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Maps’ agency and mountains’ multiplicity: Conflicts triggered by state maps involving pilgrims and desired mining futures in the Andes The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Guillermo Salas Carreño, José Enrique Solano-del-Castillo
This article analyzes how the agency of state maps triggered conflicts between rural communities, pilgrims, and state institutions, in which some mountains emerged as multiple entities within and beyond the nature-culture divide. The Quyllurit'i shrine is the focus of an important pilgrimage in the Andes. The Peruvian state established the shrine´s Protected Area in 2010 but had been granting mining
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Decolonizing education through Ayuuk indigenous praxis: Three visions from Oaxaca, Mexico The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Matthew J. Lebrato
This article examines how educators and students at the Instituto Superior Intercultural Ayuuk (ISIA), an intercultural university in Oaxaca, Mexico, are decolonizing education. They do so by drawing on forms of praxis that are salient in Ayuuk indigenous communities, across Oaxaca, and in Latin America. While scholars have demonstrated how indigenous “cosmopolitics” exceeds western norms, research
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“They study for six years. We study for generations”: Renegotiating birth, power, and interculturalidad in the Ecuadorian Amazon The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Alexandra J. Reichert
This article explores how kichwa midwives negotiate interculturality as both cultural knowledge-holders and clinical practitioners. Kichwa midwives in the Ecuadorian Amazon face a dynamic set of barriers in their position as healers, birth care givers, and indigenous activists, including intercultural government policies aimed to delegitimize them, consistent othering in relationship to biomedicine
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Cultures of power and politics: Two cases of the limits of anti-essentialism in the political anthropology of lowland South America The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2023-12-25 Christian Tym, Silvana Saturno
Post-structuralism's focus on hegemonic power, subjection, and political opportunity remains pre-eminent in political anthropology, but its appropriateness for the post-neoliberal conjuncture is up for question. While the arrival of neoliberal multiculturalism brought contingent identities and strategic deployment of culture-as-product into focus, questions remain about how and why some groups mobilize
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Yajé como política. Territorio, petróleo y pandemia en los siekopái de la Amazonía ecuatoriana The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Julián García-Labrador
This article shows the political adaptations of the yajé ritual in the Ecuadorian Amazon. It focuses on the siekopái's practices of resistance, negotiation, and self-affirmation around three contemporary issues: the recognition of their ancestral territory, the demand for reparations for environmental damage resulting from oil exploitation, and the management of care during the COVID-19 pandemic. We
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“The pandemic came to teach us how to eat”: COVID-19, mutual vulnerability, and native corn in Oaxaca The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Owen McNamara
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a period of inflection in the growth of native corn revivalism in Oaxaca, Mexico. New businesses opened selling food and drinks derived from native corn, events such as seed-swaps were inaugurated, and farmers who had previously grown hybrid corn began experimenting with native seeds. This revivalism was not merely commercial or gustatory, but entailed a re-evaluation
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Engendering “Illegality”: Blackness, citizenship, and Dominico-Haitian motherhood The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Jacqueline Lyon
In 2013,the Dominican Republic's highest court ruled to retroactively apply the elimination of jus soli citizenship, commonly known as birthright citizenship. The ruling impacted more than 200,000 Dominicans of Haitian descent and culminated a decades-long attack on territorially based citizenship in the country, which largely provided access to the children of Haitians, who make up more than 80% of
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Saint Martin de Porres “The Black Saint of the Afro-descendant community in Quito-Ecuador”: Between segregation, racism, and black resistance The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Rocío Vera Santos
In the neighbourhood Caminos a la Libertad, located in the north-western part of Quito, every November, a group of Afro-Ecuadorian women called the Community of Saint Martin & The Martinas pay tribute to Saint Martin de Porres “the Black saint of the Afro-descendant community.” This celebration is relevant in a context in which the Afro-Ecuadorian inhabitants of the neighbourhood suffer segregation
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Communities make communities: Comunidades nativas and gold mining among the Arakbut of Peruvian Amazonia The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Danny Pinedo
This article examines the role of organization into comunidades nativas (native communities) in the construction of a sense of community among Arakbut settlements of southeastern Peruvian Amazon. Based on ethnographic material, the article argues that communal activities furthered by the comunidad nativa increases social interaction among the settlements’ loosely connected and relatively dispersed
