Scarcity and Latin America Abundance

Alvarez, Sonia E., Evelina Dagnino, and Arturo Escobar, eds. Cultures of Politics/Politics of Cultures: Re-Visioning Latin American Social Movements. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1998. A compilation of work on modern Latin American radicalism.

Arguedas, José María. Yawar Fiesta. Translated by Frances Horning Barraclough. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1985. A characteristic anthropological novel by Arguedas. Originally published in 1958.

Bulnes, Francisco. El porvenir de las naciones Hispano-Americanas ante las conquistas recientes de Europa y los Estados Unidos. Mexico City: Imprenta de Mariano Nava, 1899. A representative work of the cientifícos.

Cardoso, Fernando Henrique, and Enzo Faletto. Dependency and Development in Latin America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979. A nuanced statement of dependency theory.

De Soto, Hernando. The Other Path: The Invisible Revolution in the Third World. Translated by June Abbott. New York: Harper and Row, 1989. An important work of neoliberalism.

Frank, Andre Gunder. Latin America: Underdevelopment or Revolution: Essays on the Development of Underdevelopment and the Immediate Enemy. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1969. An emphatic statement of dependency theory.

Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Translated by Myra Bergman Ramos. New York: Herder and Herder, 1970. The classic statement of conscientization.

Gossen, Gary H., and Miguel León Portilla, eds. South and Meso-American Native Spirituality: From the Cult of the Feathered Serpent to the Theology of Liberation. New York: Crossroad, 1993. A useful compilation of pre-and post-Columbian indigenous thought.

Gutiérrez, Gustavo. The Power of the Poor in History: Selected Writings. Translated by Robert R. Barr. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1983. A valuable source for liberation theology.

Mariátegui, José Carlos. Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality. Translated by Marjory Urguidi. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1971. The key work by this radical Andean critic.

Pagden, Anthony. The Fall of Natural Man: The American Indian and the Origins of Comparative Ethnology. Cambridge, U.K., and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Covers the Sepúlveda–Las Casas debates, among other topics.

Pilcher, Jeffrey M. Que vivan los tamales! Food and the Making of Modern Mexican Identity. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998. Discusses the tortilla debate in Mexico and offers a fascinating culinary angle on that nation's history.