The editorial office receives a number of edited volumes and other texts that will be of interest to our readership. When these works tend to be less suitable for unified reviews than monographs, we list them here. To introduce these volumes, we include the publication information and tables of contents. The volumes selected for this issue include recently received anthologies.
Nicaragua: Emerging from the Shadow of the Eagle. Sixth Edition. Edited by Thomas W. Walker and Christine J. Wade. Boulder: Westview Press, 2017. Pp. xx, 229. Annotated sources in English. Index. $35.00 paper; $22.99 ebook.
Introduction
Chapter 1: Early History: The Pre-Columbian Period to the Mid-1930s
Chapter 2: The Somoza Era and the Sandinista Revolution
Chapter 3: The Sandinistas in Power
Chapter 4: A Revolution at War
Chapter 5: The Conservative Restoration
Chapter 6: A Revolution Returns
Voices of Crime: Constructing and Contesting Social Control in Modern Latin America. Edited by Luz E. Huertas, Bonnie A. Lucero, and Gregory J.Swedberg. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2016. Pp. 264. Bibliography. Index. $55.00 cloth.
Foreword
Ricardo D. Salvatore
Introduction: Studying the Construction, Negotiation, and Repression of Crime
Luz E. Huertas, Bonnie A. Lucero, and Gregory J. Swedberg
PART 1. Constructing Criminality: Otherness in the Discourses and Policies on Order and Progress
Chapter 1: Traveling Criminals and Transnational Police Cooperation in South America, 1890–1920
Diego Galeano
Chapter 2: Imagining Criminality: Race, Identity, and Crime in Peru, 1890s–1930s
Luz E. Huertas
Chapter 3: Police Imagination: The Construction of Drug Users and Drug Trafficking in Chile, 1900–1950
Marcos Fernández Labbé
Chapter 4: Between Fiction and Reality: Policiales and the Beginnings of the Yellow Press in Lima, 1940–1960
Sönke Hansen
PART 2. Navigating Criminalization: Agency and its Limits Amid State Violence
Chapter 5: Order in an Occupied City: Police and Antiblack Violence in Cienfuegos, Cuba, Circa 1899
Bonnie A. Lucero
Chapter 6: Visions of Order: Criminality, Class, and Community Conceptions of the Police in 1920s Buenos Aires
Juandrea Bates
Chapter 7: Prosecuting Deviance: Sexual Violence in Postrevolutionary Veracruz, 1920–1950
Gregory J. Swedberg
Chapter 8: Between Barbarity and Tradition: Past and Present Representations of Lynching in Mexico
Gema Santamaría
Conclusion: Toward an Intersectional Vision of Crime
Bonnie A. Lucero
Del Internet a Las Calles: #YoSoy132, una opción alternativa de hacer política. Edited by Raúl Diego Rivera Hernández. Raleigh: A Contracorriente Press, 2016. Pp. ix, 230. Introducción. Notas de los autores. $19.95 paper.
Activismo en línea y activismo en las calles: claves políticas para pensar Al #YoSoy132
Raúl Diego Rivera Hernández
Las insurgencias no tienen un plan, ellas son el plan: performativos políticos y mediadores evanescentes
Benjamín Arditi
La política de la pasión
Diana Taylor
YoSoy132, un movimiento-red: autocomunicación, redes policéntricas y conexiones globales
Pablo Aragón, Arnau Monterde
El movimiento social en los tiempos de las redes sociales
Laura Elizabeth Guzmán Garibay
Representación, espontaneísmo y la nueva esfera pública. el caso de #YoSoy132
Ignacio Corona
#TodosSomos132 por Rompeviento Televisión por Internet: la aventura de ser un medio
Israel Espinosa Ramírez
#RevistaHashtag: periodismo alternativo en la polis de los medios
Ricardo Bernal Lugo
Estela de Luz versus horizonte de esperanza? El YoSoy132 y los tatuajes del espacio urbano
Diana Guillén
Carnavalización de la protesta y cine político: Artistas Aliados y el Frente Autónomo Audiovisual #YoSoy132
Raúl Diego Rivera Hernández
El día que todos fuimos presos
Guillermo Alana Naranjo Estrada
Trascendiendo la coyuntura electoral: consensos y tensiones al interior de #YoSoy132
Iván Benumea Gómez
Manifiesto
Guiomar Rovira Sancho
Midwives and Mothers: The Medicalization of Childbirth on a Guatemalan Plantation. Sheila Cosminsky. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016. Pp. 318. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. $27.95 paper; $85.00 cloth.
