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Anthropology of Latin America and the Caribbean

AgosínMemory, Oblivion, and Jewish Culture in Latin America
Alfaro-VelcampSo Far from Allah, So Close to Mexico: Middle Eastern Immigrants in Modern Mexico
AllenFoxboy: Intimacy and Aesthetics in Andean Stories
AnnisGod and Production in a Guatemalan Town
ArguedasThe Singing Mountaineers: Songs and Tales of the Quechua People
BabbAfter Revolution: Mapping Gender and Cultural Politics in Neoliberal Nicaragua
BacigalupoShamans of the Foye Tree: Gender, Power, and Healing among Chilean Mapuche
BassoThe Last Cannibals: A South American Oral History
BellTangweera: Life and Adventures among Gentle Savages
BenzGuatemalan Journey
BergerGuatemaltecas: The Women's Movement, 1986-2003
BesomOf Summits and Sacrifice: An Ethnohistoric Study of Inka Religious Practices
BierhorstBallads of the Lords of New Spain: The Codex Romances de los Senores de la Nueva Espana
BinfordTomorrow We're All Going to the Harvest: Temporary Foreign Worker Programs and Neoliberal Political Economy Coming in Fall/Winter 2012-2013!
BlankenshipCañar: A Year in the Highlands of Ecuador
BlumCuban Youth and Revolutionary Values: Educating the New Socialist Citizen
BolinGrowing Up in a Culture of Respect: Child Rearing in Highland Peru
BolinRituals of Respect: The Secret of Survival in the High Peruvian Andes
Bonfil BatallaMéxico Profundo: Reclaiming a Civilization
Brady and PruferIn the Maw of the Earth Monster: Studies of Mesoamerican Ritual Cave Use
BrickerThe Indian Christ, the Indian King: The Historical Substrate of Maya Myth and Ritual
BrickerRitual Humor in Highland Chiapas
BrickerSupplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 1: Archaeology
BrickerSupplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 6: Ethnology
BrowneCreole Economics: Caribbean Cunning under the French Flag
BrulotteBetween Art and Artifact: Archaeological Replicas and Cultural Production in Oaxaca, Mexico
BruneauMaras: Gang Violence and Security in Central America
BrunkThe Posthumous Career of Emiliano Zapata: Myth, Memory, and Mexico's Twentieth Century
BruscoThe Reformation of Machismo: Evangelical Conversion and Gender in Colombia
BurnsAn Epoch of Miracles: Oral Literature of the Yucatec Maya
CadetRestavec: From Haitian Slave Child to Middle-Class American
CahnAll Religions Are Good in Tzintzuntzan: Evangelicals in Catholic Mexico
Caiuby NovaesThe Play of Mirrors: The Representation of Self Mirrored in the Other
CampbellDrug War Zone: Frontline Dispatches from the Streets of El Paso and Juárez
CarlsenThe War for the Heart and Soul of a Highland Maya Town: Revised Edition
Carmichael and SayerThe Skeleton at the Feast: The Day of the Dead in Mexico
CarreraImagining Identity in New Spain: Race, Lineage, and the Colonial Body in Portraiture and Casta Paintings
CarrollBlacks in Colonial Veracruz: Race, Ethnicity, and Regional Development
CasanovaMaking Up the Difference: Women, Beauty, and Direct Selling in Ecuador
CepekA Future for Amazonia: Randy Borman and Cofán Environmental Politics Coming in Fall/Winter 2012-2013!
