week 1: Raymond Williams, “Culture is Ordinary”; Marcel Camus (dir.), Black Orpheus (via UBC Library; alternatively, on YouTube, though the YouTube version is missing the very end), please watch the first eleven minutes minimum
week 2: Jack Child, “The Politics and Semiotics of the Smallest Icons of Popular Culture: Latin American Postage Stamps”; Andrea Noble, “The Politics of Emotion in the Mexican Revolution: The Tears of Pancho Villa”
week 3: Miguel Angel Asturias, “The Legend of the Silent Bell” (“Leyenda de la campana difunta”); José María Arguedas, “The Pongo’s Dream” (“El sueño del pongo”)
week 4: Rosario Castellanos, “Cooking Lesson”; Marisa Brandt, “Zapatista Corn: A Case Study in Biocultural Innovation”
week 5: Alison Spedding, “The Cultural Life of Coca”; “The Coca War: Testimony of Chapare Peasants”; Shaylih Muehlmann, “A Narco without a Corrido Doesn’t Exist”
week 8: Eduardo González Viaña, “Sarita Colonia Comes Flying”; Roger Canals, “The Mirror Effect: Seeing and Being Seen in the Cult of María Lionza (Venezuela)”
week 9: Margarita de Orellana (ed.), “Lucha libre: Stories with no Time Limit”; Mariam Jobrani (dir.), The Fighting Cholitas
week 10: Eduardo Galeano, Soccer in Sun and Shadow (selection); Sérgio Sant’Anna, “In the Mouth of the Tunnel”
week 11: Mika Kaurismäki, Moro no Brasil (free subscription required); Shane Greene, “Peruvian Punk as a Global Means of Underground Production”
week 12: Isabella Cosse, “Mafalda: Middle Class, Everyday Life, and Politics in Argentina, 1964–1973”; Mafalda comic strips (four pages); Héctor Germán Oesterheld and Francisco Solano López, The Eternaut (selection)
week 13: Nick Morgan, Sex, Soap, and Society: Telenovela Noir in Álvaro Uribe’s Colombia”; Justin Grandinetti & Marie Elizabeth Eszenyi, “La revolución digital: Mobile Media Use in Contemporary Cuba”