Chapter 1. Midwives, Knowledge, and Power at Birth
Chapter 2. María's World: The Plantation
Chapter 3. The Role of the Midwife: María and Siriaca
Chapter 4. Hands and Intuition: The Midwife's Prenatal Care
Chapter 5. Soften the Pain: Management of Labor and Delivery
Chapter 6. Looking after Mother and Infant: Postpartum Care
Chapter 7. To Heal and to Hold: Midwife as Healer and Doctor to the Family
Chapter 8. Career or Calling: National Health Policies and Midwifery Training Programs
Chapter 9. Medicalization through the Lens of Childbirth
Appendix I. Medicinal Plants and Remedies Mentioned by Midwives
Appendix II. Common and Scientific Names of Medicinal Plants
Maya Imagery, Architecture, and Activity: Space and Spatial Analysis in Art History. Edited by Maline D. Werness-Rude and Kaylee R. Spencer. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2015. Illustrations. Pp. xiv, 426. $75.00 cloth.
Chapter 1: Imagery, Architecture, and Activity in the Maya World: An Introduction
Maline D. Werness-Rude and Kaylee R. Spencer
Chapter 2: Aligning the Jester God: The Implications of Horizontality and Verticality in the Iconography of a Classic Maya Emblem
Penny Steinbach
Chapter 3: Refining God L: The Spatial Realm of a Maya “Earth Lord”
Michele M. Bernatz
Chapter 4: Space Men Carving Out a Sense of Place in the Chocholá Style
Maline D. Werness-Rude
Chapter 5: Public Spaces in the Ancient Maya City: A History
Flora Simmons Clancy
Chapter 6: Locating Palenque's Captive Portraits: Space, Identity, and Spectatorship in Classic Maya Art
Kaylee R. Spencer
Chapter 7: Spaces of Transformation at Temple 1, Tikal, Guatemala
Elizabeth Drake Olton
Chapter 8: The Shifting Spatial Nexus of an Urban Maya Landscape: A Case Study of Architecture, Sculpture, and Ceramics at Yo'okop
Linnea Wren, Travis Nygard, and Justine M. Shaw
Epilogue: Portals, Turtles, and Mythic Places
Michael D. Carrasco
Architectural Vessels of the Moche: Ceramic Diagrams of Sacred Space in Ancient Peru. By Juliet B. Wiersema. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015. Pp. xi, 203. Introduction. Illustrations. Photos. $60.00 cloth.
Chapter 1: Moche Architectural Vessels: An Overview
Chapter 2: Visualizing and Visually Communicating Architectural Space
Chapter 3: The Moche Architectural Vessel Corpus and Its Correspondence with the Archaeological Record
Chapter 4: Ceramic Diagrams of Sacred Space: Vessels of the Enclosed Gabled Type
Chapter 5: Moche Architectural Whistling Vessels: Their Technical Construction and Acoustic Properties
Chapter 6: Architectural Representations in Other Cultures
Conclusion
Chesucristo: The Fusion in Image and Word of Che Guevara and Jesus Christ. By David Kunzle. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015. Pp. 384. Preface. Introduction. Bibliography. $126.00 paper.
