Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
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Visión etnográfica: Imaginar el iknal maya10
Cuerpos de cobre: Extractivismo en Chuquicamata, Chile7
“Ser o no ser indígena”: Oscilaciones identitarias dentro de la interculturalidad de Estado en México7
Inhabiting Identities: On the Elusive Quality of Indigenous Identity in Mexico7
The Generation of the Coup: Honduran Youth at Risk and of Risk5
The Power of Phenotype: Toward an Ethnography of Pigmentocracy in Andean Bolivia4
Housing Movements and the Politics of Worthiness in São Paulo4
Blessed Beats: Religious Profanation and Evangelical Syncretization fromSambatoCarnaval Gospel3
Embodying dependency: Caribbean godna (tattoos) as female subordination and resistance3
Carving Space and Time. Interruptions and (Un)Predictability in Infrastructural Design of Emeralds and the Mining Formalization in Colombia3
The Anti/Corruption Continuum: Generation, Politics and Grassroots Anti‐Corruption Mobilization in Guatemala 3
Moral Panics, Viral Subjects: Black Women's Bodies on the Line during Cuba's 2020 Pandemic Lockdowns3
The afterlives of political violence in Argentina: The gendered body and everyday cruelty2
¡Qué mamada! (What a Joke!): Humor, Hostility, and Hospitality along the Central American Migrant Trail2
Race, Nation, and Diaspora in the Southern Caribbean: Unsettling the Ethnic Conflict Model2
Narco‐Infrastructures and the Persistence of Illicit Coca in Loreto2
Populist infrastructures: The aesthetics and semiotics of how obras do politics in Lima, Peru2
The Other's Tongue: Place, Perspective, and the Desire to Speak Portuguese among the People of the Xingu Indigenous Territory2
Swap It on WhatsApp: The Moral Economy of Informal Online Exchange Networks in Contemporary Cuba2
Anti‐Haitianism and Statelessness in the Caribbean2
Feral Animals, Rastrojo, and Dispossession: Images of the Afterlives of War in Bajo Atrato, Colombia2
Fernando Ortiz's Transculturation: Applied Anthropology, Acculturation, and Mestizaje2
The Counter‐Movement Through the Lens of Generation: Emancipation, Protection, and Neoliberalization in Costa Rica, 2000–20182
Cuidando la Patagonia Azul: Prácticas y estrategias de los pueblos originarios para curar las zonas marinas del sur de Chile1
Truth and reparations: A perpetual challenge for the marginalized in Peru1
“Playing with the Bull”: Breeding, Blood, and Ritual in Multispecies Ethnography of Peruvian Bullfighting1
The Tyranny of Narco‐Power: Political Rule and Austere Domination in Michoacán, Mexico1
Editors’ introduction to Sound “Repatriation” in South America: The Politics of Collaborative Archive Reactivations1
Between conservation and care: Ontological mixtures and juxtapositions in protected areas of Patagonia, Argentina1
Qualifying Violence: Visible Data, Invisible Lives in Recife, Brazil1
A Fourth Shift: Women Factory Workers Working the Articulations of Caribbean Capitalism1
What the Caribbean Teaches Us: The Afterlives and New Lives of Coloniality1
La captura del viento: Energía eólica y la política de la renta en el Istmo de Tehuantepec, México1
Ethnography In‐Sight and Sound: Rasanblaj and the Poetics of Creole Orality1
Problems with hierarchy and problems with tradition: The critique of male power in Afro‐Brazilian capoeira1
Generations and Change in Central America: An Introduction1
Intimate Sovereignty: Mennonite Self‐Government in “Green Hell” and the Politics of Belonging in Paraguay's Chaco1
Operating at the Edge of Il/legality: Systemic Corruption in Mexican Health Care1
“I am going to break this logic of fear!”: Activism and subversive care at the periphery of Fortaleza, Brazil1
Ecotourism, infrastructures, and the drama of sovereignty on a border island1
Los precios de las esmeraldas colombianas: Formas parasitarias de habitar la formalización minera en Colombia1
The making of a conservation frontier: Nation‐building, green productivism, and environmentalism in Patagonia1
Gateway to the North? Contingent Journeys at the Mexico‐Guatemala Border1
Reconceptualizing the Haitian Migration System in the Caribbean Basin: A Spatial Approach to Multi‐local Fields1
Recalcitrance: The foreclosure of news about violence in Mexico1
La política cultural de la negritud en Latinoamérica: Debates del Primer Congreso de la Cultura Negra de las Américas, Cali, Colombia, 19771
¡Matria libre y vivir!: Youth Activism and Nicaragua's 2018 Insurrection1
Producing ethical water: Anti‐mining activism and conflicts over municipal water provisioning in Cuenca, Ecuador1
Fortifying Home and Yard: Metal, Vegetation, and the Embodied Practice of Middle‐Class In/security in Jamaica1
Caribbeanist Anthropology and Minerva's Owl: Lessons Forgotten, Lessons Learned1
Deported to Death: How Drug Violence is Changing Migration on the US‐Mexico Border. JeremySlack. University of California Press, 2019. 256 pp.0
