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Volume 70 - Issue 3 - January 2014

Cultural/Literary Studies

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Black Art in Brazil: Expressions of Identity. By Kimberly L. Cleveland. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2013. P. xii, 175. Illustrations. Notes. Works Cited. Index. $74.95 cloth.

Wellness Beyond Words: Maya Compositions of Speech and Silence in Medical Care. By T.S. Harvey. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2013. Pp. vii, 243. Illustrations, Appendices, Notes. Bibliography. Index.

Brazilian Women's Filmmaking: From Dictatorship to Democracy. By Leslie L. Marsh. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012. Pp. 248. Notes. Bibliography, Index. $85.00 cloth; $28.00 paper.

Painting, Literature and Film in Colombian Feminine Culture, 1940-2005: Of Border Guards, Nomads and Women. By Deborah Martin. Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K.: Tamesis, 2012. Pp. x, 234. Illustrations. Works Cited. Index. $95.00 cloth.

Three Ancient Colonies: Caribbean Themes and Variations. By Sidney W. Mintz. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010. Pp. xii, 257. Illustrations. Notes. References. Index. $27.95 cloth.

Barrio Libre: Criminalizing States and Delinquent Refusals of the New Frontier. By Gilberto Rosas. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2012. Pp. xi, 200. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $23.95 paper.

The Art of Painting in Colonial Quito. Edited by Suzanne L. Stratton-Pruitt. Philadelphia, Pa.: Saint Joseph's University Press, 2012. Pp. xiv, 338. $75.00 cloth.

Ethnohistory/Indigenous Politics

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Singing for the Dead: The Politics of Indigenous Revival in Mexico. By Paja Faudree. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2013. Pp. xv, 315. Notes. References. Index. $24.95 paper; $89.95 cloth.

The Life Within: Local Indigenous Society in Mexico's Toluca Valley, 1650-1800. By Caterina Pizzigoni. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2012. Pp. xiii, 324.Tables. Figures. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $65.00 cloth.

Family/Gender Studies

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Somebody's Children: The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption. By Laura Briggs. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2012. Pp. xi, 360. Notes. Bibliography. Index $25.95 paper; $94.95 cloth.

Politics/Governance

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El peronismo en la provincia de Buenos Aires: 1946-1955. By Oscar H. Aelo. Buenos Aires: Editorial de UNTREF, 2012. Pp. 244. Appendix. Bibliography.

Workers and Welfare: Comparative Institutional Change in Twentieth-Century Mexico. By Michelle L. Dion. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010. Pp. xv, 310. Notes. References. Index. $27.95 paper.

Ral Castro and Cuba: A Military Story. By Hal Klepak. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2012. Pp. xix, 182. Notes. Index. $85.00 cloth.

Civil Society and Electoral Accountability in Latin America. By Sharon F. Lean. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2012. Pp. xiv, 197. Notes. References. Index. $85.00 cloth.

Cultura y poltica, del anarquismo en Espaa e Iberoamrica. By Clara Lida. Mexico: El Colegio de Mxico, 2012. Pp. 328. Collaborators. $32.36 paper.

Judicial Independence and Human Rights in Latin America. Violations, Politics, and Prosecution. By Skaar Elin. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2011. Pp. 297. $95.00 cloth.

Diffusion of Good Government: Social Sector Reforms in Brazil. By Natasha Borges Sugiyama. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013. Pp. 288. Tables. Figures. Appendixes. Notes. References. Index. $35.00 paper.

Seeking Peace in El Salvador: The Struggle to Reconstruct a Nation at the End of the Cold War. By Diana Villiers Negroponte. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2012. Pp. 244. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $95.00 cloth.

The Mayan in the Mall: Globalization, Development, and the Making of Modern Guatemala. By J.T. Way. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2012. Pp. xvi, 311. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $24.95 paper.

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