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La Castañeda Insane Asylum: Narratives of Pain in Modern Mexico
(2020-09) Rivera Garza, Cristina; University of Oklahoma Press; Kanost, Laura
La Castañeda Insane Asylum is the first inside view of the workings of La Castañeda General Insane Asylum—a public mental health institution founded in Mexico City in 1910 only months before the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution. It links life within the asylum’s walls to the radical transformations brought about as Mexico entered the Revolution’s armed phase and then endured under succeeding modernizing regimes.
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The Search for the First Americans: Science, Power, Politics
(2021) Davis Jr., Robert V.; University of Oklahoma Press
Who were the First Americans? Where did they come from? When did they get here? Are they the ancestors of modern Native Americans? These questions might seem straightforward, but scientists in competing fields have failed to convince one another with their theories and evidence, much less Native American peoples. The practice of science in its search for the First Americans is a flawed endeavor, Robert V. Davis tells us. His book is an effort to explain why.