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include some of the most prominent figures in Latin American and Latin Americanist anthropology* Offers previously unpublished work from Latin America scholars that has been translated into English explicitly for this volume* Includes overviews of national anthropologies in Mexico,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.