ChernelaThe Wanano Indians of the Brazilian Amazon: A Sense of Space
ChibnikCrafting Tradition: The Making and Marketing of Oaxacan Wood Carvings
Ching, Buckley, and Lozano-AlonsoReframing Latin America: A Cultural Theory Reading of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
ChristensonArt and Society in a Highland Maya Community: The Altarpiece of Santiago Atitlán
ChristieKitchenspace: Women, Fiestas, and Everyday Life in Central Mexico
ClossNative American Mathematics
CoeAmerica's First Cuisines
CohenCooperation and Community: Economy and Society in Oaxaca
CohenThe Culture of Migration in Southern Mexico
ColburnMy Car in Managua
ConklinConsuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society
CookRenewing the Maya World: Expressive Culture in a Highland Town
CroucherThe Other Side of the Fence: American Migrants in Mexico
de CivrieuxWatunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle
DeedsDefiance and Deference in Mexico's Colonial North: Indians under Spanish Rule in Nueva Vizcaya
DennisThe Miskitu People of Awastara
Denver Art MuseumAndean Textile Traditions: Papers from the 2001 Mayer Center Symposium at the Denver Art Museum
DielThe Tira de Tepechpan: Negotiating Place under Aztec and Spanish Rule
EberWomen and Alcohol in a Highland Maya Town: Water of Hope, Water of Sorrow (Updated Edition)
EdmonsonHeaven Born Merida and Its Destiny: The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel
EhlersSilent Looms: Women and Production in a Guatemalan Town
ElseyCitizens and Sportsmen: Fútbol and Politics in Twentieth-Century Chile
EnglandA Grammar of Mam, a Mayan Language
Escalante GonzalboIn the Eyes of God: A Study on the Culture of Suffering
EvansRomancing the Maya: Mexican Antiquity in the American Imagination, 1820-1915
EvertonThe Modern Maya: Incidents of Travel and Friendship in Yucatán
FarrRancheros in Chicagoacán: Language and Identity in a Transnational Community
FeinbergThe Devil's Book of Culture: History, Mushrooms, and Caves in Southern Mexico
FemeníasGender and the Boundaries of Dress in Contemporary Peru
FewWomen Who Live Evil Lives: Gender, Religion, and the Politics of Power in Colonial Guatemala, 1650-1750
Fischer and BrownMaya Cultural Activism in Guatemala
FischerCultural Logics and Global Economies: Maya Identity in Thought and Practice
FitzsimmonsDeath and the Classic Maya Kings
FortisKuna Art and Shamanism: An Ethnographic Approach Coming in Fall/Winter 2012-2013!
FreidenbergThe Invention of the Jewish Gaucho: Villa Clara and the Construction of Argentine Identity
FriedrichThe Princes of Naranja: An Essay in Anthrohistorical Method
FryeIndians into Mexicans: History and Identity in a Mexican Town
GaffneyTemples of the Earthbound Gods: Stadiums in the Cultural Landscapes of Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires
García CancliniTransforming Modernity: Popular Culture in Mexico
Garza CarvajalButterflies Will Burn: Prosecuting Sodomites in Early Modern Spain and Mexico
Garzon et al.The Life of Our Language: Kaqchikel Maya Maintenance, Shift, and Revitalization
Gaspar de Alba and GuzmánMaking a Killing: Femicide, Free Trade, and La Frontera
GaudermanWomen's Lives in Colonial Quito: Gender, Law, and Economy in Spanish America
GonzálezAfro-Mexico: Dancing between Myth and Reality
GonzálezSan Jose de Gracia: Mexican Village in Transition
GonzálezZapotec Science: Farming and Food in the Northern Sierra of Oaxaca
GrahamFeeding the City: From Street Market to Liberal Reform in Salvador, Brazil, 1780–1860
GrahamThe Idea of Race in Latin America, 1870-1940
GutiérrezPerforming Mexicanidad: Vendidas y Cabareteras on the Transnational Stage
HallMary, Mother and Warrior: The Virgin in Spain and the Americas
HarrisAztecs, Moors, and Christians: Festivals of Reconquest in Mexico and Spain
HarrisCarnival and Other Christian Festivals: Folk Theology and Folk Performance
HelmsAncient Panama: Chiefs in Search of Power
HendricksonWeaving Identities: Construction of Dress and Self in a Highland Guatemala Town
HernándezDelirio—the Fantastic, the Demonic, and the Réel: The Buried History of Nuevo León
HernándezHistories and Stories from Chiapas: Border Identities in Southern Mexico
HerreraNatives, Europeans, and Africans in Sixteenth-Century Santiago de Guatemala
Higgins and CoenStreets, Bedrooms, and Patios: The Ordinariness of Diversity in Urban Oaxaca
