A companion to Latin American anthropology

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    • Poole, Deborah

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A companion to Latin American anthropology

edited by Deborah Poole

(Blackwell companions to anthropology, 6)

Blackwell Publishing, 2008

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

Comprised of 24 newly commissioned chapters, this defining reference volume on Latin America introduces English-language readers to the debates, traditions, and sensibilities that have shaped the study of this diverse region. Contributors include some of the most prominent figures in Latin American and Latin Americanist anthropology Offers previously unpublished work from Latin America scholars that has been translated into English explicitly for this volume Includes overviews of national anthropologies in Mexico, Cuba, Peru, Argentina, Ecuador, Bolivia, Colombia, and Brazil, and is also topically focused on new research Draws on original ethnographic and archival research Highlights national and regional debates Provides a vivid sense of how anthropologists often combine intellectual and political work to address the pressing social and cultural issues of Latin America

目次

Notes on Contributors vii Acknowledgments xiv Introduction 1 Deborah Poole Part I: Locations 9 1 Argentina: Contagious Marginalities 11 Claudia Briones and Rosana Guber 2 Bolivia: Bridges and Chasms 32 Rossana Barragan 3 Brazil: Otherness in Context 56 Mariza Peirano 4 Colombia: Citizens and Anthropologists 72 Myriam Jimeno 5 Ecuador: Militants, Priests, Technocrats, and Scholars 90 Carmen Martinez Novo 6 Guatemala: Essentialisms and Cultural Politics 109 Brigittine M. French 7 Mexico: Anthropology and the Nation-State 128 Salomon Nahmad Sitton 8 Peru: From Otherness to a Shared Diversity 150 Carlos Ivan Degregori and Pablo Sandoval Part II: Debates 175 9 Race in Latin America 177 Peter Wade 10 Language States 193 Penelope Harvey 11 Legalities and Illegalities 214 Mark Goodale 12 Borders, Sovereignty, and Racialization 230 Ana M. Alonso 13 Writing the Aftermath: Anthropology and "Post-Conflict" 254 Isaias Rojas Perez 14 Alterities: Kinship and Gender 276 Olivia Harris 15 Vinculaciones: Pharmaceutical Politics and Science 303 Cori Hayden 16 Agrarian Reform and Peasant Studies: The Peruvian Case 325 Linda J. Seligmann 17 Statistics and Anthropology: The Mexican Case 352 Casey Walsh Part III: Positions 373 18 Indigenous Anthropologies beyond Barbados 375 Stefano Varese, Guillermo Delgado, and Rodolfo L. Meyer 19 Afro-Latin American Peoples 399 Jaime Arocha and Adriana Maya 20 Reconceptualizing Latin America 426 Lynn Stephen 21 Places and Academic Disputes: The Argentine Gran Chaco 447 Gaston Gordillo 22 Disengaging Anthropology 466 Alcida Rita Ramos 23 On the Frontlines: Forensic Anthropology 485 Victoria Sanford 24 Collaborative Anthropologies in Transition 502 Charles R. Hale Index 519

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