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Imposing Decency: The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870-1920. By Eileen J. Findlay. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999. Pp. 316. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $69.95 cloth; $21.95 paper.

What Justice? Whose Justice? Fighting for Fairness in Latin America. Edited by Susan Eva Eckstein and Timothy P. Wickham-Crowley. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 362. Tables. Notes. Bibliographies. Index. $60.00 cloth; $24.95 paper.

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Death is a Festival: Funeral Rites and Rebellion in Nineteenth-Century Brazil. By João José Reis. Translated by H. Sabrina Gledhill. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 386. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $59.95 cloth, $27.50 paper.

Reclaiming Church Wealth: The Recovery of Church Property after Expropriation in the Archdiocese of Guadalajara, 1860-1911. By José Roberto Juárez. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004. Pp. x, 251. Map. Tables. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $45.00 cloth.

Ausländische Untemehmen und einheimische Eliten in Lateinamerika: Historische Erfahrungen und aktuelle Tendenzen. Edited by Thomas Fischer. Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert Verlag, 2001. Pp. 317. Tables. Figures. Notes. 29.80 paper.

The Teatro Solís: 150 Years of Opera, Concert, and Ballet in Montevideo. By Susana Salgado. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2003. Pp. xxiii, 493. Illustrations. Appendices. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $70.00 cloth; $29.95 paper.

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Contentious Lives: Two Argentine Women, Two Protests, and the Quest for Recognition. By Javier Auyero. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. Pp. xv, 230. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $18.95 paper.

Shaping Society Through Dance: Mestizo Ritual Performance in the Peruvian Andes. By Zoila S. Mendoza. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. Pp. xv, 285. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. CD-rom. Index. $54.00 cloth; $29.00 paper. $50.00 VHS sold separately.

The Politics of Ethnicity: Indigenous Peoples in Latin American States. By David Maybury-Lewis. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. xxii, 386. Notes. Index. $24.95 paper.

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The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas. By Diana Taylor. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. Pp. xx, 326. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $79.95 cloth; $22.95 paper.

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Cortijo's Wake/El entierro de Cortijo. By Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá. Translated with an introduction by Juan Flores. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. Pp. viii, 136. Illustrations. $16.95 paper.

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The Latin American Cultural Studies Reader. Edited by Ana del Sarto, Alicia Ríos, and Abril Trigo. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 818. Illustrations. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $99.95 cloth; $32.95 paper.

Angora Matta: Fatal Acts of North-South Translation. By Marta Elena Savigliano. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2003. Pp. xvii, 243. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. $70 cloth; $24.95 paper.

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Sport in Latin America and the Caribbean. Edited by Joseph L. Arbena and David G. LaFrance. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 2002. Pp. 241. Maps. Notes. Suggested Readings. $65.00; $19.95 paper.

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Media Power in Central America. By Rick Rockwell and Noreene Janus. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 276. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $34.95 cloth.

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Millennial Ecuador: Critical Essays on Cultural Transformations and Social Dynamics. Edited by Norman E. Whitten, Jr. Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 2003. Pp.xvii, 417. References. Glossary. Index. $59.95 cloth; $27.95 paper.

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Beyond Imagined Communities: Reading and Writing the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Latin America. Edited by Sara Castro-Klarén and John Charles Chasteen. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. Pp. xxv, 252. Notes. Index. $45.00 cloth; $22.95 paper.

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El establecimiento del federalismo en México (1821-1827). Edited by Josefina Zoraida Vázquez. Mexico City: El Colegio de México, 2003. Pp. 682. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. No price.

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Geografías imaginarias: el relato de viajes y la construcción del espacio patagónico. By Ernesto Livon-Grosman. Rosario, Argentina: Beatriz Viterbo Editora, 2003. Pp. 202. Illustrations. Bibliography. No price.

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Crafting Tradition: The Making and Marketing of Oaxacan Wood Carvings. By Michael Chibnik. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. Pp. xix, 266. Illustrations. Notes. References Cited. Index. $50.00 cloth: $22.95 paper.

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