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La captura del viento: Energía eólica y la política de la renta en el Istmo de Tehuantepec, México The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Lourdes Alonso Serna
The article looks at the power relations between landholders and wind companies for the fixation and distribution of rents from wind energy in the Oaxacan Isthmus. It foregrounds the centrality of rent in the process of land grabbing as well as the political nature of rent. Drawing on landholders, who have received little attention in the conflicts over wind energy in the Isthmus, the paper addresses
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Ecotourism, infrastructures, and the drama of sovereignty on a border island The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Mara Dicenta, Ana Cecilia Gerrard
The Ruta 30 scenic road project in Argentine Tierra del Fuego has encountered significant resistance. In this article, we analyze a public hearing convened to assess the road's impacts as an event illuminating the daily dynamics of the region. In this borderland, narratives about sovereignty create a space of liminalities between pasts and futures, centers and peripheries, and living and the dead.
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Discerning networks: Distortions of human movement in Urabá, Colombia The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Jonathan Echeverri Zuluaga, Juan Thomas Ordóñez
Since the beginning of the 21st century, the Colombian region of Urabá, that borders Panama, has gained notoriety for the transit of people moving from Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean to North America. Using an ethnographic approach, this article examines how the accounts of local bureaucrats and other actors in the region frame these movements within the influence of “redes,” that is, networks, a
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Shamanic alliance in the touristic borderzone: Strategic hospitality at Surama Eco-Lodge in Guyana The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2023-09-27 James Andrew Whitaker
This article explores how villagers in Surama form alliances with outsiders through strategic hospitality within the touristic borderzone. Surama is a primarily Makushi village in Guyana. Tourism began during the 1990s and is now central to the village economy. Villagers' efforts to form relationships with certain visitors (particularly tourist leaders) as partners or yakos through hospitality reflect
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Between conservation and care: Ontological mixtures and juxtapositions in protected areas of Patagonia, Argentina The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Florencia Trentini
Based on the discussion of the declaration of the Lanín volcano as a Mapuche sacred natural site, this article rethinks the relationship between conservation and care from an ethnographic perspective, paying special attention to the relationship between the entities volcano and pijan mawiza. The exploration occurs within the framework of the intercultural proposal behind the co-management of the National
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Settling environmental citizenship: The presentation of self in conservation encounters The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Rocío M. Garcia, Mattias Borg Rasmussen
Far from a settled fact, environmental citizenship is always in the making. In this article, we analyze how the settlers of a protected area in Patagonia, Argentina, seek to legitimize their claims for natural resources and territory through strategic representations of themselves. The self-presentation molds not only their own political subjects, but also the public authority of the governing offices
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Cuidando la Patagonia Azul: Prácticas y estrategias de los pueblos originarios para curar las zonas marinas del sur de Chile The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Francisco Araos, Emilia Catalán, David Nuñez, Wladimir Riquelme, Valentina Cortinez, Débora de Fina, Jeremy Anbleyth-Evans
The Chilean Blue Patagonia is an essential space for marine life and a global center of the aquaculture industry. Over the last few years, several socio-environmental crises and conflicts have marked its development, highlighting the impacts of salmon farming on marine habitats and the livelihoods of local communities. To face this critical scenario, the indigenous peoples have created the Indigenous
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Frontier politics at the world's end The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Laura A. Ogden
The “world's end” or “el fin del mundo” is a very common representational figure used to describe the Fuegian Archipelago of South America. There are world's end hostels, coffee table books, and scientific expeditions, for example, and the phrase is widely used to describe the region's landscape and geography, Indigenous peoples, biota, and to signal precarity along several registers. In this article
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Multiple territorialities and the shifting conservation frontiers of Patagonia The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Mattias Borg Rasmussen, Marcos Mendoza
This conclusion to the In-Focus issue examines the conservation frontier in Patagonia. The conservation frontier is a historical process of spatial transformation connected to the mobilization of imaginaries that unlock existing regimes of resource control and promote new territorialization projects. The discussion highlights the creation of national park systems, the securing of the contested border