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“A marriage without fidelity is a house without a foundation”: Black Brazilian women's demands for respect in marriage0
Cynical Citizenship: Gender, Regionalism, and Political Subjectivity in Porto Alegre , Brazil. BenjaminJunge. Albuquerque University of New Mexico Press, 2018. 286 pp.0
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Brand JAMAICA: Reimagining a National Image and Identity. Hume Johnson and Kamille Gentles‐Peart, eds. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019. 214 pp.0
Imágenes de la muerte y necropolítica de la dictadura en Chile0
Women's Place in the Andes: Engaging Decolonial Feminist Anthropology By Florence E.BabbBerkeley: University of California Press. 2018. 304 pp.0
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The Frontier Effect: State Formation and Violence in Colombia. TeoBallvé. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020. 228 pp.0
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Shamanic alliance in the touristic borderzone: Strategic hospitality at Surama Eco‐Lodge in Guyana0
Pobrecitos: Determinations of deservingness in the Costa Rican asylum process0
Unsettling the return: Alternative curation and counterarchives0
How the Guatemalan civil war became a genocide: Revisiting the 2013 trial of General Efraín Ríos Montt0
Paint It Black or Red: Serious Play in Brazil's Northeast0
Traidores a la patria: Reconfiguring the nation through (un)patriotic discourse in the Dominican Republic0
Colombian utopia and anti‐utopia: Remembering and reconsidering the FARC's Zona de Despeje, 1998–20020
Frontier Intimacies: Ayoreo Women and the Sexual Economy of the Paraguayan Chaco. PaolaCanova. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2020. 192 pp.0
Extractivism's limits: A conversation0
Undocumented motherhood: Conversations on love, trauma and border crossing By ElizabethFarfán‐Santos, Austin: University of Texas Press. 2022. 129 pp.0
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Comentario sobre “Explosiveness”0
Trends, Trendsetting, and Shifting Trends in Caribbean Anthropology0
Engendering “Illegality”: Blackness, citizenship, and Dominico‐Haitian motherhood0
Response to commentaries to explosiveness: Territories of war and technoscientific practice in Colombia0
Comentario sobre ‘Recalcitrance: The Foreclosure of News about Violence in Mexico’0
Discerning networks: Distortions of human movement in Urabá, Colombia0
Stuck with Tourism: Space, Power and Labor in Contemporary Yucatán. Matilde Córdoba Azcárate. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2020. 316 pp.0
Estado, políticas públicas y comunidades: Aportes para repensar la antropología del Estado desde América Latina0
Un estallido animal: Animalización y antropomorfización en el conflicto político chileno0
Ethnography In‐Sight: Bridging Protest Across Generations0
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Spiritual Citizenship: Transnational Pathways from Black Power to Ifá in Trinidad. N. FadekeCastor. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017. 228 pp.0
Framing the allopathic approach to health and disease labels through patient narratives during the COVID‐19 pandemic first wave in Ecuador: An understudied and underutilized tool in health care practi0
Decolonizing education through Ayuuk indigenous praxis: Three visions from Oaxaca, Mexico0
Regenerating Maya‐Mam ways of governing, Indigenous emancipatory politics in the age of the extractive imperative0
Ethnography In‐Sight and Sound: Aural Politics and Haitian Mobile Vendors in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic0
Bite Yu Finga!: Innovating Belizean Cuisine. Lyra H.Spang. Mona, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, 2019. 274 pp.0
Mano Dura: The Politics of Gang Control in El Salvador. SonjaWolf. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2017. 304 pp.0
Loss and Wonder at the World's EndLaura A.Ogden. Durham: Duke University Press, 2021. 200 pp.0
“They study for six years. We study for generations”: Renegotiating birth, power, and interculturalidad in the Ecuadorian Amazon0
Unsettling extractivism: Indigeneity, race, and disruptive emplacements0
En tránsito por el norte de Chile: Desplazamiento forzado de población venezolana bajo el control fronterizo y sanitario durante la pandemia por COVID‐19 (2020‐2021)0
From Local Community Studies to Migration Research or: When Does Caribbean(ist) Anthropology Cease to be Caribbean?0
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Commentary on ‘Recalcitrance: The foreclosure of news about violence in Mexico’0
Narco‐spectrality: Narco‐aesthetics and hauntings in the short filmPánico en Pánuco0
The Quest for Indigenous Autonomy: Communication Media, Internal Conflicts, and Policy Reform in Colombia0
