El Niño, Catastrophism and Culture Change in America
y now, you’ve read essays in this ReVista that mostly span from colonial times to the recent death of Pinochet. There’s also an occasional mention of indigenous belief systems…
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Author: June Carolyn Erlick
Editor’s Letter: Global Transformation of Latin American Culture
We were little black cats with white whiskers and long tails. One musical number from my one and only dance performance—in the fifth grade—has always stuck in my head. It was called “Hernando’s Hideaway,” a rhythm I was told was a tango from a faraway place called Argentina. The beat imprinted on my imagination, as did the lyrics: “I know a dark secluded place/a place where no one knows your face/a glass of wine a fast …
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The Herpetology of Cuba
Cuba is often on our minds for geopolitical reasons, but the island nation has long fascinated students of flora and fauna…
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Digitalizing Nature
Art historians, biologists, anthropologists, historians of science, Latin Americanists and fish experts aren’t known for frequent intersections in their academic life…
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New Executive Director
Biorn Maybury-Lewis made his first trip to Latin America when he was only an infant. Brazilian Air Force pilots left him and his anthropologist parents in the middle of the central highlands of…
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