BLAR Article Details
Volume 26:
- No.1, January 2007
Articles
Lewis Taylor
Politicians without Parties and Parties without Politicians: The Foibles of the Peruvian Political Class, 2000-2006.
Christopher R. Tamborini
Work, Wages and Gender in Export-Oriented Cities: Global Assembly versus International Tourism in Mexico
Andrzej Kulczycki
The Abortion Debate in Mexico: Realities and Stalled Policy Reform
Par Kumaraswami
Cultural Policy, Literature and Readership in Revolutionary Cuba: The View from the 21st Century
Carolyn Gallaher
The Role of Protestant Missionaries in Mexico's Indigenous Awakening
Michael P. Costeloe
To Bowl a Maiden Over: Cricket in Mexico, 1827-1900
Book reviews - No.2, April 2007
Articles
Kendra McSweeney and Brad Jokisch
Beyond Rainforests: Urbanisation and Emigration among Lowland Indigenous Societies in Latin America
Caroline A. Williams
Adaptation and Appropriation on the Colonial Frontier: Indigenous Leadership in the Colombian Choc�, 1670-1808
Douglas W. Richmond
Africa�s Initial Encounter with Texas: The Significance of Afro-Tejanos in Colonial Tejas, 1528-1821
Frank O. Mora
Cuba�s Ministry of the Interior: The FAR�s Fifth Army
Jasmine Gideon
Excluded from Health? Informal Workers� Access to Health Care in Chile
Debates
Mark Millington
Transculturation: Contrapuntal Notes to Critical orthodoxy
The 2006 SLAS Lecture
Richard Gott
Latin America as a White Settler Society Book Reviews - No.3, July 2007
Special Section: Nationalism and the Left in Latin America Coordinated by Michael Goebel
Michael Goebel
Introduction: Nationalism, the Left and Hegemony in Latin America
Joanna Crow
Debates about Ethnicity, Class and Nation in Allende�s Chile (1970-1973)
Peter Lambert and Ricardo Medina
Contested Discourse, Contested Power: Nationalism and the Left in Paraguay
Michael Goebel
A Movement from Right to Left in Argentine Nationalism? The Alianza Libertadora Nacionalista and Tacuara as Stages of Militancy
Kate Quinn
Cuban Historiography in the 1960s: Revisionists, Revolutionaries and the Nationalist Past
Article
Trevor Stack
Rooting and Cultura in West Mexico
Book Reviews - No.4, October 2007
Articles
Special Issue: Researching Youth and Violence in Central America: participatory methodologies
Guest Editors: Gareth A. Jones and Dennis Rogers
Dennis Rodgers and Gareth A. Jones
Introduction
Dennis Rodgers
Joining the Gang and Becoming a Broder: The violence of Ethnography in Contemporary Nicaragua
Gareth A. Jones, Elsa Herrera and Sarah Thomas de Benítez
Tears, Trauma and Suicide: Everyday Violence among Street Youth in Puebla, Mexico
Mo Hume
‘(Young) Men with Guns’: Reflexive Encounters with Violence and Youth in El Salvador
Ailsa Winton
Using ‘Participatory’ Methods with Young People in Contexts of Violence: Reflections from Guatemala
Anita Schrader McMillan
Learning at the Edges: Participatory Action Research and Child Maltreatment in Post-War Guatemala
José Luis Rocha Gómez
Mapping the Labyrinth from Within: the Political Economy of Nicaraguan Youth Policy Concerning Violence
Erratum
Volume 25:
- No.1, January 2006
Article
Morris Morley & Chris McGillion
Soldiering on: The Reagan Administration and Redemocratisation in Chile, 1983-1986
Sean W. Burges
Without Sticks of Carrots: Brazilian Leadership in South America During the Cardoso Era, 1992-2003
Julie Koch
Collectivism or Isolation? Gender Relations in Urban La Paz, Bolivia
David M.J.Wood
Indigenismo and the Avant-garde: Jorge Sanjinés’ Early Films and the National Project
Julie Cupples
Between Materialism and Feminism: Women in Nicaragua's Counter-Revolutionary Forces
Jennifer S. Holmes & Sheila Amin Gutiérrez de Piñeres
The Illegal Drug Industry, Violence and the Colombian Economy: A Department Level Analysis
Book reviews - No.2, April 2006
Special Section: The Millions Return? Democracy in Bolivia at the Start of the Twenty-First Century
Guest Editors: Sian Lazar and John-Andrew McNeish
Sian Lazar and John-Andrew McNeish
Introduction
Ton Salman The Jammed
Democracy: Bolivia's Troubled Political Learning Process
Sian Lazar El Alto
Ciudad Rebelde: Organisational Bases for Revolt
Into A. Goudsmit
Praying for Government: Peasant Disengagement from the Bolivian State
John-Andrew McNeish
Stones on the Road: The Politics of Participation and the Generation of Crisis in Bolivia
Articles
Tony Heron
An Unravelling Development Strategy? Garment Assembly in the Caribbean Basin after the Multifibre Agreement
Nikolas Kozloff
Asserting State Authority through Environmental Monitoring: Venezuela in the Post-G�mez Era, 1935-1945
Book reviews - No.3, July 2006
John Fisher
Introduction to the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Special Issue
John Gledhill
Resisting the Global Slum: Politics, Religion and Consumption in the Remaking of Life Worlds in the Twenty-First Century
Alan Knight
Patterns and Prescriptions in Mexican Historiography
Linda Newson
Medical Practice in Early Colonial Spanish America: A Prospectus
Alan Gilbert
Good Urban Governance: Evidence from a Model City?
