The editorial office receives a number of edited volumes of articles and general 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.
Haagen D. Klaus and J. Marla Toyne, eds. Ritual Violence in the Ancient Andes: Reconstructing Sacrifice on the North Coast of Peru. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016. Pp. xv, 451. $34.95 paper.
Foreword, Clark Spencer Larsen
Part One: Ancient Ritual Variation and Methodological Advances in Studies of Sacrifice
Chapter 1: Ritual Violence in the North Coast of Peru: Perspectives and Prospects in the Archaeology of Ancient Andean Sacrifice, Haagen D. Klaus and J. Marla Toyne
Chapter 2: Ritual Killing, Mutilation, and Dismemberment at Huaca de la Luna: Sharp Force Trauma among Moche Sacrifice Victims in Plaza 3A and 3C, Laurel S. Hamilton
Chapter 3: The Taphonomy of Ritual Killing on the North Coast of Peru: Perspectives from Huaca de La Luna and Pacatnamú, Heather C. Backo
Chapter 4: Ritual Strangulation in the Southern Moche World: Mortuary Ligatures as Tools of Liturgical Violation, David Chicoine
Chapter 5: Bodies and Blood: Middle Sicán Human Sacrifice in the Lambayeque Valley Complex (AD 900–1100), Haagen D. Klaus and Izumi Shimada
Chapter 6: Precious Gifts: Mortuary Patterns and the Shift from Animal to Human Sacrifice at Santa Rita B in the Middle Chao Valley, Peru, Catherine Gaither, Jonathan Kent, Jonathan Bethard, Victor Vasquez, and Teresa Rosales
Chapter 7: Human Sacrifice at the Chotuna-Chornancap Archaeological Complex: Traditions and Transformations of Ritual Violence under Chimú and Inka Rule,
Haagen D. Klaus, Bethany L. Turner, Fausto Saldana, Samuel Castillo, and Carlos Wester
Part Two: Ancient Identities, Ambiguous Deaths, and Complex Burials
Chapter 8: Life Before Death: A Paleopathological Examination of Human Sacrifice at the Templo de la Piedra Sagrada, Túcume, Peru, J. Marla Toyne
Chapter 9: The Killing of Captives on the North Coast of Peru in Pre-Hispanic Times: Iconographic and Bioarchaeological Evidence, John W. Verano and Sara S. Phillips
Chapter 10: Reconsidering Retainers: Identity, Death, and Sacrifice in High-Status Funerary Contexts on the North Coast of Peru, Sylvia Bentley and Haagen D. Klaus
Chapter 11: Human Sacrifice: A View from San José de Moro, Elsa Tomasto-Cagigao, Mellisa Lund, Luis Jaime Castillo, and Lars Fehren-Schmitz
Part Three: Continuums of Killing: Sacrifice of Animals and Objects
Chapter 12: Life Histories of Sacrificed Camelids from Huancaco (Virú Valley), Paul Szpak, Jean-François Millaire, Christine White, Steve Bourget, and Fred Longstaffe
Chapter 13: Posts and Pots: Propitiatory Ritual at Huaca Santa Clara in the Virú Valley, Peru, Jean-François Millaire
Part Four: Perspectives from beyond the North Coast of Peru
Chapter 14: Practicing and Performing Sacrifice, Tiffiny A. Tung
Chapter 15: Mesoamerican Perspectives on the (Bio)archaeology of Andean Ritual Violence, Vera Tiesler
In Defiance of Boundaries: Anarchism in Latin American History. Edited by Geoffroy de Laforcade and Kirwin Shaffer. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2015. Pp. vii, 373. $79.95 hardcover.
Introduction, The Hidden Story Line of Anarchism in Latin American History, Geoffroy de Laforcade and Kirwin Shaffer
Part One: Crossing Borders: Internationalism, Solidarity, and Transnationalism
Chapter 1: Cuban Cigar Makers in Havana, Key West, and Ybor City, 1850s–1890s: A Single Universe? Evan Matthew Daniel
Chapter 2: Panama Red: Anarchist Politics and Transnational Networks in the Panama Canal Zone, 1904–1913, Kirwin Shaffer
Chapter 3: Moving between the Global and the Local: The Industrial Workers of the World and Their Press in Latin America, Anton Rosenthal
Chapter 4: The FACA and the FAI: Argentine Anarchists and the Revolution in Spain, 1930–1939, James Baer
Part Two:. Harnessing the Collective: Labor, Culture, and Counterhegemonic Movements
Chapter 5: From Anarchists to “Anarcho-Batllistas”: Populism and Labor Legislation in Uruguay, Lars Peterson
Chapter 6: Rebel Soul: Cultural Politics and Cuban Anarchism, 1890s–1920s, Kirwin Shaffer
Chapter 7: From Workers’ Militancy to Cultural Action: Brazilian Anarchism in Rio Grande do Sul, 1890s–1940s, Beatriz Ana Loner
Chapter 8: Memories and Temporalities of Anarchist Resistance: Community Traditions, Labor Insurgencies, and Argentine Shipyard Workers, Early 1900s to Late 1950s, Geoffroy de Laforcade
Part Three: The Personal to the Popular: Nation, Identity, and Gender
Chapter 9: From Radicals to Heroes of the Republic: Anarchism and National Identity in Costa Rica, 1900–1977, David Díaz-Arias
Chapter 10: Magonismo, the Revolution, and the Anarchist Appropriation of an Imagined Mexican Indigenous Identity, Shawn England
Chapter 11: Anarchist Visions of Race and Space in Northern Peru, 1898–1922, Steven J. Hirsch
Chapter 12: Anarchists and Alterity: The Expulsion of Casimiro Barrios from Chile, 1920, Raymond Craib
Chapter 13: The Anarchist Wager of Sexual Emancipation in Argentina, 1900–1930, Laura Fernández Cordero
Epilogue, Transference, Culture, and Critique: The Circulation of Anarchist Ideas and Practices, José C. Moya
Alexander Wilde, ed. Religious Responses to Violence: Human Rights in Latin America Past and Present. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2015. Pp. xv, 483. $49.00 paper.
