November 2001

6 x 9 in., 320 pp., 40 b&w photos, 3 maps
ISBN 0-292-70899-8
$50.00, hardcover
ISBN 0-292-70900-5
$24.95, paperback

After Revolution
Mapping Gender and Cultural Politics in Neoliberal Nicaragua
By Florence E. Babb

"This will be a very significant contribution to gender studies, the literature on social movements, and our understanding of post-socialist societies. . . . Its clear and sensitive writing style makes it very valuable for classes and a broad audience, while its sophisticated understanding of contemporary theory on development, social movements, and discourse analysis makes it useful for more specialized readers."
—Frances Rothstein, Professor of Anthropology, Towson University

Nicaragua's Sandinista revolution (1979-1990) initiated a broad program of social transformation to improve the situation of the working class and poor, women, and other non-elite groups through agrarian reform, restructured urban employment, and wide access to health care, education, and social services. This book explores how Nicaragua's least powerful citizens have fared in the years since the Sandinista revolution, as neoliberal governments have rolled back these state-supported reforms and introduced measures to promote the development of a market-driven economy.

December 2001

6 x 9 in., 284 pp., 45 line drawings, 91 halftones, 2 maps
ISBN 0-292-71237-5
$55.00, hardcover
ISBN 0-292-71242-1
$24.95, paperback

Art and Society in a Highland Maya Community
The Altarpiece of Santiago Atitlán
By Allen J. Christenson

"Allen J. Christenson offers us in this wonderful book a testimony to contemporary Maya artistic creativity in the shadow of civil war, natural disaster, and rampant modernization. Trained in art history and thoroughly acquainted with the historical and modern ethnography of the Maya area, Christenson chronicles in this beautifully illustrated work the reconstruction of the central altarpiece of the Maya Church of Tz'utujil-speaking Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala. The much-loved colonial-era shrine collapsed after a series of destructive earthquakes in the twentieth century. Christenson's close friendship with the Chávez brothers, the native Maya artists who reconstructed the shrine in close consultation with village elders, enables him to provide detailed exegesis of how this complex work of art translates into material form the theology and cosmology of the traditional Tz'utujil Maya.

January 2002

6 x 9 in., 320 pp., 16 b&w photos, 8 maps, 8 charts, 6 line drawings, 5 tables
ISBN 0-292-72530-2
$50.00, hardcover
ISBN 0-292-72534-5
$22.95, paperback

Cultural Logics and Global Economies
Maya Identity in Thought and Practice
By Edward F. Fischer

As ideas, goods, and people move with increasing ease and speed across national boundaries and geographic distances, the economic changes and technological advances that enable this globalization are also paradoxically contributing to the balkanization of states, ethnic groups, and special interest movements. Exploring how this process is playing out in Guatemala, this book presents an innovative synthesis of the local and global factors that have led Guatemala's indigenous Maya peoples to assert and defend their cultural identity and distinctiveness within the dominant Hispanic society.

Drawing on recent theories from cognitive studies, interpretive ethnography, and political economy, Edward F. Fischer looks at individual Maya activists and local cultures, as well as changing national and international power relations, to understand how ethnic identities are constructed and expressed in the modern world. At the global level, he shows how structural shifts in international relations have opened new venues of ethnic expression for Guatemala's majority Maya population. At the local level, he examines the processes of identity construction in two Kaqchikel Maya towns, Tecpán and Patzún, and shows how divergent local norms result in different conceptions and expressions of Maya-ness, which nonetheless share certain fundamental similarities with the larger pan-Maya project. Tying these levels of analysis together, Fischer argues that open-ended Maya "cultural logics" condition the ways in which Maya individuals (national leaders and rural masses alike) creatively express their identity in a rapidly changing world.

May 2002

6 x 9 in., 560 pp., 345 color and 75 b&w photos, 11 line drawings, 273 maps ISBN 0-292-73128-0
$95.00, hardcover
ISBN 0-292-73459-X
$39.95, paperback

Field Guide to the Wildlife of Costa Rica

By Carrol L. Henderson
Photos by the author
Illustrated by Steve Adams
Foreword by Alexander F. Skutch

At the biological crossroads of the Americas, Costa Rica hosts an astonishing array of plants and animals—over half a million species! Ecotourists, birders, and biologists come from around the world to immerse themselves in the country's unspoiled rain forests, mountains, and beaches, drawn by the likelihood of seeing more than three or four hundred species of birds and other animals during even a short stay. To help all of these visitors and local residents identify and enjoy the wildlife of Costa Rica, this field guide presents nearly three hundred species of birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, butterflies, moths, and other invertebrates.

Carrol Henderson, an experienced wildlife biologist, traveler, and tour leader in Costa Rica, has chosen the species that ecotourists are most likely to see, along with a selection of rarer, sought-after animals. He gives a general introduction to each group of animals, followed by individual species accounts that highlight identification features and interesting ecological adaptations for survival. His stunning close-up photographs and distribution maps complete each entry.

