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...Sarah C. Chambers House/Garden/Nation: Space, Gender, Ethnicity in Post-Colonial Latin American Literature by Women . By Rodríguez Ileana . Translated by Carr Robert and Rodríguez Ileana . Durham : Duke University Press , 1994 . Notes. Bibliography. Index . xvi , 223...

... Gomes Pinheiro Machado and Rui Barbosa de Oliveira joined forces to oppose both the 1904 Vaccine Law and the 1908 Obligatory Military Service Law. Public hygiene measures such as the Vaccine Law appeared poised to empower officials to regulate new aspects of private life, space, and the body. José...

... conceptualization of space is a unifying theme, the chapters can be read as separate units. The black-and-white illustrations are clear and carefully executed, and I particularly appreciated the supplementary color photographs. Solari's ideas strengthen the arguments of those who perceive the Yucatec Maya...

...Deborah Kanter Performing Piety: Making Space Sacred with the Virgin of Guadalupe . By Peña Elaine A. . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2011 . Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii , 219 pp. Paper $24.95 . Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012...

...A. Kim Clark City at the Center of the World: Space, History, and Modernity in Quito . By Capello Ernesto . Pitt Latin American Series . Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press , 2011 . Photographs. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xx , 290 pp. Paper , $27.95...

...Styliane Philippou Ancient Origins of the Mexican Plaza: From Primordial Sea to Public Space . By Wagner Logan , Box Hal , and Morehead Susan Kline . Roger Fullington Series in Architecture . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2013 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps...

... people move through a built environment can reveal previously overlooked aspects of the Inca use of space. The following seven chapters carry out different aspects of this ambitious project. The first chapter, which structures her analysis in the rest of the book, examines the Inca concept of pirca...

...María Teresa Fernández Aceves Occupying Our Space: The Mestiza Rhetorics of Mexican Women Journalists and Activists, 1875–1942 . By Ramírez Cristina Devereaux . Foreword by Royster Jacqueline Jones . Translations by Pouwels Joel Bollinger and Devereaux Neil J. . Tucson...

... confirmed their superiority to and power over others. For the most part, however, almost against the author’s stated intentions, Shaping the Discourse on Space paints a seemingly omnipotent picture of bourgeois agency. The men of the rising urban professional classes in Puerto Rico consistently create...

...Paul Eiss [email protected] Construction of Maya Space: Causeways, Walls, and Open Areas from Ancient to Modern Times . Edited by Thomas H. Guderjan and Jennifer P. Mathews . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2023 . Photographs. Maps. Illustrations. Figures. Tables...

...Carlos R. Hernández Stuck with Tourism: Space, Power, and Labor in Contemporary Yucatán . By Matilde Córdoba Azcárate . Oakland : University of California Press , 2020 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xviii, 278 pp. Paper, $29.95 . Copyright © 2023...

... Americas, and Havana's inquisitive citizens. Urban Space as Heritage in Late Colonial Cuba expands the scholarly interpretation of Havana's emblematic monument beyond previous contextualizations, which have focused on the ideological struggle between El Templete's two principal patrons—the city's...

... and women’s accounts of the movement to reveal the gendered underpinnings of Mexican political culture. Narratives centered on the leaders’ accounts have too narrowly defined the space of the movement; consequently, juxtaposing the accounts of male leaders and female participants breaks open these definitions...

...Jennifer Eaglin The Street Is Ours: Community, the Car, and the Nature of Public Space in Rio de Janeiro . By Shawn William Miller . Cambridge Latin American Studies . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2018 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. x, 345 pp...

...Richard A. Warren Space and Place in the Mexican Landscape: The Evolution of a Colonial City . By Núñez Fernando , Arvizu Carlos , and Abonce Ramón . Edited by Quantrill Malcolm . Studies in Architecture and Culture, 7 . College Station : Texas A & M University...

...Gary M. Feinman Exits from the Labyrinth: Culture and Ideology in the Mexican National Space . By Lomnitz-Adler Claudio . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1993 . Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index . x, 386 pp. Cloth . $45.00 . Copyright 1994 by Duke...

...Gary Urton Space-Time of the Bororo of Brazil . By Fahian Stephen Michael . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 1992 . Photographs. Maps. Plates. Illustrations. Tables. Figures. Appendixes. Notes. Index . xiii , 253 pp. Cloth . $39.95 . Copyright 1993 by Duke...

...Adriana J. Bergero Specular City: Transforming Culture, Consumption, and Space in Buenos Aires, 1955 – 1973 . By Podalsky Laura . Philadelphia : Temple University Press , 2004 . Photographs. Illustrations. Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xvi , 287 pp. Cloth...

...Alanna Ossa The Ancient Maya Marketplace: The Archaeology of Transient Space . Edited by King Eleanor M. . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2015 . Illustrations. Maps. Figures. Tables. Bibliography. Index. x, 325 pp. Cloth , $65.00 . Copyright © 2018 by Duke University...

...Andrew Konove Street Democracy: Vendors, Violence, and Public Space in Late Twentieth-Century Mexico . By Sandra C. Mendiola García . The Mexican Experience . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2017 . Photographs. Map. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xvi, 271 pp. Paper , $30.00...