Companion to Latin American Anthropology

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.

• 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 485Victoria Sanford24 Collaborative Anthropologies in Transition 502Charles R. HaleIndex 519

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