Books in the LLILAS Translations from Latin America Series series

Plants, animals, and their place in the culture of an indigenous people of Panama.

An authoritative and comprehensive history of post-revolutionary Mexico by two of the country's leading intellectuals.Hector Aguilar Camin and Lorenzo Meyer set out to fill a void in the literature on Mexican history: the lack of a single text to cover the history of Mexico during the twentieth century. In the Shadow of the Mexican Revolution, covers the Mexican Revolution itself, the gradual consolidation of institutions, the Cardenas regime, the "e;Mexican economic miracle"e; and its subsequent collapse, and the recent transition toward a new historical period.The authors explore Mexico's turbulent recent history as it becomes increasingly intertwined with that of the United States. First published in Spanish as A la sombra de la Revolucion Mexicana, this English-language edition offers US readers an intelligent and accessible study of their neighbor to the south.

This volume collects some of the best short fiction from the six Spanish-speaking countries of Central America--Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama.

This work brings together information on the physical, demographic, institutional, and economic dimensions of directed settlement in the Amazon Basin in the 1970s and raises significant questions about the gains and losses of the settlers, the reasons for

The first attempt at an integrated analysis of modern Central America's socioeconomic structure, Torres Rivas's work traces the social development of Central America from independence (1871) up to the 1960s.

This book argues that the conflicting social formations of capitalism, feudalism, and tributary despotism provided the basic dynamic of Mexico's social and economic development.

An intriguing history of the hired readers who read to cigar factory workers in Cuba, Tampa, Key West, Puerto Rico, and Mexico.

A fascinating study of how the Roosevelt administration used mass media, including films by such luminaries as John Ford, Walt Disney, and Orson Wells, to promote the American way of life to Brazilians and how Brazilians actively interpreted, negotiated, and reconfigured this effort at cultural seduction.

Stories and testimonials about women who work in assembly plants along the U.S.-Mexico border.

A study of social banditry in Colombia during a near-civil war.

An examination of popular culture -- merely a process of creating, marketing, and consuming a final product, or an expression of the artist's surroundings and an attempt to alter them?

This translation of a major work in Mexican anthropology argues that Mesoamerican civilization is an ongoing and undeniable force in contemporary Mexican life.

A collection of essays tracing the many memories of the past created by different individuals and groups in Mexico, the book addresses the problem of memory and changing ideas of time in the way Mexicans conceive of their history.

Originally published in Brazil as O Diabo e a Terra de Santa Cruz, this translation from the Portuguese analyzes the nature of popular religion and the ways it was transferred to the New World in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Di Tella draws on the work of Montesquieu, Burke, Tocqueville, Marx, Weber, and Durkheim in formulating his explanatory theories, which are then tested against crucial events in Latin American history, from the rebellions of the eighteenth century to the

A riveting account of the 1980s civil war in El Salvador from the rebels' point of view, written by the man who directed the main news outlet for the guerrilla organization that challenged the Salvadoran government.

Starting with the iconography of a parish church, this extensively contextualized study examines eighteenth-century art, society, religion, and history to offer a new social history of art in colonial Mexico.

The Kuna Indians of Panama, probably best known for molas, their colorful applique blouses, also have a rich literary tradition of oral stories and performances; this book contains the texts of many such works.

What happened when a religious movement came to a Guatemalan town.

Focusing on the Bororo people of west-central Brazil, this book addresses the construction of self-identity through interethnic interaction.

This work examines the role of Mexican women from pre-Cortes to the 1980s.