John F. Collins, Film & Book Review Editor


Department of Anthropology

Queens College/CUNY

Powdermaker Hall 314

Kissena Boulevard

Flushing, NY 11367-1597

Tel: (718) 997-5524

Fax: (718) 997-2885

 

Books Available for Review as of April 1st, 2008.
Should you wish to submit a review please contact John Collins for formatting information.

 

Acuña, Rodolfo F. 2007.
Corridors of Migration: The Odyssey of Mexican Laborers, 1600-1933.
Tuscon: University of Arizona Press.

Adelman, Jeremy. 2006.
Sovereignty and Revolution in the Iberian Atlantic.
Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Aguilar-Moreno, Manuel. 2007.
Handbook to Life in the Aztec World. New York: Oxford University Press

 

Beckerman, Stephen and Paul Valentine. 2008.
Revenge in the Cultures of Lowland South America.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

 

 

Carrasco, David and Scott Sessions, eds. 2007.
Cave, City, and Eagle’s Nest.
Alburquerque: University of New Mexico Press

Castro Daniel. 2007.
Another Face of Empire: Bartolomé de Las Casas, Indigenous Rights, and Ecclesiastical Imperialism
Durham: Duke University Press.

 

Conaghan, Catherine. 2007.
Fujimori’s Peru: Deception in the Public Sphere.
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.

 

Corse, Theron. 2007.
Protestants, Revolution, and the Cuba-U.S. Bond.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Chomsky, Aviva. 2008.
Linked Labor Histories: New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global Working Class.
Durham: Duke University Press.

Foxen, Patricia. 2007.
In Search of Providence: Transnational Mayan Identities.
Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press.

 

Hallward, Peter. 2007. Damning the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment.
New York: Verso.

 

Himpele, Jeff D. 2007.
Circuits of Culture:
Media, Politics, and Indigenous Identity in the Andes.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Hochstetler, Kathryn and Margaret E. Keck. 2007.
Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society.
Durham: Duke University Press.
Fennell, Christopher C. 2007.
Crossroads and Cosmologies:
Diasporas and Ethnogenesis in the New World.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Hoffmann, Odile and Maria Teresa Rodríguez. 2007.
Los retos de la diferencia: los actors de la multiculturalidad entre México y Colombia.
Mexico: IRD/CIESAS

 

Hoffman, Odile. 2007.
Comunidades negras en el pacífico colombiano.
Lima: IFEA

 

Schneider, Arnd. 2007.
Appropriation as Practice: Art and Identity in Argentina.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

 

Sorensen, Diana. 2007.
A Turbulent Decade Remembered: Scenes from the Latin American Sixties.
Stanford: Stanford University Press

Caplow, Martha. 2007.
Leopoldo Méndez: Revolutionary Art and the Mexican Print.
Austin: University of Texas Press.

Headrick, Annabeth. 2007.
The Teotihuacan Complex: The Sociopolotical Structure of an Ancient Mesoamerican City. Austin: University of Texas Press.

 

 

Henck, Nick. 2007.
Subcomandante Marcos: The Man and the Mask.
Durham: Duke University Press.

Isaac, Gwyneira. 2007.
Mediating Knowledge: Origins of a Zuni Tribal Museum.
Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

Kelly, Patty. 2008.
Lydia's Open Door: Inside Mexico's Most Modern Brothel.
Berkely: University of California Press.

Lederman, Daniel and William F. Maloney. 2007.
Natural Resources: Neither Curse nor Destiny.
Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Levy, Jacques E. 2007.
Cesar Chavez: Autobiography of La Causa.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

 

Martin, Kathleen Rock. Discarded Pages: Araceli Cab Cumí, Maya Poet and Politician. 2007. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press

Mato, Daniel, ed. 2005. Políticas de economía, ambiente y sociedad en tiempos de globalización. Caracas: Universidad Central de Venezuela.

 

Mato, Daniel, ed. 2004.
Políticas de ciudadanía y sociedad civil.
Caracas: Universidad Central de Venezuela

 

Matsuoka, Hideaki. 2007.
Japanese Prayer Below the Equator: How Brazilians Believe in the Church of World Messianity.
New York: Lexington Books.

Norget, Kristin. 2006.
Days of Death, Days of Life: Ritual in the Popular Culture of Oaxaca.
New York: Columbia University Press.

Ramirez, Susan Elizabeth. 2005.
To Feed and Be Fed: The Cosmological Bases of Authority and Identity in the Andes.
Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Shukla, Sandhya and Heidi Tinsman, eds. 2007.
Imagining Our Americas: Toward a Transnational Frame.
Durham: Duke University Press

Sandoval, Mercedes Cros. 2007.
Worldview, the Orichas, and Santería.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Taggart, James M. 2007.
Remembering Victoria: A Tragic Nahuat Love Story
Austin: University of Texas Press.
Tate, Winifred. 2007.
Counting the Dead: The Culture and Politics of Human Rights Activism in Colombia.
Berkely: University of California Press.

Films/Videos Available for Review

as of September 25, 2007

Gutierrez, German. 2005. Who Shot My Brother? Oley, PA: Bullfrog Films
Barcelos Neto, Aristóteles. 2005.
Terremoto y el Señor. São Paulo: FAPESP.
Barcelos Neto, Aristóteles. 2006.
Cruces Vivas, Cruces Protectoras. São Paulo: Laboratório de Imagem e Som em Antropologia/USP.

Sorrentino, Bruno. 2005. For Richer, For Poorer. Oley, PA: Bullfrog Films
Dworkin, Mark and Melissa Young. 2008.
Argentina: Turning Around.
Oley, PA: Bullfrog Films.