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Oblivion
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012; US$ 14.99Oblivion is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written memorial to the author?s father, Héctor Abad Gómez, whose criticism of the Colombian regime led to his murder by paramilitaries in 1987. Twenty years in the writing, it paints an unforgettable picture of a man who followed his conscience and paid for it with his life during one of the darkest periods... more...
Surviving Dictatorship
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 39.95Written as a book for undergraduate students as well as scholars, Surviving Dictatorship is a work of visual sociology and oral history, and a case study that communicates the lived experience of poverty, repression, and resistance in an authoritarian society: Pinochet?s Chile. It focuses on shantytown women, examining how they join groups to... more...
Turn Right at Machu Picchu
Penguin Group US 2011; US$ 12.99What happens when an unadventurous adventure writer tries to re-create the original expedition to Machu Picchu? In 1911, Hiram Bingham III climbed into the Andes Mountains of Peru and ?discovered? Machu Picchu. While history has recast Bingham as a villain who stole both priceless artifacts and credit for finding the great archeological site, Mark... more...
Colonial Legacies
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 22.95More than other Atlantic societies, Latin America is shackled to its past. This collection is an exploration of the binding historical legacies--the making of slavery, patrimonial absolutist states, backward agriculture and the imprint of the Enlightenment--with which Latin America continues to grapple. Leading writers and scholars reflect on how... more...
Something Fierce
D & M Publishers 2011; US$ 14.95? Winner of Canada Reads 2012 ? Nominated for the Charles Taylor prize and the BC Award for Canadian Non-Fiction On September 11, 1973, General Augusto Pinochet led a violent coup that removed Salvador Allende, the democratically elected socialist president of Chile, from office. Thousands were arrested, tortured and killed under the repressive... more...
Terms of Inclusion
The University of North Carolina Press 2011; US$ 29.95In this history of black thought and racial activism in twentieth-century Brazil, Paulina Alberto demonstrates that black intellectuals, and not just elite white Brazilians, shaped discourses about race relations and the cultural and political terms of inclusion in their modern nation. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including the prolific black... more...
Native Society and Disease in Colonial Ecuador
Cambridge University Press 1992; US$ 33.00A regional history of the Amerindians' biological experience under colonial rule. more...
Domestic Architecture, Ethnicity, and Complementarity in the South-Central Andes
University of Iowa Press 1993; US$ 47.95Domestic Architecture, Ethnicity, and Complementarity in the South-Central Andes is a comprehensive and challenging look at the burgeoning field of Andean domestic architecture. Aldenderfer and fourteen contributors use domestic architecture to explore two major topics in the prehistory of the south-central Andes: the development of different forms... more...
Montane Foragers
University of Iowa Press 1998; US$ 45.00The rich and diversified archaeological record recovered at Asana--which spans from 10,000 to 3,500 years ago--includes the earliest houses as well as public and ceremonial buildings in the central cordillera. Built, used, and abandoned over many millennia, the Asana structures completely transform our understanding of the antiquity and development... more...
The Hold Life Has
Smithsonian 2012; US$ 21.95This second edition of Catherine J. Allen's distinctive ethnography of the Quechua-speaking people of the Andes brings their story into the present. She has added an extensive afterword based on her visits to Sonqo in 1995 and 2000 and has updated and revised parts of the original text. The book focuses on the very real problem of cultural continuity... more...









