PODCAST 29: Two recent titles offer lessons about violence in Latin America
Two books about violence
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Tag: Social anthropology
Extraction as alienation
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The rape of the Amazon has generated a unique cultural archive. The Environment in Brazilian Culture: Literature, Cinema, and the Arts, edited by Patricia Vieira, 2025, University of Florida Press
Categories: Brazil, Ecuador, South America
California dreaming
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A quixotic Chicano novel revives the Golden State’s Hispanic history. Old California Strikes Back: The Fantastic Return of a Californio, Scott Russell Duncan, 2024, FlowerSong Press
Categories: Mexico, North America, United States
Let them eat cake
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Hunger in Mexico’s countryside belies the wealth of its cuisine—and guess who is to blame? México Between Feast and Famine: Food, Corporate Power, and Inequality, Enrique C Ochoa, 2025, University of Arizona Press
Knowledge is power
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Imperialism aims to erase indigenous wisdom. Translation and Epistemicide: Racialization of Languages in the Americas, Joshua M Price, 2025, University of Arizona Press
Categories: Colombia, Mexico, North America, Peru, South America, United States
Sex and class
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Working-class morality is shaped by material conditions. Sex and Love in Porfirian Mexico City: A Social History of Working-Class Courtship, Michael Matthews, 2025, University Press of Florida
Categories: Mexico, North America
Burial rights
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Even grief is contested in postwar Central America. Specters of War: The Battle of Mourning in Postconflict Central America, Ignacio Sarmiento, 2025, University of Arizona Press
Categories: Central America, El Salvador, Guatemala
Down but never out
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Pity the poor? Then give them power. Squatter Life: Persistence at the Urban Margins of Buenos Aires, Javier Auyero and Sofía Servián, 2025, Duke University Press
Categories: Argentina, South America
The radical rite
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Liberation theology did not die on the cross and has new martyrs to revere. Liberation Theology and Praxis in Contemporary Latin America: As It Was in the Beginning? Pablo Bradbury and Niall HD Geraghty (eds), 2025, University of London Press
Categories: Argentina, Brazil, Central America, Colombia, El Salvador, Nicaragua, South America
The helpful dead
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Two books about death. The Intimacy of Images: Saints, Death, and Devotion to La Santa Muerte in Oaxaca, Myriam Lamrani, 2025, University of Texas Press; Moved by the Dead: Haunting and Devotion in São Paulo, Brazil, Michael Amoruso, 2025, University of North Carolina Press
Categories: Brazil, Mexico, North America, South America