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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

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

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

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

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

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; Contributions by Fernando Carrillo-Florez; Contributions by Koldo Echebarria; Contributions by Flavia Freidenberg; Contributions by Edmundo Jarquin; Contributions by Andres Allamand Zavala; 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

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

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; Contributions by Viviane Azevedo; Contributions by Heather Berkman; Contributions by Sebastian Calonico; Contributions by Natalia Cardelli; Contributions by Juan Camilo Chaparro; Contributions by Alberto Chong; Contributions by Suzanne Duryea; Contributions by Nestor Gandelman; Contributions by Gianmarco Leon; Contributions by Eduardo Lora; Contributions by Mercedes Mateo Diaz; Contributions by Jaqueline Mazza; Contributions by Hugo Nopo; Contributions by Carmen Pages-Serra; Contributions by Mark Payne; Contributions by Sandra Polania; Contributions by Laura Ripani; 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; Contributions by Felipe Aguero; Contributions by Silvia Marina Arrom; Contributions by L. David Brown; Contributions by Gonzalo de la Maza; Contributions by Francisco Durand; Contributions by Julio Guzman; Contributions by Ignacio Irarrazaval; Contributions by Juan Carlos Jaramillo; Contributions by Leilah Landim; Contributions by Christine Letts; Contributions by Gustavo Morales; Contributions by Mario Roitter; Contributions by Eduardo Szazi; Contributions by Shari Turitz; Contributions by Rodrigo Villar; Contributions by David Winder; 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; Contributions by Lee J. Alston; Contributions by Marcus Andre Melo; Contributions by Cristobal Aninat Urrejola; Contributions by Mauricio Cárdenas; Contributions by Maria Caridad Araujo; Contributions by Rosa Amelia Gonzalez; Contributions by Roberto Junguito; Contributions by John Londregan; Contributions by Fabrice Lehoucq; Contributions by Andres Mejia Acosta; Contributions by Jose Molinas; Contributions by Francisco Monaldi; Contributions by Marcela Montero; Contributions by Bernardo Mueller; Contributions by Benito Nacif; Contributions by Patricio Navia; Contributions by Gabriel Negretto; Contributions by Richard Obuchi; Contributions by Michael Penfold; Contributions by Carlos Pereira; Contributions by Anibal Perez-Linan; Contributions by Sebastian Saiegh; Contributions by Joaquin Vial; 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; Contributions by Mario Bergara; Contributions by Mauricio Cárdenas; Contributions by Luis Estanislao Echebarría; Contributions by Gabriel Filc; Contributions by Eduardo Lora; Contributions by Valerie Mercer-Blackman; Contributions by Juan Carlos Navarro; Contributions by Mark Payne; Contributions by Andrés Pereyra; Contributions by Carlos Scartascini; Contributions by Ernesto Stein; Contributions by Mariano Tommasi; 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; Contributions by Anna Blume; Contributions by Elizabeth Hill Boone; Contributions by Warren R. DeBoer; Contributions by Tom D. Dillehay; Contributions by Enrique Florescano; Contributions by Robert L. Hall; Contributions by Mary W. Helms; Contributions by Simon Martin; Contributions by Ramiro Matos; Contributions by Polly Schaafsma; Contributions by Karl A. Taube; 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; Contributions by Beverly Adams; Contributions by Alex Alberro; Contributions by Cecilia Brunson; Contributions by Luis Camnitzer; Contributions by Tom Cummins; Contributions by Andrea Giunta; Contributions by Anna Indych-Lopez; Contributions by Luis Perez Oramas; Contributions by John Pruitt; 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

Proclaiming Revolution: Edited by Merilee S. Grindle; Edited by Pilar Domingo; Contributions by Manuel Contreras; Contributions by James Dunkerley; Contributions by Eduardo Gamarra; Contributions by Herbert S. Klein; Contributions by Alan Knight; Contributions by Brooke Larson; Contributions by Ken Lehman; Contributions by George Gray Molina; Contributions by Juan Antonio Morales; Contributions by Sinclair Thomson; Contributions by Laurence Whitehead; 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

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

Three Maya Relief Panels at Dumbarton Oaks: Michael D. Coe; Elizabeth P. Benson; Paperback 1966

Two Aztec Wood Idols: H. B. Nicholson; Rainer Berger; Paperback 1968

The United States and Latin America: Edited by Victor Bulmer-Thomas; Edited by James Dunkerley; 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

Wealth and Hierarchy in the Intermediate Area: Edited by Frederick W. Lange; Hardcover 1992

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

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