Weekly Book List, December 5, 2011

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AMERICAN STUDIES

Unspeakable Violence: Remapping U.S. and Mexican National Imaginaries by Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernandez (Duke University Press; 374 pages; $94.95 hardcover, $25.95 paperback). Explores aspects of race and gender in the violence of the U.S.-Mexican borderlands from the mid-19th to the early 20th centuries; topics include the attempted genocide of the Yaqui Indians.

ANTHROPOLOGY

A Common Humanity: Ritual, Religion, and