In addition, Henderson includes a wealth of data about Costa Rica's natural environment, as well as a trip preparation checklist and lists of conservation organizations, wildlife tourism sites, and wildlife vocalization tapes and CDs. With so much information so readily and readably accessible, this field guide will be essential for planning and enjoying your time in Costa Rica.

November 2001

6 x 9 in., 408 pp., 2 b&w photos, 1 line drawing, 2 figures, 3 maps, 31 tables
ISBN 0-292-73454-9
$50.00, hardcover
ISBN 0-292-73456-5
$24.95, paperback

Mesoamerican Healers

Edited by Brad R. Huber and Alan R. Sandstrom

"This is an important book because there has been a need for an authoritative survey of medical practices in Mesoamerica. This has been an active research area, with widely dispersed reports, and this synthesis will fill a definite need.... The various authors are the recognized authorities in their field."
—Bernard Ortiz de Montellano, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Wayne State University

Healing practices in Mesoamerica span a wide range, from traditional folk medicine with roots reaching back into the prehispanic era to westernized biomedicine. These sometimes cooperating, sometimes competing practices have attracted attention from researchers and the public alike, as interest in alternative medicine and holistic healing continues to grow.

January 2002

6 x 9 in., 408 pp., 50 b&w illus., 4 maps
ISBN 0-292-75253-9
$55.00, hardcover
ISBN 0-292-75254-7
$24.95, paperback

Recovering History, Constructing Race
The Indian, Black, and White Roots of Mexican Americans

By Martha Menchaca

"Menchaca has accomplished an unprecedented tour de force in this sweeping historical overview and interpretation of the racial formation and racial history of Mexican Americans."
—Antonia I. Castañeda, Associate Professor of History, St. Mary's University

The history of Mexican Americans is a history of the intermingling of races—Indian, White, and Black. This racial history underlies a legacy of racial discrimination against Mexican Americans and their Mexican ancestors that stretches from the Spanish conquest to current battles over ending affirmative action and other assistance programs for ethnic minorities. Asserting the centrality of race in Mexican American history, Martha Menchaca here offers the first interpretive racial history of Mexican Americans, focusing on racial foundations and race relations from prehispanic times to the present.

June 2001

6 x 9 in., 336 pp., 91 halftones, 32 figures, 32 maps, 3 tables
ISBN 0-292-70889-0
$60.00, hardcover
ISBN 0-292-70890-4
$29.95, paperback

Ritual and Pilgrimage in the Ancient Andes
The Islands of the Sun and the Moon
By Brian S. Bauer and Charles Stanish

"Well written and cogently argued, this book will appeal to . . . scholars of complex societies worldwide." —Helaine Silverman, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The Islands of the Sun and the Moon in Bolivia's Lake Titicaca were two of the most sacred locations in the Inca empire. A pan-Andean belief held that they marked the origin place of the Sun and the Moon, and pilgrims from across the Inca realm made ritual journeys to the sacred shrines there. In this book, Brian Bauer and Charles Stanish explore the extent to which this use of the islands as a pilgrimage center during Inca times was founded on and developed from earlier religious traditions of the Lake Titicaca region.

Drawing on a systematic archaeological survey and test excavations in the islands, as well as data from historical texts and ethnography, the authors document a succession of complex polities in the islands from 2000 BC to the time of European contact in the 1530s AD. They uncover significant evidence of pre-Inca ritual use of the islands, which raises the compelling possibility that the religious significance of the islands is of great antiquity. The authors also use these data to address broader anthropological questions on the role of pilgrimage centers in the development of pre-modern states.

March 2002

6 x 9 in., 400 pp., 90 line drawings, 39 figures, 3 maps
ISBN 0-292-77759-0
$70.00, hardcover
ISBN 0-292-77760-4
$34.95, paperback

Animals and Plants of the Ancient Maya
A Guide
By Victoria Schlesinger
Introduction by Carlos Galindo-Leal; Illustrated by Juan C. Chab Medina

"Part field guide, part book of vignettes discussing the animals and plants most commonly seen in the Maya area, this fine guide provides a fresh synthesis of anthropological and biological research that will serve as an engaging and practical resource for visitors, students, and burgeoning naturalists."
—Paul R. Ehrlich, President, Center for Conservation Biology, Stanford University

A growing interest in all things Maya brings an increasing number of visitors to prehistoric Maya ruins and contemporary Maya communities in Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, western Honduras, the Yucatán Peninsula, and the southern areas of Chiapas and Tabasco, Mexico. For these visitors and indeed everyone with an interest in the Maya, this field guide highlights nearly 100 species of plants and animals that were significant to the ancient Maya and that continue to inhabit the Maya region today.

