Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) Awards and Prizewinners
The Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) is proud to announce its list of prizewinners for 2015.
Bolton-Johnson Prize (2015)
This prize is for the best book in English on Latin American history published in the previous year.
Thomas Klubock, La Frontera: Forests and Ecological Conflict in Chile's Frontier Territory (Duke University Press, 2014).
Honorable Mention:
Sebastián Carassai, The Argentine Silent Majority: Middle Classes, Politics, Violence, and Memory in the Seventies (Duke University Press, 2014).
Distinguished Service Award (2015)
Herbert Klein, Stanford University
Elinor Melville Prize For Latin American Environmental History (2015)
Vera Candiani, Dreaming of Dry Land: Environmental Transformation in Colonial Mexico City (Stanford University Press, 2014).
James Alexander Robertson Memorial Prize (2015)
This prize is for the best article published in the Hispanic American Historical Review.
Karen Graubart, “Learning from the Qadi: The Jurisdiction of Local Rule in the Early Colonial Andes,” 95:2 (November 2015): 195–228.
James R. Scobie Memorial Award (2015)
This award supports a short, exploratory research trip abroad (normally four to twelve weeks) to determine the feasibility of a PhD dissertation topic dealing with some facet of Latin American history.
Antony Dan Cozart, University of New Mexico
Audrey Fals Henderson, Emory University
Shannon James, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Fernanda Bretones Lane, Vanderbilt University
Cos Tollerson, New York University
Lewis Hanke Prize (2015)
This award supports field research that will allow transformation of a dissertation into a book.
Christy Thornton, Rowan University. “Sovereignty and Solidarity”
Honorable Mention:
Rebecca Herman, University of California, Berkeley. “Contesting Sovereignty”
Lydia Cabrera Award (2015)
The Lydia Cabrera Award supports the study of Cuba between 1492 and 1868.
Adriana Chira, University of Michigan. “Owning Intimacies: Slavery, Family, and Property among Afro-descendants in Santiago de Cuba, 1803–1868”
Jorge Felipe, Michigan State University. “The Origins of the Cuban-based Slave Trade: Atlantic Networks and Local Changes (1789–1820)”
The Maria Elena Martinez Prize (2015)
Formerly the Mexican History Prize, the award was created in 2009 by the CLAH General Committee. The prize was renamed in 2015 in memoriam of Maria Elena Martinez, a former prize recipient and contributor to the field of Mexican history. It is awarded annually for the book or article judged to be the most significant work on the history of Mexico published during the previous year.
Alexander Aviña, Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrillas in the Cold War Mexican Countryside (Oxford University Press 2014).
Tibesar Prize (2015)
This prize is for the best article in The Americas.
José Carlos de la Puente, “‘That Which Belongs to All’: Khipus, Community, and Indigenous Legal Activism in the Early Colonial Andes,” 72:1 (January 2015): 19–54.
Vanderwood Prize (2015)
This prize is for the best article on Latin American history in a journal other than the Hispanic American Historical Review or The Americas.
Zeb Tortorici, “Visceral Archives of the Body: Consuming the Dead, Digesting the Divine.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 20.4 (2014): 407–437.
Books in Brief
The editorial office has received a number of volumes that will be of interest to our readership, resulting in a considerable backlog. Thus we offer this extended Books in Brief section in the July 2016 issue, with the goal of bringing these recent publications to the attention of our colleagues.
The Chaco War: Environment, Ethnicity, and Nationalism. By Bridget María Chesterton. New York: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2015. Pp. 209. List of illustrations. Maps. Tables. Bibliography. Index. $112.00 cloth; $79.99 PDF ebook.
Introduction: An Overview of the Chaco War
Chapter 1: “Same as Here, Same as Everywhere”: Social Difference among Bolivian Prisoners in Paraguay
Chapter 2: Union Activism in La Paz Before and After the Chaco War, 1920–1947
Chapter 3: Channeling Modernity: Nature, Patriotic Engineering, and the Chaco War
Chapter 4: Paraguay Guazú: Big Paraguay, Carlos Fiebrig, and the Botanical Garden as a Launching Point for Paraguayan Nationalism
Chapter 5: Indigenous Peoples and the Chaco War: Power and Acquiescence in Bolivia, Paraguay, and Argentina
Chapter 6: Energy and Environment in the Chaco War
Chapter 7: Bolivian Oil Nationalism and the Chaco War
Chapter 8: Engraving Conflict: The Chaco War in a Shell Case
Indigenous Intellectuals: Knowledge, Power, and Colonial Culture in Mexico and the Andes. By Gabriela Ramos and Yanna Yannakakis. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015. Pp. 311. Foreword. Acknowledgments. Bibliography. Contributors. Index. $89.95 cloth; $24.95 paper.