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Identifying Indigenous people: Visual appearance, filiation, and the experience of race in an “Indigenous” soccer championship and in everyday life in Otavalo, Ecuador The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Jérémie Voirol
While Indigenous/mestizo distinction in Latin Americanist anthropology has been mainly thought of as a cultural and/or socioeconomic demarcation, I argue that a conceptualization in terms of race offers some valuable insights. Starting from a soccer championship in the Otavalo region of Ecuador, I show how otavaleño Indigenous people's historical and current experiences of racialization have shaped
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Unsettling the return: Alternative curation and counterarchives The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Michelle Bigenho, Henry Stobart
In this article, we complicate the notion of sonic return in the context of postmillennial digital media technologies that have transformed how Indigenous people of the Bolivian Andes engage self-reflectively with their own music and dance practices. We take a capacious approach to the notion of the archive and argue that these media interactions, where people make and circulate their own audiovisual
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Archives, repatriation, agency, and changing circumstances: Reflections on shared soundscapes, collaborative activations, and repatriations in Latin America The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2023-07-30 Anthony Seeger
This article reflects on changes in the roles of audiovisual archives and the use of their collections by ethnomusicologists and Indigenous communities in Latin America as represented by the three articles in JLACA and Anthony Seeger's research and experience as director of archives and a record label. It describes the multiplication of archives in the twenty-first century and the concept of an archival
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Explosiveness: Territories of war and technoscientific practices in Colombia The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Diana Pardo Pedraza, Julia Morales Fontanilla
La Serranía de la Macarena has been a crucial scenario in the Colombian war. In this region, the army and FARC-EP guerrillas widely deployed aerial bombardment and improvised landmines to control the territory and contain their adversaries. This article is a collaborative ethnographic exploration of retazos—snippets of material-discursive practices we collected in our fieldworks: a demining project
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Regenerating Maya-Mam ways of governing, Indigenous emancipatory politics in the age of the extractive imperative The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Karine Vanthuyne, Marie Christine Dugal
The literature on the recent exponential growth of the extractive industry in Latin America and beyond has documented the various processes through which this sector has been empowered to expand its frontier, as well as the strategies that affected communities employ to resist it. However, in this article we instead focus on how some Maya-Mam residents of San Miguel Ixtahuacán understood and addressed
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The making of a conservation frontier: Nation-building, green productivism, and environmentalism in Patagonia The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Piergiorgio Di Giminiani, R. Elliott Oakley
In Patagonia, emerging concerns over environmental degradation in frontier territories suggest the constitution of a new type of frontier—the conservation frontier—in which nature is an object of consumption rather than extraction. Conservation frontiers are made through disputed forms of spatialization, in which wilderness can be a refuge, a source of capital accumulation, and a new space for political
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Ethnography in-sight: Amasonic politics1 The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Ingrid Kummels
The photo captured in 2018 during a one-week stopover on a trip between two Central Rainforest regions of Peru is the point of departure for a reflection on the use of sound by Asháninka, Nomatsiguenga, and other rainforest peoples for “Amasonic” politics. A wide span of genres ranging from autochthonous songs produced by ensembles playing percussions and pan-flutes to school bands performing military
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Editors’ introduction to Sound “Repatriation” in South America: The Politics of Collaborative Archive Reactivations The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2023-06-11 Ingrid Kummels, Gisela Cánepa
The introduction first gives insights into the state of the art of sound “repatriation” concerning the way historical and current recordings of verbal arts, music, and dance are brought back into circulation in originating communities. Sound restitution also seeks to level the epistemological divide resulting from conventional archiving. The groundbreaking, collaborative reactivations taking place
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Shared soundscapes: The (re)activation of an institutional and individual archive of Peruvian music and dance The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Rocío Barreto, Gisela Cánepa, Ingrid Kummels, Walther Maradiegue
“Shared soundscapes” is a key concept that allows us to identify the multiplicity of agencies involved in historical sound recordings and their reactivation today. We use the notion to compare two very different Peruvian case studies concerning Asháninka and Nomatsiguenga peoples of the Central Rainforest and Muchik, Quechua, and mestizo peoples in the Lambayeque region, along with their respective
