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Publications
ReVista
ReVista, Harvard Review of Latin America
focused on three topics over the academic
year. The full-color fall issue, Venezuela:
the Chávez Effect, met unprecedented
demand from all over the world. The issue
looked at Venezuela’s political situation
from a variety of perspectives and at the
impact of politics on art and culture. The
winter issue, The Sixties: Glimpses from Latin
America and Beyond, examined the Peace
Corps experience, the Cuban Revolution,
and cultural and political trends from the
period. The spring issue, The Sky Above, the
Earth Below; Exploring the Universe, looked
at such diverse subjects as astronomy and
the impact of Darwin on Latin America.
Each issue featured a section on “Making
a Difference,” highlighting how Harvard is
making a difference in Latin America.
ReVista also began a new online presence,
offering readers the opportunity to comment
on each article. In addition, the magazine
is offering more Spanish and Portuguese
versions of articles on the web. To visit
ReVista online, please visit drclas.harvard.
edu/publications/revista.
book series
The David Rockefeller Series on Latin
American Studies, distributed by Harvard
University Press, published Manifest
Destinies and Indigenous Peoples, edited by
David Maybury-Lewis, Theodore Macdonald
and Biorn Maybury-Lewis. The renowned
Harvard anthropologist and human
rights advocate David Maybury-Lewis,
who recently passed away, saw the Latin
American frontiers as relatively unknown
physical spaces as well as unexplored
academic “territory.” He invited eight
specialists to explore public narratives of the
expansion of Argentina, Brazil, Chile and the
western regions of Canada and the United
States during the late nineteenth century.
In conjunction with the Americas Society,
DRCLAS published Beginning with a
Bang! From Confrontation to Intimacy: An
Exhibition of Argentine Contemporary Artists
1960–2007, edited by independent curator
Victoria Noorthoorn, with an introduction
by Susan Segal, President and CEO of
the Americas Society. The cooperative
publishing agreement between DRCLAS
and the Inter-American Development Bank
(IDB), the Latin American Development
Series, produced two new titles in the
past year: Unclogging the Arteries: the
Impact of Transport Costs on Latin American
and Caribbean Trade and Beyond Facts:
Understanding Quality of Life.
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