A Companion to Latin American Anthropology (Blackwell Companions to Anthropology)

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include some of the most prominent figures in Latin American and Latin Americanist anthropology Offers previously unpublished work from Latin America scholars that has been translated into English explicitly for this volume Includes overviews of national anthropologies in Mexico,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 Argentina : Contagious Marginalities / Claudia Briones & Rosana Guber -- Bolivia : Bridges And Chasms / Rossana Barragán -- Brazil : Otherness In Context / Mariza Peirano -- Colombia : Citizens And Anthropologists / Myriam Jimeno -- Ecuador : Militants, Priests, Technocrats, And Scholars / Carmen Martínez Novo -- Guatemala : Essentialisms And Cultural Politics / Brigittine M. French -- Mexico : Anthropology And The Nation-state / Salomón Náhmad Sitton -- Peru : From Otherness To A Sacred Diversity / Carlos Ivan Degregori And Pablo Sandoval -- Race In Latin America / Peter Wade -- Language States / Penelope Harvey -- Legalities And Illegalities / Mark Goodale -- Borders, Sovereignty, And Racialization / Ana M. Alonso -- Writing The Aftermath : Anthropology And Post-conflict / Isaias Rojas-perez -- Alterities : Kinship And Gender / Olivia Harris -- Vinculaciones : Pharmaceutical Politics And Science / Cori Hayden -- Agrarian Reform And Peasant Studies : The Peruvian Case / Linda J. Seligmann -- Statistics And Anthropology : The Mexican Case / Casey Walsh -- Indigenous Anthropologies Beyond Barbados / Stefano Varese, Guillermo Delgado & Rodolfo L. Meyer -- Afro-latin American Peoples / Jaime Arocha & Adriana Maya -- Reconceptualizing Latin America / Lynn Stephen -- Places And Academic Disputes : The Argentine Gran Chaco / Gastón Gordillo -- Disengaging Anthropology / Alcida Rita Ramos -- On The Frontlines : Forensic Anthropology / Victoria Sanford -- Collaborative Anthropologies In Transition / Charles R. Hale. Edited By Deborah Poole. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.