Surviving the Americas: Garifuna Persistence from Nicaragua to New York City. Serena Cosgrove, José Idiáquez, Leonard Joseph Bent, and Andrew Gorvetzian. Cincinnati: University of Cincinnati Pr0
From Banana Zones to the Big Easy: West Indian and Central American Immigration to New Orleans, 1910–1940. Glenn A.Chambers. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2019. 199 pp.0
Editor's Introduction to “Generation and Change in Latin America”0
Review Essay: Itaipu and the Political Possibilities of Energy Megainfrastructures in South America.Before the Flood: The Itaipu Dam and the Visibility of Rural Brazil. JacobBlanc. Durham and London: 0
Ethnography In‐Sight: Muñecas negras—Una oportunidad de redescubrirse0
Para aprender a viajar así: Movilidad en la vida de una mujer quechua By Michael D.Hill and GeorginaMaldonado. Quito: Universidad San Francisco de Quito Press / Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 20
Making Music Indigenous: Popular Music in the Peruvian Andes. JoshuaTucker. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press. 279 pp.0
Caribbean Anthropology: Challenges and Opportunities0
Palma Africana. MichaelTaussig. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. 258 pp.0
Traveling with Sugar: Chronicles of a Global Epidemic. AmyMoran‐Thomas. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2019. 376 pp.0
Beyond Repair: Rethinking the Future in the Caribbean0
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Coastal Lives: Nature, Capital, and the Struggle for Artisanal Fisheries in Peru. MaximilianViatori and HéctorBombiella. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2019. 232 pp.0
Child circulation in disaster contexts: The case of the 2010 Haiti earthquake0
Channeling the State: Community Media and Popular Politics in Venezuela. NaomiSchiller. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018. 296 pp.0
Entre el Atlántico y el Pacífico Negro: Afrodescendencia y Regímenes de Desigualdad en Sudamérica. Edited by ManuelGóngora Mera, RocíoVera Santos, SérgioCosta. Madrid: Iberoamericana‐Vervuert, 2019. 60
Guarded by Two Jaguars: A Catholic Parish Divided by Language and FaithBy EricHoenes del Pinal. Tuscon: The University of Arizona Press. 2022. 257 pp.0
Nurturing the Other: First Contacts and the Making of Christian Bodies in AmazoniaVanessaGrotti. Berghahn Books, 2022. 212 pp.0
Migranthood: Youth in a New Era of Deportation. Lauren Heidbrink. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020. 213 pp.0
Explosiveness: Territories of war and technoscientific practices in Colombia0
Privilege at Play: Class, Race, Gender and Golf in Mexico. HugoCerón‐Anaya. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 217 pp.0
Ensayos de etnografía teórica: Andes. Colección EntreGiros, vol. 2. Óscar MuñozMorán (coord.). Madrid: Nola Editores, 2020. 407 pp.0
From Sparks and Embers: Concluding Reflections on Anthropology, Generation, and Central America0
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Favela Studies: Disrupting Higher Education and Research on Brazil's Urban Periphery0
Comentario sobre ‘Recalcitrance: The Foreclosure of News about Violence in Mexico’0
“En Bolivia lo hacen andar”: Régimen de mantenimiento, dimensión emotiva y prácticas de renovación vehicular del transporte colectivo de La Paz0
Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships: Housing, Memory, and Daily Life in Haiti. VincentJoos. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2022. 240 pp.0
Domesticating Democracy: The Politics of Conflict Resolution in Bolivia. SusanEllison. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018. 281 pp.0
Indigenous Divergences from the Sacrifice Zones and Rehabilitations of Extractivism When the Hills are Gone: Frac Sand Mining and the Struggle for Community. ThomasPearson. Minneapolis: University of 0
Deforesting the forest: Territory and relations in the Argentinean Chaco0
Saint Martin de Porres “The Black Saint of the Afro‐descendant community in Quito‐Ecuador”: Between segregation, racism, and black resistance0
Rethinking Zapotec time: Cosmology, ritual, and resistance in colonial Mexico By DavidTavárez, Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. 2022. 458 pp.0
Gringolandia: Lifestyle Migration Under Late Capitalism. MatthewHayes. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2018. 266 pp.0
Settling environmental citizenship: The presentation of self in conservation encounters0
“The pandemic came to teach us how to eat”: COVID‐19, mutual vulnerability, and native corn in Oaxaca0
Communities make communities: Comunidades nativas and gold mining among the Arakbut of Peruvian Amazonia0
The Last Out.A film by MichaelGassert, SamiKhan (Eds.), Tragon Productions and Oscura Film Inc. 2020. 90 minutes. Color0
The Pursuit of Happiness: Black Women, Diasporic Dreams, and the Politics of Emotional Transnationalism. Bianca C.Williams. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018. 240 pp.0
