It is time to put that hamburger down and take the Latino diet and its impact on US tastebuds seriously
Categories: North America, United States
Tag: Social anthropology
The poverty of abundance
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The dynamic US-Mexico borderlands provide a valuable opportunity to explore the role ‘necessity’ plays in contemporary consumer culture
Categories: Mexico, North America, United States
Bitter price for a sweeter life
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Anyone concerned with fair trade must see The Price of Sugar, which exposes modern slavery in the Dominican Republic
Categories: Caribbean, Dominican Republic, Haiti, North America, United States
They can paint over the walls …
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Protest Graffiti Mexico: Oaxaca is a striking visual testament to the 2006 rebellion in the southern Mexican state
Categories: Mexico, North America, United States
La Patria del Criollo: An Interpretation of Colonial Guatemala
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Categories: Central America, Guatemala
Davi versus Goliath
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Davi Kopenawa Yanomami has a mission: to save his people from the ravages of mining and deforestation in the Amazon. He tells Georgina Jiménez why a world threatened by environmental vandalism must take note Photo: ©Joëlle Hernández/CAFOD
Categories: Uncategorized
Chewing away a boom
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A fascinating history of chicle production sheds light on the fragility of extractive industries in Latin America
Categories: Central America, Guatemala, Mexico, North America, United States
Chopping and chewing: Q&A with Jennifer Mathews
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The author of Chicle: The Chewing Gum of the Americas, from the Ancient Maya to William Wrigley answers questions about gum use over the ages and the magnates who built fortunes upon it
Categories: Central America, Guatemala, Mexico, North America, United States
The errors of the avant-garde
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A study of photography helps us to understand how the prophets of Latin American modernism built ethics into their perspectives
Categories: Brazil, Mexico, North America, South America
Gender and the Mexican Revolution
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Revolutionary patriarchs prioritised their vision of social revolution over female emancipation
Categories: Mexico, North America