Colin Clarke
Politics, Violence and Drugs in Kingston, Jamaica
- No. 4, October 2006
Jean Franco
Globalisation and Literary History
Rosemary Thorp, Corinne Caumartin & George Gray-Molina
Inequality, Ethnicity, Political Mobilisation and Political Violence in Latin America: The Cases of Bolivia, Guatemala and Peru
Alan Angell & Crist�bal Reig
Change or Continuity? The Chilean Elections of 2005/2006
Special Section: Mexican Cinema
Coordinating Editor: John King
John King
Introduction
Andrea Noble
Vino todo el pueblo: Notes on Monsiv�is, Mexican Movies and Movie-Going
Carlos Monsiv�is
El cine mexicano
Geoffrey Kantaris
Cinema and Urban�as: Translocal Identities in Contemporary Mexican Film
Debates:
John Fisher & Natalia Priego
Ignorance and 'Habitus': Blinkered and Enlightened Approaches Towards the History of Science in Latin America
Volume 24:
- No.4, October 2005
Robert Albro
The Indigenous in the Plural in Bolivian Oppositional Politics
Omar Sanchez
Argentina's Landmark 2003 Presidential Election: Renewal and Continuity
Special Section: Tlatelolco 1968 in Contemporary Mexican Literature
Guest Editor: Victoria Carpenter
Victoria Carpenter
Introduction
Christopher Harris
Remembering 1968 in Mexico: Elena Poniatowska's La noche de Tlatelolco as Documentary Narrative
Victoria Carpenter
The Echo of Tlaltelolco in Contemporary Mexican Protest Poetry
Ryan Long
Tlaltelolco's Persistent Legacy: A Comparative Analysis of Three Mexican Novels
Article
Alexandre Queiroz Guimar�es
Historial Institutionalism and Economic Policymaking - Determinants of the Pattern of Economic Policy in Brazil, 1930-1960
Book reviews - No.3, July 2005
Jon Schackt
Mayahood Through Beauty: Indian Beauty Pageants in Guatemala
Christian Brannstrom
The Timber Trade in Southeastern Brazil, 1920-1960
Rutgerd Boelens & Paul H. Giles
Cultural Politics, Communal Resistance and Identity in Andean Irrigatoin Development
Julia Buxton
Venezuela's Contemporary Political Crisis in Historical Context
Kepa Artaraz
El Ejercicio de Pensar: The Rise and Fall of Pensamiento Cr�tico
John D. Cameron
Municipal Democratisation in Rural Latin America: Methodological Insights from Ecuador
Book reviews - No.2, April 2005
Special Issue: Brazilian Popular Culture in Historical Perspective
Matthias R�hrig Assun��o
Brazilian Popular Culture or the Curse and Blessings of Cultural Hybridism
Martha Abreu
Popular Culture, Power Relations and Urban Discipline: The Festival of the Holy Spirit in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro
Scott Ickes
'Adorned with the Mix of Faith and Profanity that Intoxicates the People': The Festival of the Senhor do Bonfim in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, 1930-1954
Jo�o Jos� Reis
Batuque: African Drumming and Dance between Repression and Concession, Bahia, 1808-1855
Ronaldo Vainfas
From Indian Millenarianism to a Tropical Witches' Sabbath: Brazilian Sanctities in Jesuit Writings and Inquisitorial Sources
Book reviews - No.1, January 2005
David Crow
Crossing Party Lines: Volatility and Ticket Splitting in Mexico (1994-2000)
Howard Campbell
A Tale of Two Families: The Mutual Construction of 'Anglo' and Mexican Ethnicities Along the US-Mexico Border
Matthew Brown
Inca, Sailor, Soldier, King: Gregor MacGregor and the Early Nineteeth-Century Caribbean
Ruth Stanley
Controlling the Police in Buenos Aires: A Case Study of Horizontal and Social Accountability
Tracy L. Devine
Guzm�n 'Diacu� Killed Iracema': Indigenism, Nationalism and the Struggle for Brazilianness