Part I. Indigenous Functionaries: Ethnicity, Networks, and Institutions
Chapter 1: Indigenous Intellectuals in Andean Colonial Cities
Chapter 2: The Brothers Fernando de Alva Ixlilxochitl and Bartolomé de Alva: Two “Native” Intellectuals of Seventeenth-Century Mexico
Chapter 3: Trained by Jesuits: Indigenous Letrados in Seventeenth-Century Peru
Chapter 4: Making Law Intelligible: Networks of Translation in Mid-Colonial Oaxaca
Part II. Native Historians: Sources, Frameworks, and Authorship
Chapter 5: Chimalpahin and Why Women Matter in History
Chapter 6: The Concept of the Nahua Historian: Don Juan Zapata's Scholarly Tradition
Chapter 7: Cristobal Choquecasa and the Making of the Huarochirí Manuscript
Part III. Forms of Knowledge: Genealogies, Maps, and Archives
Chapter 8: Indigenous Genealogies: Lineage, History, and the Colonial Pact in Central Mexico and Peru
Chapter 9: The Dawning Places: Celestially Defined Land Maps, Títulos Primordiales, and Indigenous Statements of Territorial Possession in Early Colonial Mexico
Chapter 10: Making Indigenous Archives: The Quilcaycamayoq in Colonial Cuzco
Native Brazil: Beyond the Convert and the Cannibal, 1500–1900. Edited by Hal Langfur. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2015. Pp. 277. Illustrations. Glossary. Bibliography. Contributors. Index. $29.95 paper.
Introduction: Recovering Brazil's Indigenous Pasts
Chapter 1: The Society of Jesus and the First Aldeias of Brazil
Chapter 2: Land and Economic Resources of Indigenous Aldeias in Rio de Janeiro: Conflicts and Negotiations, Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries
Chapter 3: Colonial Intrusions and the Transformation of Native Society in the Amazon Valley, 1500–1800
Chapter 4: The Amazonian Native Nobility in Late-Colonial Pará
Chapter 5: Indian Autonomy and Slavery in the Forests and Towns of Colonial Minas Gerais
Chapter 6: Catechism and Capitalism: Imperial Indigenous Policy on a Brazilian Frontier, 1808–1845
Chapter 7: Catechism and Captivity: Indian Policy in Goias, 1780–1889
Chapter 8: Indigenous Resistance in Central Brazil, 1770–1890
Idea of a New General History of North America: An Account of Colonial Native Mexico. By Lorenzo Boturini Benaduci [1746]. Translated and edited by Stafford Poole. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2015. Pp. 281. List of illustrations. Foreword. Acknowledgments. Bibliography. Index. $27.00 cloth. Contents
Introduction
Some Principles of Translation
Select Glossary of Spanish Terms Translated in This Book
Idea of a New General History of North America, Based on Copious Material of Figures, Symbols, Characters, and Hieroglyphics, Songs, and Manuscripts of Indian Authors, Recently Discovered
Dedication to the King
Evaluation of the Most Reverend Father, Master Pedro Fresneda
License of the Ordinary
Declaration of Doctor Don Joseph Borrull
Permission of the Royal Council of the Indies
Approbation of the Most Reverend Father Fray Juan de la Concepción
Permission of the Royal Council of Castile
Official Price
Invocation of the Muses
Sonetto and Epigramma
Index of the Sections
Preliminary Disclaimer
Prologue for the Reader
1. The Excellence of the History of New Spain
2. Procedure in Writing This History
3. First Age
4. Second Age
5. Divine Heroic Symbols of the Planets
6. Divine Heroic Symbols of the Days of the Year
7. The Days Are the Following
8. Divine Heroic Symbols of the Months
9. Symbols of the Indian Months, According to Gemelli Careri
11. Divine Heroic Nocturnal Symbols of the Year
12. Other Examples of Transformations as Means of Reward and Punishment
13. Heroic Military Symbols
14. Heroic Political Symbols
15. Of the Knots and Songs, Both Historical and Poetic
16. Origin of the Indians of New Spain
17. On the Passage and Crossing That the Indians of New Spain Took to Arrive There
18. Giants
Division of the Kingdoms of New Spain
19. The Olmec and Xicalanco Indians
20. The Toltec Indians
21. Third Age
2. The Chichimeca Indians
23. The Tepanec Indians
24. The Mexican Indians
25. The Teochichimeca Indians
26. Conquest by the Spaniards
27. Observations on What Has Been Said
28. The Usefulness That This Work Can Produce
Catalog of the Historic Indian Museum of the Knight Lorenzo Boturini Benaduci, Lord of la Torre and Hono
Preliminary Statement
Index of the Sections
Toltec History
Chichimeca History
Tepanec History
Mexican History
Tlatelolco History
Various Histories
History of Michoacan
Matlaltzinca History
History of Huejotzinco
History of Tlaxcala
Various Other Historical Sources
Pictorial Documents of Tribute
Manuscripts of Tribute
Rare Books
Other Various Learned Manuscripts
Christian Doctrine in Figures and Ciphers
Printed Books in the Nahuatl Language
Indian Calendars
History of the Conquest
Ecclesiastical History
History of Guadalupe
Observations
Bibliography
Index
Festivals & Daily Life in the Arts of Colonial Latin America, 1492–1850. Edited by Donna Pierce. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012. Pp. 151. Foreword. Introduction. Maps. $34.95 paper.
