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  • The Buenos Aires Reader

    History, Culture, Politics

    Edited by Diego Armus, Lisa Ubelaker Andrade ...
    Series series The Latin America Readers
    The Buenos Aires Reader offers an insider’s look at the diverse lived experiences of the people, politics, and culture of Argentina’s capital city primarily from the nineteenth century to the present. Refuting the tired cliché that Buenos Aires is the “Paris of South America,” this book gives a nuanced view of a city that has long been attentive to international trends yet never ceases to ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • The Gray Zones of Medicine

    Healers and History in Latin America

    Edited by Diego Armus, Pablo F. Gómez ...
    Health practitioners working in gray zones, or between official and unofficial medicines, played a fundamental role in shaping Latin America from the colonial period onward. The Gray Zones of Medicine offers a human, relatable, complex examination of the history of health and healing in Latin America across five centuries. Contributors uncover how biographical narratives of individual actors ... Read more

    Was $53.99 USD Now $35.99 USD

  • Disease in the History of Modern Latin America

    From Malaria to AIDS

    by Nancy Lews Stepan, Gabriela Nouzeilles, Marilia Coutinho ...
    Challenging traditional approaches to medical history, Disease in the History of Modern Latin America advances understandings of disease as a social and cultural construction in Latin America. This innovative collection provides a vivid look at the latest research in the cultural history of medicine through insightful essays about how disease—whether it be cholera or aids, leprosy or mental ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Ailing City

    Health, Tuberculosis, and Culture in Buenos Aires, 1870–1950

    by Diego Armus ...
    For decades, tuberculosis in Buenos Aires was more than a dangerous bacillus. It was also an anxious state of mind shaped not only by fears of contagion and death but also by broader social and cultural concerns. These worries included changing work routines, rapid urban growth and its consequences for housing and living conditions, efforts to build a healthy “national race,” and shifting notions ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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  • Latin American Popular Culture

    by Arthur A. Natella, , Jr. ...
    This book details many aspects of Latin American culture as experienced by millions of people living in Central and South America. The author argues that despite early and considerable European influences on the region, indigenous Latin American traditions still characterize much of the social and artistic heritage of the Latin American countries. Several chapters provide detailed accounts of ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Cuba beyond the Beach

    Stories of Life in Havana

    by Karen Dubinsky ...
    Havana is Cuba’s soul: a mix of Third World, First World, and Other World. After over a decade of visits as a teacher, researcher, and friend, Karen Dubinsky looks past political slogans and tourist postcards to the streets, neighbourhoods, and personalities of a complicated and contradictory city. Her affectionate, humorous vignettes illustrate how Havana’s residents—old Communist ladies, their ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Capoeira

    Roots of the Dance-Fight-Game

    by Nestor Capoeira ...
    Capoeira is simultaneously a dance, a fight, and a game. Created by the Africans brought to Brazil as slaves beginning in 1500, capoeira was forbidden by law but survived underground. When open practice was allowed in the 1930s it soon became very popular. Capoeira came to America around 1975, and has become widely recognized by dancers and martial artists. The author discusses capoeira's ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Race, Place, and Medicine

    The Idea of the Tropics in Nineteenth-Century Brazil

    by Julyan G. Peard ...
    Race, Place, and Medicine examines the impact of a group of nineteenth-century Brazilian physicians who became known posthumously as the Bahian Tropicalista School of Medicine. Julyan G. Peard explores how this group of obscure clinicians became participants in an international debate as they helped change the scientific framework and practices of doctors in Brazil.Peard shows how the ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Chicano Popular Culture, Second Edition

    Que Hable el Pueblo

    by Charles M. Tatum ...
    Series series The Mexican American Experience
    Chicano Popular Culture, Second Edition provides a fascinating, timely, and accessible introduction to Chicano cultural expression and representation. New sections discuss music, with an emphasis on hip-hop and rap; cinema and filmmakers; media, including the contributions of Jorge Ramos and María Hinojosa; and celebrations and other popular traditions, including quinceañeras, cincuentañeras, and ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Psychedelic Plant Medicines of the Americas

    History, Traditions, and Indigenous Voices

    Edited by Dr Henrique Fernandes Antunes, Nidia Olvera Hernández PhD, Clancy Cavnar PhD, Beatriz Caiuby Labate PHD ...
    An essential new collection that explores the cultural, medicinal, and spiritual traditions of marijuana, psilocybin, ayahuasca, and other psychedelics—informed by both Western and Indigenous knowledgePsychedelic Plant Medicines of the Americas is a collection of 23 psychedelic-specific articles, written by historians, anthropologists, psychologists, and those from other fields in the humanities. ... Read more

    Was $18.99 USD Now $0.99 USD

  • Shamans of the Foye Tree

    Gender, Power, and Healing among Chilean Mapuche

    by Ana Mariella Bacigalupo ...
    Drawing on anthropologist Ana Mariella Bacigalupo's fifteen years of field research, Shamans of the Foye Tree: Gender, Power, and Healing among Chilean Mapuche is the first study to follow shamans' gender identities and performance in a variety of ritual, social, sexual, and political contexts.To Mapuche shamans, or machi, the foye tree is of special importance, not only for its medicinal ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World

    by James H. Sweet ...
    Between 1730 and 1750, powerful healer and vodun priest Domingos Álvares traversed the colonial Atlantic world like few Africans of his time — from Africa to South America to Europe — addressing the profound alienation of warfare, capitalism, and the African slave trade through the language of health and healing. In Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic ... Read more

    $23.79 USD