July 2001
6 x 9 in., 288 pp., 66 halftones, 47 line drawings, 3 maps, 2 charts
ISBN 0-292-70893-9
$45.00, hardcover
ISBN 0-292-70894-7
$19.95, paperback

Ritual Sacrifice in Ancient Peru
New Discoveries and Interpretations
Edited by Elizabeth P. Benson and Anita G. Cook

"This is indeed a significant contribution that contains an immense amount of new evidence. . . . The authors offer plentiful support for the view that human sacrifice is a very ancient and important, though shocking, Andean tradition." —William J. Conklin, Research Associate for the Textile Museum, Washington, D.C., the Field Museum, Chicago, and the Institute of Andean Studies, Berkeley

Propitiating the supernatural forces that could grant bountiful crops or wipe out whole villages through natural disasters was a sacred duty in ancient Peruvian societies, as in many premodern cultures. Ritual sacrifices were considered necessary for this propitiation and for maintaining a proper reciprocal relationship between humans and the supernatural world.

The essays in this book examine the archaeological evidence for ancient Peruvian sacrificial offerings of human beings, animals, and objects, as well as the cultural contexts in which the offerings occurred, from around 2500 B.C. until Inca times just before the Spanish Conquest. Major contributions come from the recent archaeological fieldwork of Steve Bourget, Anita Cook, and Alana Cordy-Collins, as well as from John Verano's laboratory work on skeletal material from recent excavations. Mary Frame, who is a weaver as well as a scholar, offers rich new interpretations of Paracas burial garments, and Donald Proulx presents a fresh view of the nature of Nasca warfare. Elizabeth Benson's essay provides a summary of sacrificial practices.

July 2001

6 x 9 in., 368 pp., 15 halftones, 3 maps, line drawings
ISBN 0-292-71232-4
$50.00, hardcover
ISBN 0-292-71236-7
$22.95, paperback

Consuming Grief
Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society
By Beth A. Conklin

"This is probably the most significant ethnography of cannibalism. Period. . . . I expect this book to become a classic, an ethnography of exceptional depth and clarity by an anthropologist whose sensitivity and insight are apparent on every page." —Donald Pollock, Associate Professor of Anthropology, SUNY Buffalo

Mourning the death of loved ones and recovering from their loss are universal human experiences, yet the grieving process is as different between cultures as it is among individuals. As late as the 1960s, the Wari' Indians of the western Amazonian rainforest ate the roasted flesh of their dead as an expression of compassion for the deceased and for his or her close relatives. By removing and transforming the corpse, which embodied ties between the living and the dead and was a focus of grief for the family of the deceased, Wari' death rites helped the bereaved kin accept their loss and go on with their lives.

Drawing on the recollections of Wari' elders who participated in consuming the dead, this book presents one of the richest, most authoritative ethnographic accounts of funerary cannibalism ever recorded. Beth Conklin explores Wari' conceptions of person, body, and spirit, as well as indigenous understandings of memory and emotion, to explain why the Wari' felt that corpses must be destroyed and why they preferred cannibalism over cremation. Her findings challenge many commonly held beliefs about cannibalism and show why, in Wari' terms, it was considered the most honorable and compassionate way of treating the dead.

August 2001
6 x 9 in., 256 pp., 11 figures, 4 tables
ISBN 0-292-71613-3
$19.95, paperback

Latin American Politics
A Theoretical Approach, Revised Edition
By Torcuato S. Di Tella
Translated and updated by the author

First published in English in 1990 as Latin American Politics: A Theoretical Framework, a translation of Torcuato S. Di Tella's original Sociología de los procesos políticos, this new edition also focuses on the prerequisites for democracy in any society and on the role of the popular classes in social change. Di Tella draws on the work of Montesquieu, Burke, Tocqueville, Marx, Weber, and Durkheim in formulating his explanatory theories. These theories are then tested against crucial events in Latin American history—from the rebellions of the eighteenth century to the caudillos of the nineteenth century and the militarism of the twentieth century.

This latest edition is more attuned to an English-speaking audience, with a new chapter addressing the historical process in Argentina from the 1930s to the present. Latin American Politics is written in a style easily accessible to the general reader or student, while its emphasis on the growth of democracy in Latin America makes it particularly timely.

August 2001

6 x 9 in., 320 pp., 6 figures, 3 maps, 29 tables
ISBN 0-292-72531-0
$40.00, hardcover
ISBN 0-292-72532-9
$19.95, paperback

Quiché Rebelde
Religious Conversion, Politics, and Ethnic Identity in Guatemala
By Ricardo Falla
Translated by Phillip Berryman
New foreword by Richard N. Adams

Since the arrival of the Spanish in the sixteenth century, the Maya population of Guatemala has been forced to adapt to extraordinary challenges. Under colonial rule, the Indians had to adapt enough to satisfy the Spanish while resisting those changes not necessary for survival, applying their understanding of the world to the realities they confronted daily. Despite the major changes wrought in their way of life by centuries of submission, the Maya have managed to regenerate, and thus maintain, their self-identity.

Among the major challenges they have faced has been the imposition of outside religions. Quiché Rebelde examines what happened when Acción Católica came into the Guatemalan municipio of San Antonio Ilotenango, Quiché, to convert its inhabitants.