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Problems with hierarchy and problems with tradition: The critique of male power in Afro-Brazilian capoeira The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Sergio González Varela
This article examines the critique of male power in Afro-Brazilian capoeira. Capoeira is a practice that combines elements of music, dance, fight, and art. In the last twenty years, it has experienced unprecedented global expansion. Therefore, people in Brazil and abroad have begun questioning the hierarchies of power and knowledge that traditionally have structured groups around the figure of a mestre (a
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“I am going to break this logic of fear!”: Activism and subversive care at the periphery of Fortaleza, Brazil The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Luminiţa-Anda Mandache
Based on ethnographic work conducted between 2015 and 2022 at the periphery of Fortaleza, in Northeast Brazil, this article analyzes the work of community activists as a form of subversive care. Women activists, many of whom work for the local public clinics, as social workers with local NGOs, or as schoolteachers, challenge dominant narratives presented in the media and political discourses about
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Resocializing recordings: Collaborative archiving and curating of sound as an agent of knowledge transfer The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Matthias Lewy, Bernd Brabec
The authors discuss their methodologies for creating and relistening to recordings in collaboration with Indigenous People in Peru and Venezuela and contextualize them within the discourse about overcoming power structures that shape divides between the Global North and South, in both urban and rural trajectories, and in Western and Indigenous knowledges. When it comes to giving back or sharing sound
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Contramedidas en Cabo Pulmo: La ciencia y la judicialización de conflictos ambientales en México The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Analiese M. Richard
The judicialization of environmental conflicts in Mexico has generated a growing demand for legal evidence of environmental damages and risks to ecosystems and communities. When conflicts arise over large development projects, one opposition strategy consists of denouncing errors in a project's Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) or procedural errors in its evaluation by federal authorities. Volunteer
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Un estallido animal: Animalización y antropomorfización en el conflicto político chileno The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Isabel M. Aguilera, Antonieta Vera, Rosario Fernández Ossandón
This article analyzes the political utility and potency of animal symbolism in human self-representations, relationships and hierarchies during the social outburst of October 2019 in Chile. Based on personal files and secondary sources, we argue that animalization and anthropomorphization were strategies used by both sides of the conflict to produce an imaginary of each other, as well as racial and
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Los precios de las esmeraldas colombianas: Formas parasitarias de habitar la formalización minera en Colombia The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Vladimir Caraballo Acuña
In Colombia, emerald traders often buy and sell their stones using ambiguities and contradictions, rather than certainties and agreements. In this way, they rescue the impossibility of the connection between emeralds and money so that the connection is both possible and impossible. Through an ethnographic analysis of these exchanges, in this article, I suggest that ambiguities and contradictions are
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Recalcitrance: The foreclosure of news about violence in Mexico The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Meghan R. Donnelly
Since President Felipe Calderón declared his so-called “war on organized crime” in December 2006, the dominant discourse about violence in Mexico has created the idea of a battle against or disputes between organized crime groups, and it has framed victims of murders and disappearances as themselves criminals. Recent scholarship highlights the role that journalists and news outlets have played in bolstering
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“A marriage without fidelity is a house without a foundation”: Black Brazilian women's demands for respect in marriage The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Melanie A. Medeiros
Ethnographic studies of romantic love and companionate marriage in Latin America and the Caribbean focus on why and how intimate ideologies are changing, the effects of these changes for couples and communities, and the complexities surrounding the practical and symbolic meanings of money and love. Here, I discuss how in a community in which the romantic love and companionate marriage ideals seemed
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Latin American Social Medicine in Colombia: Violence, neoliberalism, and Buen Vivir The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Vivian Laurens, César Abadía-Barrero, Mario Hernández
This article explores the efforts of Latin American Social Medicine (LASM) scholars/activists to incorporate decolonial approaches to support peace building in Colombia. We draw from our participation in Red SaludPaz (RSP); a network of universities and civil society organizations dedicated to supporting the peace accord, and guided by social medicine and the indigenous epistemology of Buen Vivir.
