- An Early Stone Pectoral from Southeastern Mexico
- Michael D. Coe
- This description and iconographic analysis of an Olmec pectoral, with an early Maya figure and glyphic text incised on its reverse, offers evidence of the presence of writing in the Late Pre-Classic Maya lowlands.
- Paperback 1966
- Andean Art at Dumbarton Oaks
- Edited by Elizabeth Hill Boone
- The body of Pre-Columbian art that Robert Bliss carefully assembled over a half-century between 1912 and 1963, and which has been amplified slightly since his death, is a remarkably significant collection. Andean Art is composed of five topical essays, shorter essays on the Andean cultures represented in the collection, and discussions of the individual objects.
- Hardcover 1996
- Archaeology of Formative Ecuador
- Edited by J. Scott Raymond
- Edited by Richard L. Burger
- This volume is devoted to the archaeology of Formative Ecuador in order to bring new information on this important period of the region's past to the attention of New World scholars.
- Hardcover 2003
- The Art and Iconography of Late Post-Classic Central Mexico
- Elizabeth Hill Boone
- Hardcover 1982
- Art, Ideology, and the City of Teotihuacan
- Edited by Janet C. Berlo
- Hardcover 1992
- Axe-Monies and Their Relatives
- Dorothy Hosler
- Heather Lechtman
- Olaf Holm
- Paperback 1990
- Aztec Imperial Strategies
- Edited by Frances F. Berdan
- Edited by Richard E. Blanton
- Edited by Elizabeth Hill Boone
- Edited by Mary G. Hodge
- Edited by Michael E. Smith
- Edited by Emily Umberger
- Hardcover 1996
- The Aztec Templo Mayor
- Edited by Elizabeth Hill Boone
- Hardcover 1987
- Becoming Brazuca
- Edited by Clémence Jouët-Pastré
- Edited by Leticia J. Braga
- Brazilians in the United States are a relatively new wave of immigrants from South America. This volume offers a broad-ranging discussion of an understudied population and also brings insights into the core issues of immigration research: how immigration can complicate issues of social class, race, and ethnicity, how it intersects with the educational system, and how it fits into the assimilation paradigm.
- Paperback 2008
- Bibliography of the Harvard Chiapas Project
- Evon Z. Vogt
- This volume publishes the complete annotated bibliography of the publications that resulted from the first 20 years of ethnological and archaeological work by faculty and graduate students in the Mexican state of Chiapas, sponsored by Harvard's Peabody Museum and Department of Anthropology.
- Paperback
- Bitter Fruit
- Stephen Schlesinger
- Stephen Kinzer
- Introduction by John H. Coatsworth
- Foreword by Richard A. Nuccio
- Bitter Fruit is a comprehensive and insightful account of the CIA operation to overthrow the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954. This book has become a classic, a textbook case of the relationship between the United States and the Third World. It is a warning of what happens when the United States abuses its power.
- Paperback 2005
- Blood of Brothers
- With New Afterword
- Stephen Kinzer
- Foreword by Merilee S. Grindle
- Widely considered the best-connected journalist in Central America, Kinzer personally met and interviewed people at every level of the Somoza, Sandinistas and contra hierarchies, as well as dissidents, heads of state, and countless ordinary citizens. Blood of Brothers is Kinzer's dramatic story of the centuries-old power struggle that burst into the headlines in 1979 with the overthrow of the Somoza dictatorship, as well as a vibrant portrait of the Nicaraguan people.
- Paperback 2007
- The Bodega of Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico
- Linda Schele
- Peter Mathews
- Illustrated with both black-and-white photographs and line drawings, this catalogue records the most important objects in the storeroom of the museum at Palenque.
- Paperback 1979
- Chacs and Chiefs
- Rosemary Sharp
- Paperback 1981
- Classic Maya Place Names
- David Stuart
- Stephen D. Houston
- The authors present evidence that specific place names do exist in Maya inscriptions, and show that identifying these names sheds considerable light on both past and present questions about the Maya.