Indigenous Dances in Early Colonial Mexico City
Barbara Mundy
Mourning Rites, Processions, and Funerary Monument
Gustavo Curiel
Between Monarchic and Local Identity
Beatriz Berndt
Celebrating the Patriarch(s) of Puebla
Frances Ramos
La corte vestida de gala
Transforming Status
Women's Fashion in Colonial Buenos Aires
Susan Socolow
Colonial Images
Alexandra Troya-Kennedy
Transformations of Populism in Europe and the Americas: History and Recent Tendencies. Edited by John Abromeit, Bridget María Chesterton, Gary Marotta, and York Norman. New York: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2016. Pp. 345. List of Contributors. Introduction. Index. $120.00 cloth; $85.99 PDF ebook.
Part One: New Historical Perspectives on Populism
Section I: Right Wing Populism and the Rise of National Socialism in Germany
1. The Role of “The People” and Rise of the Nazis
2. Conservatives–Radical Nationalists–Fascists: Calling the People into Politics, 1890–1930
3. Germany's Conservative Elites and the Problem of Political Mobilization in the Weimar Republic
Section II: Populism in the Balkans from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present
4. Nationalism and Populism in the Balkans: The Case of Croatia
5. The People as a “Happening”: Constellations of Populism in Serbia in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
6. Alija Izetbegovic's Islamic Declaration and Populism in Bosnia
Section III: Transformation of Populism in the United States in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
7. Richard Hofstadter's Populist Problem and His Identity as a Jewish Intellectual
8. The American Populist and Anti-Populist Legacy
9. Populist Movements in US History: Progressive and Reactionary
Section IV: Populism in Latin America and The Caribbean, 1920–60
10. Populism in the Circum-Caribbean, 1920s-50s
11. Populist Discourses, Developmentalist Policies: Rethinking Mid Twentieth-Century Brazilian Politics
12. Populism as an Identity: Four Propositions on Peronism
13. Performing Populism in Paraguay: Febrerismo on Stage in the Works of Correa and Ruffinelli, 1933–43
Part Two: Historical Theories of Populism
14. Transformations of Producerist Populism in Western Europe
15. Populists and Parasites: On Producerist Reason
Part Three: Recent Tendencies in Populist Movements in Latin America, Europe, and the United States
16. Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe Today
17. Ideologies of Economic Populism in America and Their Subversion by the Right
18. The Contested Meanings of Populist Revolutions in Latin America
Index
Bridges to Cuba, Puentes a Cuba: Cuban and Cuban-American Artists, Writers, and Scholars Explore Identity, Nationality, and Homeland. Edited by Ruth Behar. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016. Pp. 421. Introduction to the 20th Anniversary Edition. Introduction to the original edition. $35.00 paper.
Part 1: Reconciliation/Reconciliación
For Ana Veldford
Prayer to Lourdes
Beyond the Rupture: Reconciling with Our Enemies, Reconciling with Ourselves
Miembros fantasmas
Political and Cultural Cross-Dressing: Negotiating a Second Generation Cuban-American Identity
Silhouette
A House on Shifting Sands
From El libro regalado
Finding What Had Been Lost in Plain View
Nothing Lost Will Come Back with The Rain
Repairing Things
“And There is Only My Imagination Where Our History Should Be”: An Interview with Cristina Garcia
Bridges of the Heart
Ana Mendieta; Before a Mirror: A Chronicle That Swoons before the Immigrant Tree
Two Conversations with Nancy Morejón
Verrazano-Narrows Bridge
Fragments from Cuban Narratives
Part 2: Rupture/Ruptura
The Circle of Connections: One Hundred Years of Cuba-US Relations
Epistle to José Luis Ferrer
From My Name
Cubans Inside and Outside: Dialogue among the Deaf
Dangers of Speaking and Staying Quiet: Language of Silence
El diario de Miranda/Miranda's Diary
Third Options: Beyond the Border
My Key
Grandmother's Night
Soil; After Papa. . .