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The afterlives of political violence in Argentina: The gendered body and everyday cruelty The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Leyla Savloff
While the last decade in Argentina saw an expansion of civil rights and an increased awareness of gendered violence, prison conditions for women deteriorated. A prominent example took place in Buenos Aires in May 2014 when thirty women in ‘Unidad 31’ were violently transferred to make space for men convicted of crimes against humanity during the last military dictatorship (1976-1983). This event reveals
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Child circulation in disaster contexts: The case of the 2010 Haiti earthquake The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Tess M. Kulstad-González
This article examines how disasters and epidemics affect childrearing practices. Specifically, it looks at how the 2010 earthquake and cholera epidemic in Haiti affected transnational child circulation practices along the Haiti-Dominican Republic border. Foster children and orphans were prominent in international humanitarian aid efforts. Our findings from ethnographic research conducted on the Haiti-Dominican
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Estado, políticas públicas y comunidades: Aportes para repensar la antropología del Estado desde América Latina The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Inti Fernando Fuica Rebolledo, Noelia Carrasco Henríquez
The anthropology of the state is an important field to generate knowledge regarding the state's work. In Latin America, it has had an interesting development, with shared theoretical bases. In this article we present diverse methodological applications related to this field of study in the region and explore conceptually the relationship between the state and communities. We also propose adding anthropology
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Sex trafficking by consent? Andean padrinazgo, illegal mining in Amazonia, and state intervention The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Christopher Shepherd, Carmen Luisa Barrantes
Rising gold prices have led to the expansion of illegal gold mining in Peru's southwestern Amazon region. This is accompanied by an increase in sex trafficking of Indigenous girls and women from the southern Andes. This article focuses on the emerging economic and cultural connections that span Andean and Amazonian mining and sex trafficking migration in the region. The notion of precarity is applied
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Global ideals and restorative extraction: Negotiated Indigeneity on the margins of a Peruvian copper mine The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Kieran Gilfoy
This article elucidates the unintended outcomes produced by extractive industries and Indigenous activism in eastern Apurímac, Peru. The article documents the rise and fall of an identity-based organization in the shadow of the Bambas copper mine using the concept of emergence amid Indigenous spaces to interpret the negotiated products of ideals and realities. I show how notions of historical debt
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Defensa comunitaria y culturas del terror: Crimen organizado y violencia de Estado en comunidades originarias de Guerrero, México The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2023-01-20 Inés Giménez Delgado
Rich in raw materials, the state of Guerrero, Mexico, is one of the main enclaves of opium production, mineral extraction, and a focus for the multiplication of armed actors in Latin America, which, together with the overlapping of counterinsurgent violence in the past, post-colonial violence and the militarization of the policies of the so-called fight against drugs has contributed to very high rates
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Narco-spectrality: Narco-aesthetics and hauntings in the short film Pánico en Pánuco The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2023-01-20 Mael Vizcarra
This article uses text and film to demonstrate how the affective and sensory dimensions of narco-power in contemporary Mexico haunt the familiar. As a case study, I draw on footage documenting my family's trip to Sinaloa to visit my father's birthplace in the rural mining town of Pánuco. Through an analysis of the ghosts produced by the filmmaking process and the disruptions to our travels by an increasingly
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Producing ethical water: Anti-mining activism and conflicts over municipal water provisioning in Cuenca, Ecuador The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2023-01-20 Teresa A. Velásquez
When gold deposits were confirmed in a community watershed in 2005, water became a politically charged arena for anti-mining activism. This article follows the outcomes of a 2014 Ecuadorian water law on conflicts over water provisioning. Arguments about water's material properties and social qualities were deployed by government, municipal, and local actors in contests over who had legitimate authority