- Paperback 1994
- Classic-Period Cultural Currents in Southern and Central Veracruz
- Edited by Philip J. Arnold
- Edited by Christopher A. Pool
- This book explores the diverse traditions and dynamic interactions along the Mexican Gulf lowlands at the height of their cultural florescence. Best known for their elaborate ball game rituals and precocious inscriptions with long-count dates, these cultures served as a critical nexus between the civilizations of highland Mexico and the lowland Maya, influencing developments in both regions.
- Hardcover 2008
- Coffee and Power
- Jeffery M. Paige
- In the revolutionary decade between 1979 and 1992, it would have been difficult to find three political systems as different as deathsquad-dominated El Salvador, peaceful social-democratic Costa Rica, and revolutionary Sandinista Nicaragua. Yet when the fighting ended, all three had found a common destination in democracy and free markets. In a landmark book that fuses political economy and cultural analysis, Jeffery Paige shows that both the divergent political histories and their convergent outcome were shaped by a single commodity: coffee. His analysis challenges current theories of dictatorship and democracy, and shows that revolution in Central America is deeply rooted in the histories of the coffee elites.
- Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1998
- Collected Studies in Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology, Nos. 12, 13, 14
- Johannes Wilbert
- Peter G. Roe
- Elizabeth P. Benson
- This volume contains three monographs from the series of Collected Studies in Pre-Columbian Art and Archeology. Johannes Wilbert looks at the use and decoration of spindles, focusing on those from Ecuador. Peter Roe examines the Chavin seriations, with numerous illustrations and a pullout chart, and Elizabeth Benson considers the motif of felines and men in Mochica art.
- Hardcover 1974
- Collecting the Pre-Columbian Past
- Edited by Elizabeth Hill Boone
- Hardcover 1993
- Conquest and Agrarian Change
- Robert Keith
- The colonial society and economy of Latin America were based on local communities of three principal types: Spanish towns, Indian villages, and landed estates or haciendas. Of these, it was the latter that provided the economic foundations for the aristocratic social system. This book tells how and why the Spaniards who settled the Peruvian coastal valleys originally came to establish their estates.
- Hardcover 1971
- Cuba
- Jorge Dominguez
- Paperback 1978
- The Danzantes of Monte Albán
- John F. Scott
- Paperback 1978
- Death and the Afterlife in Pre-Columbian America
- Elizabeth P. Benson
- Hardcover 1975
- Democracies in Development
- Edited by Mark Payne
- Edited by Daniel Zovatto
- Edited by Mercedes Mateo Diaz
- The advance of democracy in Latin America over the past quarter century has helped ensure respect for fundamental political freedoms, civil liberties, and human rights. Democracies in Development highlights how an effective democracy is also essential for sustainable economic and social development. The book analyzes the effects of institutions on democratic systems, identifies regional trends in political reform, and gauges the value and types of reform that may hold promise for strengthening democracy in the future.
- Paperback 2007
- The Documents of Angelo de Cartura and Donato Fontanella
- Alan M. Stahl
- Though the two protocols published here are fragmentary in terms of their survival, and selective in the aspects of life that they record, they are both valuable sources for understanding the lives of Venetian, Greek, and Jewish men and women in fourteenth-century Crete.
- Paperback 2000
- Dumbarton Oaks Papers 50
- Dumbarton Oaks
- The annual journal Dumbarton Oaks Papers was founded in 1941 for the publication of articles relating to late antique, early medieval, and Byzantine civilization in the fields of art and architecture, history, archeology, literature, theology, law, and the auxiliary disciplines. Numerous maps, tables, illustrations, and color plates provide supplementary information for many of the articles.
- Hardcover 1996
- Ecology and the Arts in Ancient Panama
- Olga Linares
- Olga Linares offers a reinterpretation of the Classic rank-societies of the central Panamanian provinces based on archaeological, ecological, iconographic, ethnohistoric, and ethnographic evidence, and concludes that the art style of this area used animal motifs as a metaphor in expressing the qualities of aggression and hostility characteristic of social and political life in the central provinces.
- Paperback 1977
- Emblem and State in the Classic Maya Lowlands
- Joyce Marcus
- Marcus reconstructs Classic Maya political organization through the use of evidence derived from epigraphy, settlement pattern surveys, and locational analysis. This study describes the development of a four-tiered settlement hierarchy and its subsequent collapse.
