Upcoming Issue
Vol. 31, No. 61, 2006
CONTENTS / SOMMAIRE
| Editor’s Foreword / Avant-propos du directeur | | 5 |
Articles
| Changes in Relations Between the State and
Independent Unions? Mexico Under the Fox Presidency | JEAN FRANÇOIS MAYER | 13 |
| Las izquierdas al poder: renovación de las elites
políticas en Brasil y Uruguay | MIGUEL SERNA | 41 |
| Health as Culture and Nationalism in Cuba | CANDACE JOHNSON | 63 |
| Small-Scale Gold Mining and Environmental Policy
Challenges in Guyana: Protection or
Pollution | LOMARSH ROOPNARINE | 117 |
| Expérience migratoire et identité dans la mort
transnationale: les défunts portoricains rapatriés
de New York | MARC A. BERTHOD | 155 |
| ¿Desaparición o permanencia de los campesinos
ocupantes en el noroeste argentino? | RAÚL PAZ | 183 |
| El testimonio, modelo para re-armar la subjetividad:
el caso de Tejas Verdes | NORA STREJILEVICH | 183 |
Reviews / Recensions
| George Yúdice, The Expediency of Culture: Uses of
Culture in the Global Era | DANIEL MATO | 231 |
| Diana Taylor and Roselyn Costantino, editors, Holy Terrors:
Latin American Women Perform | RITA DE GRANDIS | 234 |
| Lidia Santos, Kitsch tropical: Los medios en la literatura y
el arte en América Latina | HUGO DE MARINIS | 236 |
| Deborah Pacini Hernández, Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste,
and Eric Zolov, editors, Rockin’ Las Américas: The
Global Politics of Rock in Latin/o America | RICHARD YOUNG | 239 |
| Nancy P. Appelbaum, Anne S. Macpherson, and Karin
Alejandra Rosemblatt, editors, Race and Nation in
Modern Latin America | DEREK WILLIAMS | 241 |
| Jacky Picard et al., Le Brésil de Lula : Les défi s d’un socialisme
démocratique à la périphérie du capitalisme | CHARMAIN LEVY | 243 |
| John D. French, Drowning in Laws: Labor Law and the
Brazilian Political Culture | ADALBERTO CARDOSO | 245 |
| François Blancpain, La condition des paysans haïtiens:
Du Code noir aux Codes ruraux | FRANKLIN MIDY | 248 |
| Richard Lee Furits, Foundations of Despotism:
Peasants, the Trujillo Regime, and Modernity in
Dominican History | ANTHONY P. MAINGOT | 250 |
| Ignacio López-Calvo, “God and Trujillo”: Literary and
Cultural Representations of the Dominican Dictator
Valentina Peguero, The Militarization of Culture in the
Dominican Republic, from the Captains General to
General Trujillo | FERNANDO VALERIO-HOLGUÍN | 252 |
| Diana Paton, No Bond but the Law: Punishment, Race,
and Gender in Jamaican State Formation,
1780–1870 | DAWN BLISSETT | 254 |
| David H. Brown, Santería Enthroned: Art, Ritual, and
Innovation in an Afro-Cuban Religion | KEITH E. MCNEAL | 257 |
| Margarite Fernández Olmos and Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert,
editors, Healing Cultures: Art and Religion as Curative
Practices in the Caribbean and Its Diaspora | ANDREA DAVIS | 261 |
| Andrew Wilson, editor, The Chinese in the Caribbean | DWAINE PLAZA | 263 |
| Marie-France Labrecque, Être maya et travailler dans une
maquiladora: État, identité, genre et génération au
Yucatán, Mexique | PIERRE BEAUCAGE | 266 |
| Peter Wogan, Magical Writing in Salasaca: Literacy
and Power in Highland Ecuador | MICHELLE WIBBELSMAN | 268 |
| Brad R. Huber and Alan R. Sandstrom, editors,
Mesoamerican Healers | STEVEN PALMER | 271 |
| Notes on the Contributors / Nos Auteurs | | 273 |
| Manuscript Preparation / Préparation des manuscrits | | 275 |
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EDITOR’S FOREWORD /
AVANT-PROPOS DU DIRECTEUR
VICTOR ARMONY
Editor / Directeur, CJLACS / RCELAC
This year we celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the Canadian
Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. The next issue
will include a piece taking stock of the Journal’s fi rst three decades
of existence as a signifi cant scholarly resource for Latin Americanists
and Caribbeanists in Canada and abroad. Anniversaries are useful in
that they bring us to ponder on past accomplishments and current challenges.
I truly believe that we can look back with pride. Like many
academic publications, we have had our share of diffi culties over the
years. However, the bottom line is that our Journal has established
itself as a highly respected reference in our fi eld. This is refl ected in,
among other things, a steady increase in the quantity and quality of
submissions received from Canada, the United States, Latin America,
and Europe. However, we cannot afford to be complacent. We face
important challenges, such as the move into electronic publication
and the dramatic changes on funding rules now being considered by
the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, which could
affect negatively our Journal. These concerns have already been addressed
by the CALACS Board, and several options are currently
under discussion. In spite of these challenges, we can and should be
optimistic about our future prospects. The community of specialists
on the Caribbean and Latin America in Canada is growing and becoming
better interconnected. Young scholars are particularly active in CALACS conferences, universities are hiring new resources, and
more linkages are being established across the country, sometimes
even bridging the proverbial linguistic divide. Our Journal’s vitality
is a testament to that collective thrust.
The issue you have in your hands refl ects not only the top quality,
but also the amazing diversity that has come to set our Journal apart.
Our readers will fi nd articles in English, Spanish, and French, written
by scholars from Canada, the United States, Argentina, and Uruguay.
They deal with Mexico’s labour unions, political parties in Brazil
and Uruguay, public health in Cuba, environment policy in Guyana,
cultural identity in Puerto Rico, the peasant population in Argentina,
and testimonial literature in Chile. Also published in this issue are 17
book reviews in three different languages. Let me point out that this
diversity is not driven by “political correctness” but by the genuine
expression of the variety of interests and perspectives that converge
in the fi eld of Latin American and Caribbean studies.
The picture on the cover shows a fragment of one of Sergio Otero
Miranda’s ofrendas (altars to the dead). Otero Miranda’s work
with calacas (handmade skeleton fi gurines) builds on a fascinating
Mexican tradition. Religious and mythical symbols, everyday effects,
and personal mementos are combined in a complex visual narrative.
Emotion, humour, sorrow, and fright are part of the mix. The artist
was recently in Canada to show his calacas and conduct workshops
at the Canadian Museum of Civilization.
