Required Reading
The History of Latin America: Collision of CulturesISBN: 1403980810
Required Reading Materials --Collected socio- and ethno-linguistic readings should be picked up at the Latin American Studies office in Bailey Hall.
Americas: an AnthologyISBN: 9780195077926
Books
Other books that may be of interest--
Leadership from the margins : women and civil society organizations in Argentina, Chile, and El SalvadorISBN: 9780813547992Publication Date: 2010Table of Contents--
Women and civil society leadership in Latin America
The emergence of civil society in Argentina, Chile, and El Salvador
Argentina
Chile
El Salvador
Policy implications of women’s civil society leadership in Latin America
Placing Latin America : contemporary themes in human geographyISBN: 9780742556423Publication Date: 2008Partial Table of Contents--
Eras and errors : a historical and geographical overview of Latin America’s economic and political development
Urbanization, migration, and employment in Latin America : a review of trends
Architectural icons and urban form : the power of place in Latin America
U.S.-Mexico borderlands
Sustainable development and ecotourism : general principles and eastern Caribbean case study
Drug geographies
NGOs and ongoing changes in Latin American society
The geographies of Latin American social movements
Urban environmental politics in Latin America
Transnational communities, identities, and moving populations
Cinematic spaces of Latin America
Faces of Latin AmericaISBN: 158367151XPublication Date: 2006Table of Contents--
The curse of wealth
Ballots and bullets
Land, the city and environment
Identity and rights
Culture and religion
The Maya and Catholicism : an encounter of worldviewsISBN: 0813030250Publication Date: 2006Partial Table of Contents--
Mayan festivals for the saints
Mayan insistence on the mass performed by a Catholic priest
Traditional Mayan worldview
The necessity of the saints in the Mayan worldview
The necessity of the mass, baptism, and the Catholic priest in the Mayan worldview
How should we talk about religion? : perspectives, contexts, particularitiesISBN: 0268044074Publication Date: 2006Book includes several chapters on Latin America--
A house of many mansions : aspects of Christian experience in Spanish America.
Is it possible to be Catholic and modern in Latin America? : observations from Chilean history.
Culture and customs of Puerto RicoISBN: 9780313351198Publication Date: 2009Table of Contents--
The context : geography, history and people
The political status of Puerto Rico
Religion
Social customs and lifestyle
Broadcasting and print media
Cinema
Literature
Performing arts : music, dance and theatre
Architecture and visual arts
The concept of Other in Latin American liberation : fusing emancipatory philosophic thought and social revoltISBN: 073910330XPublication Date: 2002Pt. I. The Philosophic Foundations of the Other
Pt. II. Imprisonment of the Other: The Logic of Capitalism on Latin American Soil
Pt. III. Self-Liberation of the Other: Revolutionary Subjectivity in Latin America
Pt. IV. The Revolutionary Other: In Organization; in Philosophy