- Hardcover 1976
- The Frieze of the Palace of the Stuccoes, Acanceh, Yucatan, Mexico
- Virginia E. Miller
- This is the first publication of complete watercolor renderings recording early documentation of the frieze of the Palace of the Stuccoes, an unusual example of architectural decoration in the northern Maya lowlands.
- Paperback 1992
- Function and Meaning in Classic Maya Architecture
- Edited by Stephen D. Houston
- Hardcover 1998
- Gardens and Cultural Change
- Edited by Michel Conan
- Edited by Jeffrey Quilter
- Five authors explore the variety of relationships between garden making and cultural change in Argentina, the Caribbean, Mexico, and the United States. They show how gardens express popular cultural invention and attempts at political manipulation, as well as provide places of cultural resistance by subjugated people.
- Paperback 2008
- Gender in Pre-Hispanic America
- Cecelia F. Klein
- Hardcover 2001
- Gold and Power in Ancient Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia
- Edited by Jeffrey Quilter
- Edited by John W. Hoopes
- Hardcover 2003
- Highland-Lowland Interaction in Mesoamerica
- Edited by Arthur G. Miller
- Hardcover 1983
- The House of the Bacabs, Copan, Honduras
- Edited by David Webster
- Dorie Reents-Budet, Curator, Pre-Columbian Art, Duke University Museum of Art Claude Baudez, William Fash, Jr., Berthold Riese, William Sanders, and David Webster contribute to this monograph, and using an integrated art historical and anthropological approach, consider the House of the Bacabs' context as an elite Maya structure, its excavation and restoration, and its iconographic and epigraphic reconstruction and interpretation, to establish models for understanding Classic Maya social and political life.
- Paperback 1989
- Huari Administrative Structure
- Edited by William H. Isbell
- Edited by Gordon F. McEwan
- Hardcover 1991
- The Iconography of the Teotihuacan Tlaloc
- Esther Pasztory
- Paperback 1974
- Innocents Abroad
- Jonathan Zimmerman
- Until the early twentieth century, teachers went abroad with assumptions of their own superiority. But by the mid-twentieth century, they became far more self-questioning about their social assumptions, their educational theories, and the complexity of their role in a foreign society. Drawing on extensive archives of teachers' letters and accounts, Zimmerman's narrative explores the teachers' shifting attitudes about their country and themselves, in a world that was more unexpected than they could have imagined.
- Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2008
- Izapa Relief Carving
- Virginia G. Smith
- This study analyzes the visual traits of Izapa-style monuments to establish a stylistic inventory of visual elements and the rules for their use, and compares other Late Pre-Classic monuments of the Guatemala-Chiapas highlands and Pacific slopes.
- Paperback 1984
- The Junius B. Bird Pre-Columbian Textile Conference
- Edited by Ann Pollard Rowe
- Edited by Elizabeth P. Benson
- Edited by Anne-Louise Schaffer
- This volume, published jointly with the Textile Museum and based on the proceedings of the Dumbarton Oaks-Textile Museum conference of 1973, includes important contributions to the knowledge of Pre-Columbian textiles and weaving technology.
- Hardcover 1979
- The Labor Wars in Cordoba, 1955-1976
- James Brennan
- The labor wars in Cordoba have been mythologized as a Latin American equivalent to the French student strikes of May-June 1968 and the Italian "hot summer" of the same period. Brennan demonstrates that the pronounced militancy and even political radicalism of the Cordoban working class were due not only to Argentina's changing political culture but also to the dynamic relationship between the factory and society during those years.
- Hardcover 1998
- Latin America and the World Economy since 1800
- Edited by John H. Coatsworth
- Edited by Alan M. Taylor
- The fifteen essays in this volume apply the methods of the new economic history to the history of the Latin American economies since 1800. The authors combine the historian's sensitivity to context and contingency with modern or "neoclassical" economic theory and quantitative methods.
