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Latin American Studies Association at 50
The University of Texas Press salutes the Latin American Studies Association for 50 years of fostering intellectual discussion, research, and teaching on Latin America, the Caribbean, and its people throughout the Americas.
We invite attendees to stop by our booth at the 2016 annual meeting this May for our newest titles, to pick up a subject catalog, and for an exclusive LASA offer.
Order at the conference to receive a special 40% discount or enter code ( EXLA) during checkout on www.utexaspress.com
Offer expires 6/30/16
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New Books in Latin American Studies
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Thunder Shaman
Making History with Mapuche Spirits in Chile and Patagonia
By Ana Mariella Bacigalupo
The first study of how Mapuche shamans make history, this book challenges perceptions of shamans as being outside of history and examines how shamans themselves understand notions of civilization, savagery, and historical processes.
$16.17 Paperback
(40% off with coupon EXLA)
6 x 9 | 304 pp. | 1 color photos, 21 b&w photos, 1 map
ISBN: 978-1-4773-0898-1
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With implications for the human role in global environmental change, this timely study explores how pre-Columbian Amerindians and contemporary rural Amazonians have affected their environment and how that environment sometimes resists human manipulation
$14.97 Paperback
(40% off with coupon EXLA)
6 x 9 | 202 pp. | 15 b&w photos, 1 maps
ISBN: 978-1-4773-0844-8
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'Amazonia in the Anthropocene' Q&A with Nicholas Kawa
"The Anthropocene should remind us that while our technologies have expanded our ability to impact the planet, a much broader array of life-forms and forces is constantly thwarting our attempts to wrest control of the world around us." We asked Nicholas Kawa about his work, what we can learn from contemporary rural Amazonians, and the complicated identity politics of indigenous rights. Read here.
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This first comprehensive English-language study of the church-wall paintings created in Peru’s Cuzco region from the sixteenth through the early nineteenth centuries unveils the complex intersections of religious artists, indigenous congregants, and colonizers.
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Later this Week: Q&A with Ananda Cohen Suarez
We talk to Professor Suarez about her work, her intentions, the preconquest and postconquest visual world in Latin America, and the challenges she faced in documenting, photographing, and writing about mural painting.
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Latin America at 200
A New Introduction
By Phillip Berryman
"A brilliant book, by far the best of its kind on Latin America. Its emphasis on how Latin America has changed in recent decades fills a yawning gap. This book is ideal for teaching because teaching, I am certain, was its genesis. Students will love it."
—John Charles Chasteen, Professor of Latin American History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and author of Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America and Americanos: Latin America's Struggle for Independence
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Progressive Mothers, Better Babies
Race, Public Health, and the State in Brazil, 1850–1945
By Okezi T. Otovo
"An exciting study about the evolution of pregnancy, motherhood, and infancy in Bahia, Brazil, in the century spanning the abolition of slavery. This book will be fundamental to the field of maternity and childhood studies in Latin America."
―Jerry Dávila, University of Illinois, author of Hotel Tropico: Brazil and the Challenge of African Decolonization
$17.97 Paperback
(40% off with coupon EXLA)
6 x 9 | 288 pp. | 15 b&w photos
ISBN: 978-1-4773-0905-6
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A Camera in the Garden of Eden
The Self-Forging of a Banana Republic
By Kevin Coleman
This pioneering contribution to visual culture studies reveals how banana plantation workers and their families used photography to visually assert their identities and rights as citizens, despite being outmatched by a powerful multinational corporation.
$16.77 Paperback
(40% off with coupon EXLA)
6 x 9 | 328 pp. | 16 color photos, 98 b&w photos, 4 maps
ISBN: 978-1-4773-0855-4
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Sacrifice, Violence, and Ideology Among the Moche
The Rise of Social Complexity in Ancient Peru
By Steve Bourget
"With a great deal of extremely valuable information, excellent observations, and original insights, this book is certain to be a major contribution to Moche studies. The rise of complex society is a major focus of current anthropological and archaeological research. The Moche were the first group in Andean South America to develop a state organization. Documenting how this came about will be of great interest to scholars working on civilizations in many parts of the world. Bourget’s arguments about the roles played by sacrifice, violence, and ideology will stimulate other scholars to explore how these factors may have been involved in the rise of complexity in other regions."
—Christopher B. Donnan, Emeritus of Anthropology, UCLA, and author of several books on the Moche, including Moche Portraits from Ancient Peru
$50.25 Hardcover
(40% off with coupon EXLA)
8.5 x 11 | 463 pp. | 140 b&w illustrations, 3 maps, 442 b&w photos, 24 color photos | ISBN: 978-1-4773-0873-8
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Beyond the City
Resource Extraction Urbanism in South America
By Felipe Correa
"In contrast to contemporary literature on urban globalization that focuses on megacities, Correa exposes the regional and interregional impacts of the new world economy. Starting from IIRSA, the book uncovers a long history of resource extraction projects in South America that have deeply impacted the shape of the region's cities and landscape. . . .This is at once the first and the definitive account of how the landscape and cities of the continent have been shaped by the economy of resource extraction and by the social imaginary it continues to inspire."
―Hashim Sarkis, architect and Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
$24.00 Hardcover
(40% off with coupon EXLA)
7 x 10 | 178 pp. | 49 b&w photos, 64 b&w illustrations | ISBN: 978-1-4773-0941-4
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The Politics of Dependency
US Reliance on Mexican Oil and Farm Labor
By Martha Menchaca
"A significant contribution on a topic of great importance. That Martha Menchaca weaves together transnational energy resources and transborder labor transfer is remarkable. Her evenhanded analysis of asymmetrical relations contributes to economic and political discourses related to both countries and both sets of leaders."
—Juan Gómez-Quinones, Professor of History, UCLA; author of Mexican American Labor, 1790–1990
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Black Bodies, Black Rights
The Politics of Quilombolismo in Contemporary Brazil
By Elizabeth Farfán-Santos
"The drama of resistance and rebellion to enslavement and the odyssey of transformation from enslaved Africans to rights-bearing subjects make for a terrific narrative, highly accessible to a general readership."
―Charles Hale, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin
$16.17 Paperback
(40% off with coupon EXLA)
6 X 9 | 216 pp. | 19 b&w photos
ISBN: 978-1-4773-0942-1
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Ritual Violence in the Ancient Andes
Reconstructing Sacrifice on the North Coast of Peru
Edited by Haagen D. Klaus and J. Marla Toyne
"This volume makes a significant contribution to our understanding of ritual killings and ‘sacrifice.’ The contributors to develop methods, ethnographic analogies, and social theory that other scholars working outside of the Andes will find of great use."
—Richard Sutter, Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, Indiana-Perdue University Fort Wayne
$20.97 Paperback
(40% off with coupone EXLA)
6 x 9 | 420 pp. | 28 illustrations, 92 b&w photos, 7 maps
ISBN: 978-1-4773-0963-6
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