Holtzman, Díaz-Guerrero, and SwartzPersonality Development in Two Cultures: A Cross-Cultural Longitudinal Study of School Children in Mexico and the United States
HoweChiefs, Scribes, and Ethnographers: Kuna Culture from Inside and Out
Huber and SandstromMesoamerican Healers
Iglesias PrietoBeautiful Flowers of the Maquiladora: Life Histories of Women Workers in Tijuana
InghamMary, Michael, and Lucifer: Folk Catholicism in Central Mexico
JonesAnthropology and History in Yucatán
JoyceGender and Power in Prehispanic Mesoamerica
KahnSeeing and Being Seen: The Q'eqchi' Maya of Livingston, Guatemala, and Beyond
KanterHijos del Pueblo: Gender, Family, and Community in Rural Mexico, 1730-1850
KatsulisSex Work and the City: The Social Geography of Health and Safety in Tijuana, Mexico
KennedyOaxaca al Gusto: An Infinite Gastronomy
Klein and StarkSouth American Indian Languages: Retrospect and Prospect
KovicMayan Voices for Human Rights: Displaced Catholics in Highland Chiapas
KussMusic in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Encyclopedic History: Volume 2: Performing the Caribbean Experience
KussMusic in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Encyclopedic History: Volume 1: Performing Beliefs: Indigenous Peoples of South America, Central America, and Mexico
Lastra, Sherzer, and SherzerAdoring the Saints: Fiestas in Central Mexico
Lauderdale GrahamHouse and Street: The Domestic World of Servants and Masters in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro
LippThe Mixe of Oaxaca: Religion, Ritual, and Healing
LowOn the Plaza: The Politics of Public Space and Culture
LugoFragmented Lives, Assembled Parts: Culture, Capitalism, and Conquest at the U.S.-Mexico Border
LyonsRemembering the Hacienda: Religion, Authority, and Social Change in Highland Ecuador
MacLeanThe Shaman's Mirror: Visionary Art of the Huichol
MaharReinventing Practice in a Disenchanted World: Bourdieu and Urban Poverty in Oaxaca, Mexico
MannheimThe Language of the Inka since the European Invasion
MansillaAn Expedition to the Ranquel Indians: Excursion a los indios ranqueles
Martínez-VergneShaping the Discourse on Space: Charity and Its Wards in Nineteenth-Century San Juan, Puerto Rico
McCann and NorthHandbook of Latin American Studies, Volume 65: Social Sciences
McClusky"Here, Our Culture Is Hard": Stories of Domestic Violence from a Mayan Community in Belize
MeischAndean Entrepreneurs: Otavalo Merchants and Musicians in the Global Arena
MenchacaRecovering History, Constructing Race: The Indian, Black, and White Roots of Mexican Americans
MetcalfFamily and Frontier in Colonial Brazil: Santana de Parnaíba, 1580-1822
MetcalfGo-Betweens and the Colonization of Brazil: 1500-1600
Meyerson'Tambo: Life in an Andean Village
MilbrathStar Gods of the Maya: Astronomy in Art, Folklore, and Calendars
MilesFrom Cuenca to Queens: An Anthropological Story of Transnational Migration
MillerRise and Fall of the Cosmic Race: The Cult of Mestizaje in Latin America
MitchellPeasants on the Edge: Crop, Cult, and Crisis in the Andes
MitchellVoices from the Global Margin: Confronting Poverty and Inventing New Lives in the Andes
Molesky-PozContemporary Maya Spirituality: The Ancient Ways Are Not Lost
MontejoMaya Intellectual Renaissance: Identity, Representation, and Leadership
MorgenthalerThe River Has Never Divided Us: A Border History of La Junta de los Rios
NovingerCommunicating with Brazilians: When "Yes" Means "No"
NovingerIntercultural Communication: A Practical Guide
Nutini and IsaacSocial Stratification in Central Mexico, 1500-2000
NutiniThe Mexican Aristocracy: An Expressive Ethnography, 1910-2000
NutiniSocial Stratification and Mobility in Central Veracruz
O’Reilly HerreraReMembering Cuba: Legacy of a Diaspora
OffitConquistadores de la Calle: Child Street Labor in Guatemala City
ParedesFolklore and Culture on the Texas-Mexican Border
PedeltyMusical Ritual in Mexico City: From the Aztec to NAFTA
Perry. . . From Time Immemorial: Indigenous Peoples and State Systems
ReifenbergSantiago's Children: What I Learned about Life at an Orphanage in Chile
RiceVintage Moquegua: History, Wine, and Archaeology on a Colonial Peruvian Periphery
RichardsA Procession of Them
Richardson and PisaniThe Informal and Underground Economy of the South Texas Border Coming in Fall/Winter 2012-2013!