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How the Guatemalan civil war became a genocide: Revisiting the 2013 trial of General Efraín Ríos Montt The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2022-12-30 David Stoll
The 2013 trial of Efraín Ríos Montt cemented Guatemala's reputation as a land of genocide. Most of the survivors who testified about army crimes during his 1982–1983 regime came from the Ixil Maya town of Nebaj. Oddly, some Nebajenses credit Ríos Montt with ending army massacres and saving their lives. This article focuses on the genocide debate in the municipio of Nebaj. It concludes that command
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Truth and reparations: A perpetual challenge for the marginalized in Peru The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2022-12-29 Nicole Coffey Kellett
The Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Comisión de la Verdad; CVR) is considered one of the most comprehensive in Latin America. Peru set forth a plan for reparations to address the gross inequalities underlying the war, yet nearly twenty years since the CVR report was submitted, extreme discrimination of victims undergirds the systemic challenges that impede the allocation of due resources
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Populist infrastructures: The aesthetics and semiotics of how obras do politics in Lima, Peru The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2022-12-29 Adela Zhang
Obrismo, or the exchange of public works projects (obras) for popular goodwill, is a fixture of politics in Latin America. In Lima, Peru, various politicians use aesthetic-semiotic forms like bright colors and snappy hashtags to highlight their concrete contributions to municipal governance. This article examines the specific aesthetic and semiotic operations behind the political alchemy that aims
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Imágenes de la muerte y necropolítica de la dictadura en Chile The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2022-12-29 Jorge Pavez Ojeda
Violent death and forced disappearance, as necropolitical operations of the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (Chile, 1973–1990), has been the subject of a war of images where the naturalization of disappearance and the invisibilization of violence were confronted by images created to make visible what state terrorism had tried to erase from historical memory. This article addresses the becoming-image
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“En Bolivia lo hacen andar”: Régimen de mantenimiento, dimensión emotiva y prácticas de renovación vehicular del transporte colectivo de La Paz The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2022-12-29 Francisco García-Jerez
In this article I analyze the emotional logic that urban transport drivers in La Paz assign to their vehicles in their life cycle. I pay attention to the emotive dimension of the “technical rationality” of practices of vehicle renewal, reuse, and maintenance—that is to say, the set of emotions, affections, and, especially, feelings that emerge in keeping the vehicle in good condition or in its possible
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Embodying dependency: Caribbean godna (tattoos) as female subordination and resistance The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2022-12-29 Sinah Theres Kloß
A tattoo has not one but multiple meanings, depending on the person and interpretations within a sociocultural context. To demonstrate, this article focuses on tattoo marks labeled godna in Suriname and Guyana and on their related tattooing practices. Godnas can be found among senior Hindu women, and can be interpreted as marks of subordination and resistance. They inscribe and actively (re)create
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Caribbeanist Anthropology and Minerva's Owl: Lessons Forgotten, Lessons Learned The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2022-09-12 Stephan Palmié
This essay presents a sketch of what a critical genealogy of the anthropology of the Caribbean might involve. After looking at the origins of anthropological interest in the region, I will focus on two case studies that, for better or worse, may be said to have had lasting diagnostic value for key epistemological orientations in Caribbeanist anthropology. I do so by examining M. G. Smith's Plural Society
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Race, Nation, and Diaspora in the Southern Caribbean: Unsettling the Ethnic Conflict Model The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2022-09-08 J. Brent Crosson
In much of the southern Caribbean (i.e., Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana), ethno-political tensions between numerically commensurable populations of South Asian and African diasporic populations have structured narratives of postcolonial conflict between an “African” and an “Indian” political party, setting the limits of national narratives. This article challenges this narrative on a number of points
