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Latin American Studies~2012 - University of Pittsburgh Press

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Media, Sound, and<br />

Culture in <strong>Latin</strong><br />

America and the<br />

Caribbean<br />

Edited by ALEJANDRA BRONFMAN<br />

AND ANDREW GRANT WOOD<br />

An original analysis <strong>of</strong> the role <strong>of</strong><br />

sound in <strong>Latin</strong> <strong>American</strong> and<br />

Caribbean societies, from the late<br />

nineteenth century to the present.<br />

The contributors examine the<br />

importance <strong>of</strong> sound in the purveyance<br />

<strong>of</strong> power, gender roles,<br />

race, community, religion, and populism.<br />

They also demonstrate how<br />

sound is essential to the formation<br />

<strong>of</strong> citizenship and nationalism.<br />

2012 • 160 pp.<br />

ISBN 978-0-8229-6187-1 • Paper $24.95<br />

ITEM NO. 504 • SALE PRICE $19.96<br />

PITT LATIN AMERICAN SERIES<br />

Transition Cinema<br />

Political Filmmaking and the<br />

Argentine Left since 1968<br />

JESSICA STITES MOR<br />

Stites Mor documents the critical<br />

role filmmakers, the film industry,<br />

and state regulators played in<br />

Argentina’s volatile transition to<br />

democracy. She shows how, during<br />

different regimes, the state<br />

moved to either inhibit or facilitate<br />

film production and its content,<br />

distribution, and exhibition. She<br />

also reveals the strategies the film<br />

industry employed to comply with,<br />

or circumvent these regulations.<br />

2012 • 304 pp.<br />

978-0-8229-6191-8 • Paper $24.95<br />

ITEM NO. 505 SALE PRICE $19.96<br />

ILLUMINATIONS: CULTURAL<br />

FORMATIONS OF THE AMERICAS<br />

Bound Lives<br />

Africans, Indians, and the<br />

Making <strong>of</strong> Race in Colonial Peru<br />

RACHEL SARAH O’TOOLE<br />

Bound Lives chronicles the lived<br />

experience <strong>of</strong> race relations in<br />

northern coastal Peru during the<br />

colonial era. O’Toole examines<br />

how Andeans and Africans<br />

negotiated and employed casta,<br />

and in doing so, constructed<br />

these racial categories.<br />

2012 • 280 pp.<br />

978-0-8229-6193-2 • Paper $25.95<br />

ITEM NO. 507 SALE PRICE $20.76<br />

PITT LATIN AMERICAN SERIES<br />

Salt and the<br />

Colombian State<br />

Local Society and Regional<br />

Monopoly in Boyacá, 1821-1900<br />

JOSHUA M. ROSENTHAL<br />

In republican Colombia, salt<br />

became an important source <strong>of</strong><br />

revenue to the state, which levied<br />

taxes on it and in some cases<br />

controlled and pr<strong>of</strong>ited from its<br />

production. Focusing his study on<br />

the city <strong>of</strong> la Salina, Rosenthal<br />

<strong>of</strong>fers a glimpse into the workings<br />

<strong>of</strong> the early Colombian state, its<br />

institutions, and their interactions<br />

with local citizens during this<br />

formative period.<br />

2012 • 240 pp.<br />

978-0-8229-6180-2 • Paper $27.95<br />

ITEM NO. 506 • SALE PRICE $22.36<br />

PITT LATIN AMERICAN SERIES<br />

UNIVERSIT Y OF PIT TSBURGH PRESS • <strong>Latin</strong> <strong>American</strong> Studies 3

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