Obituary Notice: Alfredo Torero Fernandez de C�rdova
Book reviews
Volume 23:
- No.4, October 2004
Miguel Angel Centen
The Return of Cuba to Latin America: The End of Cuban Exceptionalism? (SLAS 2004 Plenary Lecture)
Alejandro Anaya Mu�o
Explaining the Politics of Recognition of Ethnic Diversity and Indigenous Peoples' Rights in Oaxaca, Mexico
Carlos Sandoval Garc�a
Contested Discourses on National Identity: Representing Nicaraguan Immigration to Costa Rica
Paulette A. Ramsay
History, Violence and Self-Glorification in Afro-Mexican Corridos from Costa Chica de Guerrero
Francisco Panizza
'Brazil Needs to Change': Change as Iteration and the Iteration of Change in Brazil's 2002 Presidential Election
Jenny Pearce
Debate: Collective Action of Public Participation? Complementary or Contradictory Democratisation Strategies in Latin America
Book Reviews - No.3, July 2004
Barry Cannon
Venezuela, April 2002: Coup or Popular Rebellion? The Myth of a United Venezuela
Jeff Pugh and Fausto O. Sarmiento
Selling the Public on Sustainable Watershed Conservation
Catherine Andrews
The Defence of Iturbide of the Defence of Federalism? Rebellion in Jalisco and the Conspiracy of the Calle de Celaya, 1824
Luciano Baracco
The Nicaraguan Literacy Crusade Revisited: The Teaching of Literacy as a Nation-Building Project
Peter Wade
Debate: Images of Latin American mestizaje and the politics of comparison
Book Reviews - No.2, April 2004
William I. Robinson
Global Crisis and Latin America
Special section: The Messiness of Everyday Life: Exploring Key Themes in Latin American Citizenship Studies
Guest Editors: Lucy Taylor and Fiona Wilson
Lucy Taylor and Fiona Wilson
Introduction
Fiona Wilson
Indian Citizenship and the Discourse of Hygiene/ Disease in Nineteenth-Century Peru
Ariadna Acevedo Rodrigo
Struggles for Citizenship? Peasant Negotiation of Schooling in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, Mexico, 1921-1933
Nicola Foote
Rethinking Race, Gender and Citizenship: Black West Indian Eomen in Costa Rica, c. 1920-1940
Lucy Taylor
Client-ship and Citizenship in Latin America
Sian Lazar
Personalist Politics, Clientalism and Citisenship: Local Elections in El Alto, Bolivia
Finn Stepputat
Marching for Progress: Rituals of Citisenship, state and Belonging in a High Andes District
Book Reviews - No.1, January 2004
Paulo Drinot
The 1934 Southern Railway Strike in Peru
Special section: Democracy in Latin America
Guest Editor: Laura Tedesco
Laura Tedesco
Democracy in Latin America: Issues of Governance in the Southern Cone
Rut Diamint
Security Challenges in Latin America
Patricio Silva
Doing Politics in a Depoliticised Society: Social Change and Political Deactivation in Chile
Kees Koonings
Strengthening Citizenship in Brazil's Democracy: Local Participatory Governance in Porte Alegre
Mar�a Fernanda
Tuozzo World Bank, Governance Reforms and Democracy in Argentina
Book reviews
Volume 22:
- No.4, October 2003
Ben Bollig
One or several Betrayals? or, When is Betrayal Treason? Genet, Arlt and the Argentine Liberal Project
Special section: Spanish Caribbean Women Writers
Guest Editor: Conrad James
Conrad James
Introduction
Catherine Davies
Founding-fathers and Domestic Genealogies: Situating Gertrudis G�mez Avellaneda
Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
Unchained Tales: Women Prose writers from the Hispanic Caribbean in the 1990s
Claudette Rosegree-Williams
'Oh Lord, I want to be white': The Ambivalence of mulatez in Carmen Col�n Pellot's Ambar mulatto
Conrad James
Georgina Herrera and the Pleasures of Maternity