Ricardo Falla, a Guatemalan Jesuit priest and anthropologist, analyzes the movement's origins and why some people became part of it while others resisted. He shows how religion was used as another tool to readapt to the changing environment—natural, economic, political, and social. His work is the first major empirical study of how change occurred in a Maya community with no serious loss of Maya identity—and how the process of conversion is related to more general processes of cultural change that actually strengthen ethnic identity.

August 2001

6 x 9 in., 336 pp., 8 halftones, 5 line drawings
ISBN 0-292-75248-2
$45.00, hardcover
ISBN 0-292-75249-0
$21.95, paperback

"Here, Our Culture Is Hard"
Stories of Domestic Violence from a Mayan Community in Belize
By Laura McClusky

"This is the first book I am aware of that focuses primarily on the issue of domestic violence in Mexico and Central America. . . . It is a courageous undertaking for the author to write on this topic, and she carries it off with grace, humility, and honesty. . . . This book has far more potential to be of interest to a general readership than most academic books." —Lynn Stephen, Professor of Anthropology, University of Oregon

Marriage among the Maya of Central America is a model of complementarity between a man and a woman. This union demands mutual respect and mutual service. Yet some husbands beat their wives.

September 2001
8 1/2 x 11 in., 336 pp., 43 halftones, 112 line drawings, 6 maps, 1 graph, 3 tables
ISBN 0-292-75572-4
$45.00, hardcover

Trees of Paradise and Pillars of the World
The Serial Stela Cycle of "18-Rabbit-God K," King of Copan
By Elizabeth A. Newsome

Assemblies of rectangular stone pillars, or stelae, fill the plazas and courts of ancient Maya cities throughout the lowlands of southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and western Honduras. Mute testimony to state rituals that linked the king's power to rule with the rhythms and renewal of time, the stelae document the ritual acts of rulers who sacrificed, danced, and experienced visionary ecstasy in connection with celebrations marking the end of major calendrical cycles. The kings' portraits are carved in relief on the main surfaces of the stones, deifying them as incarnations of the mythical trees of life.

Based on a thorough analysis of the imagery and inscriptions of seven stelae erected in the Great Plaza at Copan, Honduras, by the Classic Period ruler "18-Rabbit-God K," this ambitious study argues that stelae were erected not only to support a ruler's temporal claims to power but more importantly to express the fundamental connection in Maya worldview between rulership and the cosmology inherent in their vision of cyclical time. After an overview of the archaeology and history of Copan and the reign and monuments of "18-Rabbit-God K," Elizabeth Newsome interprets the iconography and inscriptions on the stelae, illustrating the way they fulfilled a coordinated vision of the king's ceremonial role in Copan's period-ending rites. She also links their imagery to key Maya concepts about the origin of the universe, expressed in the cosmologies and mythic lore of ancient and living Maya peoples.

December 2000
6 x 9 in., 250 pp.
ISBN 0-292-70503-4
$19.95, paperback

Guaman Poma
Writing and Resistance in Colonial Peru: Second Edition
By Rolena Adorno

In the midst of native people's discontent following Spanish conquest, a native Andean born after the fall of the Incas took up the pen to protest Spanish rule. Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala wrote his Nueva corónica y buen gobierno to inform Philip III of Spain about the evils of colonialism and the need for governmental and societal reform. By examining Guaman Poma's verbal and visual engagement with the institutions of Western art and culture, Rolena Adorno shows how he performed a comprehensive critique of the colonialist discourse of religion, political theory, and history. She argues that Guaman Poma's work chronicles the emergence of a uniquely Latin American voice, characterized by the articulation of literary art and politics.

March 2001
8 1/4 x 11 3/4 in., 416 pp., 105 color and 204 b&w illus., 1 map
ISBN 0-292-70857-2
$70.00, hardcover
ISBN 0-292-70858-0
$34.95, paperback

Twentieth-Century Art of Latin America

By Jacqueline Barnitz

"An exciting and invaluable work of synthesis and interpretation, Barnitz's grand survey greatly enhances understanding of the extraordinary cultural mix that infuses Latin American art with its soulfulness and vigor. "
—Booklist

"With ease and agility, Barnitz navigates an entire century's worth of art produced in the varied regions and cultures of Latin America."
—ARTnews

"For breadth of reference and range of coverage, this book will stand for some time as the most comprehensive study to date of modern Latin American art from the Caribbean basin to the Southern cone countries."
—David Craven, author of Diego Rivera as Epic Modernist

The twentieth-century art of Latin America is art in the western tradition, and its leading figures--Wifredo Lam, Roberto Matta, Diego Rivera, Joaquín Torres-García, to name only a few--have achieved international stature. Yet much of the writing about this art has offered either a victimized view of an art tradition dominated by foreign models or a romanticized view of what Latin American art should be. This pathfinding book, by contrast, seeks not to "invent" Latin American art but to look at it from the points of view of its own artists and critics.