Elusive coral and fish: Reconsidering the shore‐offshore separation in Caribbean archipelagos0
Identifying Indigenous people: Visual appearance, filiation, and the experience of race in an “Indigenous” soccer championship and in everyday life in Otavalo, Ecuador0
Cultures of power and politics: Two cases of the limits of anti‐essentialism in the political anthropology of lowland South America0
  Ethnography In‐Sight: Nation‐Making Objects0
Living ruins: Native engagements with past materialities in contemporary Mesoamérica, Amazonia, and the Andes By PhilippeErikson and ValentinaVapnarsky (Eds.), Louisville, CO: University Press of Colo0
Ethnography In‐Sight: Digital Narco Terrorism0
Experiments with Power: Obeah and the Remaking of Religion in Trinidad. J.Brent Crosson.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020.328 pp.0
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Commentary on “Explosiveness”0
Resocializing recordings: Collaborative archiving and curating of sound as an agent of knowledge transfer0
Global ideals and restorative extraction: Negotiated Indigeneity on the margins of a Peruvian copper mine0
Ethnography in‐sight: Amasonic politics10
Strengths and Hopes for the Future: Ideas from a Long‐Time Caribbeanist0
Beyond the Idea of the Caribbean: Engaged Anthropology and the Transatlantic Caribbean0
Scammer's Yard: The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica. Jovan Scott Lewis. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. 236 pp.0
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Frontier politics at the world's end0
Bolivar's Sword: The Mapoyo and the Politics of Heritage‐Making in Venezuela0
Yajé como política. Territorio, petróleo y pandemia en los siekopái de la Amazonía ecuatoriana0
Latin American Social Medicine in Colombia: Violence, neoliberalism, and Buen Vivir0
Maps’ agency and mountains’ multiplicity: Conflicts triggered by state maps involving pilgrims and desired mining futures in the Andes0
Economías inflamables en tiempos de COVID‐19: La reventa de gasolina en la frontera de Venezuela–Brasil0
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Slavery and Utopia: The Wars and Dreams of an Amazonian World Transformer. FernandoSantos‐Granero. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2018. 285 pp.0
Gastropolitics and the Specter of Race. Stories of Capital, Culture, and Coloniality in Peru. María ElenaGarcía. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2021. 291 pp.0
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Hierarchies of Care: Girls, Motherhood, and Inequality in Peru. Krista Van Vleet. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2019. 230 pp.0
Marginados y postergados en la obra de Fernando Ortiz0
LGBTQ Politics in Nicaragua: Revolution, Dictatorship and Social Movements by KarenKampwirth. University of Arizona Press, 2022. 361 pp.0
Cartographies of Youth Resistance: Hip‐Hop, Punk, and Urban Autonomy in Mexico. Maurice RafaelMagaña. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2020. 206 pp.0
The Elusive Caribbean0
Ethnography In‐Sight: Spiraling through Fieldwork0
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Voices in a Sea of History: Why Study Language in the Caribbean0
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The Many Lives of a Journal0
Indigenous Modernities in South America. ErnstHalbmayer (Ed). Herefordshire, UK: Sean Kingston Publishing, 2018. 246 pp.0
Becoming Gods: Medical Training in Mexican Hospitals. Vania Smith‐Oka. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2021. 228 pp.0
Downtown Juárez: Underworlds of Violence and Abuse. HowardCampbell. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2021. 362 pp.0
Commentary on “Explosiveness”: Transnational retazos and reverberations0
Gringo Love: Stories of Sex Tourism in Brazil. Marie‐EveCarrier‐Moisan, WilliamFlynn, and DeboraSantos. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. 200 pp.0
Contramedidas en Cabo Pulmo: La ciencia y la judicialización de conflictos ambientales en México0
Shared soundscapes: The (re)activation of an institutional and individual archive of Peruvian music and dance0
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Transit as racialized space: Comparing perceptions of refugees along the Mexico–Guatemala border0
Defensa comunitaria y culturas del terror: Crimen organizado y violencia de Estado en comunidades originarias de Guerrero, México0
Sex trafficking by consent? Andean padrinazgo, illegal mining in Amazonia, and state intervention0
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Response to commentaries on ‘Recalcitrance: The foreclosure of news about violence in Mexico’0
Porousness, theater, possession, being consumed, death, sanctity: Narratives from the field with a radical street performer0
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Cannibalistic exchanges with mountain‐ancestors: Moral economies of gold mining in northern Peru0
