Latin American Studies: Culture

From Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology
After his doctoral research in Muquiyauyo, Peru, Richard Adams chose to work in applied anthropology in Latin America.

From Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003
A dominant figure in Andean studies, professor and rector of the Universidad Mayor de San Marcos, founder (1975) and editor of Revista de crítica literaria latinoamericana, Cornejo Polar also wrote one of the earliest (1973) and best studies of José María Arguedas.

From The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Latino Literature
After serving as a professor in various European universities, Dorfman settled into a career as professor of Spanish American literature at the University of Maryland.

From Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology
The overriding concern of Escobar’s work has been the examination of dominant social orders with an eye to their transformation.

From Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003
Molloy is one of the most insightful contemporary Latin American literary critics, and a creative writer of remarkable originality.

From Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology
June Nash’s four decades of highly original ethnographic research has focused on community, culture, capitalism, and globalisation across the political economies of the Americas.

From The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Latino Literature
Pérez-Firmat's basic condition—born in Cuba and transplanted to American soil in his youth—has made him a member of the new “Cuban American” generation and has led to his theories about the dual perspective held by what he terms a “transitional” generation.

From Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003
Rama was one of the most vital contemporary cultural thinkers, whose untimely death in a plane crash (along with his wife Marta Traba and the writers Jorge Ibargüengoitia and Manuel Scorza) left a vacuum in Latin American thought.

From Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Anthropologist, communist, politician, public servant, institution-builder, fiction writer, and movie maker, Darcy Ribeiro was a multi-faceted, influential, and prolific author.

Spanish film director and screenwriter; films include All About My Mother (Todo Sobre Mi Madre, 2003). MORE

From The Crystal Reference Encyclopedia
Actor, born in Lima, Perú, the son of the actress Carola Fernán-Gómez. He was born in Lima while his mother was on tour, and registered as an Argentinian national until granted Spanish citizenship in the late 1970s.

From Chambers Film Factfinder
She became a bestselling recording artist and the highest paid Latina actress in the world, noted as much for her diva reputation, shapely derrière and range of perfumes as for her performances.

From Chambers Biographical Dictionary
Her career took off internationally in the 1980s through her collaboration with Pedro Almodóvar, winning the Best Actress Award at the European Film Awards in 1988 for her performance in his Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
Of Mexican-Indian and Mexican-Irish parentage, he was tall, swarthy, and powerfully built, and early in his career played dozens of Native American and outlaw roles. Thereafter, he was cast as a rugged ethnic or exotic of varying backgrounds.

From Encyclopedia of Mexico: History, Society & Culture
One of the greatest idols of Spanish-language cinema, Mario Moreno Reyes, better known as Cantinflas, gained international recognition through his rendering of a purely local character, the peladito.

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia
Spanish film director and screenwriter. He was a key figure in the New Spanish Cinema movement of the 1960s.

From Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology
These studies had their origins in the student activism, identity politics, and intellectual foment of the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Like the other nationalist movements of the era, it emerged as a field of scholarly inquiry that placed special emphasis on linking academic research with the politics of social justice.

From The Dictionary of Human Geography
In conventional usage, the term refers to those countries of the American continent that share a history of Spanish, Portuguese and French colonialism. However, the term also is widely used to denote all countries south of the USA (Lewis and Wigen, 1997, p. 182).

From Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology
Social movements of the civil rights era (1954-68) called attention to the plight of Latinos in the United States, particularly that of Chicanos and Puerto Ricans, the largest Latino subgroups, both of which were incorporated into the United States through conquest.

Colombian novelist, short-story writer, and journalist, born in Aracataca. MORE

Argentine poet, critic, and short-story writer, b. Buenos Aires. MORE

Chilean poet, diplomat, and Communist leader. MORE

Poet, born in Mexico City, Mexico. MORE

Mexican artist. Self-taught after a crippling accident at the age of 15 which left her in agonizing pain for life. MORE

Mexican mural painter, studied as a youth with Posada and other Mexican painters; husband of Frida Kahlo. MORE

Member of the Romance group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. MORE

Member of the Romance group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. MORE

Among the more important Romance languages are Catalan, French, Italian, Portuguese, Occitan, Rhaeto-Romanic, Romanian, and Spanish. The spread of some Romance languages to other parts of the world, especially the Western Hemisphere, accompanied the colonizing and empire-building of the mother countries of these languages, notably Spain, Portugal, and France. MORE

Member of the Romance group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. MORE