- Paperback 1999 / Hardcover 1999
- Latin American Horizons
- Edited by Don Stephen Rice
- Hardcover 1993
- Living with Debt
- Economic and Social Progress in Latin America, 2007 Report
- Edited by Inter-Amer Dev Bank
- Living with Debt focuses on how to manage sovereign debt safely and effectively. The report traces the history of sovereign borrowing in Latin America, releases a new data set on public debt, and analyzes debt's evolution, highlighting the recent trend toward higher domestic debt and lower external borrowing. Also included is a detailed study of the costs of sovereign defaults, such as those that have affected Latin American countries in recent years.
- Paperback 2007
- The Major Gods of Ancient Yucatan
- Karl A. Taube
- Paperback 1992
- Mesoamerica after the Decline of Teotihuacan AD 700-900
- Edited by Richard A. Diehl
- Edited by Janet C. Berlo
- Hardcover 1989
- Mesoamerican Writing Systems
- Elizabeth P. Benson
- Hardcover 1973
- Native Traditions in the Postconquest World
- Edited by Elizabeth Hill Boone
- Edited by Tom Cummins
- Hardcover 1998
- New Patterns for Mexico
- Edited by Barbara J. Merz
- New Patterns for Mexico examines novel and emerging patterns of United States giving to Mexico and its impact on equitable development. Last year alone, Mexican migrants living in the United States sent billions of dollars back to relatives living in Mexico. This bilingual volume asks: What are these new patterns of diaspora giving and how do they affect equitable development in Mexico? This book builds upon the earlier work of Diaspora Philanthropy: Perspectives on India and China.
- Paperback 2006
- Olmec Art at Dumbarton Oaks
- Karl A. Taube
- Hardcover 2004
- The Olmec and Their Neighbors
- Edited by Elizabeth P. Benson
- Twenty-one papers on the Olmec were written for this volume in tribute to Matthew W. Stirling, "pioneer archaeologist, ethnologist, and the discoverer of the Olmec civilization."
- Hardcover 1981
- The Origins of Chavín Culture
- Chiaki Kano
- Paperback 1979
- The Origins of Maya Art
- Lee Allen Parsons
- This is the first comprehensive treatment and pictorial record of one of the greatest bodies of sculpture in the Pre-Columbian world. Parson's work orders the Late Pre-Classic sculptures of highland and Pacific coastal Guatemala into chronological and stylistic groupings, relating them to the other artistic and iconographic movements at the time the Maya style was coalescing.
- Paperback 1986
- Outsiders?
- Economic and Social Progress in Latin America, 2008 Report
- Edited by Gustavo Márquez
- Despite decades of reform and global integration, many people in Latin America claim they are worse off. This book argues that democratization, macroeconomic stabilization, and globalization have disrupted the traditional labor-market-based paths of integration based on public and formal employment and made those left behind more vulnerable to the traditional forces of discrimination and exclusion.
- Paperback 2008
- Painted Architecture and Polychrome Monumental Sculpture in Mesoamerica
- Edited by Elizabeth Hill Boone
- Hardcover 1985
- Palaces of the Ancient New World
- Edited by Susan Toby Evans
- Edited by Joanne Pillsbury
- As in the Old World, kings and nobles of ancient Mexico and Peru had luxurious administrative quarters in cities, and exquisite pleasure palaces in the countryside. This volume explores the great houses of the ancient New World, from palaces of the Aztecs and Incas, looted by the Spanish conquistadors, to those lost high in the Andes and deep in the jungle.
- Hardcover 2004
- Patriarch and Folk
- E. Bradford Burns
- Burns shows how Nicaragua's elite was able to consolidate control of the state and form a stable government, but at the same time began the destruction of the rich folk culture of the Indians, eventually reducing them to an impoverished and powerless agrarian proletariat. He provides valuable insight into Nicaraguan society of the time, of both the elite and the folk, including a perceptive section on the status and activities of women and the family in society.
- Hardcover 1991
- Philanthropy and Social Change in Latin America
- Edited by Cynthia Sanborn
- Edited by Felipe Portocarrero
- Foreword by John H. Coatsworth
- Latin America is a profoundly philanthropic region with deeply rooted traditions of solidarity with the less fortunate. This volume brings together groundbreaking perspectives on such diverse themes as corporate philanthropy, immigrant networks, and new grant-making and operating foundations with corporate, family, and community origins.