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Masculinity's (mis)fortune: Historicizing affect as extractivist infrastructure in Bolivian sodalite mining0
Multiple territorialities and the shifting conservation frontiers of Patagonia0
Genres of listening: An ethnography of psychoanalysis in Buenos Aires By XochitlMarsilli‐Vargas, Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2022. 233 pp.0
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Kinship by Coincidence: Episodes of arrival in travesti and transfeminine migration across Amazonian Peru0
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A Future History of Water By AndreaBallestero. Durham: Duke University Press. 2019. 248 pp.0
Gothic Sovereignty: Street Gangs and Statecraft in Honduras By Jon HorneCarter. Austin: University of Texas Press. 2022. pp. 3750
After the Decolonial. Ethnicity, Gender and Social Justice in Latin America. DavidLehmann. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2022. 252 pp.0
Delivering Health: Midwifery and Development in Mexico. Lydia Z. Dixon. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2020. 224 pp.0
A House of One's Own: The Moral Economy of Post‐Disaster Aid in El Salvador. AliciaSliwinski. Montreal & Kingston: McGill‐Queen's University Press, 2018. 251 pp.0
Cenizas By CynthiaGuardado. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press. 2022. 67 pp.0
Radical Cartographies: Participatory Mapmaking from Latin America. BjørnSletto, JoeBryan, AlfredoWagner, and CharlesHale, eds. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2020. 242 pp.0
Dangerous winds: Criminal threats and the indigenized security of wind power in Colombia0
Archives, repatriation, agency, and changing circumstances: Reflections on shared soundscapes, collaborative activations, and repatriations in Latin America0
Anthropologies of Our Caribbean Sea of (Is)lands0
Everyday Adjustments in Havana: Economic Reforms, Mobility, and Emerging Inequalities. HopeBastian. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018. 182 pp.0
A Commentary on the Inclusion of the Dutch Caribbean within Caribbean Anthropological Studies0
Sentient Lands: Indigeneity, Property, and Political Imagination in Neoliberal Chile. Piergiorgio DiGiminiani. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2018. 246 pp.0
Obeah, Orisa & Religious Identity in Trinidad, Volume I ObeahTracey E.Hucks. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022. 262 pp.0
Memories before the state: Postwar Peru and the place of memory, tolerance and social inclusion By Joseph P.Feldman. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. 2021. 198 pp.0
Los Haitianos, las caravanas and transborder racial affect: Emotions and triangulated representations of Caribbean and Central American migrants in Mexico0
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On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise: Affect, Tourism, Belize. KennethLittle. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2020. 190 pp.0
Rituals and Sisterhoods: Single Women's Households in Mexico, 1560–1750. Amos Megged. Louisville: University Press of Colorado, 2019. 301 pp.0
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Política estatal en territorio indígena: Los negocios étnicos turísticos (NET) en San Pedro de Atacama, Norte de Chile0
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UndocumentsJohn‐MichaelRivera. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2021. 301 pp.0
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Food in Cuba: The Pursuit of a Decent Meal. HannaGarth, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 2020. 214 pp.0
Parenting Empires: Class, Whiteness, and the Moral Economy of Privilege in Latin AmericaAna Y.Ramos‐Zayas. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020. 193 pp.0
The Living Inca Town: Tourist Encounters in the Peruvian Andes. KarolineGuelke. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. 204 pp.0
The Caribbean: Following Connections instead of Fitting Things in Boxes0
La sombra alargada del patrón: Gamonalismo y hábitos hacendatarios en Chimborazo tras la reforma agraria0
Ethnography In‐Sight: The Elevated City0
Competing Power: Landscapes of Migration, Violence, and the State. NarmalaHalstead. New York: Berghann Books, 2019. 256 pp.0
Latent Blackness: Afro‐Brazilian People, History, and Culture in São Paulo, Brazil0
Commentary on “Explosiveness”: A sudden longue durée0
The Promise of Affect and the Enduring Economy of Emotions in Caribbeanist Anthropology0
El desvanecimiento de lo popular: gentrificación en el Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México. VicenteMoctezuma Mendoza. Mexico City: El Colegio de México/Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superio0
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