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Anti-Haitianism and Statelessness in the Caribbean The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2022-08-08 Daniel Joseph, Bertin M. Louis
Statelessness affects an estimated 15 million people worldwide (Kosinski 2009, 377). Without citizenship in the countries of their birth, stateless people lack access to basic political and social rights, such as the right to vote, marry, travel, and own property; in some cases, stateless people are also denied access to employment, educational services, and health care (UNCHR 2021). In this article
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Ethnography In-Sight: Spiraling through Fieldwork The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2022-06-24 Jan Hoffman French
Credit: Photo by Alejandro Zambrana, October 2010, Laranjeiras, Sergipe. Knowledge and interpretation of an annual festival in the Brazilian northeastern city of Laranjeiras, Sergipe (see French, this issue) informs my particular dialogic relationship to this Photograph. The permanence of the handprints behind a figure moving through time depicted in this image illustrates two states of being, but
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Economías inflamables en tiempos de COVID-19: La reventa de gasolina en la frontera de Venezuela–Brasil The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2022-06-24 Morelia Morillo Ramos, Eva van Roekel
La reventa de gasolina brasilera en la frontera Venezuela–Brasil es un acontecimiento emergente que facilita el entendimiento sociopolítico nuevo de las estrategias de sobrevivencia locales más allá de la resiliencia social e informalidad en tiempos de crisis. Esta actividad económica pertenece a un modo altamente cambiante de vivir que se da en estos espacios transfronterizos en donde el oro es el
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“Playing with the Bull”: Breeding, Blood, and Ritual in Multispecies Ethnography of Peruvian Bullfighting The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2022-05-20 John Hartigan, Alexander Menaker
Turupukllay is a popular form of bullfighting in Peru that unfolds over several days. Social analysis of turupukllay has largely focused on the symbolic dimension of its most sensational form, Yawar Fiesta, in which a condor is affixed to the back of the bull. But regarding these animals merely as symbols results in a limited sense of “play,” particularly given how turupukllay encompasses the bull
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Fernando Ortiz's Transculturation: Applied Anthropology, Acculturation, and Mestizaje The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2022-05-18 Miguel Arnedo-Gómez
Fernando Ortiz's proposal to replace the word acculturation with transculturation in Contrapunteo cubano del tabaco y el azúcar (1940) has become an iconic statement affirming the distinctiveness of Latin American anthropology. This narrative includes a deeper thread that involves Bronisław Malinowski, who praised the neologism for its counterhegemonic implications in his introduction to Contrapunteo
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Moral Panics, Viral Subjects: Black Women's Bodies on the Line during Cuba's 2020 Pandemic Lockdowns The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2022-05-18 Hope Bastian, Maya J. Berry
While Cuba was in a COVID-19-induced lockdown, coleras, women who wait in hours-long colas (lines) to purchase scarce goods to resell, emerged in online state media as “folk devils” responsible for the acute shortages of basic goods. Using an intersection lens, we combine fieldwork in lines and content analysis of online media to examine the creation and policing of the colera threat during the summer
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Paint It Black or Red: Serious Play in Brazil's Northeast The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2022-05-06 Jan Hoffman French
This article analyzes a popular, folkloric dance drama in the small city, Laranjeiras, a thriving slave port for its first three centuries. Lambe-sujo e Caboclinho, dating to the 19th century, depicts the practice of missionized Indigenous people engaged to capture and return fugitive slaves. Participants paint themselves either black or red and parade through the streets, leading to a mock battle
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Reconceptualizing the Haitian Migration System in the Caribbean Basin: A Spatial Approach to Multi-local Fields The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (IF 0.851) Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Cédric Audebert
This article addresses the issue of Haitian migration in the Caribbean basin from a geodynamic point of view—that is to say, by focusing on the spatial dynamics of migratory flows that integrate societies of origin, settlement, and transit within the same framework. It approaches the geographies of Haitian mobility by situating the bilocal transnational migration field in the larger framework of the