- Paperback 2006
- Plantation Slavery in Barbados
- Jerome S. Handler
- Frederick W. Lange
- This book explores new ways to reconstruct the culture of a social group that left few historical records. As a description of the organization and development of the plantation system in Barbados, it is a model work in the burgeoning fields of slavery studies, historical anthropology, and Caribbean history.
- Hardcover 1978
- Policymaking in Latin America
- Edited by Ernesto Stein
- Edited by Mariano Tommasi
- Edited by Carlos Scartascini
- Edited by Pablo Spiller
- What determines the capacity of countries to design, approve, and implement effective public policies? To address this issue, this book builds on the results of a comparative study of political institutions, policymaking processes, and policy outcomes in eight Latin American countries. The volume benefits from both micro detail on the intricacies of policymaking in individual countries and a broad cross-country interdisciplinary analysis of the process in the region.
- Paperback 2008
- The Politics of Policies
- Inter-Amer Dev Bank
- This study analyzes how the workings of the policymaking process affect the quality of policy outcomes. It looks beyond a purely technocratic approach, arguing that the political and policymaking processes are inseparable. It offers a wide variety of examples and case studies, and yields useful insights for the design of effective policy reform.
- Paperback 2006
- Pre-Columbian Metallurgy of South America
- Elizabeth P. Benson
- Hardcover 1979
- A Pre-Columbian World
- Edited by Jeffrey Quilter
- Edited by Mary Miller
- The articles in this book conceptualize the ancient New World through new and varied approaches, from iconography to the history of anthropology. The many essays in this volume explore extensively the vast vista of the Pre-Columbian world.
- Hardcover 2006
- A Principality of its Own
- Edited by José Luis Falconi
- Edited by Gabriela Rangel
- Foreword by Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
- This collection of critical essays examines distinctive moments of the Americas Society's visual art program and its impact on the formation of a Latin American market in the United States. Founded in 1965, the Americas Society has played a pivotal role in Latin American art, from Pre-Colombian to modernism. A Principality of Its Own explores the achievements and experiments that modeled the institution from the Cold War to the present.
- Paperback 2007
- Privatization for the Public Good?
- Edited by Alberto Chong
- Using unique household data sets for six Latin American countries, the essays collected in this volume put together a compelling picture of the effects of privatization.
- Paperback 2008
- Proclaiming Revolution
- Edited by Merilee S. Grindle
- Edited by Pilar Domingo
- This volume, the result of a conference organized by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies of Harvard University and the Institute for Latin American Studies at the University of London, presents new interpretations of the causes of the events in Bolivia of 1952 and compares them to the great social transformations that occurred in France, Mexico, Russia, China, and Cuba. It also considers the consequences of the revolution by examining the political, social, and economic development of the country, as well as adding important insights to the understanding of this fascinating Andean country.
- Paperback 2003
- Reliving Golgotha
- Richard C. Trexler
- In Reliving Golgotha, Richard Trexler brings an important new perspective to religious spectacle in an engrossing exploration of the annual passion play at Iztapalapa, the largest and poorest borough of Mexico City. After tracing the history of European passion theater, Trexler examines the process by which representations of the passion were established in the Americas, especially in New Spain.
- Hardcover 2003
- Seven Matched Hollow Gold Jaguars from Peru's Early Horizon
- Heather Lechtman
- Lee Allen Parsons
- William J. Young
- Paperback 1975
- Social Patterns in Pre-Classic Mesoamerica
- Edited by David C. Grove
- Edited by Rosemary A. Joyce
- Hardcover 1999
- The Southeast Classic Maya Zone
- Edited by Elizabeth Hill Boone
- Edited by Gordon R. Willey
- Hardcover 1988
- State and Cosmos in the Art of Tenochtitlan
- Richard Fraser Townsend
- Townsendoffers an interpretation of major examples of Mexica monumental art by identifying three interrelated iconographic themes: the conception of the universe as a sacred structure, the correspondence of the social order and the territory of the nation with the cosmic structure, and the representation of Tenochtitlan as the historically legitimate successor to the civilization of the past.