Chapter 1: Jesus in a Violent Revolutionary Movement: Jesus and the Zealots
Chapter 2: The Church Recrucified: Liberation Theology
Chapter 3: Che and Christian Word in a Christian World
Chapter 4: The True Revolutionary is Guided by Great Feelings of Love
Chapter 5: The Korda Matrix Photograph
Chapter 6: Chapter and Verse: Parallels in the Words and Events of the Gospels
Chapter 7: A Shared Symbology
Chapter 8: Miracles
Chapter 9: Christification in Poetry, Play, and Novel: The Divine Force of Nature
Chapter 10: The Anglican Christ-Che: “Meek and mild. As if.”
Chapter 11: Che in Film, Video, and Multimedia
Chapter 12: The Dead Che in Art: Alborta, Berger, Belkin, Alonso
Chapter 13: The Passion of Che: Capture, Death, and Disappearance
Closing: The New Man, Art, and Spiritual Development
Postface
Roberto Massari
Modern Architecture in Latin America Art, Technology, and Utopia. By Luis E. Carranza and Fernando Luiz Lara. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xvi, 406. $90.00 cloth; $45.00 paper.
Foreword
Jorge Francisco Liernur
(Notes toward an) Introduction
1903. Francisco Pereira Passos begins a project to “civilize” Rio de Janeiro by applying Baron Haussmann's ideas as an answer to the tropical (lack of) urbanism.
1904. Víctor Meano, Francisco de Oliveira Passos, and Emile Jéquier build a Latin American character with a classical vocabulary.
1906. Julián García Núñez's Hospital Español defines a characteristic search for a new language: Secession/Art Nouveau.
1914. Jesús T. Acevedo and Federico Mariscal lecture in Mexico on the character, importance, and role of the Spanish colonial legacy.
1915. Antonin Nechodoma introduces the Prairie style to Puerto Rico.
1922. In an attempt to create a building expressive of the “cosmic race,” José Vasconcelos inaugurates in Mexico City the headquarters of the Secretaría de Educación Pública and formalizes the muralist project.
1923. Mario Palanti: Palacio Barolo and Palacio Salvo
1924. Martín Fierro presents Alberto Prebisch and Ernesto Vautier's Ciudad Azucarera en Tucumán and formalizes the connections and interests in architecture among the literary and artistic avant-gardes.
1925. Modern architecture begins with Gregori Warchavchik and Rino Levi publishing manifestos on the new architecture; catching up to the 1922 Semana de Arte Moderna.
1925-A. Estridentópolis en 1975: Literary Architecture and the Avant-Garde
1925-B. José Villagrán García, Instituto de Higiene y Granja Sanitaria
1928. The Columbus Memorial Lighthouse Competition sparks an investigation into what architecture for Latin America should be like.
1929-A. The Ibero-American Exhibition opens in Seville, revealing the complex and contradictory relations between Spain and its former American colonies.
1929-B. Le Corbusier's first encounters with South America: Lectures and early projects for Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay
1929-C. With the History of the Skyscraper, Francisco Mujica articulates the skyscraper's Latin American dimension.
1929. Sergio Larraín and Jorge Arteaga's Oberpauer Building initiates a new direction in Chilean architecture.
1930-A. Getúlio Vargas takes power in Brazil and appoints 28-year-old Lúcio Costa as director of the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes (ENBA).
1930-B. Commemorating the centenary of its independence, Uruguay takes the first soccer World Cup at home, and Montevideo is at the center of its modern ambitions.
1930. Flávio de Carvalho, “City of the Naked Man”
1931. Juan O'Gorman, Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo Houses and Studios
1933. In his Pláticas sobre arquitectura lecture, Juan O'Gorman highlights the existing polemics between functionalism and academic architecture.
1936. Le Corbusier is back in Rio de Janeiro.
1936-A. The Kavanagh Building is finished, becoming the tallest skyscraper in Latin America.
1936-B. Francisco Salamone: Fascism and Monumental Architecture in the Pampa
1936-C. Julio Vilamajó, School of Engineering
1937. Wladimiro Acosta's Vivienda y ciudad highlights the relationship between ecology, new forms of leisure, the house, and the city.
