This new three-volume Encyclopedia features over 4000 entries on more than 40 regions in Latin America and the Caribbean from 1920 to the present day. Culture is broadly defined to include food, sports, religion, television, transportation, architecture, dance, film, literature, music, and art. The team of contributors includes many who are based in Latin America, including key figures in Latin American Studies. Entries include: * Miguel Angel Asturios * bananas * bossa nova * Candomble * carnival * cholera * cockfighting * debt crisis * * Carlos Fuentes * Higher Education * hurricanes * Indigenismo * Frida Kahlo * lambada * Liberation Theology * La Nacion * poster art * Quechua * radio * rainforest * Diego Rivera * salsa * sancocho * Fernando Solanos * syncretism * tango * Teatro Abierto * television * urbanization * Cesar Vallejo * video art * and much more. Includes extensive cross-referencing, thematic and regional contents lists, suggestions for further reading, and a comprehensiveindex.