Language and Society in Latin America, LAA 333 : Finding Books
Herzfeld--Fall 2011 -- This course will examine the cultural and social significance of Amerindian languages in Latin America. Spanish and Portuguese will be related in language situations to Amerindian languages, such as Quechua, Aymara, Mayan languages
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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
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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
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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
Book 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.
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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
Pt. 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