2000

7 1/4 x 10/ 1/2 in., 344 pp., 35 b&w photos, 28 maps, 2 charts, 14 tables
ISBN 0-292-70881-5
$55.00, hardcover

Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 6
Ethnology
Victoria R. Bricker, general editor
John D. Monaghan, volume editor; With the assistance of Barbara W. Edmonson

     SEE OUR Spain and Latin American Pages for a complete listing of all the volumes in the three major handbooks of American Indians:  Handbooks of American Indians

In 1981, UT Press began to issue supplemental volumes to the classic sixteen-volume work, Handbook of Middle American Indians. These supplements are intended to update scholarship in various areas and to cover topics of current interest. Supplements devoted to Archaeology, Linguistics, Literatures, Ethnohistory, and Epigraphy have appeared to date.

In this Ethnology supplement, anthropologists who have carried out long-term fieldwork among indigenous people review the ethnographic literature in the various regions of Middle America and discuss the theoretical and methodological orientations that have framed the work of areal scholars over the last several decades. They examine how research agendas have developed in relationship to broader interests in the field and the ways in which the anthropology of the region has responded to the sociopolitical and economic policies of Mexico and Guatemala. Most importantly, they focus on the changing conditions of life of the indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica. This volume thus offers a comprehensive picture of both the indigenous populations and developments in the anthropology of the region over the last thirty years.

2000
6 x 9 in., 304 pp., 22 photos, 1 figure, 3 maps, 4 tables
ISBN 0-292-71224-3
$45.00, hardcover
ISBN 0-292-71225-1
$22.95, paperback

Renewing the Maya World
Expressive Culture in a Highland Town
By Garrett W. Cook

Each year in the Highland Guatemala town of Santiago Momostenango, Maya religious societies, dance teams, and cofradías perform the annual cycle of rituals and festivals prescribed by Costumbre (syncretized Maya Christian religion), which serves to renew the cosmic order. In this richly detailed ethnography, Garrett Cook explores how these festivals of Jesucristo and the saints derive from and reenact three major ancient Maya creation myths, thus revealing patterns of continuity between contemporary expressive culture and the myths, rituals, and iconography of the Classic and Postclassic Maya.

Drawing on fieldwork conducted in the 1970s and renewed in the 1990s, Cook describes the expressive culture tradition performed in and by the cofradías and their dance teams. He listens as dancers and cofrades explain the meaning of service and of the major ritual symbols in the cults of the saints and Jesucristo. Comparing these symbols to iconographic evidence from Palenque and myths from the Popol Vuh, Cook persuasively argues that the expressive culture of Momostenango enacts major Maya creation myths-the transformative sunrise, the representation of the year as the life cycle of anthropomorphized nature, and the erection of an axis mundi.

2000

6 x 9 in., 344 pp., 24 line drawings, 1 map
ISBN 0-292-72104-8
$24.95, paperback

Women and Alcohol in a Highland Maya Town
Water of Hope, Water of Sorrow
Revised Edition
By Christine Eber

"In this well-written ethnography, Christine Eber weaves together the critical issues of gender relations, religious change, domestic violence, and drinking in highland Chiapas. . . . This is a fine ethnography that is a must-read for all interested in gender relations in contemporary Latin America. It is also one of the best current discussions on the little-studied phenomenon of religious change in Mexico. . . . Eber also provides a wonderful model of how to write a readable ethnography that treats its subjects with dignity and respect and honestly integrates the trials and tribulations of the ethnographer in the process."
--Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

"Women and Alcohol is a book worth reading. . . . The book's informal tone and interesting topic make it appealing to a wide audience, including casual readers and undergraduate classes. Furthermore, Eber's cross-cultural insight into alcohol dependency is relevant not only for anthropologists but also for health care professionals and others who deal with substance abuse."
--Latin American Indian Literatures Journal

This pioneering ethnography looks at women and drinking in the Highland Chiapas, Mexico, community of San Pedro Chenalhó to address the issues of women's identities, roles, relationships, and sources of power. In a new epilogue, Christine Eber describes how events of the last decade, including the Zapatista uprising, have strengthened women's resolve to gain greater control over their lives by controlling the effects of alcohol in the community.

2000
6 x 9 in., 208 pp.
ISBN 0-292-72519-1
$37.50, hardcover
ISBN 0-292-72520-5
$16.95, paperback

Cuba and the Politics of Passion

By Damián J. Fernández

"This book makes a provocative contribution to the field of Cuban studies. Damián Fernández has put his finger on the pulse of Cuban political culture and has offered us an innovative reading of the island's past, present, and possible futures."
--Marifeli Pérez-Stable, Professor of Sociology, SUNY College at Old Westbury

Cuban politics has long been remarkable for its passionate intensity, and yet few scholars have explored the effect of emotions on political attitudes and action in Cuba or elsewhere. This book thus offers an important new approach by bringing feelings back into the study of politics and showing how the politics of passion and affection have interacted to shape Cuban history throughout the twentieth century.

