The Classical Mexican Cinema: The Poetics of the Exceptional Golden Age Films
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From the mid-1930s to the late 1950s, Mexican cinema became the most successful Latin American...
Thunder Shaman: Making History with Mapuche Spirits in Chile and Patagonia
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As a "wild," drumming thunder shaman, a warrior mounted on her spirit horse, Francisca Kolipi's...
Rainforest Cowboys: The Rise of Ranching and Cattle Culture in Western Amazonia
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Winner, Brazil Section Book Award, Latin American Studies Association, 2016 The opening of the...
The Albatross and the Fish: Linked Lives in the Open Seas
Robin W. Doughty and Virginia Carmichael
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Breeding on remote ocean islands and spending much of its life foraging for food across vast...
The CIA in Hollywood: How the Agency Shapes Film and Television
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What's your impression of the CIA? A bumbling agency that can't protect its own spies? A rogue...
Sanctioning Modernism: Architecture and the Making of Postwar Identities
Vladimir Kuli, Timothy Parker, Monica Penick and Frederick Steiner
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In the decades following World War II, modern architecture spread around the globe alongside...
A Camera in the Garden of Eden: The Self-Forging of a Banana Republic
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In the early twentieth century, the Boston-based United Fruit Company controlled the production,...
Drawing with Great Needles: Ancient Tattoo Traditions of North America
Aaron Deter-Wolf and Carol Diaz-Granados
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For thousands of years, Native Americans throughout the Eastern Woodlands and Great Plains used the...
Lettered Artists and the Languages of Empire: Painters and the Profession in Early Colonial Quito
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Quito, Ecuador, was one of colonial South America's most important artistic centers. Yet the...
Maria Izquierdo and Frida Kahlo: Challenging Visions in Modern Mexican Art
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Maria Izquierdo (1902-1955) and Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) were the first two Mexican women artists to...