Carlos Pessoa
Debate: On Hegemony, Post-Ideology and Subalternity
Book reviews - No.3, July 2003
Carmen Mart�nez
Novo The 'Culture' of Exclusion: Representations of Indigenous Women Street Vendors in Tijuana, Mexico
Gavin O'Toole
A New Nationalism for a New Era: The Political Ideology of Mexican Neoliberalism
Paul Kay
Trying on the Emperor's New Clothes? Concertaci�n, Corporatism and Neoliberal Restructuring n the Semiperiphery
Ron Ahnen
Between Tyranny of the Majority and Liberty: The Persistence of Human Rights Violations under Democracy in Brazil
Thomas E. Skidmore
Levi-Strauss, Braudel and Brazil: A Case of Mutual Influence
Maria Carmen Lemos and Johanna W. Looye
Looking for Sustainability: Environmental Coalitions across the State-Society Divide
Kees Koonings
Debate: Latin American POlitical Armies in the Twenty-First Century
Book reviews - No.2, April 2003
Joel Outtes
Disciplining Society Through the City: The Genesis of City Planning in Brazil and Argentina (1894-1945)
Special Section: The Crisis in Argentina: Contrasting Perspectives
Guest Editors: Laura Tedesco and Ana C. Dinerstein
Laura Tedesco
Introduction
Maria Matilde Ollier
Argentina: Up a Blind Alley Once Again
Ana C. Dinerstein
�Que se Vayan Todos! Popular Insurrection and the Asambleas Barriales in Argentina
Nicol�s I�igo Carrera and Mar�a Celia Cotarelo
Social Struggles in Present Day Argentina
Ruth Pearson
Argentina�s Barter Network: New Currency for New Times?
Daniel Levine
Debate: Undemocratic Venezuela
Book reviews - No.1, January 2003
Concepcion Gavira Marquez
Labour discipline and resistance: The Oruro Mining District in the Late Colonial Period
Adam David Morton
The social function of Carlos Fuentes: A Critical Intellectual of the 'Shadow of the State'?
Tricia Gray
Electoral Quotas: Lessons from Argentina and Chile
Lucia Dammert and Mary Fran T. Malone
Fear of Crime or Fear of Life? Public Insecurities in Chile
Robyn Eversole
My Business Pays Me: Labourers and Entrepreneurs Among the Self-Employed Poor in Latin America
Jon Beasley-Murray
Debate: On Posthegemony
Book reviews
Volume 21:
- No.4, October 2002
Deborah Shaw
Heroes, Villains and Women: Representations of Latin America in The Voyage by Fernando Solanas
Melisa Moore
From Reflection to Refraction: Rethinking Paradigms of Cultural Interaction and Identity in Peru and Mexico
Leslie C. Gates
The Strategic Uses of Gender in Household Negotiations: Women Workers on Mexico's Northern Border
Victoria Carpenter
'From Yellow to Red to Black': Tantric Reading of 'Blanco' by Octavio Paz
Sylvia Chant
Debate: Researching Gender, Families and Households in Latin America: From the 20th into the 21st Century
Book reviews - No.3, July 2002
Special Issue: Chile: A Decade in Transition.
Guest Editors: Jonathan R. Barton & Warwick E. Murray
Jonathan R. Barton & Warwick E. Murray
The End of Transition? Chile 1990-2000
Eduardo Silva
Capital and the Lagos Presidency: Business as Usual?
Jonathan R. Barton
State Continuismo and Pinochetismo: The Keys to the Chilean Transition
Patricio Silva
Searching for Civilian Supremacy: The Concertacion Governments and the Military in Chile
Gregory B. Weeks
The 'Lessons' of Dictatorship: Political Learning and the Military in Chile
Mario I. Aguilar
The Disappeared and the Mesa de Dialogo in Chile 1999-2001: Searching for Those Who Never Grew Old
Warwick E. Murray
The Neoliberal Inheritance: Agrarian Policy and Rural Differentiation in Democratic Chile
Armando Barrientos
Health Policy in Chile: The Return of the Public Sector?
