New Books in Latin American Studies

Martín Prechtel, “The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun” (North Atlantic Books, 2005)

Martín Prechtel
The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun
A Mayan Tale of Ecstasy, Time, and Finding One's True Form
North Atlantic Books, 2005

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Folklore New Books in Latin American Studies New Books in Literature New Books in Native American Studies New Books in Peoples & Places February 12, 2020 Eric LeMay

Today I interview Martín Prechtel, whose work ranges from painting and drawing to overlooked histories and living languages to farming and blacksmithing and cooking to the six books he’s written, which cover topics so vast in genres so varied that all the short descriptions I’ve tried to give of them... Read More

Roberto Strongman, “Queering Black Atlantic Religions: Transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería, and Vodou” (Duke UP, 2019)

Roberto Strongman
Queering Black Atlantic Religions
Transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería, and Vodou
Duke University Press, 2020

New Books in African American Studies New Books in Caribbean Studies New Books in Gender Studies New Books in Latin American Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion New Books in Religion & Faith February 4, 2020 Alejandra Bronfman

In Queering Black Atlantic Religions: Transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería, and Vodou (Duke University Press, 2019), Roberto Strongman reveals the many non-heteronormative texts, practices and beliefs though which Black Atlantic religious practices in Haiti, Cuba and Brazil were constituted. Strongman examines Haitian Vodou, Cuban Lucumí/Santería, and Brazilian Candomblé to demonstrate how... Read More

Salvador Salinas, “Land, Liberty, and Water: Morelos After Zapata, 1920-1940” (U Arizona Press, 2018)

Salvador Salinas
Land, Liberty, and Water
Morelos After Zapata, 1920-1940
University of Arizona Press, 2018

New Books in Environmental Studies New Books in History New Books in Latin American Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Science & Technology January 29, 2020 Ethan Fredrick

In Land, Liberty, and Water: Morelos After Zapata, 1920-1940 (University of Arizona Press, 2018), Salvador Salinas fills an important gap in the history of the Zapatista Revolution in Morelos – namely, what happened after 1920. In this meticulously researched account of everyday life between 1920 and 1940, Salinas shows that... Read More

Lindsay Mayka, “Building Participatory Institutions in Latin America: Reform Coalitions and Institutional Change” (Cambridge UP, 2019)

Lindsay Mayka
Building Participatory Institutions in Latin America
Reform Coalitions and Institutional Change
Cambridge University Press, 2019

New Books in Latin American Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Political Science New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Sociology New Books Network January 27, 2020 Lilly J. Goren

Lindsay Mayka’s new book examines the idea and implementation of participatory institutions, asking the question about when they actually work, and when they do not work, and why this is the case, especially in Latin America. Building Participatory Institutions in Latin America: Reform Coalitions and Institutional Change (Cambridge University Press,... Read More

Ariel Mae Lambe, “No Barrier Can Contain It: Cuban Antifascism and the Spanish Civil War” (UNC Press, 2019)

Ariel Mae Lambe
No Barrier Can Contain It
Cuban Antifascism and the Spanish Civil War
University of North Carolina Press, 2019

New Books in Caribbean Studies New Books in European Studies New Books in History New Books in Latin American Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network January 22, 2020 Rachel Grace Newman

Ariel Mae Lambe’s new book No Barrier Can Contain It: Cuban Antifascism and the Spanish Civil War (University of North Carolina Press, 2019) is a history of transnational Cuban activists who mobilized in the mid-1930s to fight fascism both in Cuba and beyond. A wide variety of civic and political... Read More

Benjamin Dangl
The Five Hundred Year Rebellion
Indigenous Movements and the Decolonization of History in Bolivia
AK Press, 2019

New Books in European Studies New Books in History New Books in Latin American Studies New Books in Native American Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Sociology New Books Network January 17, 2020 Annabel G. LaBrecque

Moments before his death at the hands of Spanish colonial officials on November 15, 1781, Aymaran leader Túpac Katari assured his apostles as well as his adversaries that he would “return as millions.” As promised, Katari’s presence in Bolivia did not end with his life. In the centuries since his... Read More

Gonzalo Lamana, “How ‘Indians’ Think: Colonial Indigenous Intellectuals and the Question of Critical Race Theory” (U Arizona Press, 2019)

Gonzalo Lamana
How 'Indians' Think
Colonial Indigenous Intellectuals and the Question of Critical Race Theory
University of Arizona Press, 2019

New Books in Critical Theory New Books in History New Books in Intellectual History New Books in Latin American Studies New Books in Native American Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society January 14, 2020 Colin Mustful

In his new book, How “Indians” Think: Colonial Indigenous Intellectuals and the Question of Critical Race Theory (University of Arizona Press, 2019), Dr. Gonzalo Lamana carefully investigates the writings of Indigenous intellectuals of the Andean region during Spanish colonialism. By delving into and reinterpreting the work of Guaman Poma de... Read More