Damián Fernández characterizes the politics of passion as the pursuit of a moral absolute for the nation as a whole. While such a pursuit rallied the Cuban people around charismatic leaders such as Fidel Castro, Fernández finds that it also set the stage for disaffection and disconnection when the grand goal never fully materialized. At the same time, he reveals how the politics of affection-taking care of family and friends outside the formal structures of government-has paradoxically both undermined state regimes and helped them remain in power by creating an informal survival network that provides what the state cannot or will not.

January 2001

6 x 9 in., 304 pp., 29 figures, 6 tables
ISBN 0-292-74064-6
$40.00, hardcover
ISBN 0-292-74065-4
$21.95, paperback

Gender and Power in Prehispanic Mesoamerica

By Rosemary A. Joyce

"This is a tremendously significant contribution to the field. . . . It provides a new model of how social inequality first emerged in ancient societies. It provides an accessible, convincing demonstration of Judith Butler's performance theory. And it resolves some quandaries about gender construction and the female body that have plagued feminist theory. This is a huge, important book."
--Elizabeth M. Brumfiel, John S. Ludington Trustees' Professor of Anthropology, Albion College

Gender was a fluid potential, not a fixed category, before the Spaniards came to Mesoamerica. Childhood training and ritual shaped, but did not set, adult gender, which could encompass third genders and alternative sexualities as well as "male" and "female." At the height of the Classic period, Maya rulers presented themselves as embodying the entire range of gender possibilities, from male through female, by wearing blended costumes and playing male and female roles in state ceremonies.

This landmark book offers the first comprehensive description and analysis of gender and power relations in prehispanic Mesoamerica from the Formative Period Olmec world (ca. 1500-500 BC) through the Postclassic Maya and Aztec societies of the sixteenth century AD. Using approaches from contemporary gender theory, Rosemary Joyce explores how Mesoamericans created human images to represent idealized notions of what it meant to be male and female and to depict proper gender roles. She then juxtaposes these images with archaeological evidence from burials, house sites, and body ornaments, which reveals that real gender roles were more fluid and variable than the stereotyped images suggest.

January 2001

6 x 9 1/4 in., 960 pp.
ISBN 0-292-75243-1
$95.00, hardcover

Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 57
Social Sciences
Katherine D. McCann, Acting Editor

"The one source that sets reference collections on Latin American studies apart from all other geographic areas of the world. . . . The Handbook has provided scholars interested in Latin America with a bibliographical source of a quality unavailable to scholars in most other branches of area studies."
—Latin American Research Review

Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities.

The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and research under way in specialized areas.

The Handbook of Latin American Studies is the oldest continuing reference work in the field. Katherine D. McCann is acting editor for this volume.

The subject categories for Volume 57 are as follows:

• Electronic Resources for the Social Sciences
• Anthropology
• Economics
• Geography
• Government and Politics
• International Relations
• Sociology

March 2001
6 x 9 in., 208 pp., 20 photos, 5 maps, 4 tables
ISBN 0-292-77758-2
$40.00, hardcover
ISBN 0-292-77757-4
$19.95, paperback

Bandits, Peasants, and Politics
The Case of "La Violencia" in Colombia
By Gonzalo Sánchez and Donny Meertens
Translated by Alan Hynds

The years 1945-1965 saw heavy partisan conflict in the rural areas of Colombia, with at least 200,000 people killed. This virtual civil war began as a sectarian conflict between the Liberal and Conservative parties, with rural workers (campesinos) constituting the majority of combatants and casualties. Yet La Violencia resists classification as a social uprising, since calls for social reform were largely absent during this phase of the struggle. In fact, once the elite leadership settled on a power-sharing agreement in 1958, the conflict appeared to subside.

This book focuses on the second phase (1958-1965) of the struggle, in which the social dimensions of the conflict emerged in a uniquely Colombian form: the campesinos, shaped by the earlier violence, became social and political bandits, no longer acting exclusively for powerful men above them but more in defense of the peasantry. In comparing them with other regional expressions of bandolerismo, the authors weigh the limited prospects for the evolution of Colombian banditry into full-scale social revolution.

Published originally in 1983 as Bandoleros, gamonales y campesinos and now updated with a new epilogue, this book makes a timely contribution to the discourse on social banditry and the Colombian violencia. Its importance rests in the insights it provides not only on the period in question but also on Colombia's present situation.

1999
6 x 9 in., 368 pp., 5 b&w photos,
9 line drawings, 11 maps
ISBN 0-292-71217-0
$40.00, hardcover
ISBN 0-292-71218-9
$17.95, paperback

Notable Men and Women of Spanish Texas
By Donald E. Chipman and Harriett Denise Joseph

"In my knowledge of Spanish Texas and the Spanish Borderlands, there is no other work that covers the topic of this book. . . . No other book is so comprehensive and deals with so many personalities in one place."
—Oakah L. Jones, Historian and Professor Emeritus, Purdue University

The Spanish colonial era in Texas (1528-1821) continues to emerge from the shadowy past with every new archaeological and historical discovery. In this book, years of archival sleuthing by Donald E. Chipman and Harriett Denise Joseph now reveal the real human beings behind the legendary figures who discovered, explored, and settled Spanish Texas.