Book reviews - No.2, April 2002
Claire Brewster
The Student Movement of 1968 and the Mexican Press
Special Section: Contemporary Politics in Venezuela
Michael Derham
Introduction
Margarita Lopez-Maya
Venezuela after the Caracazo: Forms of Protest in a Deinstitutionalized Context
Jose E. Molina V
The Presidential and Parliamentray Elections of the Bolivian Revolution in Venezuela: Change and Continuity (1998-2000)
Daniel H. Levine
The Decline and Fall of Democracy in Venezuela: Ten Theses
Michael Derham
Undemocratic Democracy: Venezuela and the Distorting of History
David Lehmann
Debate: Religion in Contemporary Latin American Sociel Science
Book reviews - No.1, January 2002
Peter M. Ward & Elizabeth Durden
Government and Democracy in Mexico's Federal District, 1997-2001: Cardenas, the PRD and the Curate's Egg
John Hillman
The Mining Industry and the State: The Politics on Tin Restriction in Bolivia, 1936-1939
Nuria Vilanova
Another Textual Frontier: Contemporary Fiction on the Northern Mexican Border
Andrew Nickson & Claudia Vargas
The Limitations of Water Regulation: The Failure of the Cochabamba Concession in Bolivia
David E. Hojman
Debate: Explaining Crime in Buenos Aires: The Roles of Inequality, UNemployment, and Structural Change
Laura Tedesco
A Comprehensive Perspective on Crime and Democratic Governability. A Response to David Hojman
Book reviews
Volume 20:
- No.4, October 2001
Special Issue: Armed Actors in Latin American in the 1990s
Guest Editor: Kees Koonings
Kees Koonings
Armer Actors, Violence and Democracy in Latin American in the 1990s: introductory Notes
Dirk Kruijt
Low Intensity Democracies: Latin America in the Post-Dictatorial Era
Marie-Louise Glebbeek
Police Reform and the Peace Process in Guatemala: The Fifth Promotion of the National Civilian Police
Simone Remijnse
Remembering Civil Patrols in Joyabaj, Guatemala
Mario Fumerton
Rondas Campesinas in the Peruvian Civil War: Peasant Self-Defence Organisations in Ayacucho
Mieke Wouters
Ethnic Rights Under Threat: The Black Peasant Movement Against Armed Groups' Pressure in the Chco, Colombia
Amanda Hopkinson
Debate - Mediated Worlds: Latin American Photography
Book reviews - No.3, July 2001
John Crabtree
The Collapse of Fujimorismo: Authoritarianism and its Limits
Darren Willis
The Mexican Presidential and Congressional Elections of 2000 and Democratic Transition
Jean F. Mayer & Kenneth Woodside
Crises of Confidence: Attitudes of the Domestic Bankers Towards the Credit Problem in Mexico
Peter Hervik
Narrations of Shifting Maya Identities
Victor Bulmer-Thomas
Debate - Regional Integration in Latin America and the Caribbean
Book reviews - No.2, April 2001
Alan Knight
Democratic and Revolutionary Traditions in Latin America
Brian Hamnett
Mexican Conservatives, Clericals, and Soldiers: The 'Traitor' Tomas Mejia through Reform and Empire, 1855-1867
Anthony Stanton
Models of Discourse and Hermeneutics in Octavio Paz's 'El Labarinto de la Soledad'
Adrian Pearce
British Trade with the Spanish Colonies, 1788-1795
In Memoriam: Gabriel Martinez Soto-Aguilar
Book reviews - No.1, January 2001
Gerardo Esquivel, Felipe Larrain & Jeffrey D. Sachs
Central America's Foreign Debt Burden and the HIPC Intiative
Myrian Sepulveda dos Santos
The New Dynamic of Blockbuster Exhibitions: The Case of Brazilian Museums
Russell Leigh Sharman
The Caribbean Carretara: Race, Space and Social Liminality in Costa Rica
Jerome Branche
'Mulato entre negros' (y blancos): Writing, Race, the Antislavery Question, and Juan Francisco Manzano's Autobiografia
Miguel Arnedo
Arte Blanco con Motivos Negros: Fernando Ortiz's Concept of Cuban National Culture and Identity
Marcus Klein
Argentine Nacionalismo before Peron: The Case of the Alianza de la Juventud Nacionalista, 1937-1943
Book reviews
Volume 19:
- No.4, October 2000
L. Taylor
The origins of APRA in Cajamarca, 1928-1935
G.O. Carvalho
The politics of indigenous land rights in Brazil
S.W. Hoefle
Patronage and empowerment in the central Amazon
F. Panizza
Is Brazil becoming a "boring" country?
