A companion to Latin American anthropology
By: edited by Deborah Poole.
Contributors: Poole, Deborah.
Series: Blackwell companions to anthropology -- 6
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9780631234685
Subjects: Ethnology -- Latin America.; Anthropology -- Latin America.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Argentina : contagious marginalities / Claudia Briones & Rosana Guber; title: Bolivia : bridges and chasms / Rossana Barragán; title: Brazil : otherness in context / Mariza Peirano; title: Colombia : citizens and anthropologists / Myriam Jimeno; title: Ecuador : militants, priests, technocrats, and scholars / Carmen Martínez Novo; title: Guatemala : essentialisms and cultural politics / Brigittine M. French; title: Mexico : anthropology and the nation-state / Salomón Náhmad Sitton; title: Peru : from otherness to a sacred diversity / Carlos Ivan Degregori and Pablo Sandoval; title: Race in Latin America / Peter Wade; title: Language states / Penelope Harvey; title: Legalities and illegalities / Mark Goodale; title: Borders, sovereignty, and racialization / Ana M. Alonso; title: Writing the aftermath : anthropology and "post-conflict" / Isaias Rojas-Perez; title: Alterities : kinship and gender / Olivia Harris; title: Vinculaciones : pharmaceutical politics and science / Cori Hayden; title: Agrarian reform and peasant studies : the Peruvian case / Linda J. Seligmann; title: Statistics and anthropology : the Mexican case / Casey Walsh; title: Indigenous anthropologies beyond Barbados / Stefano Varese, Guillermo Delgado & Rodolfo L. Meyer; title: Afro-Latin American peoples / Jaime Arocha & Adriana Maya; title: Reconceptualizing Latin America / Lynn Stephen; title: Places and academic disputes : the Argentine Gran Chaco / Gastón Gordillo; title: Disengaging anthropology / Alcida Rita Ramos; title: On the frontlines : forensic anthropology / Victoria Sanford; title: Collaborative anthropologies in transition / Charles R. Hale.