Ethnographic Insights on Latin America and the Caribbean

Melanie A. Medeiros is an associate professor of anthropology at the State University of New York at Geneseo.Jennifer R. Guzmán is an associate professor of anthropology at the State University of New York at Geneseo.

• List of MapsPreface: Introducing Ethnographic Insights on Latin America and the CaribbeanSECTION ONE: AN INTRODUCTION TO LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEANIntroduction1. Using Ethnography to Learn about Latin America and the CaribbeanMelanie A. Medeiros and Jennifer Guzmán2. Old New World: An Archeological Introduction to Latin America and the CaribbeanJames Aimers3. Check Your Narratives: Essentials for Understanding Latin American and Caribbean History, 1400–PresentRyan M. Jones SECTION TWO: RACE, RACIALIZATION, AND RACISMIntroduction4. Raciality and Belonging in Cuban TourismL. Kaifa Roland5. Protecting White Comfort and White Supremacy in Rio de Janeiro, BrazilJennifer Roth-Gordon6. The "Paradoxical" Persistence of Haitian Vodou after the Cholera EpidemicGuilberly LouissaintSECTION THREE: ETHNICITY, CITIZENSHIP, AND BELONGINGIntroduction7. Language and the Emplacement of Indigenous Citizenship in PeruSandhya Krittika Narayanan 8. Post-Multicultural Anxieties? Trajectories of Indigenous Citizenship in La Guajira, ColombiaPablo Jaramillo Salazar  9. A Panamanian of West Indian Descent: An Autoethnographic Study of Citizenship and BelongingLaVerne M. Seales SoleySECTION FOUR: GENDER AND INTERSECTIONALITYIntroduction10. The Racial Politics of Queer, Urban, Second Generation Indigenous Lima LocalsDiego Arispe-Bazán 11. Racialized Geographies and the "War on Drugs": Gender Violence, Militarization, and Indigenous Women in MexicoRosalva Aida Hernandez Castillo 12. After the Mosquito: Caring for Children with Congenital Zika Syndrome in Bahia, BrazilK. Eliza Williamson SECTION FIVE: LANGUAGE IN SOCIETYIntroduction13. Rap Originario and Language Revitalization in Mexico: The ADN Maya CollectiveJosep Cru 14. Kreyòl in Cuba: Writing Resistance, Affirming Haitian Heritage Mariana F. Past 15. Linguistic Bias or a Chance to Get Ahead: Linguistic Repertoires in Aruban and Curaçaoan Schools Keisha Wiel SECTION SIX: POLITICS AND POWERIntroduction16. Congressional Candidates and Political Campaigns in Clientelist Systems: Condoms and Concrete in Oaxaca, MexicoKarleen Jones West 17. NGOs as "Necessary Evils": Challenges of Doing Good in Urban Northeast Brazil Luminiţa-Anda Mandache18. The Role of Masculinity in Connecting Knowledge and Politics: Pension Experts in ChileMaria J. Azocar 19. Indigenous Governance and Legal Pluralism: Constitutional Reform and Political Conflict in BoliviaMatthew DoyleSECTION SEVEN: POLITICAL VIOLENCE AND ITS LEGACYIntroduction20. Violence and the Ethnographic Turn in Contemporary Colombian ArtAna Guglielmucci and Esteban Rozo21. Film Reception and Audience Ethnography: Charting Local Imaginaries of Violence in Contemporary Argentina and ColombiaNick Morgan, Philippa Page, and Cecilia Sosa    22. Cementerio XXX: Political and Humanitarian Constructions of Victimhood for the Desaparecidos of "Post-Conflict" GuatemalaSarah Maya Rosen 23. A Crack in the Wall: Ethnography as Solidarity with Indigenous Political Prisoners in Oaxaca, MexicoBruno Renero-HannanSECTION EIGHT: POVERTY, PRECARITY AND RESILIENCEIntroduction24. Flipping the City: Space and Subjectivity in the São Paulo, Brazil PeripheryCharles H. Klein25. Ties that Bind in the Dominican Republic: Buying Food on Credit in Corner StoresChristine Hippert26. "If It Wasn't for COVID, I Wouldn't Be Married": Disruption, Agency and Making a Living in Chiapas MexicoKatie Nelson27. Music and Maria: Musical Nationalism in Post–Hurricane Maria Puerto RicoMelissa Cambero ScottSECTION NINE: DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITYIntroduction28. Conceptions of Risk and Resettlement in Belenino River Communities in PeruSharon Gorenstein Rivera29. Forced Displacement and Indigenous Resettlement Planning in ColombiaEmma Banks30. "No a La Mina": Indigenous Organizations’ Rejection of Toxic Mega-Mining in Mexico’s Isthmus of Tehuantepec Alessandro MorosinSECTION TEN: TOURISM AND ITS EFFECTSIntroduction31. Structural Racism and Occupational Segregation in Northeast Brazil’s Ecotourism IndustryMelanie Medeiros and Tiffany Henriksen 32. Between the Edible and the Inedible: Cultural Tourism and Culinary Meaning in the Ecuadorian AmazonSarah Rachelle Renkert 33. Of Cash and Candy: The Complex Effects of Tourism on the Growth of Yucatec Maya ChildrenKristi Krumrine SECTION ELEVEN: MIGRATION AND KINSHIPIntroduction34. Digital Solidarities, Transnational Families, and the Nicaraguan Refugee Crisis in Costa RicaCaitlin E. Fouratt 35. Love, Money, and a Secret Divorce: Patriarchy and Senior Women’s Care-giving in Mexican MigrationNora Haenn 36. "I Am Going without Knowing the History of My People": Young People’s Engagement with the Past, Present and Future in the Guatemalan Diaspora in Southern MexicoMalte Gembus ConclusionIndex