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Informationen zum Autor Deborah Poole is Professor of Anthropology in Latin American Studies at the Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Peru: Time of Fear (with Gerardo Renique, 1992), Unruly Order: Violence, Power, and Regional Identity in the High Provinces of Peru (1994), Vision, Race, and Modernity: A Visual Economy of the Andean Image World (1997), and Anthropology in the Margins of the State (coedited with Veena Das, 2004), as well as over 30 articles. Klappentext 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include some of the most prominent figures in Latin American and Latin Americanist anthropology* Offers previously unpublished work from Latin America scholars that has been translated into English explicitly for this volume* Includes overviews of national anthropologies in Mexico,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 AmericaComprised 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include some of the most prominent figures in Latin American and Latin Americanist anthropology* Offers previously unpublished work from Latin America scholars that has been translated into English explicitly for this volume* Includes overviews of national anthropologies in Mexico,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 Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on Contributors viiAcknowledgments xivIntroduction 1Deborah PoolePart I: Locations 91 Argentina: Contagious Marginalities 11Claudia Briones and Rosana Guber2 Bolivia: Bridges and Chasms 32Rossana Barragán3 Brazil: Otherness in Context 56Mariza Peirano4 Colombia: Citizens and Anthropologists 72Myriam Jimeno5 Ecuador: Militants, Priests, Technocrats, and Scholars 90Carmen Martínez Novo6 Guatemala: Essentialisms and Cultural Politics 109Brigittine M. French7 Mexico: Anthropology and the Nation-State 128Salomón Nahmad Sittón8 Peru: From Otherness to a Shared Diversity 150Carlos Iván Degregori and Pablo SandovalPart II: Debates 1759 Race in Latin America 177Peter Wade10 Language States 193Penelope Harvey11 Legalities and Illegalities 214Mark Goodale12 Borders, Sovereignty, and Racialization 230Ana M. Alonso13 Writing the Aftermath: Anthropology and "Post-Conflict" 254Isaias Rojas Pérez14 Alterities: Kinship and Gender 276Olivia Harris15 Vinculaciones: Pharmaceutical Politics and Science 303Cori Hayden16 Agrarian Reform and Peasant Studies: The Peruvian Case 325Linda J. Seligmann17 Statistics and Anthropology: The Mexican Case 352Casey WalshPart III: Positions 37318 Indigenous Anthropologies beyond Barbados 375Stefano Varese, Guillermo Delgado, and Rodolfo L. Meyer19 Afro-Latin American Peoples 399Jaime Arocha and Adriana Maya20 Reconceptualizing Latin America 426Lynn Stephen21 Places and Academic Disputes: The Argentine Gran Chaco 447Gastón Gordillo22 Disengaging Anthropology 466Alcida Rita Ramos23 On the Frontlines: Forensic Anthropology 4...