Introduction, Alexander Wilde
Chapter 1: The Evolution of the Theory and Practice of Rights in Latin American Catholicism, Daniel H. Levine
Chapter 2: Violence and Everyday Experience in Early Twenty-First-Century Latin America, Roberto Albro
PART I: Rethinking Religious Contributions to Human Rights
Chapter 3: Human Rights and Christian Responsibility: Transnational Christian Activism, Human Rights, and State Violence in Brazil and Chile in the 1970s, Patrick William Kelly
Chapter 4: Church Responses to Political Violence in Central America: From Liberation Theology to Human Rights, Virginia Garrard-Burnett
Chapter 5: The Institutional Church and Pastoral Ministry: Unity and Conflict in the Defense of Human Rights in Chile, Alexander Wilde
Chapter 6: Violent Times: Catholicism and Dictatorship in Argentina in the 1970s, María Soledad Catoggio
Chapter 7: Transformations in Catholicism under Political Violence: Córdoba, Argentina, 1960–1980, Gustavo Morello, S.J.
Chapter 8: Religion Meets Legal Strategy: Catholic Clerics, Lawyers, and the Defense of Human Rights in Brazil, Rafael Mafei Rabelo Queiroz
Part Two: Contemporary Ministries Responding to Violence
Chapter 9: Building Peace and Dignity: Jesuit Engagement in Colombia's Magdalena Medio, Elyssa Pachico
Chapter 10: From Preaching to Listening: Extractive Industries, Communities, and the Church in Rural Peru, Javier Arellano-Yanguas
Chapter 11: Violence and Pastoral Care in Putumayo, Colombia, Winifred Tate
Chapter 12: Violence, Religion, and Institutional Legitimacy in Northern Central America, Robert Brenneman
Chapter 13: The Politics of Presence: Evangelical Ministry in Brazilian Prisons, Andrew Johnson
Chapter 14: “Fui migrante y me hospedaron”: The Catholic Church's Responses to Violence against Central American Migrants in Mexico, Amelia Frank-Vitale
Chapter 15: From Guns to God: Mobilizing Evangelical Christians in Urabá, Colombia, Kimberly Theidon
Afterword, Alexander Wilde
David M. K. Sheinin, ed. Sports Culture in Latin American History. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015. Pp. ix, 229. $25.95 cloth.
Introduction, Laura Podalsky
Chapter 1: Roberto Durán, Omar Torrijos, and the Rise of Isthmian Machismo, Michael Donoghue
Chapter 2: Fighting on the Edge: Cholitas Luchadoras in Bolivia's Cholo Revolution, Ken Lehman
Chapter 3: Natural Athletes: Constructing Southern Indigenous Physicality in Late Nineteenth-Century Argentina, Carolyne Ryan Larson
Chapter 4: Japanese-Brazilian Croquet in São Paulo: Ethnic Identity, Contestation, and Integration, Joshua Hotaka Roth
Chapter 5: People of the Book or People of the (Foot)Ball? On the Pitch with Fans of Atlanta in Buenos Aires, Raanan Rein
Chapter 6: Building Bodies: Creating Urban Landscapes of Athletic Aesthetics in Postrevolutionary Mexico City, Ageeth Sluis
Chapter 7: Boxing in the Maxing of A Colombian Costeño Identity, David M. K. Sheinin
Chapter 8: From “Moral Disease” to “National Sport”: Race, Nation, and Capoeira in Brazil, Katya Wesolowski
Abraham F. Lowenthal and Martin Weinstein, eds. Kalman Silvert: Engaging Latin America, Building Democracy. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2016. Pp. vii, 195. $24.50 paper.
Prologue, Kalman Silvert: An Appreciation, Ricardo Lagos
Chapter 1: Silvert's Wide-Ranging Contributions and Legacy, Abraham F. Lowenthal and Martin Weinstein
Chapter 2: Silvert's Probing and Committed Scholarship, Christopher Mitchell
Chapter 3: Silvert's Approach and Methods, Daniel H. Levine
Chapter 4: Silvert and Democratic Theory, Joel Jutkowitz
Chapter 5: Mentoring a Generation, Martin Weinstein
Chapter 6: Nurturing a Transnational Scholarly Community, Jorge Balan
Chapter 7: Striving to Improve US-Latin American Relations, Abraham F. Lowenthal
Chapter 8: Bringing Vision, Mission, and Values to Philanthropy, Peter S. Cleaves and Richard W. Dye
Chapter 9: Combining Ideas and Action, Julio Cotler
Chapter 10: Silvert and the “American Dream,” Louis W. Goodman
Chapter 11: Silvert as a Public Intellectual, Morris Blachman and Kenneth Sharpe
Epilogue, Kalman Silvert and Latin American Studies Today, Gilbert M. Joseph
