Drudgery and inequality may be among the defining characteristics of Mexico City, but David Lida explains why it is still the ‘capital of the 21st century’
Categories: Mexico, North America
Tag: Social anthropology
Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes
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Categories: Brazil, North America, South America, United States
Jewel in an American empire
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Louis Pérez helps to explain why US reflexes towards Cuba are so visceral
Categories: Caribbean, Cuba, North America, United States
A war without battles
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Roddy Brett’s harrowing examination of State violence during Guatemala’s civil war makes a significant contribution to debates about democratic consolidation
Categories: Central America, Guatemala
Skulls to the Living, Bread to the Dead
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Categories: Mexico, North America, United States
Made in Mexico: Zapotec Weavers and the Global Ethnic Art Market
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Categories: Mexico, North America, United States
And the state invented woman
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A new concept of womankind was forged in post-revolutionary Mexico
Categories: Mexico, North America
Nationalism’s uncomfortable truths
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Is it wise to use Mexico as the basis for a framework in which to study women, ethnicity and nationalism in Latin America?
Categories: Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico, North America, South America
Young but untouchable
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Boy Kills Man may be short but, like the Colombian child killers it depicts, its effect on the reader will be deadly
Categories: Colombia, South America
A book to stop a bullet
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You may need to take Richard Grant’s Bandit Roads with you if you venture into Mexico’s lawless Sierra Madre
Categories: Mexico, North America, United States