Contradictions, Pluralism, and Dialogue: An Interview with René Vásquez Díaz
God Doesn't Help Us
Strange Planet
As If in a Game
Performative Identities: Scenes between Two Cubas
Radishes
A Connecticut Yankee in Cuban Miami: Reflections on The Meaning of Underdevelopment and Cultural Change
Landscapes of the Mind
Sunday
Elisa, or The Price of Dreams
Poem for the Woman Who Talks to Herself in the Park
The Wall
Recent Cuban Art: A Portfolio
Part 3: Remembering/Recuerdos
Between Nightfall and Vengeance: Remembering Reinaldo Arenas
Lunch
Vigia: The Endless Publications of Matanzas
Three Mambos and a Son Montuno
From Going Under: A Cuban-American Fable
“Fronterislena,” Border Islander
Cubans and Airports
Knots in the Handkerchief
In the Way of Fortune
Sea's Path
Pilgrims of the Dawn
Carnaval
Pilgrimage to France: The Cuban Painters
Moving
My Life with Fidel Castro: A Soap Opera without Transmitter
The Islands; Letter to a Woman Friend
El Fuego
Queer Times in Cuba
Two Figures on a Bridge
Authors
Artists
The Rio de Janeiro Reader: History, Culture, Politics. Edited by Daryle Williams, Amy Chazkel, and Paulo Knauss. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015. Pp. 408. Note on translation. Acknowledgments. Introduction. Suggestions. Index. $94.95 cloth; $25.95 paper.
Section 1: Colonial Rio
The Early Colonial Period, 1502–1720s
A Navigator's Diary
On “Brazilian Savages”
Channeling the Carioca River
The Cachaça Revolt
French Corsairs Attack
Mapping the City's Defenses
The Wages of Indigenous Labor
The Viceregal Period, 1763–1808
The Customary Rights of Market Women
Valongo, a Notorious Slave Market
Fire and Reconstruction of an Asylum for Women
Whaling in Guanabara Bay
Lettered Men under Investigation
Cultivating Cinnamon in Late Colonial Rio
The Transfer of the Portuguese Court, 1808–1820s
Eagerly Awaiting the Royal Family
“Infectious Disorders” of the Port
The Passieo Publico
Section 2: Imperial Rio
The Independence Era, 1820s-1830s
The Feast of the Holy Spirit
The Emperor Dissolves the Constitutional Assembly
Views of the Palace Square
The Night of the Bottle-Whippings
Mapping the Capital of Imperial Brazil
The Slave Dance Called Candomblé
A Neutral Municipality, 1834–1889
From the Dungeon to the House of Correction
Photography Arrives in Rio
Transient Laborers of the Fazenda Santa Cruz
Recollections of Nineteenth-Century Women
Workers, for Sale or Rent
Maria Angola Denounces Illegal Enslavement
The Capoeira Gangs of Rio
French-Language Classifieds
Public Entertainment in Imperial Rio
Sex Trafficking in the Imperial Capital
Visualizing “A Carioca”
A City Celebrates Slave Emancipation
Section 3: Republican Rio
The Federal District 1889–1930
Making the Federal District
The Legendary Festival of Our Lady of Penha
The Animal Game
An Allegation of Infanticide
The Hotel Avenida
Rio's Kiosks
The Cult of Nostalgia
Anarchists under Arrest
Demolition of the Morro do Castelo
The Federal District, 1930–1960
Gauchos Take the Obelisk
“Flying Down to Rio”
Bertha Lutz Goes to Congress
The Fount of the Queen
A Writer's Brazilian Diary
Rio and World War II
A Fond Farewell to Praça Onze
Avenida Presidente Vargas
Introducing the “Civilized Indian”
Madame Sata, a Grifter in Lapa
A City's Crushing Defeat at the World Cup
Carmen Miranda Shines in “Ca Room' Pa Pa”
“Soldiers of Fire”
Censoring Rio
The Diplomacy of Samba
Section IV: Recent Rio
The City and State of Guanabara, 1960–1975
The Ephemeral State of Guanabara
Recreation in the Parque do Flamengo
This House is Yours!
An Act of Student Protest
After the Fusion, 1975–1980s
Dancin' Days
Burger Wars of 1979
Barra da Tijuca, Boomtown (But Not for All)
State Terror in the Early 1980s
The Consumer Spectacle of Barra Shopping
A Weekend at Maracanã
The Spider Woman Kisses Rio
Rallying for Direct Elections
A Summer up in Smoke
Contemporary Rio, 1990s-2015
Female Planet
From Favela to Bairro
Adeus, 2-2-6!
In Praise of a Modernist Monument
Venerating Escrava Anastacia
Campaigning for a “Rio without Homophobia”
The Last Night at Help
(Re)Constructing Black Consciousness
A Quilombo in Lagoa
An Oral History of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Whatever Your Fantasia, Always Use a Condom
“Pacification”
An Open Letter from a Massacre Survivor
Reading and Writing the Suburbs
A Century of Change at the port
Suggestions for Further Reading and Viewing