By combining dramatic, real-life incidents, biographical sketches, and historical background, the authors bring to life these famous (and sometimes infamous) men of Spanish Texas:

• Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
• Alonso de León
• Francisco Hidalgo
• Louis Juchereau de St. Denis
• Antonio Margil
• The Marqués de Aguayo
• Pedro de Rivera
• Felipe de Rábago
• José de Escandón
• Athanase de Mézières
• The Marqués de Rubí
• Antonio Gil Ibarvo
• Domingo Cabello
• José Bernardo Gutiérrez de Lara
• Joaquín de Arredondo

2000
7 x 10 in., 261 pp., 117 b&w drawings, 25 maps, 2 tables
ISBN 0-292-71604-4
$50.00, hardcover
ISBN 0-292-71605-2
$27.95, paperback

A Guide to the Carnivores of Central America
Natural History, Ecology, and Conservation

By Carlos L. de la Rosa and Claudia C. Nocke

Carnivores such as pumas, jaguars, and ocelots have roamed the neotropical forests of Central America for millennia. Enshrined in the myths of the ancient Maya, they still inspire awe in the region's current inhabitants, as well as in the ecotourists and researchers who come to experience Central America's diverse and increasingly endangered natural environment.

This book is one of the first field guides dedicated to the carnivores of Central America. It describes the four indigenous families-wild cats, raccoons and their relatives, skunks and their relatives, and wild canids-and their individual species that live in the region. The authors introduce each species by recounting a first-person encounter with it, followed by concise explanations of its taxonomy, scientific name, English and Spanish common names, habitat, natural history, and conservation status. Range maps show the animal's past and current distribution, while Claudia Nocke's black-and-white drawings portray it visually.

The concluding chapter looks to the carnivores' future, including threats posed by habitat destruction and other human activities, and describes some current conservation programs. Designed for citizens of and visitors to Central America, as well as specialists, this book offers an excellent introduction to a group of fascinating, threatened, and still imperfectly understood animals.

1999
5 1/2 x 8 1/2 in., 176 pp., 3 b&w photos
ISBN 0-292-72509-4
$30.00, hardcover
ISBN 0-292-72510-8
$14.95, paperback

Gender and Society in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema
By David William Foster

"This book provides an excellent overview of gender, feminist, and queer theoretical formulations and their application to Brazilian cinema within a sociohistorical framework. It will be of interest to students of gender issues, Latin American culture, and film."
—David George, Professor of Spanish, Lake Forest College, Illinois

"Gender is an absolute ground zero for most human societies," writes David William Foster, "an absolute horizon of social subjectivity." In this book, he examines gender issues in thirteen Brazilian films made (with one exception) after the 1985 return to constitutional democracy and elimination of censorship to show how these issues arise from and comment on the sociohistorical reality of contemporary Brazilian society.

Foster organizes his study around three broad themes: construction of masculinity, constructions of feminine and feminist identities, and same-sex positionings and social power. Within his discussions of individual films ranging from Jorge um brasileiro to A hora da estrela to Beijo no asfalto, he offers new ways of understanding national ideals and stereotypes, sexual dissidence (homoeroticism and transgenderism), heroic models, U.S./Brazilian relations, revolutionary struggle, and human rights violations. As the first study of Brazilian cinematic representations of gender ideology in English or Portuguese, this book will be important reading in film and cultural studies.

2000
6 x 9 in., 250 pp., 4 figs, 10 tables
ISBN 0-942041-18-6
$25.00, paperback

Identities on the Move
Transnational Processes in North America and the Caribbean Basin
By Liliana R. Goldin

This valuable collection assembles essays by leading experts on transnationalism, highlighting emerging trends in this newly developed field. The contributions focus on the construction of transnational identities and how these identities form and change in the context of processes of migration and displacement. The book addresses the ways in which nations and states frame identity formation through labels, politics of exception, and racialization.

A strength of this collection is its interdisciplinary and multi-methodological perspective, which permits the student of transnational processes to access diverse constructs through multiple angles. The volume includes concrete ethnographic examples of identities in the making, documentation of the effects of exile and displacement, reflexive accounts by writers who have direct experience with transnationalism, and incisive theoretical arguments that highlight the ways in which race, citizenship, nation-states, and neo-colonialism create images and actions of individuals and communities. The examples include discussions about Latinos in the United States, individuals and communities along international borders, indigenous peoples in migration, and identity construction in international workplaces.

The contributors include:
• Edna Acosta-Belén;  Allan F. Burns;  Jorge Durand;  Duncan Earle; Juan Flores
• Liliana R. Goldin;  Michael Kearney;  Douglas S. Massey;  Victor D. Montejo
• Suzanne Oboler;  Carlos E. Santiago;  Azara L. Santiago-Rivera;  Nina Glick Schiller
• Ilan Stavans

1999
9 x 12 in., 312 pp., 80 color plates, 136 b&w illus.
ISBN 0-935213-14-7
$50.00, paperback

This Spanish/English bilingual catalog and the traveling exhibition it accompanies examine the work of nine Argentinean artists whose iconoclastic production can be seen as finding a common ground in the critical recourse of parody. The exhibit and the catalog represent the first attempt to bring together this heterogeneous group of artists while simultaneously investigating the formal and conceptual affinities that link their artistic production. Featured artists are Antonio Berni, Jorge de la Vega, Víctor Grippo, Pablo Suárez, Alberto Heredia, Juan Carlos Distéfano, León Ferrari, Rubén Santantonín, and Luis Fernando Benedit.