1937. Cine Gran Rex and Argentine Classicist Modernism
1938. Characteristic of the growing reach of surrealism into architecture and Latin America, the Chilean architect-trained artist Matta publishes “Sensitive Mathematics—Architecture of Time” in Minotaure.
1938. Joaquín Torres-García, Monumento cósmico, Montevideo, Uruguay
1939. The European diaspora brings architectural talents to Latin America on an unprecedented scale.
1939. The Brazilian pavilion at New York World's Fair
1941. Pampulha represents an encounter that would change the future of Brazil.
1942. Amancio Williams, Casa sobre el Arroyo
1943-A. The Brazil Builds exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York highlights the architectural and political interests of US relations with Brazil.
1943-B. Town Planning Associates (TPA) is commissioned to design a new Brazilian town around an airplane factory, Cidade dos Motores. This will be the beginning of TPA's involvement with Latin America that will include not only plans for Chimbote, Peru, but also master plans for Medellín and Bogotá, Colombia, and Havana, Cuba.
1944. Henry Klumb moves to Puerto Rico and formalizes investigations of modern architecture in the tropics.
1945. Antoni Bonet, Punta Ballena, Uruguay
1946. Affonso Reidy's Popular Housing Blocks
1947-A. Luis Barragán and Max Cetto, the émigré German architect, begin working on the design of the first houses in Mexico City's Jardines del Pedregal subdivision.
1947-B. Seeking to symbolize postwar efficiency and organization, Latin American cities embrace the North American “architecture of bureaucracy.”
1947-A. Oscar Niemeyer sketches the UN building in New York but takes no credit.
1947-B. Mario Pani—Multifamiliares
1947-C. Agrupación Espacio
1949. La ciudad frente al río is released, showing the transformations of Le Corbusier's plan for Buenos Aires.
1950. Public housing reaches a monumental scale: Mario Pani, Carlos Raúl Villanueva, Affonso Reidy, Oscar Niemeyer.
1951-A. Carlos Raúl Villanueva, Villanueva Residence
1951-B. PROA magazine publishes Arquitectura en Colombia, articulating an identity that survived the second half of the century.
1951-C. Lina Bo Bardi inaugurates her Casa de Vidro.
1952. The debates of plastic integration, modern architecture, and the development of new city forms come to the forefront in two major universities: the UNAM in Mexico City and the Universidad Central in Caracas, Venezuela. The first exemplifies figurative, legible, and socially conscious art; the second, abstraction.
1952. Eladio Dieste, Iglesia de Cristo Obrero, Atlántida, Uruguay
1953-A. Affonso Reidy: halfway between the Carioca school and the Paulista school
1953-B. El Eco Experimental Museum in Mexico City opens its doors, advocating for an “emotional architecture.”
1953-C. Max Bill's critique of the São Paulo Biennial has a significant impact in Brazil: Oscar Niemeyer writes a “mea culpa,” Sérgio Bernardes invests in designing a technological utopia, and João Filgueiras Lima devotes his life to prefabrication.
1953-A. Félix Candela, Church of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, Mexico City
1953-B. Mario Roberto Álvarez, Teatro General San Martín, Buenos Aires
1954. Le Corbusier, Curutchet House, La Plata, Argentina
1955. Eladio Dieste—Tectonics driving the accidental architect
1955-A. Fruto Vivas, Club Táchira
1955-B. The Helicoide in Caracas: The Ultimate Parking and Shopping Center
1955-C. Gio Ponti, Villa Planchart
1956. Brasília: A modernist utopia?
1957-A. Mies van der Rohe, Bacardí Buildings for Havana, Cuba, and Mexico City
1957-B. Lina Bo Bardi, São Paulo Museum of Art
1959. The appeal of Corbusian monumentality and béton brut: Clorindo Testa's Government Building in La Pampa and, with SEPRA, the Bank of London and South America in Buenos Aires
1961-A. Fidel Castro, in conversation with Ernesto “Che” Guevara, decides to convert a golf course into art schools in Cuba.
