...Jesús F. De La Teja Hispanic Culture in the Southwest . By Campa Arthur L. . Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 1993 . Photographs. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index , xiii , 316 pp. Paper . $22.95 . Folklore and Culture on the Texas-Mexican Border . By Paredes...

...Luis Martínez-Fernández Afro-Cuban Theology: Religion, Race, Culture, and Identity . By González Michelle A. . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2006 . Notes. Bibliography. Index . xi , 191 pp. Cloth , $59.95 . Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008...

...Roderic Ai Camp Religious Culture in Modern Mexico . Edited by Nesvig Martin Austin . Jaguar Books on Latin America . Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield , 2007 . Photographs. Illustrations. Tables. Notes. Bibliographical Essay. Index . x , 281 pp. Cloth , $75.00 . Paper...

...William H. Beezley A Culture of Everyday Credit: Housekeeping, Pawnbroking, and Governance in Mexico City, 1750 – 1920 . By Francois Marie Eileen . Engendering Latin America . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2006 . Photographs. Illustrations. Tables. Appendixes. Notes...

...Judith A. Weiss The “New Man” in Cuba: Culture and Identity in the Revolution . By Serra Ana . Contemporary Cuba . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2007 . Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xiii , 210 pp. Cloth , $59.95 . Copyright 2008...

...Brian McBeth The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture, and Society in Venezuela . By Salas Miguel Tinker . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2009 . Map. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xvi , 324 pp. Paper , $23.95 . Cloth , $84.95 . Copyright 2011 by Duke University Press 2011...

..., her insistence on discovering “trans-culturation” and “ethnogenesis” in her subjects’ writings creates methodological challenges. Although her Andean authors were elites who were educated by and lived among Europeans, Dueñas fails to consider how, as such, they were also familiar with Spanish...

...Andrae Marak Land of Necessity: Consumer Culture in the United States – Mexico Borderlands . Edited by McCrossen Alexis . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2009 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xix, 414 pp. Paper , $26.95 . Cloth , $99.95...

... to the built environment and so symbolized the union between the earth and the Inka” (p. 21). Each chapter reflects upon these relationships and places them within a historical context based on substantial research and the author’s familiarity with Inka visual culture. Dean focuses on the veneration...

...Luis Fernando Restrepo The Spectacular City, Mexico, and Colonial Hispanic Literary Culture . By Merrim Stephanie . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2010 . Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. viii, 367 pp. Cloth , $65.00 . Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press...

...Alusine Jalloh From Africa to Brazil: Culture, Identity, and an Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600 – 1830 . By Hawthorne Walter . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2010 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Notes. Index. xxi, 259 pp. Paper , $25.99 . Copyright 2012 by Duke...

...Shawn Alfonso Wells The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States . Edited by Román Miriam Jiménez Flores Juan . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2010 . Photographs. Notes. Index. xiv , 566 pp. Paper , $29.95 . Copyright 2012 by Duke University...

...Miguel Rojas-Sotelo Deborah Martin's Painting, Literature, and Film in Colombian Feminine Culture, 1940–2005 shows how a scholar can draw from multiple areas of study, including art history, literary criticism, anthropology, cultural theory, and film studies, and tie together the production...

... again started to use “Indian” to describe themselves in order to overcome ethnic differences, this despite state and broader cultural efforts in recent years to use more neutral terms like campesino to overcome the stigma long attached to indio . 3 For a discussion of the use of law, see...

...Benjamin H. Johnson The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture . By Foley Neil . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1997 . Plates. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xv , 326 pp. Cloth, $29.95 . 2000 by Duke University Press...

...Lawrence E. Harrison A Culture of Its Own: Taking Latin America Seriously . By Falcoff Mark . New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers , 1998 . Notes. Index . 337 pp. Cloth , $32.95 . Copyright 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 During the past fifty years, three...

...Ariel de la Fuente Oral culture, as Paz recognized, was a political domain, a space where the struggle between Unitarians and Federalists was waged. Humor was also used as a weapon in this conflict and Unitarian and Federalist leaders became protagonists (and targets!) of jokes. During the 1840s...

... that of patriots, equal time. (Regrettably, African, European, and Asian observers of Brazil are not represented.) Copyright 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 The Brazil Reader: History, Culture, Politics . Edited by Levine Robert M. and Crocitti John J. . The Latin American Readers...

...Leigh Binford Mexican Brick Culture is a fine contribution to economic history, local/regional history of South Texas, and U.S.–Mexico relations. The book transcends the facile generalizations of many works that treat transnational economic relationships, and it does so as a consequence...

...Rosario Espinal Democratic Culture and Governance: Latin America on the Threshold of the Third Millennium . Edited by Albala-Bertrand Luis . Gaithersburg, Md. : UNESCO/Hispamérica , 1992 . 159 pp. Paper, $12.00 . Social Democracy in Latin America: Prospects for Change...