Richardson and ResendizOn the Edge of the Law: Culture, Labor, and Deviance on the South Texas Border
RodriguesThe Brazilians: Their Character and Aspirations
Rodriguez and FortierCultural Memory: Resistance, Faith, and Identity
RombergHealing Dramas: Divination and Magic in Modern Puerto Rico
RombergWitchcraft and Welfare: Spiritual Capital and the Business of Magic in Modern Puerto Rico
RothsteinGlobalization in Rural Mexico: Three Decades of Change
Rowe et al.Costume and History in Highland Ecuador
RugeleyOf Wonders and Wise Men: Religion and Popular Cultures in Southeast Mexico, 1800-1876
Sánchez and MeertensBandits, Peasants, and Politics: The Case of "La Violencia" in Colombia
SadlierBrazil Imagined: 1500 to the Present
SalasSoldaderas in the Mexican Military: Myth and History
Salles-ReeseFrom Viracocha to the Virgin of Copacabana: Representation of the Sacred at Lake Titicaca
Sampson Vera TudelaColonial Angels: Narratives of Gender and Spirituality in Mexico, 1580-1750
Santos-GraneroVital Enemies: Slavery, Predation, and the Amerindian Political Economy of Life
SayerFiesta: Days of the Dead & Other Mexican Festivals
Schevill, Berlo, and DwyerTextile Traditions of Mesoamerica and the Andes: An Anthology
Selby, Murphy, and LorenzenThe Mexican Urban Household: Organizing for Self-Defense
SelbyZapotec Deviance: The Convergence of Folk and Modern Sociology
SherzerStories, Myths, Chants, and Songs of the Kuna Indians
SigalFrom Moon Goddesses to Virgins: The Colonization of Yucatecan Maya Sexual Desire
SmoleThe Yanoama Indians: A Cultural Geography
Sorensen GoodrichFacundo and the Construction of Argentine Culture
Speed, Hernández Castillo, and StephenDissident Women: Gender and Cultural Politics in Chiapas
SpittaMisplaced Objects: Migrating Collections and Recollections in Europe and the Americas
StaudtViolence and Activism at the Border: Gender, Fear, and Everyday Life in Ciudad Juárez
Stavans and JaksićWhat is la hispanidad?: A conversation
StephenWomen and Social Movements in Latin America: Power from Below
StephensonGender and Modernity in Andean Bolivia
TaggartThe Bear and His Sons: Masculinity in Spanish and Mexican Folktales
TaggartRemembering Victoria: A Tragic Nahuat Love Story
Talmon-ChvaicerThe Hidden History of Capoeira: A Collision of Cultures in the Brazilian Battle Dance
TiceKuna Crafts, Gender, and the Global Economy
TotaThe Seduction of Brazil: The Americanization of Brazil during World War II
UnderinerContemporary Theatre in Mayan Mexico: Death-Defying Acts
UrbanMetaphysical Community: The Interplay of the Senses and the Intellect
UrtonThe Social Life of Numbers: A Quechua Ontology of Numbers and Philosophy of Arithmetic
Valderrama Fernández and Escalante GutiérrezAndean Lives: Gregorio Condori Mamani and Asunta Quispe Huamán
Van VleetPerforming Kinship: Narrative, Gender, and the Intimacies of Power in the Andes
VelascoThe Lieutenant Nun: Transgenderism, Lesbian Desire, and Catalina de Erauso
Ventocilla, Herrera, and NúñezPlants and Animals in the Life of the Kuna
VilaCrossing Borders, Reinforcing Borders: Social Categories, Metaphors, and Narrative Identities on the U.S.-Mexico Frontier
VoeksSacred Leaves of Candomblé: African Magic, Medicine, and Religion in Brazil
Walker and SuárezEvery Woman Is a World: Interviews with Women of Chiapas
WardMissing Mila, Finding Family: An International Adoption in the Shadow of the Salvadoran Civil War
Warren and JacksonIndigenous Movements, Self-Representation, and the State in Latin America
WatanabeMaya Saints and Souls in a Changing World
WrightCafé con leche: Race, Class, and National Image in Venezuela
WrightCosmos, Self, and History in Baniwa Religion: For Those Unborn
ZinggBehind the Mexican Mountains

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