1961-B. João Batista Vilanova Artigas and Paulo Mendes da Rocha articulate the Paulista school: free ground plan, generous social spaces, and opaque envelopes.
1961. João Batista Vilanova Artigas, School of Architecture and Planning, University of São Paulo
1962. Nelson Bayardo, Columbarium, Montevideo
1963. In Bogotá, Rogelio Salmona takes old bricks to a new dimension in Torres del Parque.
1964-A. The military dictatorship ends Delfim Amorim and Acácio Gil Borsoi's investigations into an architecture for the Brazilian northeast.
1964-B. Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City
1964-C. Martín Correa and Gabriel Guarda, Las Condes Benedictine Monastery Chapel
1965-A. Parque do Flamengo: Roberto Burle Marx redefines the Brazilian landscape by rediscovering the country's own local species.
1965-B. The (re)invention of Curitiba: from the plan of Jorge Wilheim to the implementation by Jaime Lerner
1965. Juan Borchers, Cooperativa Eléctrica de Chillán, Chile
1966. United Nations as client and advocate: Emilio Duhart's CEPAL Building in Santiago
1967. Hélio Oiticica builds Tropicália, challenging the traditional boundaries between art, popular culture, construction, and architecture.
1967. Jesús Tenreiro-Degwitz—Venezuelan Postmodernism
1968. The Olympic Games provide Mexico City with opportunities for new forms of national representation through architecture; deadly student protests highlight the contested use of public space.
1969-A. Inventing new educational paradigms, Alberto Cruz Covarrubias and Godofredo Iommi (poetically) found the Ciudad Abierta in Chile.
1969-B. PREVI: Two opposing governments in Peru bring in the best architects in the world to address squatter settlements.
1969. Francisco Bullrich publishes on Latin American architecture.
1971. Formalizing the legacy of the Madí (Movimiento de Arte de Invención) and utopian urban projects, Gyula Kosice proposes a hydrospatial city.
1971. National Theater, Guatemala
1974. Teaching under duress: La Escuelita, dictatorship, and postmodernism in Argentina
1975. Filgueiras Lima, Capela do Centro Administrativo da Bahia
1976. Mexican postmodernism: Teodoro González de León's Colegio de México expresses modern architecture's new historicizing sensibilities.
1977-A. Éolo Maia, Capela de Santana ao Pé do Morro
1977-B. Bruno Stagno House, Costa Rica
1979. Pampulha magazine is launched in Minas Gerais, marking the beginning of Brazilian postmodernism.
1980. The Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded to Luis Barragán, and photography is at the center of the myth.
1983. Niemeyer returns to Rio de Janeiro to design the Sambódromo and the CIEPs: architecture gets closer to popular needs.
1983-A. Ramón Gutiérrez publishes Arquitectura y urbanismo en Iberoamérica.
1983-B. Severiano Porto, Balbina Environmental Protection Center, Brazil
1985-A. In the midst of a “not-so-lost” decade. . .
1985-B. Lina Bo Bardi and the SESC Pompéia inaugurate an interest in adapting existing structures.
1988. Brazilian Museum of Sculpture
1990. Chilean postmodernism is challenged by José Cruz and Germán del Sol.
1991. Angelo Bucci and Alvaro Puntoni win the competition for the Brazilian pavilion at Seville Expo 1992, marking the end of the postmodern reign and the beginning of neomodernism.
1993. Pablo Beitia, Xul Solar Museum (Pan Klub Foundation)
1994-A. Quae sera tamen: Architecture for the Favelas
1994-B. As a model for internationalization, NAFTA becomes emblematic of the new character of late-twentieth-century Mexican architecture.
1997. Smiljan Radic, Charcoal Burner's Hut
2000. Colombian Renaissance: In Bogotá and Medellín, mayors and architects work together to create better cities.
2000. Alberto Kalach, GGG House, Mexico City
2001. Solano Benítez's Tomb for His Father, Paraguay
2002. Rafael Iglesia, Pavilions at Parque Independencia
Provocations for a Conclusion: Islands No More
