Search Results - "Journal of Latin American Anthropology"

Spectacles of Autonomy and Crisis: Or, What Bulls and Beauty Queens have to do with Regionalism in Eastern Bolivia by Gustafson, Bret

“…Elite-backed public spectacle has thus a festive and violent face that seeks to reinforce inequality by projecting a particular kind of ideal subject and form…”
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The Matrifocal Family and Patriarchal Ideology in Cuba and the Caribbean by Safa, Helen

“…La matrifocalidad tiene en el Caribe raíces históricas profundas, como modalidad familiar alternativa que surgió en la clase popular afrocaribeña, donde los…”
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Actualidades Bolivia's "Evo Phenomenon": From Identity to What? by Albro, Robert

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Embodied Matters: Bolivian Fantasy and Indigenismo by Bigenho, Michelle

“…According to Henri Favre, contemporary processes of globalization and "tribalization" leave indigenismo in the dustbin of history as a new Indian-ness emerges…”
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State-led Democratic Politics and Emerging Forms of Indigenous Leadership Among the Ye'kwana of the Upper Orinoco by Lauer, Matthew

“…[...]the Ye'kwana, who have about 1,400 registered voters, constitute the electoral majority despite being outnumbered eleven to one in the total population.6…”
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The Gran Poder and the Reconquest of La Paz by Guss, David M.

“…According to her, the disappearance of La Paz's native population was not the result of intermarriage and attrition, but of the loss of collective land…”
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Creative Violence: How Marginal People Make News in Bolivia by Goldstein, Daniel M., Castro, Fatimah Williams

“…Since the mid-1990s but especially between 2000 and 2006, the peripheral neighborhoods ( barrios marginales) surrounding the city of Cochabamba have been the…”
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Macroeconomic Change and the Biopolitics of Health in Cuba's Special Period by Brotherton, Pierre Sean

“…El éxito de Cuba en el campo de la salud pública a menudo se asocia a altos índices estadísticos alcanzados por la población en muchas áreas. Ésto ha llevado a…”
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Cuba's Alternative Geographies by Hernandez-Reguant, Ariana, Safa, Helen, Brotherton, Pierre Sean, Routon, Kenneth, Frederik, Laurie Aleen, Davis, Virginia

“…Globalization paradigms too initially questioned the validity of bounded regions as analytical units, proclaiming the instrumental decline of geo-political…”
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Public Bodies: Virginity Testing, Redemption Songs, and Racial Respect in Jamaica by Thomas, Deborah A.

“…[...]the level of participation in locally-developed public debates is very high, both directly as Jamaicans across the country (and throughout the Diaspora)…”
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Introduction: Indigenous Peoples and New Urbanisms by Guss, David M.

“…Fifty years later, the population had soared to more than 1,135,000 people, making it the nation's largest city.1 These figures, so disproportionate to the…”
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Homeland Political Crisis, the Virtual Diasporic Public Sphere, and Diasporic Politics by Laguerre, Michel S.

“…The Diasporic Public Sphere What I will call the diasporic public sphere is the political arena where the Diaspora expresses its political views, discusses its…”
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From Jean-Bertrand Aristide to Gerard Latortue: The Unending Crisis of Democratization in Haiti by Dupuy, Alex

“…[...]as Michèle Montas, widow of Jean Dominique, the renown slain journalist and once ardent defender of Aristide and the Lavalas movement, said, the Lavalas…”
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"I Was There:" Competing Indigenous Imaginaries of the Past and the Future in Oaxaca's Sierra Mazateca by Feinberg, Ben

“…Since the early 19905, anthropologists working in Latin America have devoted a great deal of interest and publications to analyses of the discourses of…”
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Unimaginable Homelands? "Africa" and the Abakua Historical Imagination by Routon, Kenneth

“…Since the onset of economic troubles that began during the 1990s the revolutionary regime appears to have suspended its initially heavy handed treatment of the…”
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Cuba's National Characters: Setting the Stage for the Hombre Novisimo by Frederik, Laurie Aleen

“…After 46 years of socialist revolution and lucha, Cubans admit they are thirsty for the "spiritual"-for meaning outside the politically saturated public…”
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Venezuela in the Eye of the Hurricane: Landing an Analysis of the Bolivarian Revolution by Valencia Ramírez, Cristóbal

“…Lower‐class politics is rudimentary and dense; it takes place in the neighborhood, in the community, in places of production. Rarely is it granted the "honor"…”
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Notes from the Field: Missionaries, the Warao, and Populist Tendencies in Venezuela by Margolies, Luisa

“…[...]the decision was one of several, according to the vice-president, taken to reaffirm the country's sovereignty. [...]anthropologist and ex-senator…”
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Working the Boundaries: Race, Space, and "Illegality" in Mexican Chicago by De Genova, Nicholas

“…[...]the book is written with the express desire to unsettle rigid geographical framings that underpin disciplinary boundaries and area studies. [...]he…”
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The Struggle for Indigenous Rights in Latin America by Postero, Nancy Grey, Zamosc, Leon

“…Postero and Zamosc have produced a timely collection consisting of impressively focused and engaging chapters on the indigenous resurgence in Latin America,…”
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