- Paperback 1979
- A Study of Olmec Sculptural Chronology
- Susan Milbrath
- Paperback 1979
- Thoughts on the Meaning and Use of Pre-Hispanic Mexican Sellos
- Frederick V. Field
- Paperback 1967
- Three Maya Relief Panels at Dumbarton Oaks
- Michael D. Coe
- Elizabeth P. Benson
- Paperback 1966
- Titu Cusi
- Introduction, Spanish Modernization, English Translation, and Notes by Nicole Delia Legnani
- Prologue by Frank Salomon
- Foreword by José Antonio Mazzotti
- First written in 1570, this work now published in modern Spanish with an English translation sheds light on the Inqa (Inca) world. These writings followed more than a decade of negotiations and skirmishes between Inqa rebels and Spanish officials who were receiving their orders from Spain to find a diplomatic, or alternatively violent, solution to integrate these independently governed territories under Spanish colonial rule.
- Paperback 2006
- Twin Tollans
- Edited by Cynthia Kristan-Graham
- Edited by Jeff Kowalski
- This volume had its beginnings in the colloquium, "Rethinking Chichen Itza, Tula and Tollan," that was held at Dumbarton Oaks. The selected essays revisit long-standing questions regarding the nature of the relationship between Chichen Itza and Tula. These essays place the cities in the context of the emerging social, political, and economic relationships that took shape during the transition from the Epiclassic period in Central Mexico, the Terminal Classic period in the Maya region, and the succeeding Early Postclassic period.
- Hardcover 2007
- Two Aztec Wood Idols
- H. B. Nicholson
- Rainer Berger
- Paperback 1968
- The United States and Latin America
- Victor Bulmer-Thomas, Editor
- James Dunkerley, Editor
- The end of the Cold War shifted the agenda of U.S.-Latin American relations away from hemispheric security toward trade and investment, drugs and migration. The new agenda has increased pressure to eliminate anachronistic U.S. embargo on Cuba and also includes Latin America's growing ties to the countries of the European Union and other regions. This book contains fifteen essays by distinguished U.S., Latin American, and European scholars on each of these issues, framed by overviews of the changing historical context from the nineteenth century to the end of the Cold War.
- Paperback 1999 / Hardcover 1999
- The United States and the Andean Republics
- Fredrick B. Pike
- Andeans, Pike shows, have traditionally viewed with suspicion the tenets associated with liberal democracy, secularism, and individualistic capitalism. In a detailed study of Andean politics, economics, social classes, and cultural patterns in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Pike determines that revolutionary ideology often merely masked the ambitions of aspiring elites anxious to retain the traditional order but wishing to wrest its advantages from incumbent elites.
- Hardcover 1977
- Variations in the Expressions of Inka Power
- Edited by Richard L. Burger
- Edited by Craig Morris
- Edited by Ramiro Matos
- Until recently, little archaeological investigation has been dedicated to the Inka, the last great culture to flourish in Andean South America before the sixteenth-century arrival of the Spaniards. Using a range of theoretical and methodological approaches, scholars from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities provide a new understanding of Inka culture and history.
- Hardcover 2008
- Wealth and Hierarchy in the Intermediate Area
- Edited by Frederick W. Lange
- Hardcover 1992
- Writings for a Liberation Psychology
- Ignacio Martín-Baró
- Adrianne Aron, Editor
- Shawn Corne, Editor
- Foreword by Elliot G. Mishler
- A Spanish-born Jesuit priest trained in psychology at the University of Chicago and tragically killed by a Salvadoran death squad in 1989, Ignacio Martín-Baró devoted much of his career to making psychology speak to the community as well as to the individual. This collection of his writings, the first in English translation, clarifies Martín-Baró's importance in Latin American psychology and reveals a major force in the field of social theory.
- Hardcover 1994 / Paperback 1996
- Yankee No!
- Alan McPherson
- Alan McPherson sheds much-needed light on the controversial and pressing problem of anti-U.S. sentiment in the world. Examining the roots of anti-Americanism in Latin America, McPherson focuses on three major crises: the Cuban Revolution, the 1964 Panama riots, and U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic. Deftly combining cultural and political analysis, he demonstrates the shifting and complex nature of anti-Americanism in each country and the love-hate ambivalence of most Latin Americans toward the United States.
- Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2006