are used to communicate deeply held cultural values.

In a series of lively, provocative conversations, two prominent intellectuals debate the nature of "Hispanic-ness" as it has been expressed in Hispanic civilization around the world and across the centuries.

Using a wide variety of archaeological and archival evidence of indigenous clothing, jewelry, and hairstyles, scholars trace the history of costume in Ecuador from prehistory to the twentieth century.

This social and cultural history of the provisioning of Salvador, Brazil, as it moved from colony to independent city encompasses a whole society by looking at a broadly defined occupation-the food trade-and showing the connections between and among social categories.

An authoritative, firsthand account of conceptualism in Latin American art of the 1960s and 1970s by an artist who was at the forefront of the movement.

A new translation and introduction to an invaluable account of Inca history and mythology.

The first in-depth look at the international trade in Oaxacan wood carvings, including their history, production, marketing, and cultural representations.

A proven method for enhancing the teacher-student relationship and increasing student skills.

A masterful examination of the "monumental ambivalence" that results when private and public interests compete to control and benefit from archaeological and historical sites.

A pathfinding study of how indigenous peasants experienced, responded to, and remember the often-harsh conditions of servitude in Ecuador's haciendas.

This landmark book undertakes the first general overview of the prehistory of the Cuzco region from the arrival of the first hunter-gatherers (ca. 7000 B.C.) to the fall of the Inca Empire in A.D. 1532.