Words Made Flesh is a comparative study of grammars, dictionaries, translations, and hymns produced in Indigenous languages in colonial Brazil, Peru, and Mexico. Examining keywords related to the body, the book demonstrates the significant role corporeality played in evangelization campaigns and the development of Indigenous Christianity.

Freedom’s Horizon is a transnational history of black abolitionism in Brazil. In the last country to abolish slavery in the Western Hemisphere, enslaved and free Africans and their descendants crafted their visions of liberation by thinking comparatively about the uneven spread of abolition across the Atlantic world.

Underground Politics follows the everyday sociopolitical life of small-scale gold miners in the Chocó rainforests of Colombia, revealing how mining communities navigate state power in a context of criminalization and political neglect.

Three Ways to Fail is the story of how over three decades, one anthropologist came to understand failure—both his own and those of the discipline—through Chilean Mapuche narratives of the witch, the clown, and the usurper, and their insatiable appetites for destruction, greed, and property.

Enrique Peñalosa Londoño’s book describes how cities can become powerful means to achieve equality and inclusion. It provides democratic and practical criteria for conceiving and constructing different and better cities, describes the obstacles that are confronted when doing so, and identifies ways to overcome them.

Mneesha Gellman examines how Indigenous high school students resist assimilation and assert their identities through access to Indigenous language classes in public schools. She contends that this access to Indigenous language instruction in secondary schooling provides them tools and strategies for civic, social, and political participation.