L. Tedesco
La nata contra el vidrio: Urban violence and democratic governabililty in Argentina
D. Aagesen
Rights to land and resources in Argentina's Alerces National Park
Book reviews - No.3, July 2000
Special Section: Rethinking the Nation-State in Guatemala
R. Sieder
'Paz, progreso, justicia y honradez': law and citizenship in Alta Verapaz during the regime of Jorge Ubico
G. Grandin
Everyday forms of state decomposition: Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, 1954
J.M. Watanabe
Culturing identities, the state and national consciousness in late nineteenth-century western Guatemala
V. Garrard-Burnett
Indians are drunks and drunks are Indians: alcohol and indigenismo in Guatemala, 1890-1940
Regular Papers
A. Angell & B. Pollack
The Chilean presidential elections of 1999-2000 and democratic consolidation
P. Lambert
A decade of electoral democracy: continuity, change and crisis in Paraguay
Book reviews / Electronic reviews / Books received - No.2, April 2000
Special Issue: Old and New Populism in Latin America
Francisco Panizza
Editorial: New wine in old bottles? Old and new populism in Latin America
Paul Cammack
The resurgence of populism in Latin America
John Crabtree
Populisms old and new: the Peruvian case
Francisco Panizza
Neopopulism and its limits in Collor's Brazil
Celia Szusterman
Carlos Saul Menem: variations on the theme of populism
George Philip
Populist possibilities and political constraints in Mexico
Luis Ricardo Davila
The rise and fall and rise of populism in Venezuela
Peter Flynn
Review article: Brazil: five hundred years
David Treece
Review article: Brazil: samba and society
Book reviews / Electronic reviews / Books received - No.1, January 2000
Fiona Wilson
Representing the state? School and teacher in post-Sendero Peru
David Wood
The Peruvian press under recent authoritarian regimes, with special reference to the autogolpe of President Fujimori
Teresa M. Van Hoy
La Marcha Violenta? Railroads and land in 19th-century Mexico
Judith Clifton
On the political consequences of privatisation: the case of Telefonos de Mexico
Alberto Spektorowski
Nationalism and democratic construction: the origins of Argentina and Uruguay's political cultures in comparative perspective
Book reviews / Electronic reviews / Books received
Volume 18:
- No.4, October 1999
D.W.Jackson, J.M. Dodson & L. Nuzzi O'Shaughnessy
Protecting Human Rights: The Legitimacy of Judicial System Reform in El Salvador
Ryan Prout
Jail-house Rock: Cuba, AIDS, and the incorporation of Dissent in Bengt Norborg's Socialism or Death
Deborah Shaw
The Literary Journalism of Guadalupe Loaeza and Cristina Pacheco
Jorg Meyer-Stamer
From Industrial Policy to Regional and Local Locational Policy: Experience from Santa Catarina, Brazil
John L. Hammond
Law and Disorder: The Brazilian Landless Farmworkers' Movement
Nerea Riley Reinaldo
Arenas' Autobiography Antes Que Anochezca as Confrontational 'Ars Moriendi'
Book Reviews / Electronic Reviews / Books Received - No. 3, July 1999
Cecilia McCallum
Restraining Women: Gender, Sexuality and Modernity in Salvador da Bahia
A. Geske Dijkstra
Technocracy Questioned: Assessing Economic Stabilisation in Nicaragua
N. Finnegan
At Boiling Point: Like Water For Chocolate and the Boundaries of Mexican Identity
Susanna Rostas
A Grass Roots View of Religious Change Amongst Women in an Indigenous Community in Chiapas, Mexico
Ana Maria de Souza Mello Bicalho & Scott William Hoefle
From Family Feud to organised Crime: The Cultural Economy of Cannabis in Northeast Brazil
G. Philip
When Oil Prices Were Low: Petroleos de Venezuela (PdVSA) and Economic Policy-Making in Venezuela
Book Reviews / Electronic Reviews / Books Received