The catalog is one of the first comprehensive sources for these artists' work both individually and as a group. Comprehensive essays by curator Mari Carmen Ramírez and Argentinean art historians Andrea Giunta and Marcelo E. Pacheco address the general context of Argentinean art since the 1960s, as well as the specific issues posed by the works in the exhibition. Because of the lack of English sources on this topic, special emphasis is placed on the documentation of the exhibition topic and the artists' individual careers. Included are short critical essays on each of the artists represented in the exhibition, as well as documentary photographs, a selection of important writings by the artists, and a comprehensive bibliography for their work and the time period represented.

Exhibition venues:
• Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
  July 24-September 26, 1999
• Biblioteca Centro Cultural Luis Angel Arango, Bogotá, Colombia
  January 19-March 19, 2000
• Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  April-June 2000

1999
6 3/4 x 9 1/2 in., 80 pp., 24 b&w photos, 10 line drawings, 2 maps
ISBN 0-292-78532-1
$12.95, paperback

Inca Myths
By Gary Urton

Inca Myths begins with an introduction to the land and people of the Andes and reviews the sources of our current knowledge of Inca mythology. Gary Urton then recounts various creation myths, including a selection from various ethnic groups and regions around the empire. Finally, he draws upon his extensive knowledge of the history and ethnography of the Incas to illuminate the nature and relationships of myth and history.

The contents include:

• Introduction
• Creation myths
• Origin myths of the founding of the Inca empire
• Myths of the works and deeds of the Inca kings
• Selection of myths from around the empire
• Animal myths
• Myths from the Spanish Conquest
• Conclusions

1999
6 x 9 in., 320 pp., 7 b&w photos, 3 line drawings, 6 maps, 4 tables
ISBN 0-292-72100-5
$40.00, hardcover
ISBN 0-292-72101-3
$19.95, paperback

The Green Republic
A Conservation History of Costa Rica
By Sterling Evans

"Sterling Evans has written a passionate yet balanced account of the history of conservation in Costa Rica. Both environmental historians and activists will gain from this book a great appreciation of the work that went into protecting Costa Rica's natural heritage, along with the work that still must be done." -Lane Simonian, author of Defending the Land of the Jaguar: A History of Conservation in Mexico

With over 25 percent of its land set aside in national parks and other protected areas, Costa Rica is renowned worldwide as "the green republic." In this very readable history of conservation in Costa Rica, Sterling Evans explores the establishment of the country's national park system as a response to the rapid destruction of its tropical ecosystems due to the expansion of export-related agriculture.

Drawing on interviews with key players in the conservation movement, as well as archival research, Evans traces the emergence of a conservation ethic among Costa Ricans and the tangible forms it has taken. In Part I, he describes the development of the national park system and "the grand contradiction" that conservation occurred simultaneously with massive deforestation in unprotected areas. In Part II, he examines other aspects of Costa Rica's conservation experience, including the important roles played by environmental education and nongovernmental organizations, campesino and indigenous movements, ecotourism, and the work of the National Biodiversity Institute.

1999
6 x 9 in., 288 pp., 12 b&w photos, 5 figures
ISBN 0-292-77742-6
$42.50, hardcover
ISBN 0-292-77743-4
$18.95, paperback

Gender and Modernity in Andean Bolivia
By Marcia Stephenson

"This is an important feminist/cultural studies reading on the subject of racial formation in Andean Bolivia that has women at its center. . . . It would be useful for courses such as Latin American women's history, feminist theory, cultural studies, the anthropology of women, gender studies, history of consciousness, and Andean studies." --Guillermo Delgado-P., Director, Latin American and Latino Field Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

In Andean Bolivia, racial and cultural differences are most visibly marked on women, who often still wear native dress and speak an indigenous language rather than Spanish. In this study of modernity in Bolivia, Marcia Stephenson explores how the state's desire for a racially and culturally homogenous society has been deployed through images of womanhood that promote the notion of an idealized, acculturated female body.

Stephenson engages a variety of texts-critical essays, novels, indigenous testimonials, education manuals, self-help pamphlets, and position papers of diverse women's organizations-to analyze how the interlocking tropes of fashion, motherhood, domestication, hygiene, and hunger are used as tools for the production of dominant, racialized ideologies of womanhood. At the same time, she also uncovers long-standing patterns of resistance to the modernizing impulse, especially in the large-scale mobilization of indigenous peoples who have made it clear that they will negotiate the terms of modernity, but always "as Indians."